My turn

[morwen_peredhil]

You know those articles in which a woman writes about how she doesn't like reading fantasy (that twit in the NYT), or having sex (another NYT writer recently; that horrible woman in the Daily Fail), or whatever, and she knows - or claims to know - some other women who also don't, so she comes to the conclusion that women don't like those things and

Comments

[endlessdeep]

Wow! You are right on. Except I do have a Facebook, but it's mostly for family and I check it once in a blue moon. Other than that, I really don't like it and the way it's set up. And I use carrots when I cook a roast and love them, but they are not the gross canned kind. But everything else I totally agree with.

Especially this one.

5) Miracle Whip. Not fit for human consumption. Everyone knows real women eat mayonnaise. (Same goes for Cool Whip versus whipped cream.)

Miracle Whip is the most disgusting condiment ever invented.

4) Chick lit. Don't ask me who's reading it, but it sure as hell ain't women, since I don't read it or know any women IRL who do.

Chick lit holds no appeal to me.

Woman don't like sex? That women is delusional.

[morwen_peredhil]

Well, she only had sex so she could have a baby and a husband who would pay for things, so clearly women don't like sex. It's, like, science and stuff.

[damsels_fly]

Very scientificy post. And accurate. Except for carrot cake, in which you are very wrong. Mmmm carrot cake with little frosting carrots on top!

To lump an entire gender into one category of anything!? What.

Although, I have loved reading all the internet lady folk intelligently raging and discussing this stupidity.

[morwen_peredhil]

Yay for skience!

[morwen_peredhil]

Camping is on the list because I truly hate it. That's how I know No True ScotsWoman likes it.

[pashoshi]

In that case, in my vast experience, women hate shoes and shopping for them. I don't see how anyone could disagree with that.

(Is this the part where, by the rules of the internet, people are supposed to say that you only think that way because you're a loser who doesn't get enough sex? Because that's another thing I picked up from that Game of Thrones review, among other things.)

[morwen_peredhil]

Yep. If you're a woman, you're either having not enough sex (PRUDE!) or too much sex (SLUT!). The only thing you can be certain of is that you are, somehow, doing it - or not doing it - wrong.

[meganbmoore]

I only even know 2-3 women who read chicklit when it expands to online, andeven then only rarely. (Hated the one i tried.)

[morwen_peredhil]

See, there's proof!

I want to make clear that I didn't mean the chick-lit thing as a value judgment (I don't enjoy the genre, but I read also-maligned fantasy, science fiction, and historical romance without shame), but if we're judging who reads/does/likes what simply by universalizing our own personal circles of acquaintance, things can get ridiculous pretty fast. Of course, the NYT is known for that sort of thing.

[meganbmoore]

I (a)unironically enjoy romance novels despite criticizing many aspects, (b) far prefer historicals to contemporaries* (I've been reading Susan Wiggs lately and am almost out of her historicals and sad that she's switched to contemporaries) and (c) prefer historicals set before the 19th century to the 19th century stuff. People mentally deduct "good taste" with each of those.

And I like gothic emo teen fiction. But not vampires much.

*With chick lit and contemporary romances both, I think I just cannot get into stories focusing on contemporary women finding love unless the supernatural is involved. Not because I look down on modern women seeking love, but because it's still treated as a woman's ultimate/only goal. (Whereas, 100 years ago and earlier, love/romance is one of the least important factos in a woman marrying, and wmen had fewer options without marriage.)