1 Billion Rising San Francisco
A little lesson in photo editing:
From the stage, at a certain angle, one could take a photo encompassing the entire crowd, making it look pretty big.
Even from the front of the crowd looking toward the back, it can be made to appear like a sea of people (and note all the media on the platform to the left).
But walk to the back of Civic Center Plaza, and take a picture from a distance, and my oh my, it certainly seems like a small event!
See how deceptive photos can be, even when they’re showing “reality”? Editors can choose which reality they want to show.
So, how many people were there? I’m terrible at crowd estimates, so I couldn’t really say, but if forced to guess, I’d venture two thousand or so.
That may seem like a lot, but it felt tiny compared to the 50,000 protesters who had congregated at this exact spot just a couple weeks ago at the Walk for Life rally.
Of course, massive media showed up to cover yesterday’s 2,000-strong left-wing rally, but there was practically no media on hand at all to cover the vastly larger conservative rally. Par for the course.
This is the sneaky side of media bias: deciding what to emphasize, and what to ignore. Everything they say in the newspaper may indeed be true; but it’s the truths they don’t tell you that are important.
The Revolutionary Communist Party showed up as well (and were embraced and accepted by the organizers, and not kicked out), still bearing some of their “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology” signs leftover from the pro-choice rally earlier in the year.
The communists seemed to be very popular with media, and gave several interviews. I’m quite sure that the communists were never identified as such in the news segments — they never are.
Trust me on this: If the Tea Party had stood in a circle and made a little black boy dance for them, it would have been The Racist Event of the Century. But here — it’s perfectly OK. Move along, nothing to see.
The highlight of the rally was an extended “voguing” performance by a transvestite, shown here on 1 Billion Rising’s huge Jumbotron. Because nothing says “women’s power” like transvestitism.
The Qu’ran sign wasn’t the only Islamic presence at the protest. A substantial contingent of attendees wore t-shirts that read, “Intifada of Women in the Arab World.”
While, predictably, some protesters showed up wearing kaffiyehs.
Eve Ensler, for those of you blissfully unaware (oh how I envy you), is the creator of “The Vagina Monologues,” a soul-destroying and culture-corrupting stage play that is now routinely performed in high schools across the country, in which teenage girls are encouraged by their teachers to read from the play’s script, “Cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT!!!!!” This is education in America today.
Pen in hand, one eager V-Day participant filled out his personalized 1 Billion Rising sign with the most manic intensity I’d ever seen.
I could never quite get a full view of the whole thing, but what I could see read
…SF war mean’s and
…wonder regulators and rape
…equseness and A stands for
…the P stand for people and
…stands eternity: and my
…is Karlam Cativo and
…call me Flaca our…
Later, he held up another, more customized sign reading
SF war stand for: Sucker
Free wonder above regulators and
Rape stand’s for: Righteousness and
A stands for All People and the E stand
for eternity
Most people at the event were just regular-seeming, normal people. Note I said most — not all.
As always, Frank Chu showed up with his ever-changing sign. Today it read:
SHACKLETON
TATROCKRULLIONS OF POPULATIONS
ABC: HIXDROJRENIKAL
ROCKET TROOPERS
CRUSCROJRELLITOL
Tattoo of the Day goes to this young feminist, whose naked female satyr-angel bespoke gender transgression, sexual freedom, and the need to rebel against one’s parents.
Honest to God, Zombie, there is no freak-show quite like San Francisco, and you are the guy who chronicles it. How the hell do you stay sane?
By assuming I am a “guy,” you are enforcing the patriarchy are therefore must be a rapist. A raging racist rapist, probably.
Well yeah, but the raging racist was totally asking for it.
Dept. of Justice turns a blind eye for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and against the First Amendment
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/02/14/dept-of-justice-turns-a-blind-eye-for-u-s-attorney-patrick-fitzgerald-and-on-the/
Yeah, but it wasn’t “rape” rape.
Only a man (and few men at that) would enjoy being such a non-conformist. Most women dare not violate herd approval (this includes Republican women).
So Zombie can only be a man. And an impressively non-conformist man at that.
Now, on rape :
Note that you NEVER see a woman who is a 7 or higher in looks seem worried about some supposed ‘rape epidemic’ that targets 1 in 3 women. Attractive women would presumably be more at risk, yet the degree to which women worry about ‘rape’ is inversely proportional to their attractiveness to men.
The reason for this is mere attention-grabbing. Ugly women like to pretend that they are attractive to men, so complaining about some fictitious past ‘rape’ or ‘domestic violence’ or ‘harassment’ is their way of pretending.
The 1 in 3 stat is telling. It is the proportion of women, the bottom one-third, who men find ugly and refuse to notice, despite the generally lenient standards of most men.
‘Cept zombie is female.
Want some crow pie?
midiot
I thought that gender differentiation was taboo in ‘stick-your-dick-in-any-box” city.
I am rising against gender boxes!
Has Zombie ever actually copped to either gender?
That 1 in 3 “stat” is questionable at best, even when it includes beatings. In the book “Who Stole Feminism”, Christina Hoff Summers points out that statistics for rape range from 1 in 4 to 1 in 50 or so, with 1 in 17 probably being the most reasonable statistic. To get to “1 in 4″ (and presumably “1 in 3″, which is the first time I’ve heard that particular statistic), surveys included situations, such as where a girlfriend was uncomfortable with her boyfriend inserting his finger in her vagina during a heavy petting session, as “rape”.
The problem with statistics like “1 in 4″ is that, by stretching to make them as dramatic as possible, feminists minimize a horrible problem. The statistic just doesn’t gel with people’s perceptions of reality, so they are less likely to take the situation seriously. That, and you get wasted resources like “Campus Rape Crisis Centers” staffed with people who are bored out of their minds waiting for phone calls that seldom come, because rape doesn’t happen as often as people think it does, and it particularly doesn’t happen as often in places like college campuses as it does in other places (such as in inner cities, with rampaging gangs).
THE TELL THAT ZOMBIE’S A “SHE”: “The highlight of the rally was an extended “voguing” performance by a transvestite, shown here on 1 Billion Rising’s huge Jumbotron. Because nothing says “women’s power” like transvestitism.”
