On a slow Saturday, I thought I would give people a little diversion. Here are the pie diaries that led to the mass exodus of over 1500 people from Daily Kos to Booman Tribune in June 2005. A lot has happened since then and pie isn’t exactly a pressing issue at the moment. But I keep noticing people being directed to the site from the pie fight. Plus, there are a lot of great diaries on the subject.
Notable pie diaries
- Pie fight? Oh pu-leease by boudicca
- I got yer pie fight right HERE!!! by Arthur Gilroy
- The Culture War is a Battle Against Women by lubarsh
- Pie fight ad by kos
- Time To Say Goodnight and Farewell by catnip
- Exploiting Feminism by BrianK
- Last Pie Diary & Politics by Georgia10
- The Sanctimonious Women’s Studies Set by digdugboy This diary has since been deleted
- Pie Update: Mary Ann’s Arse by David Boyle
- my pussy is so wet right now by anna in philly This diary’s title has since been edited
- It is not about the ad – read what the women are… by RichardG
- It is an Ad. Nothing More. by Delaware Dem
- Is Plutonium Page Gone Too? by paradox
- is feminism anti-male? by Carl Nyberg
- Another bitch bites the dust by Juno This diary has since been deleted
- OMFG it’s just hot chicks with pie. by James King
- Give Me A Call… When this blows over. by Maryscott OConnor
- Why I’m Staying by mcjoan
- Everything to everyone by kos
- Now it’s men you’re pissing off with the pie ad, Kos by Nonpartisan
- Some statistics on pie by Jerome a Paris
- Why Abortion is Different by chicagochamp
- As a woman, I’m embarrassed. by tryptamine
- Sexism in our Midst by artemisia
- This seems to work, just listen. by Miss Devore
- Mr. Markos, Tear Down This Wall/Take Down That Ad by RubDMC
- dailykos and the issue of sexism and gender issues by Armando
- Fine, Let’s Fucking Tango by Militarytracy
- Men, Women and the Framing of Political Issues by SusanG
- Good-be Cruel World (and you too, DailyKos!) by MrHinkyDink
- WARNING!!! Very Explicit Content. by Dood Abides
Oh, Lordy.
I’m not sure I want to revisit that particular battlefield & relive my indigestion.
In any case, I’d call the experience informative.
The purges, the Vegas convention, the finacial “improprieties” of many of the more powerful members of that coterie of middle class dunces, the herd mentality, the utter stupidity of some large percentage of the posters, the anti-impeachment thing…they were all implicit right there in the Pie Fight episode.
It’s right there to be seen.
And so it went.
AG
only to wander back from time to time. I’m no longer a dyed-in-the-wool Kossack, if I ever was…but I consider it part of a well-rounded education in what’s going on politically, just as I include BooTrib, Pandagon, TruthDig and other sites (my blog bookmark list on the iBook is small, it’s much larger on the iMac).
And maybe that’s the beauty of the Left — we’re not all expected to march lockstep like the Right does. We have a few “truths we hold self-evident”, but get into endless arguments as to how we achieve them. Yeah, it’s frustrating at times…but it’s rarely boring. The Right sees everything in black and white…while the Left knows there are subtle gradations in every argument…
I was up until 2 in the morning with smoke pouring out of my ears. My husband shrugged, told me that maybe I was losing it and finally went to bed. There was one happening that had both of rolling on the floor when a male Cossack posted, “What the hell happened? I was away for a few days and come back and all the women are gone, all that’s left around here are a bunch of cocksacks.
Kossack anymore. I’m sure I committed a blasphemy and look forward to the hell that will roast me every day of my death in the after world of dead NetDemocrats.
I’m not sure why you posted all of these, Booman. . .or what you think the effect will be.
I didn’t come here because of the pie wars (I already was here, but lurking. However, I wrote my first diary because of the pie fights, posting it at DK and here – the reaction, while not much at either place, was strikingly different here.
Though I still read DK, and occasionally make comments there, I long ago stopped posting diaries anywhere but here. The litany of missing names at DK is painful to recall; I’m glad that some of them are here, or nearby.
Hey! You forgot my lead-in diary, The Women’s Insurrection Forum. Boudicca refers to it in her diary, though. That site was hostile to our issues for quite some time before pie!
Tehanu/ Sandblaster
Thanks to BooMan posting these links I’ve eaten up way too much time this afternoon rereading most of these diaries. As Damnit Janet would say, ACKK!! :o) So, at this point one more couldn’t hurt :o) Got a link Tehanu?
I’m such a…a…a…man :o)
The link is right in Boudicca’s diary like you said.
Evolution…not for everyone LOL
Yikes, Booman. I hate to think what else you’re saving up!!! </LOL>
My memory is not as tender as I thought it would be.
Mainly sadness now at what “could” have been. But that was not quite true: The Pie Fight was about the inevitable finally happening–and of shining possiblilities being in fact just fantasies.
To choose and act without regrets–well I think everyone HERE has done that! We look back at the past, and remember, and move on.