Saturday, May 12, 2007

Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt in LRB




















Great article by Judith Butler in the latest edition of the London Review of Books. She reviews Arendt's The Jewish Writings and focuses on the usual Butler concerns, written in her complex and beautiful style. Buy the paper or read the article online here

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Men's Representative Party of Lies!













This is one of the funniest and most disturbing things I have seen in a while. Check out the bizarre, completely inaccurate propaganda below for the Men's Representative Party. Because the poor dears have it so rough!

As we know it, men do not have political representation. Because of our tradition of a male dominated Parliament, there has only been the need to represent every known group BUT men. Over the years, that need has has not only been fulfilled but become dangerously overloaded where women and minorities can enjoy undisputed representation, and to criticise this will only damn the critic as a 'bigot'.

Although it's important to remember that what is happening is MORE than just 'political correctness gone mad' but a "way of thinking" that dates back much further. Since the early days, male chivalry has always adopted a po-faced stance in its championing of the fairer sex which is a sympathy that manifests today. So long as men still possess the timeless instinct to throw their coat into a puddle so that a woman's shoes won't get wet, there will ALWAYS be this primal sympathy - and women will always be selected, headhunted and promoted above their fellow men. This in turn creates the emerging legacy of the "omega male" left on the shelf and scrapheap of disadvantage.

Shall we bombard Party founder Tim Watts with some of the real facts about political under-representation? Do so here