Only a chick would make that observation.
Obviously an ‘internet troll’ p[osting to make us [normal people] sound bad.
This is not ethical. Please go away.
As any fool can plainly see,
Our zombie’s certainly a “she.”
(Unless, of course, the truth should be
That zombie is, in fact, a “he.”)
Okay, that’s it!
Winslow for the win!
Pretty sure Zombie is a guy. And toads, sir, rape has nothing to do with beauty. It is a subjugation crime.
Yes, that’s why we read of old women being raped. It’s about showing mommy dearest who’s boss.
I think it’s likely that a small percentage of rapes are only about sex, but certainly not the majority.
…must be a rapist. A raging racist rapist, probably.
Why yes. Yes I am. Thanks for noticing! Was it the “Neanderthal Rapist” T-shirt that gave me away?
That, and the penis hanging out of your pants.
A lot of your fans hope, indeed pray you are a woman. Probably a hot one, the theory goes, as it would explain your ease of access.
I appreciate the work you’re doing but don’t you think you shold move out of there before you are infected with whatever parasite that has been nibbling at these peoples’ brains?
Luckily I am a vegetarian and thus unlikely to contract “Mad Sow Disease.”
But what if the parasite is transmitted by vegetables? What if it’s actually Mad Soy Disease?
As long as I don’t catch Mad Sox Disease (there was an outbreak in Boston) I’ll be OK.
AhHah !!!! – sports reference from zombie.
Inecluctable evidence that she is a man. or a woman whose father played catch with her….
Given that many of those most afflicted are vegans. I theorize that the cause of this madness must be some parasite or contaminate found in the water supply. I suggest you drink only bottled water.
Ah, but the disease was invented by Government Jooos and put into bottled water to keep the populace rape-obsessed! Eleventy!!1!1!!1
And regardless, boil it before you drink it!
“All of this would make sense if there was a concerted drive on the part of the protesters to increase law enforcement efforts against rape and rapists. Stricter laws, longer sentences, more police officers…” and shall issue CCW permits.
Yes, and these people vote for what kind of politicians? Who then appoint what kind of judges? Who then do what to strict laws, whenever they get the chance? And who show an amazingly consistent predilection for making sure that what kind of people are not convicted, or if convicted, are never meaningfully punished?
So, if we really have an out of control rape problem, who is responsible for it?
Some years back, when I still lived in that unlocked ward that is the Bay Area, I put a bit of energy into lobbying legislators to increase the penalty for rape. The minimum sentences for rape at the time was three years in prison. (Yes — less severe than selling an assault weapon.) The response from many legislators (all Democrats) was that they were very reluctant to increase the penalty for rape.
Thanks again Zombie for your work. Supervisor David Chui is likely being groomed and/or positioning himself to become Da Mayor. Ya gotta have the right progressive bonafides just like a grocery lust in order to make it in this town. Funny I don’t see Mark (S)Mirkarimi showing up for this event.
So much cotton candy pablum and strawmen… makes my head hurt. Please don’t ever abandon San Francisco as much as everyone tells you to. There’s very few of us left to turn the lights out if you did.
Yeah, that’d be hilarious if Ross Mirikami showed up to give a speech. Would he have been torn limb-from-limb as a wife-beater, or cheered as a Maoist (which he is)?
If he’s a wife beater, it’s only because he’s a victim of being indoctrinated by the patriarchy. Fortunately his being a maoist is a get out of jail free card. Standing up and engaging in some self criticism, and all will be fine.
Uh… a wife beating Maoist maybe? I don’t think these things are mutually exclusive. It would be fun to watch the cognitive dissonance ripple through the crowd. Head explosions would abound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXlNsJDQG1U
Did he comb his hair and get on his hands and knees. Oh, wait a minute, a different kind of grooming. Right. Got it.
The most pampered are the most oppressed, the most oppressive our deliverance. Do any of these people believe their message?
Dancing is good exercise, and joining 1 Billion Rising after he dumps you is better than drowning your sorrows in a gallon of ice cream.
Don’t be such a h8ter!
Your estimate of the number attending this event was 2,000. If my math is correct, that’s two millionth of a billion. On the other hand, while 50,000 (estimated attendees at the “Right to Life” rally) is five ten-thousandths of a billion, it’s 250 times more than the number of attendees that attended this sad little soiree (so many highly unattractive people in a confined area). And what’s with all the grammatical errors on these signs and posters? I thought Liberals and Progs were supposed to be so smart!
Answering your question, Women’s Studies Grads!
50,000 is 25 times 2,000 (not 250 times 2,000).
Your unconscionable attacks on the legal product, ice cream, mark you as a socialist. Or a vegan. Maybe an environmentalist opposed to the large carbon foot-print of frozen ice cream ? Perhaps an anti-colonialist for opposing exploitation of third-world owned cacao beans and trees ?
Zombie, you are tough to pigeonhole.
It is fun ridiculing the nonsense from places like san francisco. . sort of like playing ‘jeopardy’ with alll of the questions scoring only one point. The palestinian arabs are the easiest to deconstruct. try reading one of their complaints. my favorite is ‘evil israelis attack defensikve tunnel leading from gaza into israel’. from palestine, peace not apartheid by james earl carter III.
the anti-cair fellow, andrew whitehead ?, told me about walking around downtown sf one time smoking a cigar and encountering a woman, attractive, completely naked except for her pocket book.
Why can’t the SF Giants hire a feminist as GM and engage in multiple trades with my NY Mets ?
Any stats on how many women I DON’T love that are raped or beaten?
As always, great job. I can always count on a few good laughs from your work.
The reason those women were all raped is that you withheld your love from them.
Smash your inner patriarch so we can all start the healing process, please!
what’s the problem here again? a bunch of people just opening up and coming together to raise a bit of awareness regarding some social issues?
fail to see how it’s negative…. OH WAIT, it’s done by people whose politics you might not completely agree with, therefore it’s time to write a 3-page article diminishing the good intentions of said people….
Did I say there was a “problem”?
I mock the sanctimonious and the self-congratulatory, whatever their politics. It just so happens that the people who possess those traits tend to cluster at one end of the political spectrum.
