Vox Day, another insecure sexist

In my previous post, I discussed how men like Don Fender, who still demand traditional gender roles, are really inscure men trying to hide how soft and weak they are!

There's another editorialist who fits that description - Vox Day who writes for World Net Daily

here's his archives

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=175

Vox Day title's his editorial page as Vox populi. So the Latin phrase "Vox populi, vox Dei" means "The Voice of thePopulace = the Voice of God."

So we know how delusional Vox Day just judging by his pen name and his editorial page name.

But it gets worse, as you can see from his following words

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47735

To put it more clearly, if a woman consents to extramarital sex, she is committing a moral offense which is equal to that committed by the man who engages in consensual sex with her, or by the man who, in the absence of such consent, rapes her. Christianity knows no hierarchy of sins. Since only the woman who is not entertaining the possibility of sex with a man and is subsequently raped can truly be considered a wholly innocent victim under this ethic, it is no wonder that women who insist that internal consent is the sole determining factor of a woman's victimization find traditional Western morality to be inherently distasteful.

What an fuckin asshole!

A person owns his/her body. A rape violates the victim's ownership rights. What's so hard to understand about that?

Vox Day is the same guy who publicly threatened Al Franken and called him out to a fight. By doing that, Vox Day is already violating a law. So does that mean that Vox Day ought to have a dick forced up his ass while doing prison time?

It's one thing to ask that woman take precautions to avoid date rape. However, we need to make sure we enough outrage against the rapist. After all, when a bank gets robbed, we have outrage towards the robber, not the bank.


Vox Day also said in many previous articles that women shouldn't work, they should stay home and make babies.

In reality, when that happens, it makes the woman vulnerable to more abuse because she knows that without her abusive husband, she can't survive on her own.

This is why pimps treat their sex slaves like shit! Rip them girls off their money and abuse them, so they got nowhere to turn!

Vox Day calls himself a "Christian". I call him an insecure asshole, who's trying to hide his softness and vulnerabilities by writing stupid shit like that!

King Kong, Gender Roles, Insecurity


Extreme Right Wing Conservative Don Feder applauds the new King Kong movie for portraying stereotypical gender roles.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20675

Here's my response to Don Feder's words

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Feder:Feminism supposedly having liberated us from gender stereotypes, today’s heroines are emotionally androgynous. They compete with men, pursue them sexually – essentially, they are men (and not the better sort) with breasts and vaginas.

Pablo:This is so idiotic! So, a woman refusing to be excessively vulnerable is "man with breasts and vagina"? So women ought to be excessively vulnerable to the point where she's an easy target for abuse? If not, she's a "man with breast and vagina"? That's stupid!

Or is Feder such a weak man that he's intimidated by women who show signs of strength? Maybe he's a "woman with a penis and testicles" or as Arnold would say "a girlie man"

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Feder:In a way, all men are King Kong: powerful, brooding, potentially destructive creatures waiting for a woman to touch our hearts and tame us.

Pablo:Bullcrap!

There's a lot of men who are so passive, that it takes a stripper to even bring his wild side out! Otherwise, they're passive all day! And even in bed with a a woman, some men are passive!

And then there's men who have no internal interest in being tamed! The only thing they want from a woman is to conquer and rape her! No amount of tender-hearted-ness from a woman will ever tame them. Otherwise, there would be no domestic violence

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Feder:And all women are Ann Darrow, simultaneously fragile and compelling, possessor of the magic to transform primitive males (monsters-in-waiting) into protectors and the builders of families and civilizations.

Pablo:Some women don't want to be around "primitive males" because they'd always be monsters, regardless!

Women as fragile? A large percentage of middle school girls dont even show a fragile side at all! They're gossipy and loud, ready to visciously put down anyone who don't meet their standards! I was once in middle school as a student and I work at middle schools now! So don't tell me otherwise!

In some cases, some wild, rowdy women are the ones get tamed by a man who is strong, suave and sensitive!

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Conclusion: Feder is a weak, insecure man who is scared of women with any sense of inner strength. Feder is scared of women who are loud and expressive! Feder is not a real man! He hides that he's demanding traditional gender roles to mask his softness!

By the way, Feder reminds me of this one roommate I once had! And I told that room-mate his mind is in the 12th century. Then he stopping talking like Don Feder!

Response to Geography Lesson

In my previous post, I mentioned about this Chinese male who said that he "didn't consider Filipinos to be Asians".

