Attack of the Mutant Cooties

[steepholm]

Two days in advance of Coming Out Day, this person bravely decided to come out as an idiot. Sorry, fjm, altariel, papersky, et al: it turns out that putting "female" and "SF" in the same sentence is liable to tear a hole in the space-time continuum that you could drive a double decker through. (Oh wait, David Tennant's already done that.)

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It must be a tricky and puzzling world for this individual.

[gillo]

Good lord. He is not from our planet and his logic is troll logic, not our earth-logic.

But then, I'm female and I do things, so I must be all wrong.

[sheenaghpugh]

Assuming just for two seconds and the sake of argument that he's right about TV SF having changed its nature to gain more viewers, isn't that what TV, or any other form of entertainment, generally does? What does he want it to do, chase minority audiences and lose revenue? He doesn't sound like someone who usually sympathises with minorities!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Gosh that made me cross.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to think it's just trollery...

Part of me wants to give it to all my friends, but am of two minds, because I don't want to give it any traffic ...

Eh. I may have to blog it.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's trollery, unless the site it comes from - complaining about the lot of oppressed men in the modern world - can be considered a troll magazine. Which perhaps it can, in fact: the-spearhead.com seems designed to do for gender what spearhead.com does for multiculturalism. They're all very phallic fellas, in a manner of speaking.

[deborah]

!!!

[sheenaghpugh]

I looked up MGTUW and found it meant Men Going Their Own Way (because, I strongly suspect, they can't find any women to go that way with them). There's a website I don't recommend visiting unless you want to be depressed. It made me echo a remark by a character of Vonnegut's in Cat's Cradle: "If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity".

(Whoops, sorry, that is an SF book and I iz not meant to like it coz I iz a Grrrl....)

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute ... you found someone who thinks the original BSG is better than the rebooted BSG, and not even because of the latter's lame ending?

Amazing.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

He doesn't sound like someone who usually sympathises with minorities!

Apart from men of course. He sympathizes with them. ;)

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, swisstone pointed me to that via Facebook. Yeesh. I do have to laugh a little at the totally non-ironic 'sign' that the group uses. Scalzi has posted a nice comment about it at Whatever

[sovay]

Well, that was . . . unoriginal.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

John Scalzi rants in response. Scalzi is ... very American. But amusing.