It's a sociocultural trap!

Sep 29, 2008 11:22

Am I the only one who gets pissed off at this sort of thing? Putting aside the fact that The Gay is not allowed in the TF:Mosaic project (with, apparently, exceptions made for humor), I find it rather insulting to continually insinuate that the sudden discovery that the object of your lusts is actually a male is horrifying. Double points if they ( Read more... )

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raisedbymoogles September 29 2008, 15:23:46 UTC
Sadly, the skeevy parts of human nature sometimes infiltrate the giant robots.

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seiberwing September 29 2008, 15:26:07 UTC
Go look under the 'fandom: transformers" tag on Fandom Wank. This "sometimes" happens too much for my tastes.

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raisedbymoogles September 29 2008, 15:29:28 UTC
Male-dominated fandom. I'm too unsurprised to work up much rage.

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seiberwing September 29 2008, 15:32:56 UTC
I'm in an abnormally bad mood today, the fan rage is mostly a side effect.

It's not just the homophobia, the misogyny and female-objectification gets a turn in there too. I think Furman's Arcee needs to go to their houses and kick them until they learn a bit of respect.

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raisedbymoogles September 29 2008, 15:35:41 UTC
I fully stand behind that. There needs to be a fund, or something.

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seiberwing September 29 2008, 15:37:13 UTC
One good thing we could get out of Furman, anyway

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raisedbymoogles September 29 2008, 15:39:23 UTC
Besides Secular Furmanism.

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seiberwing September 29 2008, 15:45:43 UTC
...can you have a Secular Furmanist crusade?

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raisedbymoogles September 29 2008, 15:50:35 UTC
I don't see why not.

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