Bring on the Trumpets!
Have you ever tried to talk to someone who refuses to listen or engage? Someone who latches on to a single argument and refuses to discuss in a productive way - even if you don’t agree, a good discussion can often be had.
Have a watch, it’s only 30 seconds long.
So, as a semi regularly blogging, kinda leaning towards the radical, feminist I find myself, on frequent occasions, having discussions with people about my politics……
I’m a fairly open person and like to chat and explore, usually over a large mug of tea and in a reasonably amicable way. I don’t want to argue or be beaten about the head with a poorly presented repetition of the same old stuff just said over and over and louder and louder as if that makes it more true. I’d get more sense talking to my kitchen sink, or a jelly teddy bear …. Well, at least I can eat him if the trumpets thing gets too much.
But what about a march for men who are victims of domestic violence?
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But what about the sex workers who enjoy what they do?
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But what about the nice porn, it’s not all nasty….
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But porn use/paying for sex/abuse of a women is my choice, you can’t infringe my human rights…..
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
What I do in my own home is my business….
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
But don’t you see that….. (insert spurious argument intended to divert attention from that actual point) …..
(Bring on the Trumpets…)
Patriarchy? What patriarchy? I see no patriarchy, said the woman with the blindfold on and her hands cuffed above her head so she doesn’t even have the power to remove the blindfold and truly see that the trumpets are only there to hide the sound of women being abused, raped and murdered every day, to hide the sound of control and of domination and of repression.
Quit with your bloody trumpets and quit trying to excuse what is happening, quit trying to make it look like you choose to be squashed and diminished. Just quit, just take off the blindfold, hear beyond the trumpets and really see what is being done to you and to women all over the world.
There’s ‘what about the gays’ as well. As in ‘gays do domestic violence, therefore it’s not a crime against women’.
Comment by polly styrene — March 11, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
I know - it’s *insert argument designed to distract from the point and repeat with steadily increasing volume and irritation* = “Bring on the Trumpets!” It’s snarky and childish pleading “But I’m a smaller minority than you….”
Good to see you popping in Polly!
Comment by SharkBait — March 11, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
why’s the blog protected, polly? hope it’s not some shite people chucking at you. if it’s gonna be long term, any chance of an invite?
Comment by simply wondered — March 13, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
Simply! Good to see you drop in, how are you?
Comment by SharkBait — March 13, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
oh i’m fine you know… *sniffs around vaguely wondering if there’s a spare jaffa cake or such* just doing my law - it’s the awful time of year when all the potential barristers are trying to get pupillage. bit stressful, cos you know you can’t make money yet, but you know what you’re doing (a bit). i’ve been working in a law centre, which is great because it really feels like i’m using my knowledge for a sensible end - people who need it and can’t pay. i’m doing loads of cases where people decide nice helpful things like women on aternity leave have ‘ended’ their employment even though they intend to return to work and their employer wants them to come back (which as we know isn’t always the case). fortunately those blasted liberals in europe have made some laws on the subject - it seems not everyone has heard about them yet so we have to remind them every so often. that kinda stuff really.
how you?
Comment by simply wondered — March 14, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Ah the European liberals have their uses then? I did wonder…
All good here, you know, same old, same old…
Comment by SharkBait — March 14, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
It’s a long story SW. But nowt to do with people on t’internet. Anyways I have added anyone I can think of a with a wordpress ID including you, so you should be able to see it if you’re signed in.
Hopefully normal service, or what passes for it, will be resumed as aoon as possible.
Comment by polly styrene — March 15, 2009 @ 2:46 pm