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American Women and Self-Harm: an Epidemic that Spans Generations | 81 comments (81 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I can't speak for all women, but nobody can! (none / 1)

I own my choices though. I don't make them for other people, I make them for me and women who feel good about themselves can draw interest and admiration in a damned gunny sack! As far as my generation goes and the women I know, we don't wear crap shoes for anybody.....we wear what we want to wear! I dare you to take this shit over to Suburban Guerrilla Ductape, I fucking dare you! You better take some body armor though. And Europeans make fabulous shoes too and a fuckin slipper doesn't hold up very well in the fuckin snow! This is just more fuckin Ductape Propaganda! But hey, fight on by continuing to insult my sex and it's abilities to decide things for themfuckingselves because this is normally a slow blog month! Booman's intellect is likely to really feel unappreciated when this fucking shoe diary gets more comments than a real diary on the front page!

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by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 12:54:59 AM EST
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Re: I can't speak for all women, but nobody can! (4.00 / 2)

Ahem ...with a wink ;o)

I think you might be the most prolific commenter in this diary Tracy........

Green Grass and High Tides Forever

by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 06:50:38 AM EST
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It's about shoes (none / 1)

What do you think a girl is going to do? Where do you think a girl is going to spend her time and her money?

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by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 10:16:27 AM EST
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Re: It's about shoes (4.00 / 5)

I guess I was confused because you said this diary would be full of comments, when it wasn't even recommended. No recommends tells me that DT's occasional supporters aren't as snowflakey as you would make them out to be in some of your other comments. And because I give a shit I have to say that some of your comments here and in other diaries have bothered me with the way you've gone off. I see those comments as some of what you say DT is doing. Now I consider you a friend, and because of that consideration I've kept my mouth shut about what I've seen. But if we are to be fair, if the language you've used is to be accepted here, then so should anything that DT writes. Then we can all agree or disagree. I don't see any of it as a threat. Just more hashing out.

With respect

Green Grass and High Tides Forever

by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 10:47:52 AM EST
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As a feminist and an American (4.00 / 5)

This diary is offensive. Women have choices in this culture. We aren't culturally strapped and I'm not going to start believing that right now because then it would be true for me and it isn't true. No, I have choices and I will stick with having choices. I'm sorry that I have offended you with my choice of language in this diary and past Ductape diaries, but to me this diary is a stark example of AntiAmerican propaganda as most of Ductape's recent diaries have been. My country does not suck and my country is not the incubus and I refuse to sit back and tell myself that everything is hopeless and pathetic and I'm flawed right down to the soil that I walk upon and the shoes I am forced to walk upon it in! Perhaps some women are self harming but there are lots and lots of counselors and books out there to help them with it if they wanted the help......this is not an AMERICAN CULTURE problem! My generation has been raised with access to feminism and I have imbibed heavily and I have choices. I hate that almost all of Ductape's diaries lately portray Americans as being idiots who all act like drones with no awareness of choice while other cultures make wonderful beautiful gorgeous shoes that don't fuck up their women's feet like we do! It's ridiculous and I have had enough!

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by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 12:10:29 PM EST
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Re: As a feminist and an American (4.00 / 2)

This diary, while a little tongue-in-cheek at times, resonated particularly with me right now because I'm in the middle of reading "The Feminine Mystique" for the first time (yes, I know I'm always late to the party - but at least I get there). And I just finished the chapter where Freidan documents (yes, documents, does not assert) that the corporate/media complex in this country worked very hard to convince women that their ultimate place was as a housewife.

I know that was in the 1950's, but it was impossible not to see the tie-in today what with Martha Stewart et al. So, while we are free to make choices (and I am thankful every day for that), there is a STRONG cultural pull in this country to dress AND define women in a way that objectifies their sexuality and attempts to keep them barefoot and pregnant. I'm proud of all the women who buck that trend, but it is an uphill battle and I worry for the youngsters who are still working their way through it in ways that I don't have to anymore.

And one more thing, has anyone seen the movie "The Devil Wears Prada?" I did last week and my feminist bell was ringing loud and clear. DT's diary could have been a commentary on that movie alone!

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 05:33:39 PM EST
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Re: I can't speak for all women, but nobody can! (4.00 / 3)

I respect you a whole lot, Tracy, but I can't help but wonder how you would react, if DTF ( or anyone else) came a storming into the diaries you write, cursing and attacking you personally, for having written them, or for whateve stance you took. If a writer is so compeltely unacce[table to you, amd upsets you do much why read them at all? I honestly don't understand this.

ONward!

by scribe (scribe40@comcast.net) on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 11:41:02 AM EST
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This is why (4.00 / 4)

Every week or so Ductape puts up some "stirring" and "inciteful" (his word) diary that I just click over because it is bullshit. He has caused a lot of people to be hurt though and leave the site and I'm sick of it. He has a little following that usually shows up here to promote all of his shit to the top of the list and people turn their backs on the place figuring that he has this enormous following here..........and his stuff is absurd. It didn't used to be but it is now and I'm tired of witnessing silently his weekly damage and defilement of the site with all of his incite. It's just about like clockwork anymore! He calls his own stuff incitement.......go to his website, see for yourself. Why I am being judged because it worked and now I have been incited! What a shitty goal anyhow........a goal to write stuff that hurts people and pisses them off! Yeah, we're going to get a lot done taking that tack!

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by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 12:17:29 PM EST
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Re: This is why (4.00 / 2)

First off, I am not judging you, or anyone else. I was genuinely baffled by why you are doing this, so I asked. You answered. Now I am wondering what your ultimate goal is. What do you wish to accomplish?

ONward!

by scribe (scribe40@comcast.net) on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 05:16:53 PM EST
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Ductape desires to be inciteful (none / 1)

It was a fabulous success where I am concerned, I have fully been incited and many Ductape admirers think that being inciteful is such a fine fucking thing until it really happens I guess. I have had more than a few little Ductapey digs pertaining to my family and our service and I have had enough thanks.

PMS Purchase More Shoes

by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 at 05:39:51 PM EST
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American Women and Self-Harm: an Epidemic that Spans Generations | 81 comments (81 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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