What a Freak Show

[nightshine]

And herein I am referring more specifically to: http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals/monday/

and to the profile of Denis Oliver at the bottom.

His 238 votes were fewer than half as many as the next-to-last finisher.What I want to know is, who were the 238 people who voted

Comments

[edouard_stevew]

Some people just give fetishes a bad name. Or politics.

But hey, he's aparently into the environment and not willing to lie about his beliefs, that's one good thing to make up for his being chock full 'o craziness in other areas of his public life. Maybe some people voted for him as joke, like the way people vote for Mickey Mouse...

[nightshine]

I do have respect for the fact that he wouldn't lie. I guess I just like to observe things like this to see how tenuous some of the assumptions we have about our society can be. Most people, if asked, wouldn't say that 238 people in Victoria believe that women should be back in the kitchen AND be sex slaves. The whole thing reminds of me of the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and the feminism backlash thing :)

Oh yeah- enjoy your thanksgiving!

[edouard_stevew]

A friend of mine (my former boss) sent me a link recently to a list of the most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th century. And I had imagined a scholarly list examining books whose influence had caused the most social and political upheaval. But no, it was a list from an ultraconservative website that had books championing Intelligent Design and villifying anything Islamic. It was pretty scary to be directly confronted by something I had only vaguely encountered through the news, etc

[nightshine]

That's interesting that you had to read The Handmaid's Tale in the States. We had to read it as well because its Great Canadian Literature. When you think of CanLit, Atwood is the most famous name to hit the pike.

By saying that he doesn't want to lie, this guy is refusing to be embarassed by making his fantasies into some kind of legit political platform. Why not just admit that S and M turns you on, tell everyone you're not ashamed of it, and then distance yourself from it politically? I kind of don't see what one has to do with the other, really. I mean, Foucault was into S and M and dom/sub stuff and everyone still takes him pretty seriously.

Have you noticed that said guy ISN'T married? I can't imagine a more sexually frustrated person that someone who holds those types of views about reality in the western world in any case.

Yeah, back to my website..

[mamashan]

I went on a rant about this at work a couple weeks ago. 238 isn't peanuts - I mean, sure, it's not enough to win an election, but still, that's like an entire grad class that supports a guy who thinks women are slaves - not "oh, I'd really like to support the family and have a stay at home wife," but "I think feminism is detrimental to mankind, and I want a live-in slave" - and apparently thinks women deserve to be raped and beaten if they dare to venture out of the house at night. Ugh.

[nightshine]

Yeah, that's the thing. I could see people maybe going ultra-conservative, but this guy is about something else entirely.

[eightsixerjane]

I could see people maybe going ultra-conservative, but this guy is about something else entirely.

Me too. What a freak.

[nightshine]

You said it, girl :)