I never said there was anything “negative” about the event, only that it oozed pointlessness. On a deeper level, yes, demanding allegiance to vacuous rituals lest one be deemed a political untouchable can grow into a very BIG problem for society, but let’s leave that aside for now and just have a chuckle.
eminras, you might be the only one who missed the irony of quoting the Koran in defense of women’s rights to be free from violence. I suspect the forcibly circumcised women in Islamic countries might see it as a little ironic as well.
Mike2:
Speaking of missed irony, hadn’t the Muslim woman with the sign heard about the Koran’s prophet, Muhammad, being “married” to a nine-year-old?
To be fair, female genital mutilation is not specific to Islam. It is an African cultural tradition that is present not only in Islamic societies in East Africa, but also in animist and even some Christian societies there.
Still, Islam is pretty anti-woman.
Valentine’s Day is fairly non-ideological, for an American holiday. Let them pick some other day besides Valentine’s Day. Lefties have been allowed to appropriate far too much as it is. And San Francisco is too nice a town to have to suffer under the Left for the rest of eternity. One becomes bored with the goings-on of professional adolescents.
Actually, it’s appropriate. What we call Valentine’s day is really the old pagan spring fertility rites, which almost certainly involved a lot of non-consensual sex.
Since most of these people are old pagans, they are aware of that history, and so have selected a fitting day for their useless feel-goodism.
Raise awareness? Just what does that mean? Awareness that rape is wrong? Does anyone in the USA seriously debate that assertion? Awareness that women are raped? Everyone knows that as well. Awareness that California does its best to ensure that women are defenseless by denying anyone who is not connected a license to carry a pistol? Well, maybe not that.
These are loons attempting, and failing, to assert that rape is ok in America. And you support these twits either because you are as brain-burnt as they or you are hoping to get laid by one of these mentally incompetent vaginas (which is really disgusting).
I’ll submit that a guy would have to REALLY have to hate his own d1ck to, as the kids say, “hit that thang”. I’ll bet that even the moderately attractive women at this event had personalities as bitter as day-old black coffee and as corrosive as oven cleaner. The transvestite performing on the Jumbotron was probably the hottest “chick” there.
“I’ll submit that a guy would have to REALLY have to hate his own d1ck to, as the kids say, “hit that thang”. I’ll bet that even the moderately attractive women at this event had personalities as bitter as day-old black coffee and as corrosive as oven cleaner. The transvestite performing on the Jumbotron was probably the hottest “chick” there.”
Now that is a funny post.
“Raise awareness” Are you really stupid enough to believe rape is caused by low awareness? Are you really that abysmally stupid? And as for “good intentions,” intentions without action is worth shit.
No, not so. Excrement can be used for fertilizer.
These are stupid self indulgent clowns who confuse “caring” with action. I promise you that not one rape is prevented by this kind of posturing. Oh, but they’re superior to us because they care. As opposed to everyone else, apparently. So marinate in your smugness and hope like hell that a cop is within a block away when you dial 911. Or else get a CCW or take a self defense course. But for God’s sake stop pretending that your posturing and preening has any damn effect on anything but your own pampered precious ego.
Right, because “eff the police” is just a harmless “social issue”, that you apparently agree with.
I suppose taken literally, if you were…it might actually make you safer from rapists, using deductive logic, something that apparently is repelled by your brain.
What “social issue” is being discussed here? Dancing for rape? Is that like swimming for slander? Or biking for blasphemy? Cooking for treason?
What in the world could be said in these “speeches” by politicians? Women are “oppressed” in SF? Really?
Or are the women in SF so free from oppression, that they can organize an entire rally against gamma ray bursts and/or growing petunias…and call it male oppression, because the whole point is to create “victimology” and divide people so as to conquer them.
The “social” issues with leftists always has an agenda to divide. The masquerade is the “bringing people together”…to divide.
They love to hate.
“Eff the police”. Rage against men. Stomp on the Bible. Belittle the homeland. Slander the patriots. It’s all just a lovely gathering. Of people who generally suck as countrymen.
The protest culture is so devoid of meaningful issues, it now turns to unconscious irony and subconscious self-parody.
A three page photo essay isn’t enough. But thanks to Zombie, we hold a little virtual rally of our own here now and again. Laughing at imbeciles who try desperately to divide us.
““Eff the police”. Rage against men. Stomp on the Bible. Belittle the homeland. Slander the patriots. It’s all just a lovely gathering. Of people who generally suck as countrymen.” These are people who suck as human beings. For all their preening, posturing and caring, they’ve never so much as put a biscuit in the mouth of a starving person.
I am affixing a gold star to your comment.
Type for Awareness!
So that would be the Tea Party activists being destroyed by the alphabet media? LibS and Progs never tolerate receiving the same treatment they meet out to the Tea Party. NEVER.
Yeah. If they weren’t dancing, I would be totally unaware of teh rape.
And did you know? You can end war just by SINGIN’ REAL LOUD too
You forgot to mention that wealth can be created and deficits erased simply by HAVING COMPASSION for the needy.
The problem is that these people are idiots, and they vote.
Simple enough? No? Let me try to spell it out for you:
1. Rape is already illegal. Perhaps it has escaped your notice, but really, there ARE laws against rape in all 57 states AND the District of Columbia. Really. So, protesting against rape is…. pointless. All of society already agrees it’s a bad thing. Well, in this country, that is. Sorry about that Muslim woman, but hey, at least she can wave her silly sign here without getting beheaded for it. That’s because we’re such an oppressive society, of course. But I digress.
2. Rape laws are among the most strictly enforced laws we have. If they were enforced as weakly, as say, our drunk driving laws, these idiots would have reason to protest THAT. But that’s not the case.
3. Penalties for rape are severe, especially when compared to many other much more common crimes like battery or even manslaughter.
So, what are they protesting? To whom are they protesting? About what?
And it’s not as if this is completely harmless, either. See, there ARE aspects of how we treat rape that do need to be addressed. There ARE some problems that need to be fixed.
But by vaguely protesting against “rape” in general, that needed focus is lost. Rather, it’s thrown away in a foolish, “feel good” protest that cannot possibly accomplish anything useful.
So, that’s stupid, and because they are leftists, it’s not surprising that they are being stupid, and we’re having fun mocking their predictable stupidity.
