What’s the difference between Loomis’ logic in her article and the logic used by writers who bash Islam as super-extra-bad and “terroristy?” Because Islam is put on the idiot box as this super weird, bad, crazy thing, somehow that is truly all there is to Islam, especially with choice Quranic quotes translated by who knows what. (I’m an atheist, and even *I* will call bullshit on the Islam-bashing — imagine that.) If anything, she makes us ’80s-born folks look fucking stupid. It’s the moronic “if it’s not on TV, it’s not real” line of thinking again.

Loomis, this was what my mother told me about Looney Tunes cartoons when I was 7, and so I shall say it for you and for any concern troll who thinks what you have to say has any merit at all:

Just because you see it that way on the TV doesn’t mean it’s real. Just because it isn’t all over on every single news network, it isn’t on every radio station, it isn’t written about in every mainstream newspaper, and your friends have never heard of it or are at a loss to explain what it is, that doesn’t mean that it DOESN’T EXIST.

(And just because Elmer Fudd can take an falling anvil to the head, and be OK afterwards, doesn’t mean YOU can. He doesn’t exist, and neither does Bugs Bunny. They’re DRAWINGS. ^^)

Even the right-wingers commenting in the newspaper comments section called bullshit on her article. They said, “I guess YOU wouldn’t know about feminism, what with your two master’s degrees, yet still living with your parents.” I don’t agree with that line of logic, (I still live at home myself — no degree (yet), and I’m jobless, and housing isn’t exactly cheap and easy to get), but I was amused by it.

Even THEY could grasp what feminism was, one of them citing Sarah Palin as an example, before proceeding to bash her(?) leftist straw-feminist. What does that tell you?

As for those saying that feminism needs to do more political advertising or to “rebrand,” I think if we had any more of Amy Siskind and her ilk on the TV any longer, I think all the public political selling we’ll get of feminism is that of the unrecognizable, RACIST, fence-sitting right-wing variety that SHE and the PUMAs have to offer. The media puts on whom they want to see, and women like her get the ratings for their “news.” Is that the “advertising” route feminism should go? Ick.

Awesome.

*starts designing rocket car*

I’ve posted to your blog before concerning fear — both about fear and from places of fear, and once about something I wrote from a place of fear. It’s a big thing for me. And it’s heartening to know that somebody else understands, because as silly as this seems, sometimes I feel like I am the only one.