My friend Stuart Hayashi (who is Japanese American) has this to say

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I do not see any problem with Filipinos being considered "Asians,"regardless of whether or not they are generally darker than East Asians like the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans.

In fact, the very point that Filipinos are necessarily darker --for genetic reasons -- is subject to debate. In the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, a number of prominent whites (such as many of President Theodore Roosevelt's favorite nonfiction authors) described East Asian Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Tibetans, etc., as "brown-skinned." This was not without reason.

It can be argued that Japanese nationals are often light-skinned due to environmental factors rather than genetic, given that people of Japanese ancestry who have lived in Hawaii for many years often become quite brown. This may not be surprising to scientists who have found that the skin color of the first humans was brownish/bronze instead of black (they say that the first humans probably looked more like bushmen than like West Africans).

Indeed, reflecting upon his stay in Hawaii during the Massie Case, attorney Clarence Darrow made a comment in his memoirs that was along the lines of, *Honolulu looks just like any other American town,except that everybody is brown*. He said this upon observing, not only Native Hawaiians, but East Asian immigrant laborers as well.

By what standard are we to judge what makes someone "Asian"? When we consider their continent of residence, the indigenous peoples of India are "Asian," are they not?

I also find it weird when Russians are called European, since they too live in Asia and are always referred to as "The East." And it is true that, for some years, Russia was actually a political territory ruled by that famous Mongoloid conqueror, Genghis Khan.

And, if only East Asians like the Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese are to regarded as "the only real Asians," then how are weto classify the people of Kyrgyzstan? A lot of them are Muslims with Sinic-(i.e., Chinese)-looking facial features. But a number of Kyrgyzs are Caucasoid-looking, too.

It may be true that the Philippines is not located on the Asian continent. But, then again, neither is Japan or Hong Kong. Technically, the Japanese don't live in Asia; they are on an island chain.

And the English aren't on any continent either. So maybe we shouldn't use the word "European" on them?

What term are we to use for South Asians like Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, and Kashmiris? Dravidians were the indigenous peoples they descended from, but the South Asians have ancestors of various other ethnicities, too. Since they actually dwell on the Asian continent, perhaps they and the Russians are "more Asian" than the Japanese? And, as you pointed out, what are we to say of the Indonesians and Malaysians?

If Fiipinos are not "true Asians" for some racial reason, then what about Pacific Islanders who have both Negroid and Mongoloid ancestors?

Your points about the classifications of "Asian races" are very much on the mark. It is not as if ethnic researchers' modern classifications of "races" are as scientifically exact as "2 + 2 = 4."

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Pablo's comments: Stuart made interesting good points up there.

The Chinese American male I mentioned earlier was a total ignoramus who went to the same high school as myself. He flunked a social studies class as well as a few math classes (proving that not all Asians are good math).

That ignoramus was ignorant of geography, even the geography of the continent his ancestors came from

.All that ignoramus knew about Asians was what he saw in person in Hawaii. Meaning, most of the Asians he seen were Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese and Laotian. He's most likely was not familiar with Indonesians, Mongolians, Burmese, Malaysians, Cambodians, Tibetans, Kahzaks, Uzbeks or Krygyzs. He just noticed that Filipinos are darker than the other Asian groups common in Hawaii, so he placed them in the same category as other brown skinned people common in Hawaii (ie Polynesians) which is totally ridiculous.

Just go to any myspace profiles of Filipinos, under race, they'll put Asian, NOT Pacific Islanders.

Asians tend to go in the following categories : Northeast Asians (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, and the ethnic groups in Siberia), Southeast Asians (Filipinos, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Thais, Burmese, Indonesians, Malaysians), South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangledeshis, Sri Lankans), Central Asians (Kahzaks, Uzbeks, Krygyzs, Tibetans)

West Asia is more commonly knowns as the Middle East, so the people there are placed in a different ethnic categories.

Russia covers parts of Europe and Asia. Those who are ethnically Russians are white Europeans. They were able to conquer mass amounts of territory in Europe and Asia and have mixed with other ethnic groups. So in Russia, we have white Europeans, Middle Eastern people, and Asians)

As for Pacific Islanders, we got Melanesians (New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia), Micronesians (Marshallese, Chuukese, Chamorros, Palauans, Pohnpei) and Polynesians (Hawaiians, Samoans, Tongans, Tahitians, Maoris)

Native Fijians have been considered Polynesians by some, Melanesians by others. Fiji also has a large population of South Asians, imported to work on plantations, just like how Japanese and Filipinos were brought to work in Hawaii plantations.

