Interesting Links for 01-04-2012

[andrewducker]

• FILM-CRITIC HULK EXPLAINS WHY WE SHOULD STOP IT WITH THE HERO JOURNEY SHIT (great writing hidden behind caps)
  (tags: movies hulk storytelling hero writing josephcampbell )
• 14 Common Dog Behavior Myths Decoded
  (tags: behaviour psychology dogs )
• Shockingly, clothes are not designed to fit the actual shape of women. (Were they ever?)
  (tags: fashion

Comments

[bracknellexile]

You have more patience than me. I struggled through the first couple of paragraphs and just gave up.

Select all in the browser.. In Word...

[lsanderson]

Ctrl-V -- Paste All
Ctrl-A -- Select All
Shift-F3 -- Toggle Case
Shift-F3 -- Toggle Case

I think you need to toggle it twice to get to sentence case.

Re: Select all in the browser.. In Word...

[bracknellexile]

Cheers, but what I meant was I couldn't be bothered going away and converting it. The original article just annoyed me too much so I gave up on the whole thing.

[strawberryfrog]

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women - point #1 contains a take-down of the limitations of George R R Martin's writing abilities. And world-building.

[channelpenguin]

Only quibble with the women's clothes one is that I AM a "slimline hourglass" and clothes don't fit me either....

[momentsmusicaux]

I really hope they did the all caps thing with CSS rather than actual caps so we can firebug it off to make it actually readable... oh wait. FAIL.

[xenophanean]

I found 5 ways in which men are trained to hate women, just plain factually inaccurate, dehumanizing of men, apologoistic, and full of "no, that's just you" quotes. Some of the points actually had reference as well as sense, but by misidentifying what he is talking about* he makes the whole article offensive.

I don't think nonsense like that helps anyone.

* e.g. the "hero gets a woman, I think I'm a hero, thus I deserve a woman at the end of it": this is both real, and quite bad. Just 'cos you do heroic stuff doesn't actually mean that some woman you fancy will or indeed should automatically fall in love with you. However, the "I'm the protagonist of my life, thus I'm a galaxy-saving hero" argument doesn't follow for all men, just self-deluded douchebags, presumably of which the author is one.

[andrewducker]

It seems to follow for massive swathes of immature people, being a stage that vast numbers of people seem to go through, and a large chunk seem to get stuck in for a long time.

[xenophanean]

It's kind of true, but I although I know a lot of people love to think they're great, I don't think they really think they have done great deeds, which equate to saving the galaxy in a real world context. As such, I don't think the argument really follows for many people

[andrewducker]

I agree that it simplifies things, and that the whole "Men are incapable of controlling their bestial actions" thing is a stereotype that demeans men. It is worryingly accurate _up to a point_ far too much of the time though - not from men who will rape at the drop of a hat, but certainly of men who will treat women as objects to be appreciated for their looks.