Oh look a fantastic misogynist Xmas pressie – err for the misogynist. What more could you ask for? Xmas list sorted.
Give the jerk in your life a happy misogynistic xmas and a woman hating new year with Lusty Linda to stick on their desk at work – so they can terrorise more women and just say *snort* har de har har “it’s a joke” Biaaatch! Sheesh these women have got no sense of humour!
Quote from Amazon.com
LUSTY LINDA PEN HOLDER a.k.a. Mrs. All Busts Let Lusty Linda the pen holder sun-bath on your desk. When you stick in a pen, she will moan, groan or say any of 10 different things. A switch on the bottom lets you set Linda’s mood, from good or bad. (too bad all women did not have such a switch). Lusty Linda The Pen Holder Says 10 Different Things including: ooow (ouch)! Get out you, you dirty old man! What are you looking at? Help! Help! Oh ooh (excited)
Lusty Linda has a repertoire of 10 (box says 8) sayings ranging from “Oh ooh” “ouch” and “help” the last of which conjures up good old warm and fuzzy feelings of violation. Because rape is funny, no it’s hilarious in fact and just to prove it we’ll make some toys about it and if you don’t laugh, then you’re a humourless dried up Dworkinite who needs to get laid. Then you’d change, honest, and die laughing at rape jokes and misogyny, honestly, all you need is some dick, and then everything becomes clear. Now speaking as a heterosexual woman I’m tapping my foot here, because I’m still waiting for this Dick Induced World Vision where misogyny is uproariously comical.
Seriously, where does it state that I and other women have to find your jokes funny? What ever gives men that idea? Actually I do have a good idea where these beliefs do come from but I’ll let the misunderstood aspiring comics to figure that out for themselves.
I’ve just recently come back from Portugal where I saw these on sale in gift shops, except there is a male equivalent, bending over sporting a pained expression. Which of course is the manufacturer displaying their own homophobia as a male could never enjoy something up his butt – of course.
No, seriously, it’s not us with our lack of humour – its you with your hatred. Well, that and the lavatorial tacky humour which many males don’t seem to grow out of.
And let’s see if the male butt pen holder makes it over here without it having covert references to Gay men.
If I see one of these in the office there won’t be any po-faced not-getting-the-joke conversations. There will be a covert shredding operation.
Ah, yet another reason to be boycotting amazon then…
Maia, I’m wondering what you’ll be shredding
Hi Sarah – it hasn’t reached Amazon.uk – yet. But we’ll see, I notice they still have the “rapist doll” for sale.
Do they? Damn.
Mind you I have a dilemma, it’s not Amazon or any other shop really is it? They just follow demand. If something sells they have it on the shelves – real or virtual. It’s consumer lead.
I’m running out of places to shop if I follow all the boycotts and I’m actually not convinced that boycotting hurts the right people.
I may blog this later, in the meantime I have tea to drink and the gas man cometh.
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If I see one of these in the office there will be a grievance/employment tribunal situation – by the bypass 2 interesting facts I learned today in my office. There is no female equivalent of the word ‘phallic’ – and do you know we have the Romans and christianity (partly) to blame fof the phallus obsession as they regarded the damn things as good luck symbols and carved them everywhere.
What? The phallus was a good luck symbol…a bit like a rabbit foot? o.O
Heh, chop em off and put em on a keyring?
“What? The phallus was a good luck symbol…a bit like a rabbit foot? o.O”
And we see how much luck it brought the rabbit.
Oh no! I’m having disturbing images of phalli worn as ‘good luck’ charms. Ack!
Btw – Hi CoolAunt
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“you’re a humourless dried up Dworkinite who needs to get laid. Then you’d change, honest, and die laughing at rape jokes and misogyny, honestly, all you need is some dick, and then everything becomes clear. Now speaking as a heterosexual woman I’m tapping my foot here, because I’m still waiting for this Dick Induced World Vision where misogyny is uproariously comical.”
The best response to the “you need to get laid” argument I saw was at a medical, non-feminist site (not anti-feminist, just neutral) – “Why do prostitutes have such high rates of drug addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder?”