Clear enough?
Good lordy, such creatures DO exist.
But I’m glad the Koranic-sensible attendees didn’t mention the Tahrir rapes sanctioned by the Islamist ‘scholars’ of Egypt.
An excellent chronicle of some truly confused human beings.
Now, it wasn’t TOTALLY pointless. Maybe someone got educated on SmartMeters, which really can burn your house down. Other than that, though, I doubt they managed to prevent a single rape.
Think about it, vaginas are wonder. No argument on this point. Coercion bad, no argument. All the rest is progressive (and jihad) BS.
“But I’m glad the Koranic-sensible attendees didn’t mention the Tahrir rapes sanctioned by the Islamist ‘scholars’ of Egypt.”
I wonder how they justify quoting from a book inspired by a murderer, child molester, torturer, thief and rapist.
You may have just put our diplomats at risk!
Hey Zombie, really like your work.
I see that you do try to “mystery science theater 3000″ it, by giving very funny captions from time to time.
I believe that, maybe, some of the commentators here might want to suggest a funny caption for all (or most) of the pictures, and you could add the best ones later (e.g. in your website).
Just to get the ball rolling, here are some of my suggestions.
“I am RISING because PG&E SmartMeters can explode, burn my house shatter my shoulder but can’t shatter my SPIRIT!”
- Sadly, that was the most coherent sign that day.
“I am RISING because We must fight not to grow anymore Rapist. Heal Them with the power of Love Love!”
- Protestor, heal thyself (from the compulsion to rape the English languages)
“I am RISING because I am a mother and my dauqntes will not live in fear!”
- One major cause of fear is living with a demented parent.
“The Drama Has to Stop!”
- Send in the clowns, then (oh, they’re already here?).
“VAGINA is not a dirty word. Being a woman is a wondeful, beautiful thing!”
- Wait. I thought that having a vagina has nothing to do with being a woman, you only have to believe you are one. So just to correct this neanderthal poster: ” ‘Penis’ and ‘Hairy Balls’ are not dirty words. Being a woman is wonderful, beautiful thing.”
…woman(?) wearing leopard catsuit:
- bad pussy.
Thanks.
“I am RISING because my vaj is in such a knot that it hurts to sit on it”…….
I though with all the hip young things in attendance, VAJ would’ve appeared on at least one “I am RISING…..” sign…… somewhere………
And that ‘leopard’ woman that’s some kigu-furry-mime hybrid? Not all innovations are for the better……..
I seriously think it’s the same person who appeared in pink at the 2007 Folsom Street Fair. With his ding-dong hanging out, sporting a condom.
Click the link and tell me I’m wrong.
I ain’t clickin’ that link.
I think I’ll tell you you’re wrong as the later example actually could be a woman, judging by her narrower shoulders and very slender arms and wrists………
As for the link…… well, the boots were hawt, the bodies were not…..’>>……..
“And that ‘leopard’ woman that’s some kigu-furry-mime hybrid? Not all innovations are for the better……”
After Solyndra went belly up, Obama had to waste tax dollars SOMEWHERE in California and (you guessed it) he decided to pump a cool half billion into the “Leopard Woman Kigu-Furry-Mime Hybrid.” Zombie must’ve been thrilled to get the first official photo of the final design and it was really nice of Sandra Fluke to model it.
I think they need spellcheckers………….
Then the attendees wouldn’t understand what was intended.
Spelling is oppressive!
I am rising because I am a yeasty loaf of sourdough bread! (OK, I’m hungry)
Damn! If only I had thought of that earlier, while at the protest; I could have filled out a sign of my own and held it aloft:
Would it have gotten laughs, or gotten me stoned to death?
Would it have gotten laughs, or gotten me stoned to death?
With rocks or w/ Mary Jane? Bein’ in downtown SF you could die from a contact high with all the marijuana chimneys walking around there. Stinks as bad as the bum-urine soaked streets.
It’s called ‘skunk’ these days….’>>…….
It probably would have gotten a cult following as something to believe in!
You credit them with too much intelligence. The smartest of the bunch would just be confused and the rest probably wouldn’t get it at all.
I wonder how many “anarchists” would be left by the end of the first day when there were no laws. Can’t imagine many.
Yeah. I thought the 48 hours projection was a real stretch. I would have given it until nightfall before these ninnies started bleating about how they needed protection.
In a true anarchy, the crowd shattering shop windows in downtown would be either machine gunned by the shopkeepers, or sold into slavery.
Too bad the best sourdough bread makers in SF went kaput; Colombo and Parisian. Damn now I’m hungry too!
It’s probably the same illiterate 2000 people that show up at all of these wacky demonstrations against nothing.
Zom – you must be getting to know quite a few of them.
As my wife and I were having some great belly laughs over the Leftist insanity that Zombie brilliantly documents, two things made me sober up real quick. The first is that, while these people seem unbalanced, confused, and incoherent, the truth is that these are the very people who now run our news media, pop culture, academia and government. The “inmates have taken over the asylum” has become more than a funny cliche. It is our actual present nightmare.
The second sobering fact of this hilarious Leftist display of absurdity came to me when Zombie pointed out the anti-police signs and the fact that no reasonable solutions to rape were mentioned at all. It made me wonder, if heir real protest is not against rape (otherwise they’d discuss laws and enforcement) what was it? Of course, what else? The real target here is “patriarchy”, ie. men, especially white, Christian, conservative, Republican, pro-capitalist, anyone-not-with-the-Leftist-program. This was nothing but another propaganda event designed to create hostility to anything and anyone traditional and against Leftism. And Goebbells chortled from hell.
On the whole ‘rape narrative’ thing :
Note that you NEVER see a woman who is a 7 or higher in looks seem worried about some supposed ‘rape epidemic’ that targets 1 in 3 women. Attractive women would presumably be more at risk, yet the degree to which women worry about ‘rape’ is inversely proportional to their attractiveness to men.
The reason for this is mere attention-grabbing. Ugly women like to pretend that they are attractive to men, so complaining about some fictitious past ‘rape’ or ‘domestic violence’ or ‘harassment’ is their way of pretending.
