Lisa and I are returning today to work probably at 70% due to our individually trying weekends. I had an intense taiko-filled concert weekend (yay NESSA), and Lisa was in Vegas with a mixture of hard partying and exciting chapter jumpstarts.
But nothing could have prepared us for the unbelievable situation NAPAWF staff has been presented with recently. For security reasons I won't give out too much information, but essentially there is a NAPAWF article on anti-trafficking that was recently a topic of discussion on a particular website. Let's just say these are disgusting men sitting around, calling NAPAWF women fascists, communists, crazy radical feminists, even saying they are "QUEER in every sense of the word." (NAPAWF's ED identifies as a queer Asian American woman.)
The scary part is, this is a forum with 3 webpages WORTH of NAPAWF bashing, even getting personal and talking about individual staffers. Yes, they talk about feminists as ugly, fat pigs (talk about projection of the self) - but that's not all. They go so far as to post pictures of one particular staffer whose name I will withhold out of respect for her - to comment on her "beauty," her ideologies, her education - it's scary!! These morons (understatement) actually took the pictures and information from the NAPAWF website and have posted it all over the forum, making personal comments about their credibilities and even life experiences.
I was baffled, amused, disgusted, angered, and shocked all at once.
It was discussed on our staff call today, and I dunno. While it's kind of scary and pretty gross, I guess on the bright side, NAPAWF is famous?
hah.
They say feminists act like 5 year olds, but let's be real. What's more juvenile than a whole bunch of these particular men with nothing better to do than sit around on their asses and uselessly bash other people? Helloo, get out and do something with yourselves for goodness' sake. (fyi, it's like a group of 4-6 men that consider this legitimate discourse.)
At risk of making this post too long, I will leave you with one particular comment from the forum. (Not to give them the satisfaction of the publicity or anything, but I just want to SHOW YOU how ridiculous this site is, since verbalizing its outrageousness is so difficult.)
In response to our ED having been born in Hong Kong, one forum member writes:
How did she get here? Was she smuggled in via "human traffickers?" I mean everybody knows that ALL real Asian women in the U.S. had to have been trafficked in right? Was she a "Mail Order Bride" (or "Husband" for her "queer" wife?) Did her queer lesbian feminist lover pretend to be a man and apply for a marital visa for her? Did she sneak across the border? Was she given a green card via Layli Miller-Muro claiming she was circumcised? Ooop I mean "gentle mutilated." (Circumcision is okay because it only applies to men.)
How do these foreign feminists get here? Don't we have any standards anymore? While bonifide foreign wives and fiancees are having their visas denied permanently or indefinately, these foreign feminist queers are shown the red carpet to come here, suck up our tax dollars and try to overthrow our society and government.
What is wrong with this picture?
That is seriously not even the half of it, but just a little taste of the awesome-ness of this site.
Times like these make me so happy to have people like you. More updates on work to come. This experience needed a post of its own.
(And in case you wanted to know, NAPAWF is currently taking measures to see what can be done about the safety of these staffers. And there is no direct response planned, since it would be a waste of time to consider.)
::edit - on a completely unrelated note, happy birthday to my sister. she's 19! sorry to put this in the company of this terrible subject!!::
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3 comments:
dang...what's the website url?
DANG! it's disheartening to hear that people think like that. that's why there are people like you!! GO NAPAWF!!
oh em gee. what website is this??
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