That’s a fact LM. I never understand how so many men project this Magical Quality onto the penis. Maybe it’s an ancestral memory linked to the Symbol of Good Luck that they haven’t quite managed to shift yet?
Maia, covert, really? ‘Cause I’d just shred it.
Hi Mithel – Mmm yes, I see hammers
The Roman phalluses are all over Hadrian’s wall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/features/hadrians_wall/images/04_thursday/gallery/32.shtml
Apparently when paganism thrived everyone worshipped mother earth, and you got a lot more female fertility symbols, but then Judaeo-Christianity came along and spoiled everything….
Yeah Polly, my studies have taken me way into Judaeo -Christianities quest to erase all forms of female worship. Including the Earth. Except for virgins and saints – of course.
shred? i would shove it up the purchasers effing arse. merry christmas, indeed.
Hi Zoe
ACTUALLY there IS a female “equivalent” to “phallic”. It’s “yonnic”, meaning of a vaginal semblance or shape.
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~orn/yonnic.html
As for those repulsive excuses for “gifts”: sheesh talk about rape fantasy. If they sold one of those things in a predominantly Muslim country everyone in the U.S. and Europe would be all over complaining about how sexist and “oppressive” it is :/
The hypocrisy is…stifling.
I think it was at feministing – but some MRA-type whined about why are the feminists getting so upset about the depiction of *an act that most women enjoy*?!?!?!
(yes, I’m sure that most women enjoy being stabbed painfully with a pen in one of the most sensitive areas of the body!
though these men thinking that’s “enjoyable” … eh … might explain some patriarchal things that have been bothering me for a long time …)
LM maybe this demonstrates many men’s belief that women are naturally masochistic. Pornography does a good job under pinning the message that we experience the desire to be humiliated and abused by others in order to feel sexually fulfilled. So just in case we haven’t got the message yet it needs to be reinforced by crappy office paraphernalia. Seeing that it is illegal to display porn in the work place this gives men their daily dose of misogyny.
Ah yes! The Yonni Lara. While I hadn’t forgot about the Yonni I didn’t connect it as an antonym for Phallic.
Yuk! I can hardly bear to look at the ruddy pen holder; it reminds me of a gaping abdominal wound.
This made me laugh. Do they think it represents some fine art – or something?
“LM maybe this demonstrates many men’s belief that women are naturally masochistic. Pornography does a good job under pinning the message that we experience the desire to be humiliated and abused by others in order to feel sexually fulfilled.”
Even the words that men use to describe the female experience of intercourse (what follows is American slang, I’m sure there are equivalents in other countries!) – “banged”, “nailed”, “hit”, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they originated in the sex industry. Yeeeowch.
And honestly, the only purpose that female sexual pleasure plays in this worldview, is to make a man feel like a stud.
“Do they think it represents some fine art – or something?”
This reminds me of some of the “erotic art” or even “fantasy art” out there – with men raving about how stunningly beautiful it is, and I’m just like, “hmmm, looks like FHM with better backdrops.”
Am I the only person thinking ‘The hole is in the wrong place’…?
Sorry – not trying to be a perv. It’s just really annoying me for some reason. Not that it would be any better if the hole was elsewhere.
What a pathetic piece of junk. We could start helping the planet right now if this kind of crap was banned from production.
Hi Z, I have to agree, the anatomical discrepancy irritates me too. I mentioned up thread that it reminds me of an abdominal wound.
I can’t help feeling that woman hatred is just a joke. Literally.
Well of course it’s a joke, what else is it? Just like our getting mad about it is a joke and not to be taken seriously. Everything’s a joke, except their right to male entitlement. What a minute, male entitlement is so normal, we can make fun of that too and it still won’t matter.
I’m crabby, so of course I’d come over here. :/ I need chocolate! Got any? Nobody has any chocolate. *grumbles*
oops sorry I meant to log out.
m Andrea please feel free to be crabby over here at any time. Sit down put your feet up and grumble away while feasting yourself on my vast array of chocolate nibbles.