The 1 in 3 stat is telling. It is the proportion of women, the bottom one-third, who men find ugly and refuse to notice, despite the generally lenient standards of most men.
Now, this would merely be a pathetic sideshow if not for the fact that 40% of rape accusations are false (see : Duke Lacrosse, Brian Banks, etc.). This is one of the few areas of law where feminists have ensured that due process rights are removed, and a man can be jailed for 15 years on a false accusation alone. No proof on her end is required.
Very scary indeed.
Please, Mr. Internet Troll, go away. Posting such things to make other people look bad is unethical.
By Jove, you get it!
As always, Frank Chu showed up with his ever-changing sign.
It ain’t an official political rally unless Frank is there!
So, wouldn’t the person who wrote “Fuck the police” be guilty of, you know, rising FOR rape rather than against it? At least I assume such a fucking would be without consent.
And yeah, it is hilarious that they pick the one religion whose prophet explicitly endorsed rape as the one they would quote.
Needless to say, these are very ignorant people.
San Francisco is an absolutely beautiful city. Its residents, for the most part, not so much.
Your conclusion may be a bit of an over statement, as the crowd was but a few thousand in how large a population? I could grant that the broader population considers this behavior preferable to the more dangerous things they could be doing. Also, there is the entertainment value. I believe I could not long tolerate having my hometown be definition of lunacy.
I’m nowhere near SF, but I’d love to go to an event like this with a sign or shirt saying “‘Feminists’ building Patriarchy” with the Obama “O”. Chris Rock truthfully expressed what Sandra Fluke represents when she supports the Obamacare mandate. Contemporary, political feminism is about building an ever larger, patriarchal state to ensure that no woman endure any consequence for her actions, especially her sexual behavior.
Yeah, but the crucial question is:
did you get laid?
After all, why else associate with female loons? They are too stupid to know that you just want to get in their pants and too liberated to say “no” to whatever kinky thing you want to do.
I love progressive women. Of course, they are much more attractive when they have a ball-gag accessory.
“Yeah, but the crucial question is: did you get laid? After all, why else associate with female loons?” Dude, seriously? I think you’d be safer using your erect member to poke bagels out of a toaster (while it’s still plugged in).
Naw. I would hit the depressed-looking girl in the top photo. Have a few drinks, let her know how liberated I am and let the magic happen. After all, once someone has lost hold on reality sufficiently to actually buy into this tripe both her standards and her limits are very porous.
Nailing stupid liberal (PTR) women should be illegal, it is so easy.
This was another excellent effort, zombie, but it will take a lot to match your photo reportage of the Folsom Street Fair, which was a Web classic that’s never been equalled. Keep up the great work. As long as you keep reporting this stuff, I’ll stay as far away from insane SF as is geographically possible.
My Folsom Street Fair report may never have been equalled, but it was surpassed the following year by the Up Your Alley Fair report.
You were making great points until your blast at anarchism. These people are not anarchists. They are all Leftist through and through. Read some Heinlein for a good example of actual reasoning on how anarchism would work. It is more accessible than philospophical treatises on the subject. True Anarchists would declare a rapist persona non grata and the rapist would be gone (really gone) in day. Little in the way of intellectual vacillation. These silly wimps are not the least bit interested in actual anarchy. It is surprising that you rise to their bait.
I don’t return to read responses.
There were several factions at the rally, and I’m pretty sure that some of the people doing the chalking were indeed self-proclaimed anarchists. Yes, these were hypocritical brain-addled “left-wing anarchists” who try to find common ground with the socialists, despite the impossibility of that.
The anarchists ’round these parts — and there are a lot of them — are all adolescent faux-anarchists. You may not approve of them, but that’s their self-definition.
In my Punk Rock College Radio days (Where I was one of the ones who DIDN’T play punk rock), we used to joke about “Anarchists on Welfare: Smash the State, after the checks run out.”
“True Anarchists would declare a rapist persona non grata and the rapist would be gone (really gone) in day.” Nice theory! Now describe the nuts and bolts of how this would occur. Who decides what rape is? How do you determine that a rape actually occurred? Would this sentence require a consensus or a simple majority (as in a democracy)? And, what is the procedure for determining what the procedure for determining the procedure shall be? That is before you determine what the procedure for reaching a decision is begun. Unless. of course it is already written down, AKA codified, AKA GOVERNMENT!
You left out another cogent critique:
Gone…where? Driven out of the anarchist commune, down the road to…the next anarchist commune? And then they’ll drive him out…and so forth. Creating, through narcissistic localism, an unrestrained serial rapist.
Oh, no, the anarchists might claim — we’ll warn all the nearby anarchist communes that this guy is on the prowl, so they won’t let him in either. And then what? The guy will retreat to the woods, living off of scraps, existing out there in the night as some kind of boogieman to scare people?
If no legal trial system is set up to determine guilt, then the mere accusation of rape will be determined as sufficient evidence to brand someone a rapist. And once the power to cavalierly destroy someone’s life is placed in random people’s hands, then things can very quickly spiral out of control (see Hunt, Witch).
Isn’t TRIAL BY JURY with RULES OF EVIDENCE and IMPRISONMENT as punishment (i.e. what society currently does) a more sensible solution?
You are of course correct, however, I was just pointing out part of the ass herd in his/her head. Wouldn’t want to hurt the poor dear with too much thinking.
Stop that, Robert!
Reason is offensive to the Devoted Followers Of the Prophet Heinlein!
Heinlein did make some interesting points. Actually, MANY interesting points.
What he never managed to make was a coherent case for a workable philosophy of government.
Not in the real world, anyway.
Such is always the case with the devotees of The Rand Chick.
I would love to see someone fix one of those F**k the Police signs by adding “For a good time” F**k the Police “They bring their own handcuffs”
I was reading about another SF oddity today. Apparently the owner of kink.com was arrested. They do fetish BSDM videos at their studio in the SF Armory. Someone saw a video supposedly of people firing guns at the armory. The cops immediately investigated but only picked up the owner for personal-use cocaine possession and delaying arrest. Perhaps the arrest caused the officer to miss his coffee and doughnut break? It was just so SF. Hardcore BSDM videos, okay. Someone firing a gun on video, call the cops. Cops can’t find evidence of gun crime, arrest for small quantity drug possession. Cops report gun range, a makeshift affair, in armory.
err…… uh….. one more: “They’ll do it to you (police) doggie style”…..’>……….
