The Perfect Gift For The Infantilized Woman Who Has (Almost) Everything
With feminists now demanding to be treated as eggshells, not equals, you might take the babywoman thing full circle and get your favorite feminist a coloring book with images like this.
Yes, this thing actually exists -- or will soon.
Priscilla Frank reports at the HuffBlow about an upcoming "badass feminist coloring book for the powerful ladies in your life."
Of course, when ladies are actually badass, they tend to want, oh, a gift cert for the gun range or a manual on customizing the Harley, not one with "inspirational" line drawings of unattractive women accompanied by sayings too mundane to bother reprinting here.
But great news! The creator, Ijeoma Oluo, has already beaten her Moochstarter goal of $4K. Her statement:
"I really want to communicate how diverse feminism is and must be in order to create lasting and effective positive change," Oluo concluded. "I wanted to shine a light on feminists that you may never have heard of -- who don't always fit the middle-class liberal cis heterosexual white woman image we usually see. I want people to see the beauty in feminism, not a conventional beauty that often hurts women, but a beauty that comes from strength, resilience, kindness and empathy. Also, I really just want to give this to my feminist friends, as a celebration of community and solidarity."
I think that's a tear in my eye.
Here's my fave of the drawings:
Yes, I believe the lady has a bit of a 5 o'clocker.
And yes, surely what really matters in the world is that we make men's and ladies' room signs indistinguishable by having the little man and woman icons dressed exactly the same. (Are we expected to intuit the vagina in the pants-wearing lady icon or just hope we don't walk in on some guy whipping it out at the urinal?)
Meanwhile, across the world, other women are concerned about bathrooms, too.
via @CHSommers (who actually is badass)







see Poe's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Poe at July 4, 2015 10:12 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/07/05/the_perfect_gif.html#comment-6093109">comment from PoeSee Callahan's Law: http://leekottner.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c757c53ef0120a7bb2b94970b-320pi
Amy Alkon
at July 4, 2015 10:38 PM
As an artist who is also producing a coloring book, I must say this entire concept gives me a bit of a nosebleed. O_o
Jennifer Lankenau at July 5, 2015 12:10 AM
"If someone can be kicked out of school for copying a paper, a person should be kicked out for raping another human being"
How can you not love this coloring book?
Ppen at July 5, 2015 2:43 AM
A coloring book? A fucking coloring book? Even the gays would heckle them for this one.
Canvasback at July 5, 2015 4:47 AM
Bet the Introduction has a trigger warning.
Bob in Texas at July 5, 2015 5:12 AM
The women's eyebrows in most of these trigger me.
Amy Alkon at July 5, 2015 5:19 AM
The first drawing just screams for a caption!
"What? No soy milk? Seriously?!?!?"
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at July 5, 2015 5:40 AM
Is it just me? The "women" illustrated all look "daddy" supported. Even the breast feeding one.
Can you be a feminist if you support yourself?
How do you find the time from "dealing with the oppression, discrimination and hate that's all too rampant in our everyday lives ...".
Sounds like the days when school segregation was being fought but that was way back in the late '50's so I'm not sure how old this person of color is.
The author says she "spend(s) a lot of time neck-deep in misogyny and racism" so she must be in Japan working on her Women's Studies degree and is doing this in her spare time.
Bob in Texas at July 5, 2015 6:59 AM
From the HuffPo article, it looks like all of the drawings are of white women. Is feminism a White Privilege issue?
Wfjag at July 5, 2015 7:59 AM
Just great writing. You nailed it. Infuriating
that selfish "feminists" waste time on this drivel. Try doing this in Iran.
Another Amy at July 5, 2015 9:23 AM
dunno what law this one is, but I'm sure it's been said...
"If you have to tell everyone you are a 'badass', you are by definition, not one."
The whole thing is just an additional identification card to get into their exclusive echo chamber.
SwissArmyD at July 5, 2015 10:19 AM
Why can't they just put "men" and "women" on the door?
