{"id":3501,"date":"2007-07-10T06:11:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/10\/right-wing-blogger-says-feminist-should-be-fixed-by-being-raped\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T06:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:31:23","slug":"right-wing-blogger-says-feminist-should-be-fixed-by-being-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3501","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Blogger Says Feminist Should Be "Fixed" By Being Raped"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his blog, Clint Heine<\/a> and his readers discuss Maia. Responding to Heine calling Maia a “parasite” and suggesting she’s mentally ill, “James” wrote:<\/p>\n

Nothing a big black dildo won’t fix……<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which Heine responded,<\/p>\n

James…..!!! Nice suggestion, go over there and tell her that :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not going to bother rebutting anything Heine and his cohorts wrote; they’re not human beings, they’re maggots and worms, and I don’t debate maggots and worms. And yes, I realize Heine and his maggoty friends doubtless consider such comments “jokes,” because they’re too stupid to know what an actual sense of humor looks like.<\/p>\n

(I do wonder if James or Heine could look his mother, sister or girlfriend in the face and tell her “Today I said a woman on welfare whose politics I disagree with could be fixed by raping her with a big black dildo. Don’t you agree that’s how these women should be fixed, Mom?” Maybe if they imagined that they could begin to develop a vestigial, wormish understanding of what’s wrong with their “joke.” But maybe not.)<\/p>\n

But it’s worth noting that Clint Heine (his real name) has been in a position of leadership in New Zealand politics (he used to head up the youth wing of the ACT party<\/a>, which is the most right-wing party in NZ).<\/p>\n

And it’s worth noting that there’s nothing unusual<\/em> about James’ and Heine’s remarks. It’s not uncommon for female bloggers, especially feminist bloggers, to have to deal with such oh-so-hilarious rape threat jokes. The purpose of these “jokes” is to remind uppity women (especially poor women and women of color) of their place. (The pathetic nature of men who feel driven to put uppity women in their place is, I trust, obvious.)<\/p>\n

James and Heine themselves are so meager and unimportant they barely exist. But they and their fellow maggots create an environment in the blogosphere that women have to deal with; that is important, and it’s unfair, and it’s bigoted, and it fucking sucks.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Maia comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On his blog, Clint Heine and his readers discuss Maia. Responding to Heine calling Maia a “parasite” and suggesting she’s mentally ill, “James” wrote: Nothing a big black dildo won’t fix…… To which Heine responded, James…..!!! Nice suggestion, go over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,102,31,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}