Sad to see this end for pussy riot, I appreciated the shock at the time of their performance. Tasteless or not, it was refreshing Id thought. Great to see Pavlensky is sticking to his moral viewpoints. Thanks Evgenia!
Not to be that guy but about thirteen years ago I predicted the following on a defunct blog that was half-assed even at the time:
"...Or maybe it's not important who or what the members of Pussy Riot are, and maybe this post is ultimately worthless in the grand scheme of things. But it should be important, because unless Tolokonnikova & friends had suddenly changed their ways in the short time since the split from the original Voina, then they didn't jump around in front a church altar for the good of society - they did it for themselves."
...I assumed "the ugly ones" (Alyokhina and Samutsevich, the latter iirc struck a deal with the authorities and got away from these other dorks) would've eventually faded into obscurity but I couldn't have predicted the onlyfans pivot. I do wonder whatever became of the other losers of Voyna that there were in an apparent polycule with (e.g. Vorotnikov and Sokol).
Anyway Verzilov is a creep. I feel bad for their kid.
It's not paranoia - they were *heavily* pushed by a Moscow gallery owner and friends. At the time the actual story of their arrest and case took a few weeks if not months to actually get international attention. Literally they were driving a bus around the ring road of Moscow that said something along the lines of "free pussy riot" at one point. Eventually they caused enough of a fuss to get the attention of amnesty international, and that's when the western media floodgates opened.
They say that comparisons are the thief of joy but you you have given away your joy and based on this article, your humanity. The bitterness, the jealousy, and the naked contempt for Nadya Tolokonnikova’s choices don’t reveal anything meaningful about her — they reveal everything about the author.
The fixation on her looks, her sexuality, and the fact that she has aged — as we all do — is textbook misogyny. There is no genuine critique here, only personal resentment masked as commentary. From mocking her art to calling her a “trophy wife” to speculating about her daughter’s future, the piece is laced with petty cruelty.
But nothing is more revealing than the final line: “until she is too old to wear a thong.” That line doesn’t just cross a line. It demolishes it. It’s not clever. It’s not ironic. It’s hateful. It’s the kind of misogyny that tells women their worth has an expiration date, that autonomy and sexuality are shameful past a certain age. It’s an attack, plain and simple.
You sound like her OF loser subscriber or a lib boomer. Either way you are the one who only focuses on the sex part, too dimwitted or horny to see anything else.
Liberal, please: your critique is nothing more than "How dare you tell ugly truths! How dare you not load on sweet, bullshit platitudes with a trowel like we liberals do!"
Hold a mirror up to the sexist double-standards that make up American sexual mores, to state what your average American man has been raised to see as beauty, and get accused of "misogyny"; real misogyny can't be eradicated so long as you and yours have your collective head up your ass!
Sad to see this end for pussy riot, I appreciated the shock at the time of their performance. Tasteless or not, it was refreshing Id thought. Great to see Pavlensky is sticking to his moral viewpoints. Thanks Evgenia!
Not to be that guy but about thirteen years ago I predicted the following on a defunct blog that was half-assed even at the time:
"...Or maybe it's not important who or what the members of Pussy Riot are, and maybe this post is ultimately worthless in the grand scheme of things. But it should be important, because unless Tolokonnikova & friends had suddenly changed their ways in the short time since the split from the original Voina, then they didn't jump around in front a church altar for the good of society - they did it for themselves."
...I assumed "the ugly ones" (Alyokhina and Samutsevich, the latter iirc struck a deal with the authorities and got away from these other dorks) would've eventually faded into obscurity but I couldn't have predicted the onlyfans pivot. I do wonder whatever became of the other losers of Voyna that there were in an apparent polycule with (e.g. Vorotnikov and Sokol).
Anyway Verzilov is a creep. I feel bad for their kid.
At the risk of sounding paranoid, I always thought Pussy Riot was an operation.
It's not paranoia - they were *heavily* pushed by a Moscow gallery owner and friends. At the time the actual story of their arrest and case took a few weeks if not months to actually get international attention. Literally they were driving a bus around the ring road of Moscow that said something along the lines of "free pussy riot" at one point. Eventually they caused enough of a fuss to get the attention of amnesty international, and that's when the western media floodgates opened.
Точно, Евгения
They say that comparisons are the thief of joy but you you have given away your joy and based on this article, your humanity. The bitterness, the jealousy, and the naked contempt for Nadya Tolokonnikova’s choices don’t reveal anything meaningful about her — they reveal everything about the author.
The fixation on her looks, her sexuality, and the fact that she has aged — as we all do — is textbook misogyny. There is no genuine critique here, only personal resentment masked as commentary. From mocking her art to calling her a “trophy wife” to speculating about her daughter’s future, the piece is laced with petty cruelty.
But nothing is more revealing than the final line: “until she is too old to wear a thong.” That line doesn’t just cross a line. It demolishes it. It’s not clever. It’s not ironic. It’s hateful. It’s the kind of misogyny that tells women their worth has an expiration date, that autonomy and sexuality are shameful past a certain age. It’s an attack, plain and simple.
Evegenia's critique is pointed and deep. Nadya is a mirror to our society as a whole. If anything, Evgenia was too gentle on Nadya's transformation.
You sound like her OF loser subscriber or a lib boomer. Either way you are the one who only focuses on the sex part, too dimwitted or horny to see anything else.
Liberal, please: your critique is nothing more than "How dare you tell ugly truths! How dare you not load on sweet, bullshit platitudes with a trowel like we liberals do!"
Hold a mirror up to the sexist double-standards that make up American sexual mores, to state what your average American man has been raised to see as beauty, and get accused of "misogyny"; real misogyny can't be eradicated so long as you and yours have your collective head up your ass!
Your bullshit might pass with MAGA, not here.
Grab your pearls, and fuck off!