AMERICA FUCK YEAH!, by Michael Davis – Straight, No Chaser #206
February 18, 2011 Michael Davis 1 Comment
It looks like the Middle East is really making a play for democracy.
That’s great, I guess. Freedom’s a great thing. Let’s hope that every Middle Eastern country that wants democracy gets it.
But will they know what it means?
You think they will stop some men from stoning women that dare to question their husband? You think democracy will stop some Middle Eastern men from killing his wife because he felt like it?
In Egypt A CBS journalist was raped and beaten by a bunch of Middle Eastern men while they were celebrating their victory. They forced a dictator from power and while anticipating the march towards democracy they figured they would rape a woman.
Why not? Women are NOT men. They are there to serve men so, bitch give up the pussy.
That’s democracy?
No. That’s a sand nigger.
Yeah-I said it.
And yes-I ‘m aware that where they are from they can get away with that sort of shit because it’s part of their culture. Well the woman they raped was an American and we don’t play that shit over here.
Hence the title sand nigger.
I think the way certain cultures treat women is fucking nuts. That said, that’s the way it is over there and I get it.
As I said-we don’t play that shit over here. I hope the CIA finds those sand niggers and puts a bullet into each and every one of them while singing the song from the great film, Team America…
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
Try raping THAT Osama.
Doug Abramson
February 18, 2011 - 2:22 am
MOTU, while this kind of behavior is rare here, it is far from unheard of. A couple of thousand years of cultural norms is hard to eradicate in a hundred years or so. Since women were so active in the Egyptian revolution; we can only hope that this is the crack in the wall that is needed for the Egyptian people to start to change their own attitudes about women’s role in society. If that happens, hopefully they will become a beacon of cultural enlightenment for the region.
MOTU
February 18, 2011 - 3:27 am
Doug,
That type of behavior is NOT rare here. It’s just that the sick mofo’s who do it here don’t think they have a right to do it. I’m aware of the cultural difference between us and them and so are they.
The young people who started the revolution are ready to do away with that second class shit. The sand niggers who did the deed knew what raping an American journalist would say to the world.
They didn’t care.
They fight a non violent battle for democracy and in victory they rape a woman who’s just doing her job?
Like I said, sand niggers.
Martha Thomases
February 18, 2011 - 6:35 am
As someone who attracted her share of unwanted attention in my youth, I can tell you that the sick mofos DO think they have a right to it.
According to NBC News, women were instrumental in organizing the demonstrations in Egypt. I think that’s evidence of the beginning of a sea change.
Vinnie Bartilucci
February 18, 2011 - 11:14 am
I really want them to do well. I do.
But, well, Lawrence of Arabia was on this week, and Ghandi the week before.
Both are films about countries who got freedom from Britain, and almost immediately fell into squalor and internecine fighting, most between religious factions.
It takes a LONG time for “freed” nations to turn into places you’d want to visit, let alone live.
Ricky Gervais did a bit about this on his recent special, talking about how all these African nations asked for freedom, and Britain gave it, and a few years later the phone rings at Number 10… “It’s Africa…we’re hungry.”
Monty Python touched on it as well in Life of Brian, the whole “What have the Romans ever done for us?” bit.
I’m not saying these people shouldn’t be free, nor am I going down the road of so many pundits who claim the people of the middle east can’t handle freedom or other such patronizing crap. I’m saying that very rarely do the folks demanding freedom have an actual plan in place. A few weeks from now, when the partying and raping subsides in Egypt, everyone’s gonna be walking around with that “Now What?” look Ben and Elaine had in the back of the bus at the end of The graduate.
Go find a copy of The Monitors by Keith Laumer. It’s where a fair portion of the surprises of the series V came from. Aliens come to Earth and basically take over the world governments overnight. As the people of Earth rise up against them, they obligingly make plans to leave.
Turns out, they take over the bureaucracy of planets all over the galaxy not for conquest, but because they’re good at running things. The idea is, it frees the people of the planet from the day-in-day-out humdrummery, freeing them to make art and stuff. No one else has ever complained.
