In Defense of Kinsella
This week a few knee-jerks are calling Warren Kinsella a mysogynist sexist pig. Why? for writing this simple sentence, prefacing a top ten blogger list:
Oh, and memo to Canada: WE NEED MORE SMART FEMALE BLOGGERS NOW!
(Click HERE to read the post- click on "Top Ten", then "Bloggers")
So what? Maybe he thinks most of the female political bloggers he's read suck - and not in the good way. Whatever he thinks - because it was an off-the-cuff comment, not a hateful treatise- it's his opinion. I happen to think most political bloggers in general suck the hind teat. Does that make me anti-free speech?
You detractors should really get lives. If Kinsella took a dump and it looked like Bin Laden, jealous bloggers would be calling him a terrorist. Get a grip monkey people. This lobbing your own shit at the bars of your cages is getting reallllllly old.
The guy is well-known for whatever reason. Get over it.
Oh, and memo to Canada: WE NEED MORE SMART FEMALE BLOGGERS NOW!
(Click HERE to read the post- click on "Top Ten", then "Bloggers")
So what? Maybe he thinks most of the female political bloggers he's read suck - and not in the good way. Whatever he thinks - because it was an off-the-cuff comment, not a hateful treatise- it's his opinion. I happen to think most political bloggers in general suck the hind teat. Does that make me anti-free speech?
You detractors should really get lives. If Kinsella took a dump and it looked like Bin Laden, jealous bloggers would be calling him a terrorist. Get a grip monkey people. This lobbing your own shit at the bars of your cages is getting reallllllly old.
The guy is well-known for whatever reason. Get over it.
Labels: Bloggers, Reactionary Bullshit, Red Scared
posted by K-Dough at 9:02 AM
29 Comments:
The guy is well-known for whatever reason.
Yeah, narcissistic,no-talent,first-class prick.
Not my point.
K, I think this is just stupid. I mean, it is Kinsella's blog not Government of Canada's blog that these people think Kinsella should include any female blogger into his top ten blog list without even considering that the blog might suck. There are many good female political bloggers but Kinsella might not like any of those blogs. It is his blogs and his top ten list.
That is true Joanne.
If yew NEED MORE SMART FEMALE LOGGERS c'mon down, there's lotsa'em down here in the trailer park!
Take my Brandine f'r instints ... dang, hang on, wazzat woman!? Huh?
"Never you mind Brandine! You just go back to birthin' that baby!"
Whoa... Smenita's first cousin by her mother (who is actually both their older sister... Squeaky told me that) is here...
Warrens every liberals favorite liberal to hate no? Personally, I always thought he was in the wrong party.
"You detractors should really get lives."
Amen.
Amazing how the mere mention of his name instantly attracts so much vitriol. There's a lot of anger/jealousy out there. If you've got a beef with the guy, deal with it in private. Public flogging says more about the floggers than the floggee.
Polly- I wasn't thinking of your post, which I read, when I wrote this one.
Your statmeent "arrogant at best and bordering on a sexist remark at worst" sums it up.
So why are certain people getting seriously freaked out? Politics. Vengeance. You name it.
No noe who isn't a Liberal takes the guy seriously in the blogging world anyway, so really, who gives a shit what he said?
Polly: And by the way- you said most of blogging is throwing shit at our own bars...let's not kid ourselves."
I completely agree with you.
I never shit on my own bar... I go and drink at my friends house until I'm pukingly drunk... and I shit on their bars.
PS... I'm working on the date you provided hard KD... I'm not certain though as it's a Friday.
Generally I would fly out unless there was further meetings on a Monday. So I'm naturally trying to justify being there on Monday so I'll have to stay over the weekend... smart eh?
Now if I can just find someone to meet with...
Good luck JC- wouldn't be the same without ya... plus you owe me several beers!
It is an odd, out-of-body experience to see oneself discussed by strangers. It's like being on acid at the Calgary Stampede, but weirder. Ta,
Warren K
Warren- I've done acid at many events- but never a stampede. Do tell. That's the kind of shit I want to know about.
Politics is passe. So are bloggers.
Polly - if you want to whisper sweet words to WK send him an e-mail. I thought you came back to respond to my comments to you.