My first thought was that famous quote attributed to Mick Jagger:
I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing “We’re gonna vent our frustration”
“If we don’t, we’re gonna blow a 50-amp fuse”
but then I realized that they were just upset that the 49ers lost the Super Bowl. You can’t always get what you want.
“I Demand My Fair Share of Abuse.”
At this stage in my career, I’ve got a photo for every situation.
LOL! That was great. Wonder if anyone at his demonstration was old enough to get the reference.
I think I understand the cultures of isolated primitive and ancient peoples better than these modern leftists. I try, I really do, but for me it’s like trying to make sense out of some modern “art”. Just when I think I may be on the cusp of insight I pull back and realize I was kidding myself because there is no there, there.
So much wasted time and energy and warped minds. It’s truly depressing.
I’ve given up on trying to understand it.
We’re at a point where to be born male means that you’re automatically a rapist.
If you haven’t actually raped anybody yet, it’s just because you’re not ‘ripe’, and haven’t become a finished product, grown into the rapist destiny you were born into. And hell, you’re still a rapist, just because your very existence reinforces oppression against females.
Even going M->F Transsexual won’t save you.
This is why we’re dying as a civilization, because too many people actually believe the s*** that I just typed.
Correct.
The short version is
Maleness = Rape.
“Masculinity Studies” is now hot on campus, replacing the old and worn-out “Whiteness Studies.”
In both cases, the subject under scrutiny is presumed (as the discipline’s starting point) to be innately evil. All that remains is to examine the multifarious facets and dimensions of its evil.
A long time ago, when I was in college, some group of feminists put up posters listing potential rapists. The list was names of men taken at random from the phone book, the point being that all men are potential rapists. Some of the men listed did not take kindly to this and threatened to sue for defamation. I do not remember of they ever followed through.
I don’t have a statistic for this, but a conservative with a gun is almost infinitely more likely to stop a rape than virtually anyone of the pansy left.
The pansy left will just dial 911 and summon a conservative with a gun, in the form of a policeman.
That alleged conservative with a gun will arrive in time to take the victim’s statement.
Rape is wrong. So is making sandwiches out of babies and pulling the heads off of cute little kitty cats.
I’ll brook no disagreement on these matters and won’t back down.
I’m with you on this, all the way!
Let’s start a movement called “One Trillion Heroes Sad About Babies and Kittens.”
Anyone who makes fun of us or doesn’t join our movement is a fascist baby-eater and kitten decapitator.
“What — you’re in favor of baby sandwiches?”
Will there be dues ?
Would this organization supporting kittens also denounce dogs as agents of the patriarchy and generally evil in and of themselves ?
And this ‘baby sandwich’ thing. Are we for or against ? If for, can we sell sponsorships to condiment companies like Heinz Ketchup ?
You could be For Being Against For Being Against The For. You know it makes sense
Zombie is a woman.
[Redacted]…
a very nice looking woman.
Anyway…
Cops usually take their coffee, donuts,
and a shot of leg as part of the job,
but having to work San Francisco would be unbearable.
I’m jealous. The One Billion Rising march across the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC was pretty much a bust: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bombscare/sets/72157632765208051/
If there had been a decent bust in the vicinity maybe it wouldn’t have been so boring.
Women who whine ipso facto prove themselves unworthy of respect.
This lesbofest changes nothing, except possibly my desire to visit SF.
I’m starting to feel a bit guilty for single-handedly damaging the city’s tourist industry.
They held this sort of demonstration at my University.
I had more important things to do (class) than to go and mock them.
Because of other obligations, I go to student government meetings. Mostly, they are full of self-important blowhards nobody really cares about, but the Official Campus Women’s Center came last week to mention they were hosting this event. Insultingly, they passed that no men were wanted to appear in the dance video they were shooting, but were more then welcome to show their support.
Crimes against persons are bad by definition, and yes, I don’t need a tribe of bad dancing harpies to tell me otherwise.
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
“a tribe of bad dancing harpies”
That’s a scene in a Ray Harryhausen movie.
“We can dance it you want to,
We can leave your friends behind.
Because your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance
Then they’re no friends of mine.”
old Frank Chu, his limp was getting pretty bad, glad to see he is still up and about. Back in the nineties he carried around graphic pics of aborted fetuses. I am glad he moved on.
Wait, Frank Chu was there? Zombie usually gets a picture of Frank. I would have loved to see his take on the meteor.
Actually, Frank is generally at every protest I go to (because he appears at every public gathering with five or more people anywhere in the city): but I rarely include any pictures of him in my reports so as not to be repetitive. Every now and then I will (as in this case) if it seems to fit in with the storyline.
Oops. Yes, you did. As I have often done with PJMedia articles, I failed to click the “view as single page” and missed pages 2 and 3 (and the Frank photo). My bad.
That’s why I hate how these reports on PJM are usually divided into several pages. I’ve always suspected (and now you’ve confirmed) that some people don’t notice/forget/skip any page past the first one. But there’s nothing that can be done about it: Bills must be paid, and advertisers pay by the pageview, and pageviews are supposedly increased by breaking up posts into multiple pages, forcing readers to click and click. (And it’s not just PJM — most Web sites do it these days.) But I suspect (and have always suspected) that there is a flaw in this bean-countery, and that a portal that didn’t divide up articles into several pages would attract more visitors simply because it was less annoying to read stuff there than on rival sites, and the fan base would grow.
The Catholics called. They want their day back. All of it, including the “Saint” part.
The Romans just send a messenger — and they want Lupercalia back.
Well, since they stole the spring fertility holiday and renamed it St. Valentines Day, and pretended it was about love instead of about fornication, I don’t think they are going to get anywhere with a lawsuit over it.
Oh, same deal for Lent, St. Patrick’s Day, etc. All of them. Stolen.
The holiday you are about to celebrate is pagan. The names were changed to protect the guilty.
Just the facts, ma’am.
Lemme see – Obummer is hot on the gun control band wagon with the end-game being confiscation of most guns. Is this report about dic control? Are they pressing for – oh never mind.
