Sincerely,
A radical homosexual who has a stick up his butt ugly ass and doesnt think that men fitting the description are worthy of defending

Its okay if you desire penises now, sue. We forgive you. Get over it.

Non-whites only need apply for the positions.

Let's really honor our roots. Why shy away from it.

Long live the triangular trade!!!!!

as opposed to just sucking it up without any critical thought?

i don't know what the hell this article is talking about. maybe it's an east coast thang.

Of course, since I am Native American, I can just persecute myself.

"Hey look! I'm a LIBERAL WHITE PERSON! I know SO MUCH about native peoples that I will wave a bloody shirt for them! Oh, the blood? It's MINE! Why are you questioning whether I'm a native or not, you bigot?"

My sister-in-law is one of them. She make things for Thanksgiving like velvetta macaroni & Cheese and Stovetop stuffing and marshmellow and yam pie, and she serves it all in foil from the dollar store.

But it makes her happy, and her husband and her kid adore her, and they're all thankful for each other, so that's the important thing.

Sorry if that sounds sappy - I detest cheap sentiment - but the whole beaten down womyn thing got on my nerves.

However, not the least disturbing subtext of the holiday is that it might also be called, "Thank you, God, for making the Indians so easy to kill so that we could enjoy our position on top of the world economy, for now".

Clearly I do so because I hate women or something :P

And while I appreciate organic free range turkey and whole cranberry sauce, I like a good trashy sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, too! Yum!

And while I appreciate organic free range turkey and whole cranberry sauce, I like a good trashy sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, too! Yum!

When my dad was still alive, it would be my mom and I in the kitchen cooking (and cleaning up), while my Dad and sister sat in the living room watching TV. But we liked it that way. There was no "partriarchy" involved in it.

"_______ is/are sexist. Men are oppressors. Women are victims."

We've seen the Halloween and Thanksgiving editions, and soon we'll see the Christmas version, and maybe MLK birthday edition after that (MLK was, afterall, first and foremost a sexist). In the "pointing out obvious" department, we've seen several provocative editions targeting (gasp!) rapists.

How about filling in the blank with "Stupid writers who post shallow, formulaic crap under the banner of feminism"?

The viaduct is sexist. Men are oppressors. Women are victims.

That's kinda weird. I'm sure there's some sort of metaphor in that, if you're willing to dig.

I'm not. I've got some pumpkin pie with my name on it. Gotta run.

The good news is that we make great food.

"What is ickier still is that nobody but a hopeless idealist believes that modern Thanksgiving revelers give even a flickering thought to the horrors of colonialism. In reality Thanksgiving Day just marks the kick-off of the Annual Season of God and Guilt with a pre-consume-o-rama carbo-load. Tomorrow, if you have the misfortune to find yourself in any American city, you depart your home at your own peril, for the day after all the thanks have been given is called Black Friday, and life is cheap. Legions of shoppers, still bloated from canned pumpkin products and of a frenzied disposition owing to their mounting MasterCard debt, will blitz the streets to snap up as much cheap crap from China as their bingo-arms can carry against the foreordained approach of yet another Christioconsumer “holiday.”"

Maybe y'all are too busy resting your "bingo arms" for the big day tomorrow.

So, the rest of us 6+ billion people sharing the planet with you PROMISE never ever to have any fun again for the rest of your or our natural lives, whichever comes first. Just so you can feel less sorry for yourself on one day (or is it eight? How many holidays are we going to include in this pledge? Okay, let's just say, "All of them") out of the year.

No more cooking, because women - er, wymyn? it's just the male patriarchy putting you down, and men, you should be ashamed of your brutish behavior, ESPECIALLY if you're the one doing the cooking/cleaning/babysitting, etc., because clearly you're just being patronizing male sexist pigs.

No more sitting around telling everyone assembled what you're thankful for, because again, it's just you bragging about you ability to extract some semblence of moral or emotional satisfaction or self-righteousness at someone else's expense, so let's just get rid of the exploitation right here-and-now.

No playing games, because competition by its very nature just exacerbates the victim/victimizer paradigm; no watching TV - for obvious reasons; no singing, dancing, card playing or other games of chance or amusement.

Let's all make Erica happy and just sit in quiet dark corners for the day by ourselves contemplating our collective hubris, conducting sobering self-confessional reviews of all the hateful, sexually/emotionally/psychologically oppressive actions during the past year, and muttering to over and over that we are hateful pieces of shit who should never have been born, and that no matter how sincerely we try to make amends, nothing will ever excuse or atone for our disgusting and evil natures.

On second thought - fuck it. I'm going to have one more slice of pumkin pie.

Whatever.

You are splitting hairs. Erica is always writing or reposting this crap. If Erica doesn't hate men, then guys who love The Man Show don't hate women.

of course we're all atheist nobodies in heathen seattle, but maybe deep down inside we all hate women. even my mom.

maybe erica just hate's family.

And I agree with the person who defended Thanksgiving as secular. It's one of the reasons I like it so much.

You WILL like Thanksgiving no matter what anyone thinks about it. Otherwise, you are stupid.

Now, vote Democrat and shut up.

Don't think about it - DO IT.

D- troll. not original, no flair, nothing amusing.

Often, calling someone a troll makes assumptions about a writer's motives. Regardless of the circumstances, controversial posts may attract a particularly strong response from those unfamiliar with the robust dialogue found in some online, rather than physical, communities."

My motives are to rebut the grotesque conformity that surrounds holidays, American psuedo-tradition and the outright dismissal of arguments and parallels to the argument at hand.

What are your motives?

It's a Fall holiday.

I'm from a big family, but there was always room at our table for anyone who didn't have a place to spend T-Day. Duh: Thanks. Giving.

I love to (male) cook. And (male) feed people.

As her boyfriend, I can attest that Erica does not hate men, or at least not all men, and that, indeed, even her love of fun has not been much impeded by her insane feminism.

Eating is murder!

I think it's a family thing and doesn't have to do with what part of the country you are from.

What about some of the other points raised about our culture: gluttony - food and merchandise or history - real and imagined?

This essay discusses much more than is reflected in the comments. Why such a narrow focus?

Please stop posting Twisty verbatim on the forum. You're a better, smarter feminist than that, I hope.