Comments on: Whatever Happened to Tiger Beatdown?

By: lovers in a dangerous time « check your sugarcoat at the door

lovers in a dangerous time « check your sugarcoat at the door — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:40:39 +0000

[...] where credit’s due: I originally came across this post through a link in this article on Tiger Beatdown. The full article is here on Feministe. It was written by Little Light. Original links remain in [...]

By: io

io — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:29:33 +0000

I’ll add to the chorus: *hugs* Hope the crappy stuff gets sorted out. And also, yes, you are doing important work. I’m enjoying your essays at the Guardian, too. Whether you need to take a break from Tiger Beatdown or you turn it into a new exploration, I wish you luck.

By: Jha

Jha — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:38:45 +0000

I’m saying I miss being in that place where being wrong always felt like an option, an acceptable option, because I was learning. The problem, I think, is that I believe I know what I am talking about now, and am talking about it more to share thoughts that are already formed than to work out new ideas. And I don’t like that feeling. I don’t like repeating myself. I’m actually doing this thing, now, on Tiger Beatdown, where I talk against myself – take things I thought I was certain of, and see if I can poke any holes in them – and while that’s annoying to witness, and makes me look like some wacky “post-feminist” person at times, it’s at least a quest for the new.

OMG.

I think you just totally articulated something I was having serious trouble with just last night (which ended in a pretty serious breakdown for me).

Thank you. Also, I love you. No matter what your decision is, I hope we can all still follow you on your exciting intellectual adventures towards social justice.

By: Courtney Barret

Courtney Barret — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:29:02 +0000

The sun is dying, and I think we’re already dead. The earth is dead, she is still beneath us. She used to be crying, but now we hear nothing.
We are too lost in our own little grids, our cartoon stills. We are powerless to change the format of our lives. Meaning eludes us because we have no way of living outside of this three panel strip. Our 3D forms are crushed into caricatures of real people. Stripped of thought and other people, we grasp desperately at anything that reminds us that we are alive.
Food will never give us the nutrients we need, and the fruit from this barren garden is the only thing we will ever eat. The books we swallow whole, the numbers, the letters, the music: they leave us breathing heavily, on the edge of fulfillment.
This life leaves us with nothing but ourselves. And we are not enough.
We have never been enough. We have only taken, only destroyed. And now we are left with this dead thing under us, and we can smell her rotting.
The earth is still, and the sun is dying. And we lay in bed, hands down our pants, eyes shut tight lest we catch a glimpse of what’s outside the window.

sending love.

By: Interesting posts, weekend of 10/17 « Feminists with Female Sexual Dysfunction

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:18:04 +0000

[...] Whatever Happened to Tiger Beatdown? – Aw, that’s a shame, I like Tiger Beatdown… Well I made it past my blog’s one year anniversary and I’m still here but that could be me one day… [...]

By: Canomia

Canomia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:19:47 +0000

Oh, Sady, I hope you understand the world of good that you and this blog have done. You might not see it but your impact on all our lifes has been masive and positiv.

I am a different, stronger person now than I was last year and I owe a lot of that to you. I call people out on their shit now instead of just swallowing it, I don’t fall apart as much, I feel hope that I didn’t feel before. I can look at the scary scary stuff and decide to point at it and lauge instead of hideing and crying.

I know I’m not alone in this. The world is better because you’re in it.

And whatever you decide to do I wish you the best and thank you for all that you have done. I hope you will find that happy place again and I will read wherever you post because I love your writing and I will miss tigerbeatdown if you decide to leave it.

Hugs and tiny fuzzy kittens purring

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:33:52 +0000

Blogs aren’t changing the world, blogs are changing journalism. And the more blogs try to change the world, the more they end up imitating it in my view. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Its hard to let go of successful things, until you realize they are that old ball of chain in disguise!

By: wordproblem

wordproblem — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:07:00 +0000

But, but I just found you! Damn it, I’m always late to all the cool parties. Good thing there are archives. Don’t mind me, I’ll just be arguing with 2008 over in the corner.

By: William

William — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:51:32 +0000

Hi, Sady!

Your writing is awesome, and I love the little gifts you give us by publishing here. Even better, you’ve helped fire up my interest in these topics again. Your ability to be simultaneously ardent and self-questioning has given me a shot of both. Reading your blog has made me a better person and a better feminist. Which is, in the end, the same thing.

So: I appreciate what you’ve done, and want you to appreciate what your blogular presents have done for us. But god yes, take all the breaks you need. And change the content to whatever you need. You should feel no obligation as to posting volume or consistency. There is enough internet elsewhere to keep us entertained while you do what you need to do.

By: Calamity Jill

Calamity Jill — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:00:30 +0000

Even as a new reader, I’d be pretty sad to see this place go. But you can’t force passion. And I hope that in whatever you end up doing, you’re filled to the brim with it.