Australian Aborigines look similar to Melanesians, though some scientist have placed them in separate categories.

So Stuart Hayashi was right when he said "It is not as if ethnic researchers' modern classifications of "races" are as scientifically exact as "2 + 2 = 4."

Geography Lesson

I remember a while back, some this one Chinese guy said that he didn't consider Filipinos to be Asians, because Filipinos are brown-skinned!

That's a stupid thing to say!

Does that guy consider Indonesians, Malaysians, and Cambodians to be Asians too? Because that what Filipinos look like!

That moron think that only yellow skinned Asians are "true Asians". That would include Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese.

That moron said that Filipinos belong to same category as Hawaiians and Samoans.

That's stupid! GET A MAP!

The Phillipines is NOT near Samoa or Hawaii. It is NEAR Indonesia and Malaysia!

Filipinos, Indonesians and other Southeast Asians are darker than other Asians, because they got more exposure to sunlight (DUH!)

Just like how a Native Guatemalan is DARKER than a Native Canadian. Same race, but different exposure to sunlight!

Samoans and Hawaiians dont consider Filipinos to be of the same race. In fact, many Samoans and Hawaiians make fun of the way Filipinos talk and what they eat!

Plus, Filipinos tend to be shorter, have slanted eyes, and have thin hair, whereas Polynesians to be larger, dont have slanted eyes and have thick hair.

So why do Filipinos live in Kalihi, Waipahu and Ewa, along with the Polynesians?

It's not cultural, it's economic.

Same reason you'll find Laotians and Vietnamese living in Palolo Valley along with Samoans, Tongans and Micronesians.

Most immigrants from Samoa, Tonga, Phillipines, Micronesia, Vietnam and Laos can only afford to live in Kalihi, Palolo, Waipahu or Ewa.

I can understand if an 8 year old is confused on this. An adult (like that Chinese man who didn't think of Filipinos as Asians) should know better!

Phony War on Christmas

All the Extreme Right-Wing Christian fanatics are crying about the so-called "War on Christmas".

Why?

All because some store employees say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"

All because some people believe that the traditions of non-Christian religions ought to be celebrated too!

Those Right-Wing Christian fanatics complain about being persecuted because someone said "Happy Holidays", some woman's titties got exposed during Super Bowl half-time, because someone wanted a Pledge of Allegiance without forcing atheist to say "under God", because some want the traditions of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, etc to be honored!

THAT'S NOT PERSECUTION!

In some nations around the world, people get imprisoned and even executed for being Christians. In some nations, Christians get raped, physically tortured and shot at! In some nations, terrorist bomb Christian churches. All just for being Christian.

This is what happens in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and other nations.

Yes, a lot of these occur in mostly Muslim nations. Christians who are escaping such conditions try to move to America. Yet, some so-called Christians wants to ban all immigrant from Mostly Muslim nations? Even those who are trying to escape them?

PS: I prefer saying "Merry Christmas" over "Happy Holidays", but that has nothing to with the Right Wing Christian fascists!

Racial Conflicts

1) Starting this past weekend, there were racial riots in Sydney, Australia.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/14/australia.racial.unrest.ap/index.html

It started when 2 Lebanese men attacked a white lifeguard at a Sydney beach. The Euro-Australians retaliated by attacking those who look Middle Eastern. Then the Middle Eastern youth fought back.

I remember reading in a newspaper that one of the white Australians said that all Middle Eastern people in Australia should go back to the Middle East. Nevermind that his ancestors from Europe stole Aborigine land in Australia.

It was only a few years ago, when the Aborigines rioted in Sydney in retaliation for a cop killing an Aborigine male.

Yet, Prime Minister John Howard is downplaying racial tensions in Australia?

I know that not all Australians are prejudiced, but those riots are proof that there is a racial conflict going on there.

2) In a recent post, I mentioned that Compton was once mostly-white, then mostly-black, and now a mostly Latino community.

Here is an article about the conflict between African Americans and Latinos in South Central LA. Very scary stuff

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_12_19/cover.html

3) This past October, there was a riot in Birmingham, England.

This was started when a bunch of Pakistani males raped a Jamaican girl. This then lead to massive fights between Pakistanis and the African-Carribeans

http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,1599126,00.html

4) So why I mentioning all this on the blog?

To let people be aware of what's happening, and how diversity has it's challenges. In a globalized world, a lot of people are migrating to different places. And when different groups meet in a certain places, some shallow knuckle-heads in each group will start some drama. Calming it down will take a lot of effort and dialogue

Old Hawaii

It is natural for people to reminisce about the old days. I'm only 25 years old, and already feel nostalgia about the good times of the past.

