Anna in Philly wrote a diary on Kos today and titled it something that most wouldn’t find appropriate. Something about how her Pussy was so wet right now. Okay, whatever, I got what she was pointing out though it was tasteless….but then Kos censored the title because it “crossed lines”.
I had a hard time believing it so I went and checked it out for myself. So visual images that sexually objectify women are okay on DailyKos so long as it is done in the spirit of capitalistic pursuit, but the written word (which is also a visual communication) that sexually objectifies women is crossing lines? I feel like my brain is boiling right now and my eyes are going to end up permanently crossed. I thought that his comments were poorly chosen before this, I don’t know what to do with my shock and dismay about the whole “pie” situation now. Seems to me that I have just experienced the “nuclear option”! I’m going to bed now, tomorrow has got to be a better day.
It was the nucleaar option!
And I thought that title was incredibly hilarious- and the arguments of the pro-ad folks who wanted it removed were the ones I used about the ad.
The hypocracy was so thick I had to rub leather-new into my boots when I came back here!
BTW I am delighted you came. You are a great read.
I admit I thought it was funny too. I didn’t read all the comments, but I thought the diary was a pretty good satire of what’s been going on over there. I can’t believe kos had the nerve to censor it.
Where is the link to this imfamous diary? Or was the whole thing deleted?
I gotta admit that I would be tempted to complain if someone posted a diary with that title here. But then I understand it was a politically motivated title and it was intended to make a point.
Just saying, no “My cock is soooo hard” diaries please. Heh.
Here it is. Here is Kos’ comment in the diary.
I’ll avoid posting diaries with titles like the one I gave this post.
Booman –
The easiest way to make a rooster palatable is to stew in large-ish pot with 1/2 bottle of a fairly acidic white wine. The acid in the wine will soften the cock’s meat. Once the meat is tender you remove the cock from the boiling water and strip the meat. Put the bones back into the pot and add the rest of the wine. Boil for several hours until all of the goodness has been stripped from the bones.
Chill overnight and remove the fat.
Add your favorite vegetables (I like shallots) to the pot, with the meat, plus herbs: tarragon, a dash of sage, and a dash of thyme. Bring the soup to a simmer and wait for the veggies to cook.
Serve with a bottle of the same wine ….
Wait.
did I miss something?
Rest well tracy…
The humor will come back and we’ll get through this –
They just want us to believe that what’s good for the gander is not allowed to be good for the goose.
Yeah right…
I haven’t gone back there yet, though I’m sorely tempted to peek in and see what’s going on. Result = I’m calm and cheerful, and almost giddy about everything that’s happening here.
PS – Militarytracy – I’ve been meaning to say ‘hi’ since I noticed you over here. I was wabegg in my previous life – we didn’t cross paths much, but I did really appreciate how much you contributed to my understanding of life for a military spouse, and wanted to say – Thank you.
I couldn’t resist going back over there to see what was happening this afternoon. There are a couple of diaries where some men are saying the blog has lost energy–maybe they need to reevaluate whether driving women away is a good idea. Then they get shouted down. It’s only a few who have left, they say. From what I see here, it’s a lot more than a few.
numbers, but quality? Sheesh. Catnip just showed up over here, and is receiving a warm welcome. I think that alone just made my night, and helped a little extra bit in my own version of ‘getting over it’.
The last official count shows more than 270 new members in the last day and a half.
I can’t even begin to imagine the ways in which this must be affecting your community. I’m guessing that a sense of open-armed hospitality would prevent anyone from laying down the law for us newbies – but if there are concerns – traffic, bandwidth, decorum, etc – that need to be addressed – I, for one, would be happy to contribute, or in other ways make efforts to behave accordingly.
But about the numbers, it will be easy for some of those at DK to dismiss a couple of hundred out of their 50,000 as ‘insignificant’.
No doubt many of them will, although I have a sense that the migration isn’t over yet. And dkos will pick up that many new members in the next week or so if not sooner.
I don’t think anyone’s decision to leave had any sense of reducing kos’s numbers, or we’ll show you. And I am sure you already know that. My mother taught me never to stay where I was not welcomed, and it has been pretty good advice over all of these years. People who will not hear, cannot hear. Certainly not everyone at kos is like that, but the loudest voices are right now.
Booman will have the info about the technical affect to the site. I’m just a door holder here, so I am always thrilled to see people coming up the walk to the door. And I really appreciate those who offer to give me a bathroom break from time to time. LOL
Thanks
Yeah, there has been a element of freepers jumping on to fan the flames.
Militarytracy, sorry to see you go.
I’m asking people to crosspost if they’d like to. Even if I don’t comment, a lot of times someone else will catch something that’s of great value when arguing with the Wrong.
You wrote quite a few things that caught my eye and my mind.
Missed that (see my diary). Kos censored bad words? Hmmm…
From kos:
we are all adults here. you can’t handle a potty mouth word, then you’ve got alternatives.
Sheez, as though we don’t have enough to deal with that the language police need to crack down on our vocabulary.
And for the record, I’ve been using ‘bad” words since probably day one of this blog, and we’ve done just nicely for ourselves, thank you very much.
by kos on Tue Mar 8th, 2005 at 16:18:12 MST
“pussy” diary?
Which Pussy diary ? I am the author of the infamous “Pussies, twats,” et al diary. I was raising a concern over using women’s genitalia to insult Republican men. I foolishly suggested that it was both sexist and politically ill advised, because it could alienate Democratic women. I was uncharacteristically restrained and conciliatory, but to no avail, because I’m just a SANCTIMONIOUS, CENSORIOUS, WOMEN’S STUDIES, KILLJOY who wants to deprive men of their God-given right to call each other pussies.
It was brutal.
that I was thing of.
Good diary, by the way.
is more important than political speech, especially a woman’s political speech. Anna’s words were obviously carefully chosen to make a political point. kos’ “xplanation” for editing her words:
for Anna’s diary
He’s in a tough spot…I can’t really imagine.
I don’t envy him. I get no schadenfreude out of a split of progressives.
Here’s to hoping both communities can focus on ’06!
So it was satire?
used some female sexually objectifying visual communication in the diary title to market her diary and Kos deemed that inappropriate. Kos can use the visual sexual objectification of women to fund his diaries though and HE deems that appropriate. I’m headed back to the virtual Jacuzzi, I feel my eyes beginning to cross again.
I love your writing, and if it will be of any help, lest you go to bed so pissed off, please feel free to avail yourself of a soothing dip in the spa
And be assured there are no inuendos or intentions implied here.
Woke up this morning still stressed but this feels lovely! Thank You! What a nice way to awaken!
Wow. That’s… um… ballsy. Wait… can I say that, or does it cross some arbitrary line? I mean referring to male genitalia like that. It was inappropriate, wasn’t it?
So the upshot is: Making money from images of large breasted women cavorting in a pseudo-lesbian manner is fine. Women expressing their upset isn’t. Men mocking and verbally abusing those women with terms like “menstruating-she-devils” is completely cool. Women using racy language to describe their own anatomy is totally unacceptable. I think I’m up to speed. Perhaps Kos and his frat boy minions should be strapped into some uncomfortable theater seats and forced to watch “The Vagina Monologues” over and over until they get it.
Brilliant RK, just brilliant:
Thanks for that!