Symbols get confusing. Remember when men's and women's rooms were identified with these: ♀ and ♂? That was confusing.
Conan the Grammarian at July 5, 2015 11:04 AM
After we get some pants on Ziggy, we need to get some pants on that restroom sign guy.
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2009/12/12
Conan the Grammarian at July 5, 2015 11:07 AM
It was never a dress.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/30/womens-bathroom-sign-you-cant-unsee-axosoft_n_7181898.html
Conan the Grammarian at July 5, 2015 11:08 AM
Poe's law, indeed. Women upset that the female symbol on toilet doors is a person wearing a skirt? That's just...no, I have no words. It's beyond parody.
I mean, assuming they aren't looking for unisex toilets, would they prefer something that focuses on anatomical differences? Maybe something like this?.
a_random_guy at July 5, 2015 11:54 AM
Conan, thanks for that link -- just pathetic. The sort of person who has to gnash over this (to the point where it gets redesigned as a cape and this is a big deal) is not the accomplished person.
I go around in evening dress skirts -- wearing them as daywear. Wearing a skirt doesn't mark you has less; being less while wearing a skirt does.
Come litter on my street. You'll discover the power of a chick in a skirt. (And you'll probably wish you could be unborn, as did the perp who stole my car...after I tracked him down, berated him into driving it back to my house, and had both my mother and Marlon Brando call him and chew him out.)
Amy Alkon at July 5, 2015 12:15 PM
a_random...that's a great idea, though I prefer the simple and recognizable iconography of the girl on trucker mudflaps.
Amy Alkon at July 5, 2015 12:16 PM
Hari has a 5 o'clock because he is a guy. He is also a comedian, so I imagine that line was delivered in a comedy routine and not in an interview.
Dwatney at July 5, 2015 12:17 PM
Conan the Barbarian: "Why can't they just put "men" and "women" on the door?"
No, can't do that, how are all the illegals who don't read English going to know which restroom to use?
A Random guy; that second link wouldn't do - too many straight guys would go into the wrong room.
If it comes to Sharia we could have stick figures holding AK-47s on the Men's Room door, and a Burka clad figure on the women's door; better yet, women stay home - no restroom for you!
charles at July 5, 2015 1:09 PM
My mate is under the house right now, fixing the bathtub drain. It's the final step in the bathroom remodel she took on mostly by herself. I suggested a few tools that would make her life easier, and she taught herself how to use them.
If you gave her a "trigger warning" she'd either laugh in your face or punch you in the nose, depending upon her mood at the time. Of course, she's not a college girl, so . . .
Steve Daniels at July 5, 2015 1:24 PM
In a moment of boredom I looked at the comments on the HuffPo article. Shocking - I truly would never have expected it, but they are universally critical. Not a single person found this a good idea.
Perhaps people are finally realizing that radical feminism has jumped the shark. More to the point, they finally have the courage to say so.
a_random_guy at July 6, 2015 2:53 AM
"Why can't they just put "men" and "women" on the door?"
This. These days we have go around putting heiroglyphics on everything, because, you know, words are hard.
Cousin Dave at July 6, 2015 7:39 AM
It's like putting "basura" on all the trash cans. If native English-speakers are supposed to learn that "basura" means "trash," why can't newcomers learn that "trash" means "basura?" And what if the newcomer doesn't speak Spanish?
Learn that "men" means "hombre."
Conan the Grammariang at July 6, 2015 9:10 AM
I suggest camel toe and moose knuckle on the doors. It won't work for the gender confused, so a third door with a question mark should suffice.
some seppo at July 6, 2015 9:23 AM
Remember a year or so ago when a'hole women wanted us to look at pictures of vaginas all the time? Vagina statues in schools? They'd wear vagina costumes to demonstrations and all? (That's some demonstration)
I guess they missed the opportunity to make all those women's rest room signs be big flaming vaginas. The bullies who swooped in and mass-censored the Confederate Flag could teach the a'hole women a thing or two.
Alan at July 7, 2015 12:11 PM
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