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medusasowl

The dum dum boys

Jun 02, 2008 19:32

Casual misogyny has come up a lot lately on a number of journals on my flist, and I thought this was a particularly epic and educational rant on the subject(not for the faint of heart ;) it is quite the rant). The comments too. Karen and I, and probably everybody else who is or identifies as female has experienced at least some of these and I ( Read more... )

asshattery, linkage, gaming

Comments 8

galleon_lore June 3 2008, 07:08:06 UTC

I've never been able to work out whether my paranoid mistrust of strangers approaching me comes from the years of bullying I sufered in this life for looking/acting/thinking like a freak, or from the string of lifetimes I lived as a girl.
I'm thinking both. Especially since I looked/acted/thought like a freak then, too. :P

medusasowl June 3 2008, 23:33:12 UTC

My thought is both as well. Course even those who stay in the mainstream get this kind of crap as well! It's unreal, and I'll never really understand the bullying mentality. Even when I write for bullying characters. :/

galleon_lore June 4 2008, 05:55:44 UTC

I have that problem a lot.
Frankly, there are a lot of mindsets that are simply beyond my grasp. I absolutely abhor trying to write for a character into whose mind I cannot place myself.

dahliablue June 3 2008, 07:37:33 UTC

Thanks for linking that. It's definitely been on my mind lately!

medusasowl June 3 2008, 23:35:55 UTC

Glad to! With the growing popularity of "it's fun/cool to be an asshat" and "anti-PC" movements I think these problems have been getting louder and louder and harder to ignore as background noise.

magic_potion June 3 2008, 20:51:31 UTC

Thanks for the link! I liked especially about this part: http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/330847.html?thread=17244511#t17244511
I wish more men would understand this.

medusasowl June 3 2008, 23:38:47 UTC

Yes! I was so glad to that encouraging men to understand and not take it personally was covered in there too. It's all preaching to the choir on my flist I think, but more guys really need to read and understand these things. They really do.

Not sure I should be posting this crap. kalikronos June 4 2008, 04:10:30 UTC

Well, at least there'll always smart guys to make fun of the stupid ones...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM

I honestly hate hip-hop with a passion, but this stupid track/video is addictive, for some reason... Heh.