| ginmar ( @ 2008-07-20 10:46:00 |
| Entry tags: | bonfires, myths |
If I hear this myth one more time, I'll actually do it
Gah, what is about twentysomething ignorami (*tm everybody) who don't do their research and who like to promote myths and shit? For fuck's sake, nobody ever burned a bra, but thanks for looking it up! It's like the myth of war protesters spitting on the soldiers returning from Viet Nam---never mind that soldiers were heavily involved in the anti-war movement and were seen as potential allies. And never mind how the conservatives of the day---sometimes conservative soldiers or ex soldiers themselves---regarded the rebellious soldiers and hippies as traitors. Hm, logically, then who do you think would be doing the spitting? Say it isn't so! Could the same wingnuts who lie about everything, be lying again?
The myth of the bra burning is like the myth of Hillary Clinton crying, or how PUMA members are all old bitter women with dried-up pussies who are just going to vote for McCain out of spite, or how the flap over the New Yorker cover was not manufactured by the Obama campaign to hide yet another sexist gaffe on Obama's part. "I'm just messing with you, man," indeed.
The bra burning myth has been debunked repeatedly, but it's interesting how and what people cling to it, isn't it? In fact, women protested the Miss America contest, which even then was the patriarchy in high heels and with buttloads of hairspray. They took a bunch of padded bras and tossed them in a garbage can, then crowned a sheep Miss America.
Hillary Clinton didn't cry, either. She got choked up talking about her country. Oh, wait, I forget. That just couldn't happen. She doesn't love her country. (Obama does, though!) According to common knowledge, she's a bitch from hell who cynically wants only power so she can eat babies and emasculate some more men by reminding them of castrating bitches who force their husbands to do dishes and then have affairs. Because they're so unattractive and evil, like Hillary.
So my proposal is this: Let's get together and burn some and make smores over the irritating motherfuckers. It'll probably require gas because they're made up of unnatural fibers. Hell, they might even melt. Still, at long last the myth will become true. Maybe we can all write Hillary and persuade her to cry. Making Obama give a fuck about women is going to be a much more difficult task, so I suggest we stick to the stuff we can set fire to. Any other things you want to toss on the bonfire?