It sounded like Vartan to me. . . perhaps I should rewatch.
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So, I have this group assignment due today, and as a "special prize" for the group that does the best job, the professor said he'd take them to dinner. One of my group-mates is all about winning, but honestly? The professor creeps me out a little, and I have no interest in going to dinner with him. Oy. I hate non-traditional rewards.
At least it would be a group dinner and not one-to-one.
No way would I go if it were one-on-one. shudder
Fandom and Male Privilege: [link]
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
I'm having a recently-picked locally-grown Baldwin apple for lunch, with an Iggy's French Roll as well. God, I'm going to miss the twice a week Farmer's Market in the Square.
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
I haven't run across them in fanfic (I'm only halfway into that loop anyway), but I've met some of that ilk at cons.
Sometimes, it's just a quasi-aggrieved joke, like, "Wow, [in this panel on female fantasy authors] I'm the only guy in the room! Guess I'm representing the other half of the species!"
(I heard something of this ilk at Noreascon 4; of course, I was also sitting next to a linebacker-size male physicist [orzelc on LJ, for those interested], who was honestly interested in the topic and as annoyed at the comment as I was.)
I don't hang out in fanfic circles- are there a lot of guys as idiotic as this woman describes?
Lucy's a friend of mine. And yeah, we've been butting heads with this kind of idiocy in comics fandom quite often.
In fact, one person I knew from comics fandom had a meltdown in the comments thread, and now I know why I hadn't really got on with him these past few years.
I heard back from boss (using cat excuse) and am off the hook! Now I get to worry about people talking about me all weekend long.... (yes I am self-centered, why do you ask?)
WRT to the male privilidge, I have not personally come across anything like that, but I am not in those circles. I did have a male friend who is very into video games tell me that a game with 20% sales to women would be considered a woman's game-- and then we are back to the thing where making something feminine makes it undesirable, while making it masculine can sometimes make it neutral.
Was it the guy who is OMG SO OPPRESSED because women hold all the power in America?