Is this serious or am I being whooshed--"I Blame the Patriarchy" Blog

[Freudian_Slit]

I stumbled across this blog when reading Broadsheet (a Salon.com feature about feminist issues/happenings in the news). Salon.com linked to this blog as one of the ones that the people contributing to the blog enjoyed.

I can’t tell if it’s entirely serious. I doubt Salon would link to something that was an entire joke, but it’s coming across as super scary radical feminism. It’s hard to hear someone saying that the fashion industry is an evil conspiracy to keep women oppressed without thinking there’s some irony there. (Or that it’s Ann Coulter mocking what liberals think.)
This entry on BDSM comes off as pretty crazy as the blogger openly admits to mocking BDSM. Because it’s the patriarchy. Or something:

Femininity is a set of practices and behaviors (boob jobs, FGM, ‘beauty’, the ‘veil’, the flirty head-tilt, pornaliciousness, BDSM, fashion, compulsory pregnancy, marriage, et al) that are dangerous, painful, pink, or otherwise destructive; that compel female subordination; that exist only to benefit Dude Nation; that are overwhelmingly represented by ‘girly’ feminists as a ‘choice’; and that are overwhelmingly represented by godbags and other irritating conservatives as ‘natural instincts’. In fact these practices and behaviors are nothing but inviolable cultural traditions in abject compliance with which comfort, contentment, and personal fulfillment are inextricably intertwined, and from which deviation is discouraged by the threat of ingenious punishments ranging from diminished social influence, to unemployability, to ridicule, to imprisonment, to rape, to murder, to the policing of feminist blogs.

Or this entry on giving blow jobs:

I must have been insane to question the degrading sexual theatrics that are every woman’s birthright, when the mastery of these theatrics is her invitation to life’s rich feast. It is a well-known fact that most women spring from their beds every morning singing, “O I hope I can blow some dude today!” That poor dumbass who wrote to Flea asking for help in controlling her gagging was just an anomaly.

Come on…this has gotta be irony? right…? Right?

[A.I.Wintermute]

I like that blog. I don’t think she’s trolling. I think she really believes what she says, she just says it in rather bombastic ways. I haven’t read more than a fraction of it, but from what I remember she came across as quite intelligent, just with a radical viewpoint. I suggest reading her post “Patriarchy-Blaming the Twisty Way” linked at the top right. Some of the commenters appear to be off their respective rockers, but that’s par for the course with blogs. Or the internet.

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

Yeah, she’s for real. I’ve got her bookmarked at home.

[Freudian_Slit]

It just seems representative of a huge double standard. If someone described a vulva/giving head as disgusting and like sucking on a rotting fish, she’d be up in arms. On Broadsheet, they mentioned Doris Lessing saying she thought that the pendulum had swung way too far to the point where bashing guys is much more acceptable. I’m just wondering–how is this not a hate filled diatribe?

[Baron_Greenback]

I like the increasing scale of awfulness:

discouraged by the threat of ingenious punishments ranging from diminished social influence, to unemployability, to ridicule, to imprisonment, to rape, to murder, to the policing of feminist blogs.

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

She’s deliberately over the top, guys, and a lot of it is intended as humor. Ex: the previous line about the increasing scale of awfulness.

People say feminists don’t have a sense of humor; this is entirely incorrect, our sense of humor is just very different.

[Larry_Borgia]

She’s as funny as Ann Coulter.