So, yeah, I'm probably not allowed to be deciphering the differences between the rules as they are written and the rules as they are enforced, being, you know, a lapsed Catholic, talking about primarily Protestant phoenomena, but... here goes, anyway.

( Sometimes, I talk too fucking much. )

So, I'm in a conversation on someone else's journal where the subject of the feminisation of the non-stereotypical manly man came up, in the contexts both of real life and fandom. Sure, I'm mostly rambling, here, but I think I eventually get to the point.
( I'm sure I've said most of this before, except maybe the bits about ideological warfare at the end. )

So, I very nearly called this shit-witted technophobe a luddite, today, and then I remembered that I'm not allowed to use that word in that way, because it's ... well, wrong. Yeah, no shit. Luddite != technophobe. In fact, I think the actual, historical  Luddites would've totally been down with the Open Source movement. And here's the story (as I ( Read more... )