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.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2005 7:40:59 am PST #3048 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 11, 2005 7:42:09 am PST #3049 of 10006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
At least it would be a group dinner and not one-to-one.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2005 7:43:04 am PST #3050 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No way would I go if it were one-on-one. shudder
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2005 8:05:39 am PST #3051 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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?
Theodosia - Nov 11, 2005 8:05:49 am PST #3052 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
Nutty - Nov 11, 2005 8:13:34 am PST #3053 of 10006
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.)
shrift - Nov 11, 2005 8:20:17 am PST #3054 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2005 8:21:02 am PST #3055 of 10006
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Allyson - Nov 11, 2005 8:21:59 am PST #3056 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Was it the guy who is OMG SO OPPRESSED because women hold all the power in America?
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2005 8:23:37 am PST #3057 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think there's a lot of "poisoning" of "our space" by the "other" when it comes to majority privilege -- it's just that the majority has most of the spaces, and when it gets pissy, it gets pissy big.
There are also, apparently, a lot of quotation marks.
Can we skip over today?