Is it wrong that I found that woman/lady/it/something in the leopard bodysuit strangely attractive?
Yes, it is wrong. Very wrong.
I thought you were going to say something about the face…
that guy in the suit front and center?……. he’s gotta be in heaven….XDDD……….
If a woman sees more than one rapist in her bedroom… There is a device that can throw them out…
http://www.dpmsinc.com/Tactical-Rifles_ep_70-1.html
“I am rising” seems a strange phrase to approach such a subject. My t-shirt would’ve been, “I Am Tumescent for Coco-Puffs.” Let the irony-buffs put that two and two together.
Is that a rising in your dance or are you just glad to see me?
yeah…… “I am rising” is suggestive of rampart and untoward male energy. Demonstration fails getting out of the gate. Good catch……..
“Your Cause Engorges Me” might work too.
@zombie #25: I stand corrected! The Up Your Alley Fair report was the one I had in mind. I misremembered its name, but not the images, which were seared, SEARED! into my memory.
Zombie – as always, thanks again for allowing me to laugh at the nutjobs in our town.
If they really cared about preventing rape, they’d have been demanding liberalized (ironic, that word) firearms laws, including “shall issue” for concealed firearms. Fat chance.
Help! The patriarchy made me typo my own nic! I’m being oppressed!
“I Am Rising Because:
I have no easy access to cold showers.
There are a lot of women at this march.
…of the thought of one billion women dancing.
I just watched ‘Zarak’ with Anita Ekberg.
I’ve succeeded in blocking thoughts of Sandra Fluke’s hair-do.
A cloud passed over the sun.
My thoughts stray a lot.
Victoria’s Secret is having a sale.”
Hahahah. I don’t think those cards would’ve gone over well. It’s cuz liberals have all the good comedians and a highly developed sense of humor.
Welcome to planet of the freaks!!! Good gosh, those are some weird people living out there. Nut job city. There must be some weird dome overhead or some kind of magnet that just sucks those people in there. I bet each day though is like going to an amusement park.
F**k Tha Police….
Wouldn’t that be…ummm…RAPE?
This pretty much explains why Nancy Pelosi is still in office:
“I’m crazy and I vote!”
That is the “too true to be even remotely humorous” statement of the week.
This is EXACTLY whey Pelosi gets reelected.
But she’s getting up in years.
Watch for Moonbeam moving to D.C. in the not-too-distant future.
Want to stop violence against women? ARM THEM! Lions do not make a living eating leopards.
This is SF Beer Week. Much better use of everyone’s time would have been drinking some Pliny the Younger.
You have to understand that as far as this crowd is concerned all men are rapists. It’s just that some have yet to rape. But would if given the chance.
Forgot to ask, was Inflated Scrotum Man there?
Sadly, no. I haven’t seen him in several years. What with all the male nudity and protests recently in the Castro and thereabouts, he definitely would have had a large presence (so to speak) if he still lived in the Bay Area. I suspect he either moved away, or passed away, quite some time ago. But his legacy lives on forever!
According to a friend of mine who knew him, Inflated Scrotum Guy, AKA Naked Marvin, passed on recently. He was a Canadian national who retired to SF for the sun and the public-nudity scene.
Thanks for the update.
RIP Marvin, aka “Inflated Scrotum Guy.” You brought entertainment to millions.
Had it not been for the large media contingent the crowd would have been far smaller than the estimated 2000. Narcissists would walk over hot coals to be within camera range.
The cherubic-looking young man hunched over his incomprehensible poster message would have been there. His palpable intensity of purpose signals that he was there before the event and is probably still there now.
The leopard man/woman would have shown up anywhere at any time to model such a beguiling outfit. Although my computer-savy cat was so offended he walked on the keyboard and blacked out the image. Truly!
The bee enthusiast would have been there because our maligned bee population is always in need of a champion.
But without the media presense most of the others would have turned heel and made it over to Berkeley for a Save The Plague-Carrying Rat Rally if there were cameras about.
Since I saw on the news that charges have just been filed in an adult-female-perpetrator, child-female-victim rape case in my area, I will keep my head down in case of exploding heads. My wife asked me “How is that possible?” I told her she didn’t want to know.
I think that’s a seldom performed part of The Vagina Monologues. No kidding.
I enjoyed your commentary as usual Zombie. I get the feeling from your writing that you are a woman, about 40, professional person maybe an attorney. How did you wind up in that boiling cauldren of kooks known as the Bay Area?
Doug Santo
Pasadena, CA
You could answer your own question by telling us how you ended up in CA, as SF is not appreciably different than the rest of the state. If you disbelieve, examine your governance.
I must disagree. I’ve lived in LA and San Diego since ’87. SF is a WHOLE different kinda weird.
Anyone protesting against female genital mutilation?
Buehler?
Look through Zombie’s photoblog for the answer. If you’ve seen the way people jack up their genitals at these events, that particular question would never come to your mind, either….’>………
If Al Sharpton was there, his sign would have said: Rise we much!
How I do not miss the Bay Area! Don’t tell the lady holding the Qu’ran sign that her Arabic is jacked up:
http://themellowjihadi.com/2013/02/16/1-billion-rising-quran/
Bless you, Zombie, whoever you are.
You’re doing the job the old media won’t do. And we appreciate it very much.
BTW, I think this rally is actually a “Get Rid of Fatherhood Forever” protest.
So why don’t they just come out with it, call it what it is, say what they really believe?
Shoot, a lot of people would get behind the abolition of Dad movement if they just understood the goal; socialist government is your new improved father.
What’s missing here is a table with an assortment of kielbasas and cucumbers being chopped to pieces by an angry-looking feminist with a meat cleaver.
I must have missed the premise here, is the rising what leads to rape, or what happens after the rape? Are you sure this wasn’t a celebration of rape?
“I am rising” sounds like the city has been taken over by yeast.
“I am rising” because I am the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
“I am rising” so punch me down and let me rise again before baking.
“I am rising” because medical marijuana works.
“I am rising” because my head is full of hot air.
What I don’t think is happening here is “I am rising” because I have to go to work.
Thank you, Zombie, for wading in the sewer so that we don’t have to.
