velcro attached penises may be the way of the future ;)

So my dear friend at “fuckpoliteness” has come under the hammer for daring to say that the world would be a better place if men had “velcro-attached penises”. Her post has been attached to a BBC women’s hour discussion about misandry (aka, the hate of men) .  Her humour has been labelled violence and discussed as quivalent to the violence of male sexist “humour”.

I think this misses the point. To level out the political implications of sexist male humour (which is an everyday occurance and generally accepted), and this particular post is to fail to understand the different historical positions which inform contemporary situations. The humour deployed by fuckpoliteness is an attempt to subvert dominant power relations, whereas the “humour” used by men against women, or stereotyping women, is offensive and reaffirms the status-quo. This is a fundamental difference. Fuckpoliteness is challenging hegemony.

Goodnight!

-dredgirl