International Women’s Day has gotten SO commercialized

I mean, seriously?

I’m not even sure if I’ll be putting up a tree next year.

That said, Martha Marcy May Marlene is an awesome movie. You should rent it and eat cupcakes.

In the meantime, let’s celebrate International Women’s Day the right way. With a gif of Maude Lebowski saying “vagina.”

 

EDITED TO ADD: In case anyone is wondering, I have no idea who did that graphic; it’s floating around on tumblr. I found it courtesy of unknowable woman.

Posted on March 8, 2012, in feminism, vaginas. Bookmark the permalink. 77 Comments.

  1. Two other things:
    The Women’s Day wasn’t invented in Russia at all but by German communist lady Clara Zetkin (I think), and
    @BoggidWurms: As an ANE scholar I have to give you major props for knowing Enheduanna! Hers was a time when women - while not actually on the same powerlevel with the guys - had it much, much better than in the roughly three millenia that followed. I wonder what went wrong…

  2. You want to know why we white males get special treatment?
    It’s because we invented fire. And the wheel. And gunpowder. And telescopes. And money. And writing. And elevators. And nuclear bombs.

    When you invent those things, you can complain. Until then, all you non-white males need to go fuck off.

    Even if this were true (and it mostly isn’t), it doesn’t really matter what “white males” have accomplished.

    What matters is - what have YOU accomplished? And I would guess, not a whole heck of a lot.

  3. This discussion reminds me another one, where a guy tried to convince me that islamophobia is normal because Arabic countries haven’t contributed (his thoughts, not mine) to culture or science in the few hundred years.

    Ignorance makes bigotry easier.

  4. Hey, isn’t that

    http://manboobz.com/2012/02/29/mras-most-inept-propagandists-ever/

    the same sculpture? (or whatever it is)

    I wonder where it came from.

  5. Kyrie: That’s the “Venus of Willendorf” and it’s one of the oldest known representational sculptures of a human.

  6. Lol @ the guy who said white men ‘made’ gunpowder. I thought it was basic knowledge that the (eeevull) Chinese invented that stuff?

  7. Fire wasn’t invented, it was discovered, and the first humans to use fire lived in Africa, so they were not white. The oldest wheel was discovered in ancient Mesopotamia, not Europe. Mesopotamia is also where the earliest writing was discovered, again, not Europe. China was the first to use money, and as someone already pointed out, they invented gun powder. That leaves telescopes, elevators, and nuclear bombs, which really were invented by white men. That being said, the invention of stuff is a silly excuse to give any one group special treatment.

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