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Entitled Old White Guy Cries NAZI!

Or Nizi. It’s hard to take a complaint about my own behavior seriously when the man accusing can’t even catch a typo on his title.

Then there’s the whole Accusing of Nazism.

So this Old White Guy*, who I’ve seen around the open mics of the LES for a few years now shows up to Penny’s. He is not known by this room. He is recognized by the two of us left over from a past we would like to be shunt of. As he stands in this room he starts taking pictures the Lighting Guy IN THE BOOTH above Old Man, and to the side, notices the view finder zooming across the room to light on my friends bosom. Dirty Old Man has put the picture up himself to prove how NOT wrong he is. Why? Because to Old White Guys every woman in the room is an object. And if he wants to take a picture of her clothed breast and cleavage WITHOUT A FACE and WITHOUT PERMISSION he will call it ART not PREDATORY OBJECTIFICATION.

So yes, if you call concerned friends who do not like dirty old men that can’t identify their own grossness Nazis then yes, we were Nazis. If you think it’s Nazism to not allow an audience member to video tape and photograph anything they want then yes it’s Nazism. (we won’t mention the understood tradition in ALL the mics I’ve been at of NOT photographing or video taping out of respect for the person developing their art.) Of Course neither of us – me or the tech guy – has gassed millions of human beings but why bring that into a conversation about why an Old Entitled White Guy Can’t Do Exactly What He Wants?

Penny tries to have a space for artists to work on art. She also wants a space where women are not accosted. An alternative to the rooms that are about drinking and hooking up or the misogynist comedy clubs where women are simply treated like shit. A place where the focus is the stage and the performer and not the audience members headless chest region that the picture taker claims he had no idea he was taking and yet the guy in the booth saw clearly what was in the view finder.

PLEASE NASTY OLD WHITE GUY – DON’T COME BACK

*he has since removed the internet page with the photos and complaint of our Neo-Nazism and demands of an apology from me.

and because we simply have not had enough feminism on the page lately

This is one of my most favorite websites on the internet.  I met her as Twisty and now she’s taken on her name Jill and She Blames the Patriarchy while entertaining me and teaching me how too.

From her post: All Old Movies Still Suck

“Of all the classic film genres I love to hate, I love to hate none more fervently than the mid-century sex farce. Mid-century sex farces suck.

As you know, by “mid-century sex farce,” I of course mean “bogus fucking misogynist fantasy crap.” And no classic film is more mid-century-sex-farcical than the one I watched the other day on the Turner Classic Movie channel. The flick to which I allude is so bogusly fucking misogynistical, they might as well have called it “How To Murder Your Wife.”

Oh wait, they did call it “How To Murder Your Wife.”

via I Blame The Patriarchy.