Comments | evil_mr_tim: The Secret is.. making people pay you for helping them! When you're not!

evil_mr_tim

The Secret is.. making people pay you for helping them! When you're not!

May 27, 2007 04:26

I am a fellow who is interested in, concerned about, and in my own way have commented on, issues of contemporary sexism. As such it should be no surprise that I enjoy reading the blog, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), on occasion. On occasion, not because it updates infrequently, or because it is only sometimes enjoyable (both of these are ( Read more... )

family, sexism, prejudice, comics, culture

Comments 9

beliael May 27 2007, 00:53:52 UTC

Hooray for non-crap feminism!

evil_mr_tim May 27 2007, 03:50:50 UTC

Seconded!
Should I write a post about objectification and the distinctions therein? Or do I talk enough about sexism as it is?

beliael May 27 2007, 17:02:58 UTC

If you want, I'd read it!

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evil_mr_tim May 27 2007, 15:19:30 UTC

Although, taking another point of view, if people are so fucking stupid and gullable as to buy or believe this excrement, then they deserve what they get.
Why shouldn't someone make a buck off of the stupidity of mankind?

Short Answer: Such exploitation is unethical.
Long Answer: It has a lot to do with the ideological future of the world. It isn't so much that we have a duty to 'keep people safe' from misinformation, but rather we owe it to people to address misinformation in the public discourse so that exploitation via misinformation cannot thrive in their ignorance.

If only it were possible to make comparable money explaining to people that they're being cheated... The irony would be delicious.

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evil_mr_tim May 28 2007, 03:22:07 UTC

What can I say, except that your answer used too few words? :P

Here via When Fangirls Attack spiralsheep May 28 2007, 00:30:04 UTC

I often find myself forgetting that it's still there.

Psst... syndicated feed straight to your lj friends page: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/girlsreadcomics/profile

Re: Here via When Fangirls Attack evil_mr_tim May 28 2007, 03:20:22 UTC

Ah, but this solution assumes I make sensible use of the convenience that is my friends page. :P
Either way, it couldn't hurt. Thankyou.

aussietiger May 28 2007, 16:57:38 UTC

For those amongst us too busy working [read: downloading and watching cartoons] to look at a wiki page, what is this 'The Secret' thing you speak of?

evil_mr_tim May 28 2007, 17:13:14 UTC

It's a terrible lifestyle fad which I hesitate to call 'self-help', oriented entirely around the scientifically and philosophically bankrupt notion of a 'law of attraction', and how to use said 'law' to better your life.
In essence, The Secret is that 'the universe' responds to the content of your thoughts and feelings, forwarding the non-disprovable hypothesis that anything good or bad that ever happens to anyone, happens as a cosmic response to them thinking of those things.
Therefore, what is the secret to improving one's life? By focussing on, and thinking about, your problems less, and constantly thinking of, and attempting to convince yourself of the reality of, the things you want. Then, with absolutely no explicit mechanism, you will send out 'waves' that the universe will respond to, and give you what you want out of nothing.

It is.. quite simply the worse 'advice' I've ever heard, promising the ultimate quick, non-workable fix. Mix in conditions guaranteeing that anyone who does not succeed while using The Secret will ( ... )