I had occasion to drive to San Francisco yesterday afternoon. Didn’t go near City Hall, did drive along the Embarcadero, under the Bay Bridge, out Bayshore and Alemany, up into Bernal Heights, out of town on Mission.
Absolutely gorgeous day, happy peppy people walking and jogging along the Embardadero, wonderful old building on Pier 17 being converted into the new Exploratorium, gorgeous view out over the non-touristy part of the City from Bernal Heights, lots of blue collar looking folks of many ethnicities out along the Outer Mission and Geneva.
Wouldn’t live there, but it still has its charm. And, it’s not the water, since the whole Peninsula gets the same water (from Yosemite)and folks on the Peninsula, while mostly damn liberal, also tend to be productive and prosperous.
San Francisco does serve as a freak magnet, which probably benefits a large radius of communities. / erc
I knew there still exists many reasons why I will never set foot there again. San Francisco is still a beautiful city but unfortunately, the majority that live there are airheads. To the rational few that remain there, I grieve for your loss.
Check out the picture with the three county supervisors. That Weiner guy looks stoned out of his mind.
scottwiener.com: “Feds Must Stop Medical Cannabis Attacks.”
These people have WAY too much free time.
The reasons this rally took place in SF are; there are few places in the world where such a huge crowd would gather, and NYC, Chicago, and Boston have snow.
Is the Qu’ran woman Medea Benjamin? Look at the eyes.
If that is her, why would a Code Pinker be promoting Islam at a secular event with a non-Muslim audience?
No, not her. Definitely not – I’ve spent a lot of time shoulder-to-shoulder with Medea Benjamin at these kind of events. This woman was about 8 inches taller, to begin with.
Haha, in other words, just another day in San Francisco!
But hey, rapists can’t help it , ya know? They don’t CHOOSE to be rapists, it’s just how they are.
Nice article about you and this over at American Thinker byThomas Lifson.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/02/miss_quran_and_the_feminists.html
What in the hell is “Gender Democracy?” Is that anything like “Social Justice?”
Pretty similar to “Social Justice” in most respects, but under “Gender Democracy” the men are all dead.
Nope, men are still around for reproductive purposes.
The new ideal of ‘man’ however, is someone who sports funky shades, pointy shoes and tight striped jeans. You know, the average metrosexual hip.
‘Gender Democracy’ means that if women can and have been penetrated, then so should be the men. And if there are men who have ever penetrated a woman (and heavens forbid, punished her with a child), those men should be shamed, ostracized and expelled from Society as the criminal element they are.
Nah, we’re not dead, we’re still there in the perfect society-as sperm donors ready to be penetrated.
Feewings, nothing more than feewings;
Totally devoid of cognitive ability.
Hormones, gushing through the fruits n nuts;
Totally devoid of cognitive ability…
Everybody sing!
1 Billion Rising San Francisco and thousands of comments on this story. Congrats, Zombie!
I am rising, because sitting and listening to all this crap gives me mental hemorrhoids.
Their website is funny. The Spanish version of the poster says “1 Billion On Foot,” presumably because it might otherwise sound like “1 Billion Hard-On’s”
http://onebillionrising.org/
Then they have this thing called the “Thunderclap,” which sounds suspiciously like what might happen with the spread of 1 billion simultaneous risings.
Their logo of a globe of the Earth is weirdly engorged on one side and they have phrases like “Why we rise,” and “Watch a live rising,” “Start a rising,” “Choose your rising location “Consider the impact of your rising” and “Music to rise to;” perhaps Barry White would do.
Had I known about this in advance, I might have gone to their Facebook page and asked what global spot will benefit most from the rising, or promoted my village of Tumid, India, Slaknutsaak, Alaska, Phuc Yieu, Thailand or Tol Kok, Burma.
In keeping with the theme, rather than call their press kit a press kit, they weirdly call it a “toolkit,” which is what I’d expect a Sat. Night Live skit to do, not serious people.
As usual with clueless liberals, you can’t make this stuff up nor improve on the ground they’ve laid. All you can do is “Experience the rising.”
Under their logo it says “Strike, Dance, Rise,” when it should be “Dance, Rise, Strike.
One woman on their site wrote this:
“I’m rising for those who have been told that they must wait until the struggle against poverty, against racism, against able-ism, against homophobia, against transphobia, against world capitalism, is all finished before the every day lives of women and girls become important.
I’m rising for those who are left behind when preservationists plead with militias to save the gorillas and to spare the forests, but forget to mention the women and girls;”
I imagined violins playing and sad clowns crying down by the river under a weeping willow tree as I read that. It’s very touching, which makes me want to rise, except the part about gorillas since I have gorillaphobia. In fact I hate them.
Well done! A great photo essay , and great journalism! No one can argue any case for rape, granted. However, women in general are not better off now than they were before the “sexual revolution”. Before a woman was ” special”, and a man had to open the door for her, or take off their hat, etc. The idea of hitting a woman was a taboo, as was having his “way” with her before accepting any marital responsibility. Women are much more objectified today. Many not all of course “good girls” feel the need to dress like whores and even act like them just to survive socially today or get any man’s attention. The college scene is awash in broken women who leave home thinking of meeting Mr. Right and found many Mr Wrongs. And along the way had abortions, was suicidal, and lost self worth. So stand up women! You are special!Honor your gift of womanhood and fertility!You don’t need to take poison birth control pills to appease a man! You don’t need to murder you babies! Wait for a good man and then marry him. Marry a man that will respect and love you and any children you conceive together. And then you will be happy!
The protestors have an amazing grasp of the obvious and ordinary. Being anti-rape is hardly a brave stand.
They are such self centered narcissists they think only they can possibly care so much about these things.
Zombie,
Were there any counterprotestors? How did the protesters behave toward others not a part of the group? Welcoming camaraderie based on assumption of shared beliefs? I see lots of pictures but not much about how they acted when simply walking about.
Caption for the Koran-sign lady:
“This is definitely not Lara Logan.”
Jason Mattera has gotten in on the act and compliments Zombie’s (always) brilliant piece beautifully! Oh Lordie.
http://www.therightscoop.com/jason-mattera-violence-against-women-protesters-dont-believe-women-should-have-concealed-carry/