Iraqi guards kill female suicide bomber
Female suicide bomber in Iraq kills 15, wounds 40
Let's not read too much into that, okay? The oppressive tool of the patriarchy that writes all those headlines probably realizes that "Dog Bites Man" just isn't much of a eye-grabber.
I'm surprised they're even called "suicide bombers", and not "differently metabolismed anti-Western capitalist oppressor patriarchy explosive deliverypersons".
[Beavis]Heheheheheh. I said "oppressive tool of the patriarchy"...[/Beavis]
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It's just the privilege of a phallocentric society. That's why guns are phallic; not due to physics or engineering, but a subconscious desire to enlarge the phallus.
Wait a minute. If a gun is a pseudo-phallus, does that make a bomb vest a pseudo-womb/mammaries? (Now there's a dissertation for the aspiring Women's Studies student.)
I just wish they'd try it at home, first.
word: xurxn
And you know what that means...
Ya know, for a web site that has some pretty strong anti-gun/violence rhetoric, I am amused to see their header graphic is a little girl running down the street holding a pump action scatter gun with a pistol grip.
See? That's totally false advertising, because the first time I saw it, I was like "All right! This is gonna be my kinda place!"
I said that the little girl with the shit brown overalls has a shotgun with the ejection port on the wrong side.
Anyway, it's suppose to be ironic, not empowering.
ltooekto!
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And the dissertation could be about why suicide bombing is viewed more negatively than the phallocentric shooting spree.
Throw in some Derrida and it would be Ph.D. material.
(There, I think I've run this joke into the ground.)
Reading the linked-to piece and the comments made my head hurt. Being oppressed looks like a really exhausting job. Apparently you have to learn a whole new language, too.
You know what, I have a hunch there's one common factor each of the bombers has, regardless of genderositude. Something they share, maybe like, oh, a religion maybe, or, ummmm... too bad none of the headlines offer a clue.
Well, let's not let useless speculation distract us from the perennial spectacle of feminists parodying themselves.
Ummm, it means that there is a presumption in the media that anyone doing something terrible and violent is a man.
So adding the sex of a killer when it's male is an unnecessary modifier.
Well, you have to admit that if I just say "suicide bomber", the presumption that he pees standing up and yells "Allahu akhbar!" a lot is, statistically speaking, a fairly safe one.
Again, I'm not sure it has as much to do with presumptions as the whole "Man bites dog!" thing.
For further presumptions, picture the following perps:
"Bodies found under floor of suburban home."
"SUV carjacked on downtown street corner last night."
"Parent drowns three young children."
You have probably subconsciously filled in the race and gender of all three hypothetical criminals. Does that make you racist and sexist, or an observer of statistical trends?
Male
Male
Female
Did I get it right? What do I win?
I'm thinking Tam meant:
White male
Black male
White female
Historically we are lead to believe that certain crimes are performed by distinct subcultures of our country. Thus the horrified OMG a woman dared to blow herself up.
I do like the bomb vest / pseudo-breast take on things. Maybe getting a step toward the promised virgins?
Ms. clueless has it exactly ass backwards. Writing "female suicide bomber" isn't ignoring the fact that most suicide bombers are men, it's deliberately emphasizing it.
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