Perhaps you should consider "sensationalist journalism" as a tag, haha. I'm sorry I just came in and tl;dr'd everywhere, but I by and large dislike generalizations and will go out out of my way to correct them, having been someone who's been generalized for being Asian, female, bisexual, and combinations of the above. (I call it "Someone is Wrong on the Internet Syndrome").
I was kind of confused when I first read this because I was under the impression that you didn't usually think in such large stereotypes. The thing is, I've met people of both genders who think exactly the way this journal is written, minus the irony, and actually believe this to a T. "All women want commitment and are crazy bitches" and "all men are terrified of commitment and need to be beaten into submission". Being the internet, it's sometimes hard to tell when someone's being serious or when they're utilizing hyperbole and generalization as a writing tool to spark debate, invite discussion, and/or they're just looking for a bunch of Vincent-like guys to go "YEAH" and agree with everything. So I appreciate the clarification and the lack of a brush off, but I might suggest making some of your exaggerations a bit more clear in the future?
It's entertaining when taking into account that I know (for sure now) that you don't actually follow this mindset completely. But it's okay to break some stereotypes now and then, bro, it sometimes makes things more interesting that way.
Yeah, not being able to clearly draw the line between my writing persona and my actual self is probably not a good thing, and it's probably a good thing that I don't write on the internet for a living too (although apparently it worked, because my post has like 1700 views and got put on the front page of giant bomb's community contributions section). It's not that I was trying to write ironically, just exaggerating things. In retrospect, it was probably not a good idea to post this here where I have friends who know my personality and know that I wouldn't make silly generalizations, but at the time I was just excited to have written something (which I haven't seriously done for about 4 years) and wanted to share it with the world.
I was kind of confused when I first read this because I was under the impression that you didn't usually think in such large stereotypes. The thing is, I've met people of both genders who think exactly the way this journal is written, minus the irony, and actually believe this to a T. "All women want commitment and are crazy bitches" and "all men are terrified of commitment and need to be beaten into submission". Being the internet, it's sometimes hard to tell when someone's being serious or when they're utilizing hyperbole and generalization as a writing tool to spark debate, invite discussion, and/or they're just looking for a bunch of Vincent-like guys to go "YEAH" and agree with everything. So I appreciate the clarification and the lack of a brush off, but I might suggest making some of your exaggerations a bit more clear in the future?
It's entertaining when taking into account that I know (for sure now) that you don't actually follow this mindset completely. But it's okay to break some stereotypes now and then, bro, it sometimes makes things more interesting that way.
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So uh yeah, sorry about that.
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