Kind of Numb
I am so tired of the smell of blood. Seriously, I never had any interest in nursing, or doctoring, or any sort of healing, but after the last week or so, I realize that the smells would have killed me. I’m okay with the sight of blood… but I’m seriously done with the smell.
It’s hard for me to come up with anything else to write about.
I mean… what else is happening out in the world? Maybe the begginning of World War 3? Who wants to write about that shit?
Well, probably a lot of people, now that I think about it. But, I don’t really read those sites.
Or, there’s the Girls Gone Wild guy… lots of talk about him. But, I mean, really? The Girls Gone Wild guy is a total misogynistic prick? Color me fucking shocked! Who’d-a thunk it?
How does some of this shit qualify as news?
Actually, I might want to comment on the Girls Gone Wild guy, but I’m so deeply and sincerely disgusted with all notions of more bitching about porn lovin’ vs. porn hatin’, that the thought of even bothering to bother with a round of “wow… it’s a darned shame that porn doesn’t exist in a utopia that only exists in certain radical minds” makes me wanna curl up and go into a permanent coma after dissolving my computer with a vat of acid.
Can I tell you how fucking tired I am of the Sex Positive vs Rad Fem arguments?
I’m so tired that I stopped reading a lot of your blogs, despite the fact that I loved you before you all got so stuck on shit. And, that works on both sides of the debate, ‘cause y’all…. I don’t fucking care anymore.
I’m so tired of it that Suzy Bright can go ahead and suck off Larry Flint on Bill O’Reilly’s show, while wearing heels and a pink boa and a corset made out of Jenna Jamison’s waxed and woven pubic hair, and call the whole exercise an empowering feminist act, and I’ll just let her have it, because I don’t fucking care anymore.
I’m sooooo tired of it that a coven of radical feminists could bring Andrea Dworkin back from the dead using magic Prude Dust, and Dworkin could rent a sky-writing machine and stain the heavens with ‘All Hetero Sex is Rape’ on Super Bowl Sunday, over the game, while cheerleaders sewed up thier vulvas and donned burkas of Implied Sexual Shame at having Ever Stirred a Penis, and I’ll shrug and walk away, because I don’t fucking care anymore.
So there.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
tags: feminism, internecine drama, miscarriage





You’re quite right, of course…
— belledame222 Aug 11, 08:09 PM #
Geez, Veronica, I’m sorry about your miscarriage! I’m going to stop there because I can just go on such a fucking tear about it, how little support there is especially from the ostensible “pro-life” community… but I’ll just stop there and say
I remember the smell of blood, the head against my chest, the tests, the anguish, the waiting, the startling emergence afterwards of voice after voice saying “you know, that happened to us too” when, before, none had ever spoken of it.
Good luck. Take care. I must stop there.
figleaf
— figleaf Aug 11, 09:12 PM #
Thank you for that post.
I had a miscarriage two or so years ago; my heart goes out to you. Be good to yourself!
— hedonistic Aug 12, 09:44 AM #
I’m sorry for your loss. There are a lot of us out there who’ve been through it. It hurts like hell, physically and emotionally.
Do what you need to do to take care of yourself, it will take time to heal but it will get better with time. Even now, almost 14 years after mine, it still comes to mind occasionally, but it doesn’t hurt like it did at first. The loss at first was probably the worst thing that had ever happened to me, perhaps will ever happen to me. I’m sorry that anyone, anywhere ever has to go through it. Miscarriage is heartbreaking.
— trouble Aug 12, 09:23 PM #
My condolences, Veronica. May the universe be kinder for all the rest of your days.
— Kevin Hayden Aug 13, 01:43 AM #
thanks for the perspective.
best wishes for your healing.
— antiprincess Aug 14, 02:23 PM #
Don’t hold back, in all respects. I am terribly sorry. I hope you are well soon.
— Cheryl Aug 19, 03:24 AM #
Hear hear! (Or is it here here?) I too am tired of the fight.
And I also agree with figleaf that after suffering a miscarriage a startling number of people mention it happening to them too. It’s a weird, almost taboo subject. I wrote about my own in Nov 2004 if you want to read it in my archives.
Anyway, it got better even if it never does go away. I hope it gets better for you soon.
— plucky punk Sep 2, 01:42 AM #