The main guy running the protest realizes they’ve made a colossal error, but has a solution. The Monitors merely need to start charging the people of Earth for their services. The money doesn’t matter to them, but it turns them from perceived enslavers to employees.
We need to go into the government-running business. Sell democracy like a franchise. It’s about the only thing we have that people want anymore, besides fast food and porn.
Elayne Riggs
February 18, 2011 - 11:32 am
“As I said-we don’t play that shit over here.”
Of course we do. Rape is still prevalent, sexism is pervasive and domestic violence rampant (particularly in fundamentalist religious circles), and the big Republican actions this past month or so have all been catering to the forced-childbirth crowd, even going so far (in SD) as to introduce legislation to make killing abortion providers **justifiable homicide**. Women have only slightly more bodily autonomy here than they do in countries like Egypt. Let’s not even talk about the US Army’s refusal to take rape charges seriously, to re-brand rape survivors to the godawful term “rape accusers” (if I’m robbed and I demand justice, I’m a “robbery accuser”?), etc. etc.
When it comes to institutionalized sexism, Michael, it’s really only a matter of degree, honest.
MOTU
February 18, 2011 - 2:37 pm
Martha wrote.
“According to NBC News, women were instrumental in organizing the demonstrations in Egypt. I think that’s evidence of the beginning of a sea change.”
I hope so.
MOTU
February 18, 2011 - 2:43 pm
Elayne,
You are absolutely right.
My point was and is this-to rape a woman in celebration of freedom should reserve for those ass wipes a VERY special place in Hell.
Luigi Novi
February 18, 2011 - 9:17 pm
It gets worse: A New York University fellow resigned after joking about the assault, saying that Lara Logan was trying to “outdo Anderson Cooper”: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/n-y-u-fellow-resigns-after-tweeting-about-lara-logan/?scp=1&sq=Nir%20Rosen,%20Lara%20Logan&st=cse
Reg
February 18, 2011 - 9:25 pm
Michael, when one considers that the concept and function of houris remains one of the fundamental (yes, I said fundamental) linchpins of the culture, it’s small wonder that women are often viewed as little more than chattel.
Reg
February 18, 2011 - 9:29 pm
Sorry, meant to add that in this case, the perpetrators of this atrocity have every expectation that they’ll see heaven and not HELL.
MOTU
February 18, 2011 - 10:45 pm
Luigi,
Yeah I saw that. Not only did he joke, he tweeted his jokes. For a NYU fellow he’s quite the idiot.
MOTU
February 18, 2011 - 10:48 pm
Reg wrote,
…’the perpetrators of this atrocity have every expectation that they’ll see heaven and not HELL.’
With any luck God will turn out to be a woman…a Jewish woman.
pennie
February 19, 2011 - 5:01 pm
When jubilation over the success of a non-violent protest is celebrated by some turning into into an aggressive mob, resorting to raping and beating a foreign woman, the cultural affirmation turns on a dime into a testosterone-fueled nightmare for the female journalist.
In this part of the world, where women have few rights…where rape is as common as a cold…where female circumcision is a fact of life…where there is no double standard–just one for men, there are centuries of education and cultural change that are needed RIGHT NOW. A need to turn the Wild, Wild East of 1,000 BC into a contemporary, respectful region.
Then again, as Elayne wrote,for us in these parts, it is only a matter of degree.
MOTU
February 19, 2011 - 5:49 pm
Pennie,
I hear you and as always you have made a great point. Regarding Elayne’s ‘matter of degree’ point that also was valid and well said.
But…
I’d still like to see those degrees raised. Raised to a level of lets say, boiling water, then poured on the balls of those who would force themselves on a woman.
I know, I know, I’m a romantic.
pennie
February 19, 2011 - 6:28 pm
MOTU–“I know, I know, I’m a romantic.”
And THAT is why we love you!
That and the prior part of your messages above.