We haven’t condemned anything for a while. I condemn Ann Coulter.
So, time again to condemn. So here’s an eighth open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this week? Which evil political, cultural, social and religious phenomena need condemnation?
You can condemn anything except Britney’s new haircut. But you can condemn the use of the caption “Britney tattoo witness” on news reports [vid over the fold].
I condemn myself for refusing to use low wattage light bulbs until China and India sign up to the low wattage lightbulb protocols.
I condemn myself for not being frist
I condemn the tattoo witness for not condemning Britney’s new look. I think.
I condemn Peter Costello for using last year’s (month’s? week’s?) talking points. Do try to be a team player, Peter.
I condemn Australia’s one day cricket team.
What the hell is happening? What sort of team can’t defend 344?
PS – Ann Coulter is a man, right?
i condemn Qantas for refusing to change its slogan to “The Flying Kangaroot”
I condemn Ralph Fiennes for being a cad.
I condemn Barrie Cassidy for not knowing how to pronounce Stephen Colbert’s name. It’s French, bitch.
I condemn my current YouTube obsession.
I condemn the fact that I was applying for a TFN for my wife, and I typed her name in wrong.
I can see this turning into a perpetual condemn.
I condemn the stupid “Biggest Looser” and that wasn’t a Britney joke, honest.
I condemn people who don’t respond to multiple emails when you need to organise and plan for next week.
I condemn this eejit.
Private should be private. Public should be public. And get yer thieving hands off my tax money paid towards the Public Good: if I wanted to adopt someone else’s healthcare, it wouldn’t be an Affluent Australian Aspirational.
If you can’t afford private at non-subsidised prices, don’t expect me to pay. And if you don’t find Medicare service adequate, then lobby for an increased Medicare levy. For-profit healthcare is a sin, anyway.
BTW Ann Coulter is possibly another XYY woman, like a certain erstwhile British PM…
Or maybe, the “Adam’s apple” is actually a Heinleinian Puppet Master…
I condemn my current work schedule getting in the way of my blogging.
I condemn the fact that we haven’t seen much of you, mick!
I condemn people who don’t think CBS Iraq correspondent is just the bees knees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I420_fPM2E
I condemn those who don’t find brunettes cuter.
Jane Fleming is TEH STAR OF THE INTERTUBES!
(Watch for the Young Conservative dude too).
I condemn my behaviour as inappropriate… Sorry for not being around much depending on the next few weeks I may be blogging a lot more or a lot less…
I condemn your apology, mick. There’s no need for it. Was just sayin we’d missed you!
I also condemn the fact that Jessica from Feministing hasn’t picked up my subtle valentine vibes delivered by multiple links. Could it be that despite being one of TEH FEMINISTS she’s straight?
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/11/omg-feminist-blogger-in-clinton-pics-scandal/
Who’d have thunk?
And I further condemn Dr Cat for being too busy to blog recently:
http://pavlovblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/yes-i-know-its-pathetic.html
Damn this annoying having to work for a living CAPITALIST PLOT! Gets in the way of blogging…
I seriously condemn Fickr for censoring me due to a nude painting (because it showed public hair ????) and making me NIPSA until i hid it from public viewing.
I condemn remarks against the Coultergeist or any other powerful woman which manage to be both misogynist and transphobic.
What: they’re strong, loud obnoxious arseholes so they couldn’t possibly be “real” women? Just because they’re repellent doesn’t mean that you get to a free pass to be sexist shits about them. Engage with their arguments, not their appearance/sexuality.
I also condemn blithely hurling innocent scientific jargon around incorrectly (it’s got sharp edges, it’ll take your eye out if you’re not more careful):
* XXY not XYY (XYY individuals are hypermasculine, not feminised)
* XXY women are infertile (Thatcher bore two children).
I refuse to condemn Tigtog’s not quite getting my point.
When I say ‘XYY’, I mean ‘XYY’, not ‘XXY’. ‘XYY’ cannot actually exist in anyone morphologically female. Hence the atempt at humour.
Yes, there are implications of extreme competitiveness, aggression, lack of empathy, and similar ‘male’ stereotypes. Deliberately pushed to the point of absurdity, and still eminently fitting in the cases of Coulter and Thatcher. Neither of whom, incidentally, I would dream of engaging with the arguments of. Both stand condemned by their own obnoxious blather over the years. Both are beyond reason. Both should be beyond relevance or influence.
I really don’t think they’re worth defending, Tigtog. Not these two.
AndyC, your defence merely underlines that I sadly got your point all too well.
Defending your use of misogynistic and transphobic slurs as a combination of “I was just joking” and “they fit the stereotypes”, and describing my concerns as “defending” women I called obnoxious and repellent arseholes shows that you’re not getting mine at all.
Thinking it’s OK to “get away with” sexist slurs just because the women you’re being sexist about are hateful and widely hated doesn’t do anything to advance the cause of eradicating sexism.
At last! A chance to condemn those German model making companies who have completely debauched an innocent childhood pastime and adult hobby!
I condemn the lack of internet in my house.
I condemn those who laugh at the people with bright pink hair.
I condemn whoever closed the metablogging thread.
But I applaud the level of detail in Gummo’s link:
“One new item in the Viessmann company’s catalog on show at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair is called “Sexy Lovers in Motion.” A man and a woman are having sex on a red blanket, in the missionary position. The man moves his buttocks and needs between 14 and 16 volts to do so, AC or DC.”
Speaking of pink hair, I condemn Miki Berenyi for vanishing after Lush split up.
Speaking of hair, I condemn Britney’s wig:
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Whatever happened to:
I condemn my flight home from Sydney this evening for not having Ralph Fiennes on it.
I condemn all inner city Melbourne film stores for not stocking Dick Lester’s “The Three Musketeers” and “The Four Musketeers” on DVD, thus forcing me to purchase them online.
I also condemn Dick Lester for miscasting Malcom McDowell and Alan Bates in “Royal Flash”. Should have been the other way around a la Sinatra and Crosby in “High Society. Although Olly Reed was pretty damn good as Bismarck in “Funny Face”.
I condemn Nabs.
Who cares about musketeers when Dartagnan had a daughter!
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Dear Tigtog,
Ann Coulter has an Adam’s Apple the size of Hawaii, and actually looks like a man. That was my only point.
Dear Alex,
Let’s not derail Kim’s thread further. We could discuss it over at the post on this I put up at Hoyden.
I condemn having my broadband shaped to 64k.
TWO FRICKIN HOURS to download the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie trailer. The SMALL version.
And my foot hurts.