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Well, I'm finally back in Iowa City. My bus ride to Kansas City was remarkably smooth and fast, so I should have known the corollary was that the ride back would be hellacious, and in fact it was; snow, ice, and fogged bus windshields basically meant that I got into Iowa City over an hour later than scheduled (and I was scheduled to get in at 2 in the morning!), and then I had to catch a taxi home. Six-plus hours on a bus in the middle of the night is pretty awful, especially when you're expecting five-and-change, and at times it felt like the public transportation equivalent of the Bataan Death March ("okay, only two more hours on the bus...oh god my butt is falling asleep and I can see my breath"), especially since I had to make sure to stay awake until I could get off at Iowa City. So basically I didn't get home until a little over an hour ago.

Also [livejournal.com profile] worldserpent linked this post decrying the Twilight-bashing, and the OP in comments defends the act of reading Twilight as a feminist reading practice (or at least comparing it favorably with feminism). I AM NOT JOKING. YOU THINK I AM, BUT I AM NOT.

So yes, I was condescending because with any kind of luck, eventually society as a whole will stop blaming everything and everyone but themselves for the problems they reap. This month its Twilight; last month Judy Bloom. Before that it was feminism making women uppity. It used to be Susan B. Anthony and a while back it was Joan of Arc.

...BELLA SWAN, FEMINIST HEROINE; LIKE SUSAN B. ANTHONY IN A WAY, AMIRITE

(It even has bonus wank where basically [livejournal.com profile] seperis repeatedly misinterprets what everyone is saying because she takes any criticism of Twilight's message as "ZOMG ARE YOU SAYING FEMALES AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE KINKS," and a new version of Godwin's involving accusing people of supporting female genital mutilation. It's wankilicious!)

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Date: 2008-12-02 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yoshitsune.livejournal.com
EWWWWWWWW. (And only a little part of that ewww is from the fact that it's menstrual blood; the rest is just from the fact that it's BLOOD AT ALL. Though doesn't menstrual blood also have sloughed-off, dead tissue in it? Wouldn't it start to smell and/or rot after a certain amount of time?)

On the other hand, some of that art is pretty good...if it weren't made with MENSTRUAL BLOOD EWWWWW.

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