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By: Transition Times :: Transition Times » Blog Archive » Peak Oil Is Still a Women’s Issue, and Other Reflections on Sex, Gender and the Long Emergency

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:54:19 +0000

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By: The Tin Foil Hat Society

The Tin Foil Hat Society — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:02:39 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:09:33 +0000

If women are in a perpetual state of collective fear of sexual violation, how do you explain modern women’s fashion? After women lose the butt, toe, and traditional cleavage, along with makeup, plastic surgery, bright pink colors, hi lights, etc., this kind of argument might be taken seriously. Men are pigs, but damn, so are women.

By: Matt Savinar

Matt Savinar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:47:38 +0000

If the author of the piece had checked out the LATOC Forum, she would see that we have seven moderators. Five are women. All have huge gardens, animals, etc. We also have a very active gardening forum although it’s been a bit slow lately mostly because its summer and people are out gardening or other activities that are better to get done in the summer:

http://www.latocforum.com

There’s also a public women’s sub-forum and a private one run by one of the female mods. (that being Michelle in Georgia)

But being a modern MSM journalist – that means highly she is highly specialized – asking her to see shades of gray or complexities is a bit too much to ask. Most westerners – particularly those with high levels of specialization – can only see things as simplified caricatures. So maybe she takes a quick look at LATOC and her brain, being atomized, can only think “doomer survivalist with loads of military-grade weaponary” even though it’s alot more complex and holistic than that.

By: MEA

MEA — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:48:17 +0000

Fearsclave

It seems to me that because the right-wing etc.-er fear the goverement and other instutions, their reponse it to become more represive to others.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:08:40 +0000

(sorry, that’s not JoeP talking to himself, that’s me up there.)

By: JoeP

JoeP — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:08:12 +0000

That’s a really good observation, JoeP.

I think in the US the problems of collective farming were attributed to ownership structure & politics, when the real problem was scale. Corporate farms of the same size have similar production problems to collective farms, though they were expected to feed fewer people.

But because the US managed to erase from public discourse the people land was taken from (both native people & poor whites) and because so many of the farm & ranch failures of consolidation have been reported as *business* failures instead of *farm* failures, we haven’t learned from our past the way the Ukrainians and Chinese have.

By: JoeP

JoeP — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:59:52 +0000

I’ve not been doing the readings in the book club, but this post makes me want to offer a suggestion for it. I would include some nonfiction. I’m working my way back in time with some books on famines and found the first to be very good at making me more wary of institutional power. I’ve just finished Hungry Ghosts, about the Great Leap Forward, am now reading Robert Conquest’s Harvest of Sorrow (about the Soviet terror-famine in the Ukraine) and have Late Victorian Holocausts still to go. Harvest of Sorrow is proving to be a bit of a slog, as there are all these names of people and details of Lenin’s NEP and other stuff. Hungry Ghosts is a much quicker read and I recommend it strongly.

The other reason I bring this up is because in reading these books, I am struck by how strongly the complaints about our factory farming system resemble the promises made about collectivization.

By: Jen H. in western Mass.

Jen H. in western Mass. — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:46:12 +0000

I love that this topic is getting attention. I am also freaked out because I was thinking a lot of these things earlier today, then read your blog, and now I feel like you’re reading my mind. Or is the collective unconscious (or rather, conscious) asserting itself?