Yeah, that was too much. I need to grow up and not let that kind of stupidity bother me enough to respond; it's an incredible waste of time.
But fun - and I think I now understand why you are forever sharing your battles with your Gentle Readers.
For the record, it's quite an interesting flamewar from a feminist perspective -- as is often the case, there's a level of condescension mixed in with puritanism (as you pointed out) mixed in with just plain sexism. All of these well-meaning people trying to prove that they're out for the rights of this poor, innocent "child", then slipping up and attacking her when they realize she's an actual person and not some abstract concept.
I'd missed the sexism, but you're quite right; turning on the (female) "victim" is really quite classic, isn't it?
Also, you know when I call you a dirty old man, I mean it in the fondest sense, right?
Er, yeah, I guess so. (He said, only now aware that she does so refer to him by that term.)
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Date: 2004-12-29 06:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, that was too much. I need to grow up and not let that kind of stupidity bother me enough to respond; it's an incredible waste of time.
But fun - and I think I now understand why you are forever sharing your battles with your Gentle Readers.
For the record, it's quite an interesting flamewar from a feminist perspective -- as is often the case, there's a level of condescension mixed in with puritanism (as you pointed out) mixed in with just plain sexism. All of these well-meaning people trying to prove that they're out for the rights of this poor, innocent "child", then slipping up and attacking her when they realize she's an actual person and not some abstract concept.
I'd missed the sexism, but you're quite right; turning on the (female) "victim" is really quite classic, isn't it?
Also, you know when I call you a dirty old man, I mean it in the fondest sense, right?
Er, yeah, I guess so. (He said, only now aware that she does so refer to him by that term.)