Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Illustrated Fascist, Part 5

No. 5, Rampant Sexism.
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
Fascist leaders celebrate war as masculine fulfillment, presenting themselves as exemplars of machismo and thereby implying both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits. Fascists also fetishize weaponry, investing it with mythical phallic power.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A Royal Pain

I always find it funny that many of the same people who so loudly resent a single American mother being given money to feed her child were busy slobbering over the $80 million parade of hereditary parasites at the last "royal wedding" in Great Britain.

What's Wrong With Fox News, Vol. 3, Part 6,801

Yet another study confirms that Fox News attracts and/or creates ignoramuses.

Monday, May 21, 2012

The People of the Palm

Monica McGivern portrait of Chuck Andrews
By Dan Hagen
They are the ghosts of the future.
They drift down the sidewalks like phantoms, 
half there
and half somewhere else unknown,
their gaze averted ever downward,
as if afraid to meet
the eyes of the world.
They are new,
the true citizens of the 21st century.
The people of the palm,
holding wonders and horrors there.