Post Punk Kitchen Forum

As for Mother forker being misogynistic, I completely disagree. I have always understood it to mean a bigger than normal forker. Like saying this forker is the mother of all forkers... it makes no sense to insult someone or something by implying that it had relations with your mother. "Hey crasshole! You forked my mom!" that’s like shooting yourself in the foot to prove you’re a good shot.

VeganMoFo does not mean Vegan Mother forker. We do not ever imply that it is, we don't make winkwink nudgenudge jokes about it. As far as I know, no one has ever contacted the people who run VeganMoFo to say that it offends them, and can the name be changed?

*I* am offended at the idea that the event is written off by some people (somewhere, I googled and found nothing) as sexist/misogynistic because of the shortened form of the name of the event. That is run by all women, none of whom hate other women. All of whom bust their asparagi at it, myself included. And it is 100% worth it every time I read tweets about how much people are enjoying it, how they're finding so many new blogs to read, how great the community is.

I'm also offended that we have this negative thread about something that strives to be nothing but positive and fun. I'm offended by people who always have to look for the shitty side of things.

If anyone wants to tell me that i'm a sexist, misogynistic dirtbag, feel free to email me, mrshubbard on the gmails.

"I would really like to participate in your event, but I feel uncomfortable joining an event that calls itself VeganFaggot or VeganShitOnMyFace, would you be open to considering this perspective?"

I'm also offended that we have this negative thread about something that strives to be nothing but positive and fun. I'm offended by people who always have to look for the shitty side of things.

I'm sorry :(

I don't get being offended by this. I guess if you get offended by the term "SOB"?

And how is this term misogynist?

Insulting a mother's fidelity is so powerful because it lies at the nexus at many of the most fundamental issues that a successful marriage must negotiate — saying I forked your mother is a many pronged insult that implies a large score of unpleasant things. Indeed, it suggests that:

Your father is foolish and dull. He has no idea, or no power, to keep his wife from another man. Your mother two-times him with impunity.

Your mother is a slut and a harlot. Not only does she cuckold your father, but she does so wantonly in marriage, and one implication is that she might too be busy getting some to adequately take care of you and your siblings.

Your are illegitimate, and can receive no legitimate property, because your mother is not good enough to make it into your father's stable of wives; she's no better than a common hors d'oeuvre. Because of her sluttiness, your warden of a father cannot be sure you are his, and thus he will not chance any of his hard life's work on possibly another man's child, an evolutionary disaster if there ever was one.
Your father is pathetic, and unable to provide for you. His prospects are dim, and things are so bad in your household that your mother must turn her attentions to another man so that you and your siblings get enough to eat. Not only is she in his debt, but figuratively, so are you and your father.
Further reasoning along the same lines shows why an insult like father forker or something like that would be nonsensical; a father's fidelity simply isn't as important to the health of a household as a mother's is. Unlike a mother, a father can simply work to support all of the fruits of his dalliances; in fact, as long as you're a legitimate son, a father forker might be an epithet you look upon with equanimity. It suggests that your father is powerful, or rich enough to be able to enjoy such a position. The asymmetry arises from an iron law: A member of the male sex in desperate straits is like to be less promiscuous, not more, because no female in need of property will accept him; a woman in desperate straits is likely to be more promiscuous, not less, because access to her sex is the only thing she has to sell.

Thus, it isn't hard to see why a mother hubbard, someone who forks mothers, would easily become a byword of opprobrium and contempt; to have a potential mother hubbard walking about is to have an existential insult that threatens a man's very identity as a legitimate member of his household.

I don't get being offended by this. I guess if you get offended by the term "SOB"?

Can I sign up for VeganShitOnMyFace here?

Does that mean we have to cancel "Vegan Season of Blogging"?

Can I sign up for VeganShitOnMyFace here?