That's totally OK when you're sitting alone at your home or when talking story to old-time friends.

However, some people use that as an excuse to oppose any developments, whether it's a new condo building, a new neighborhood or a new Wal-Mart being built.

Many of those opponents were those who grew up in Hawaii in the 1950's and 1960's and want Hawaii to stay that way.

How ironic, since back when they were children, the grownups (who grew up in the 1920's) already wished things were the way they were when they were young.

People just assume that the way things were when they grew up was how it was before they were born.

If those people were living in caveman times, they would oppose the idea of building homes outside of caves, not to mention basic sanitation, electric systems and other things we take for granted today.

Things change, and it happens everywhere.

In the infamous community of Compton (in the LA metro area), it was once an all-white town. We might find it hard to believe since it's the home of gangsta rap.But when African Americans moved in, all the European Americans moved out. And nowadays, all the Mexicans and Central Americans are moving in, and the African Americans are moving out.

The same happens in Hawaii.

McKinley High School in Honolulu was nicknamed "Tokyo High" 40 years ago. Yet, today, that's not even the case.

I was at that school's graduation ceremony last June, and I hardly seen any Japanese people.

Most of the Asians I saw were Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese and Filipinos. I also saw more Samoans and Micronesians than Japanese.

One friend who went to Washington Middle School (in Honolulu) 10 years ago said that school was mostly Japanese. NOT ANYMORE!

I worked at Washington Middle as a substitute teacher, and I can tell you that Japanese are a minority there. They're outnumbered by Koreans, Samoans and Micronesians.

The point is, things change! People move out of neighborhoods, other people move in.

Communities change. Times change.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is!

Rape of 11 year old girl

On November 22, 2005, an 11 year old girl was raped by 5 boys in Beretania Community Park near Kukui Gardens.

http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/27/news/story02.html

I have been following this story because the victim and 3 of the agressors have been reported to attend Central Middle School, where I occassionally work as a substitute teacher.

I dont know the names and even if I did, I'm not allowed to say them publicly. Plus, names aren't important for you to know. What is important to know is how it happened, and how it can be prevented.

As the rape was occuring, NO ONE called the police, even this happened in the MOST densely populated area of Honolulu.

Possible reasons:

1) Assuming that because there's many people living nearby, there must've been someone who called the police already, so why bother?

Why bother? Because everyone else is thinking "why bother", so just call the police anyways. Plus, if the police are getting 100 calls about it, THAT'S GOOD. That puts neccessary pressure on the cops to get to the scene immediately.

2) That area has a large number of immigrants, many of whom aren't confident enough in their English speaking skills to speak to an emergency dispatcher.

That could be YOUR situation if YOU are in a place where you dont understand the language.

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A letter to the Star Bulletin

http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/03/editorial/letters.html

Parents responsible for alleged rapistsThe recent rape of the 11-year-old child, allegedly by five juveniles (Star-Bulletin, Dec. 1), is a prime example of what we can expect from the youth of today if parents continue to raise their kids in an immoral environment. I blame the parents of the alleged rapists for their actions.
I strongly feel that these kids should be held as adults. If that cannot be done because of the laws pertaining to youthful offenders, then their parents should be held responsible. Immorality begets immorality.

Kimo Holland
Honolulu

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MY RESPONSE (hopefully to be published on the Star Bulletin soon)

I have been paying special attention the case of the 11 year old girl raped near Kukui Gardens, because I occassionally work at Central Middle School as a substitute teacher. It was reported that the girl and her attackers go to that school.

On the 12/3/05 edition of the Star Bulletin, Kimo Holland blamed the parents of the rapist for the rape.

Does Holland know who the parents are?

The reason I ask is because many kids dont even bother listening to their parents or their teachers, regardless of how strict they are!

Remember, kids have a mind of their own. Their minds are not blank slates, though we sometimes wish they were.

Maybe those rapists were brought up in an immoral, abusive, drug-filled environment. But then again, not even kids who grow up in a conservative household are immune from the urges of committing rape and other viscious crimes.

Until I know about their home environment, I won't hold the parents responsible for their children's crimes.

Pablo Wegesend
Honolulu, HI


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Too many boys think raping girls is a fun game. Why else would they do it? That's why they ought to be punished.

The boys who commited the crimes are currently awaiting trial. Hopefully, they get some time in jail, and more importantly they learn to regret their acts.