Why do you always ignore me when Warren is around? Huh?
I can't have that going on around here.
I agree with Polly Jones about smart female bloggers. There are lots, like me, whose gramma was so smart she was once in a magazine.
I'm not as smart as my gramma, but I'm still pretty smart and I am a female blogger, so I rezent that remark about no smart female bloggers.
This Warren guy sounds like he thinks he's the Ricky Martin of the blogging world. HEY WARREN! You're not Ricky Martin. I bet you can't even fit into his jeans!
Smenita: You're not a member of PETA by any chance are you?
I bet you have pix of stupor model, amateur porn actress and battered chicken activist Pammie Anderson plastered all over your pink skull background myspace page, don't you?
JC,
Your company MUST need some consulting on displays and exhibits, no? Let's see, I'm available on.....wow, that very Monday!
I wrote a gorgeous response.
Regardless, here's the gist of it.
1. Does anyone read the National Post?
2. Why fear judgement? It's subjective.
3. If Kinsella wanted to find a fab Canadian Female POLITICAL blogger, he could've. The blogiverse is diverse.
4. If he couldn't take the time, why should I take the time to read him.
5. Does the opinion of a writer of a daily puppy cage liner really matter to me?
At the end of the day, my fellow Blogabitchstahs know they've got their beats wrapped.
We lay our verse quick, we keep our beats slick. I don't trip this post shit, My bitches we keep it thick.
Pussy Power got our back
;)
BTW- Karma- you said "my fellow Blogabitchstahs know they've got their beats wrapped"...
Well I certainly hope so. Unwanted pregnancies are so not cool. (pushes glasses up on bridge of nose and squints)
OMG! I want to respond to Karmacake's 5 points, cause I think they're good and should get a response.
1. Does anyone read the National Post? I don't think so. You never see it. Most people on my bus only read the Sun or the Dominion flyer. One or two read People magazine. I like to read the newspaper too, sometimes, because it's a good place to learn about stuff, but not in the Post. All you learn about there is about rich bitches who drink lattes.
2. Sooo True! Judgement is soooo subjective. Just like that time in court where the judge said I stole that lipstick. I'm like, "I di-int steal no fucking lipstick, bitch! Why I steal when I obviously got more than I need??" But the judge got the last laugh on that one, ha ha.
3. OMG!!! You so right! All this Warren looser need to do is visit Smenita's Curse (my blog) and then he get a real dose of reality!
4. Again, OMG!!! You so right. It's like, if I meet a guy who reminds me of Ricky Martin, and he's nice and I like him, maybe I go down on him in the parking lot. But, if I going down, he better get his tongue ready cause it's tit for tat on that! Oh yes. You give, you get!
5. I don't understand that point. I don't know why anyone would lie in a puppy cage, or how they fit.
Ahh Smenita- I'd rather read commentary from the chromosonally deficient than the punditry any day.
You are a breath of fresh air, you window licking goddess.
I think its totally lame to say:
"we need more female bloggers"
not just because in my little corner of blogolia, I see lots of smart women.
but its also such a sappy stupid statement about an activity that people do voluntarily.
we need more female skydivers.
we need more female video game players.
we need more females purchasing lap dances.
yes... but lame is different than sexist, n'est ce pas?
I'd do a lap dance for a price:) Not just any ol' amount mind you... a guys got his reputation to think of after all, and I don't show my hairy legs for just any amount. Least a buck.
Leather... that might work. Gotta sort something out for the CarWax show anyways.
Let me get back to you through KD (Unless you have my email)
we need more females purchasing lap dances.
Oh right.. I still owe you guys that story.
It ain't gonna happen Chucker. TWICE now I've been kicked out of a peeler bar. Maybe the rules are different on the Quebec side. I only went to Pigalles in Gatineau a couple of times. And only because friend was a barmaid, so they let me stay. But Ottawa - man. That town is HARSH.
we need more female skydivers.
I would gladly become a female skydiver since I am a trill seeker and sky diving is the ultimate trill. Unfortuantely everyone else who knows me thinks that I will die on my first try or they will die of heart attacks.
sheena,
any chance you could bring your friend to this very lovely K-Mart?
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