Everyday, it's "We've got your 5 to 50 Odd Internet Items per day RIGHT HERE!" at KA-CHING!, my tumblr page (**). Yes, it's work, work, work -- but every so often something comes up that makes it all worthwhile. Today that's this little take-down of your nuttier than the av-er-age feminist's new "book" which "celebrates" this bit of never-was "feminist technology" on the cover:
Speculum, nutcracker, or tallywhacker. You decide. If "speculum" it saddens me to point out to the Feminist editors and authors that the speculum is not "feminist technology," but was invented by a man, one J. Marion Sims, the father of gynecology. So, to coin a phrase, "Put that up your pipe and smoke it."
Heather Ault, turn in your "Sisterhood is Powerful" t-shirt.
Here’s the new cover for the volume I co-edited. Thanks Heather Ault for the artwork!
At this rate, "Feminist Technology" is going to be in a race with "Italian War Heroes" and "Islam's Greatest Inventions" for world's thinest book.
It just doesn't get easier. Check it out and get your own for free @ TUMBLR. Sign up, pick a theme, and then grab the bookmarklet for your bookmarks bar and Bob's yer uncle.
Posted by Vanderleun at May 7, 2010 8:00 PMYou don't consider the author of Commentarii de bello Gallico an Italian war hero? He does refer to his home turf throughout as Italia.
Posted by: Connecticut Yankee at May 7, 2010 9:11 PMThinnest book: "400 years of German humor"
Posted by: Daran at May 7, 2010 11:50 PMI remember having a discussion about feminist tech in the 1980s. The proponent of feminist tech derided oppressive, masculinist, logic. He was also a computer programmer. So I asked him what a feminist "do" loop looked like.
Posted by: tehag at May 8, 2010 4:15 AMIslam's greatest invention is distilled alcohol. The book may be thin, but it beats the tar out of any feminist technology you could name.
Posted by: Fat Man at May 8, 2010 7:29 AMGerard left out that triumph of Islamic technology, the buzzing prayer rug.
Posted by: PA Cat at May 8, 2010 10:40 AMSpeaking as a man who has know a lot of Pets of the Month I can say that Arthur doesn't know a scintilla of an iota of a jot of what he's talking about.
Ignorance, in this case, is not bliss.
Posted by: vanderleun at May 8, 2010 4:32 PMTumblr - brilliant! I started one today and have stuck on my site as a sidebar, like you! Amazing how useful it is to capture stuff I'd like to blog about but don't have the time.
Posted by: Donald Sensing at May 8, 2010 5:47 PMThanks for the final push that got me off my behind and onto Tumblr! I too will stick it on the sidebar of my old stick-in-the-mud Blogger...we'll see if it completely replaces that in the future.
Posted by: Robert at May 10, 2010 3:49 PMShouldn't that be: "Put that up your pipe and open it. Wide."
Posted by: M. Simon at May 17, 2010 10:30 PM
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