You should have your intern add links to the individual wingnuts.

When you have time, of course.
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I still think the Malkin = Bat Boy is brilliant. It comes to me out of the blue and makes me chuckle like a maniac every time it crosses my mind.

Rightards ARE ugly people, inside AND out.

mikey

Also, either it’s my crappy writing or your crappy tone-deafness or both, but there were no martyrous intentions with the first paragraph of this post. It wasn’t resignation; it was a sneer, a gigantic middle finger in the face of abject stupidity.

As for the rest of your concerns, well, here is where it does matter that I was personally attacked — I didn’t give a shit about their axe-grinding before. While I admit I have long been aware of and annoyed with the NAAFA types, I never said anything about it here. I never even argued identity politics here; I thought, well, that’s their gig and when it comes to racism and sexism and homophobia, specialized blogs need to cover that stuff even monomanically. I was content not to bother with their industry; even after they *whined* about the first Daffy post waaaaaaay back in the day, I said nothing.

But no, they couldn’t leave well enough alone, had to fuck with me, had to fuck with this blog again, and in reply then I came to discover what was under the rock I’d theretofore not bothered with lifting and looking under — “looksism” and living breathing strawfeminism in the form of Twisty Faster. So there it was, everything i was annoyed with before but reticent about, plus a good deal more to find disgusting.

Would they censor me? Probably not. Their prefered method is more sneaky — they’d insist that I censor myself.

Also, never underestimate tone’s effect. Being ‘educated’ by some condescending gasbag is intolerable enough when that’s the tone taken by some fucking wingnut. But wingnuts are stupid and evil as a default, and it’s easy to blow that off and make fun of it from, believe it or not, a point of considerable disinterest. Being ‘educated’ by people who can claim with some turthfulness a manner of decency — which they then pervert — is something else entirely. What I mean is, as much as I despise wingnuts, wingnuttery in general is so cartoonishly evil that I can turn the passion on and off, at least most of the time. With these sammich fucks, it’s different; I get mad in a whole different way. I think, also, this has a lot to do with how I think about speech and humor. While wingnuts have their ‘lefty incivility’ trope they pepetuate to my disgust, it, to me, isn’t as bad as wanting to wish insult comedy from the face of the Earth. Both positions are anti-Enlightenment in the extreme, but the latter hits me on a more personal level. The wingnut position is contingent — it has to be to cover their own asses. Most wingnuts allow, at least in theory and maybe only in private, that there are situations where incivility is fine — like say, when Dick Cheney is on the floor of congress. Yes, this is hypocrisy. But of course it is. Still, it’s true that there are cases where one should be civil — it’s just not in the cases wingnuts insist upon. OTOH, the sammich fucks don’t allow that ‘looksist’ incivility *is ever permissable* — nor, so ideologically totalitarian are they, is it permissible to even *think of*. Of course they can’t stop me; but knowing that they *want* to stop me and everyone else from enjoying the life-gift of a righteous insult directed at physically-mentally-’spiritually’ ugly people, makes me livid.

One more thing. You assume that I keep nursing this and it alone is enough to sustain my bile. It’s not. As soon as it abates (because I do have a terrible attention span, and hovering from one topic to the next is my natural state) it’s ressussitated by something newly stupid they’ve said or done, that is linked at LGM or Atrios or TAPPED or on Memeorandom — like Garance’s shit about Hillary, like Garance’s age-limits to nude modelling stupidity, like Zuzu’s crap about Kos’s silly blase response to stalking being about WOMYN!! and how Markos hates womyn!! and only women are ever fucked with by wingnut sociopaths!! And how Kieth Olberman is obviously a woman because he was sent white anthraxy powder, and how the countless liberal bloggers who have been stalked and outted and threatened are all WOMYN!!! and, poof, everything gets brought back to a boil, and I think of the sammich along with the new stuff.

So, uh, yeah, thanks for pissing all over this.