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tallulahgsMy manager returned from the Maldives today, brown of skin and sun-kissed of hair, jet-lagged of brain and carrying her usual 'why are you so stupid?' vibes (or maybe that's just my paranoia).
I dunno. It's just I don't actually like her...I mean, she's okay if one is having a conversation about something else which we both agree on (like she's telling me about clarinets or something). But I just feel like I've been relegated to stupid newbie status all over again. Still, as I keep telling myself, if I get fired, I don't have to go back, and if I keep the job, I get money, therefore it's a win-win situation.
In other news, I have found a book which rivals the Harry-Potter-is-spawn-of-Satan books in terms of making me combust with rage. This book is an analysis of current trends in the lesbian feminist literature market. It was truly scary to see that there are still hard-core feminists about. There are still people who believe men are a waste of space, I mean, seriously. There are people out there who feel writing a murder mystery which features a lesbian as the killer is anti-feminist and supporting patriarchy. There are people who refuse to believe a man and a woman can ever be happy together. There are people who believe that men are genetically evil and violent while women have been 'conditioned by the patriarchy' into being bitchy, cruel, bullying, etc. I therefore spent most of yesterday afternoon and this evening shouting at the book and putting my arguments against such principles into words by yelling at my mum (not at her in a rude way, more in a 'listen to this! How can they say this! Can't they see that...' way.)
I mean, yeah, there are more male rapists than women, but what about people like Rose West and Myra Hindley?
Not to mention most of these literary critics had no sense of humour. It was a similar sort of thing to arguments in the Harry Potter = Satan stuff mentioned above; things like the mandrakes being sick and disturbing for kids - here whenever a heroine makes a joke about political correctness, she's immediately lambasted by these critics as being flippant and silly.
Anyway, enough ranting...
I dunno. It's just I don't actually like her...I mean, she's okay if one is having a conversation about something else which we both agree on (like she's telling me about clarinets or something). But I just feel like I've been relegated to stupid newbie status all over again. Still, as I keep telling myself, if I get fired, I don't have to go back, and if I keep the job, I get money, therefore it's a win-win situation.
In other news, I have found a book which rivals the Harry-Potter-is-spawn-of-Satan books in terms of making me combust with rage. This book is an analysis of current trends in the lesbian feminist literature market. It was truly scary to see that there are still hard-core feminists about. There are still people who believe men are a waste of space, I mean, seriously. There are people out there who feel writing a murder mystery which features a lesbian as the killer is anti-feminist and supporting patriarchy. There are people who refuse to believe a man and a woman can ever be happy together. There are people who believe that men are genetically evil and violent while women have been 'conditioned by the patriarchy' into being bitchy, cruel, bullying, etc. I therefore spent most of yesterday afternoon and this evening shouting at the book and putting my arguments against such principles into words by yelling at my mum (not at her in a rude way, more in a 'listen to this! How can they say this! Can't they see that...' way.)
I mean, yeah, there are more male rapists than women, but what about people like Rose West and Myra Hindley?
Not to mention most of these literary critics had no sense of humour. It was a similar sort of thing to arguments in the Harry Potter = Satan stuff mentioned above; things like the mandrakes being sick and disturbing for kids - here whenever a heroine makes a joke about political correctness, she's immediately lambasted by these critics as being flippant and silly.
Anyway, enough ranting...
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Date: 2004-03-04 06:36 pm (UTC)Managers do tend to have a "What are you, stupid?" attitude.
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:37 am (UTC)Yes. They do - glad it's not just me! Do you have a job by the way? I can't remember...
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Date: 2004-03-05 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-06 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-04 07:06 pm (UTC)There was one on a message board I semi-go to some time ago. Basically, she and some of her friends invaded and made about three-hundred-billion topics about how men were useless and women shouldn't be used to fill out their roles of pregnancy because men forced it on them (if I remember correctly, women's bodies developed to carry children during puberty--and naturally, at that--not at the insistance of men). Basically proposed a false-womb idea which, in theory, is actually pretty good for those who CAN'T carry children, but it was so thin that it couldn't have possibly worked.
She also insisted that rape wasn't rape if a women did it--only if the rapist was male and that female rapists should be let off just for being females. Believed in the whole "women-should-have-more-chances-on-general-principal-and-men-should-be-totally-ignored" thing. You know, typical extreme feminist shit.
People still really exist like that and it's fucking pathetic.
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Date: 2004-03-05 03:38 am (UTC)I mean, Guh?! I'm ashamed to be female sometimes, I really am. Bloody feminists.
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Date: 2004-03-05 08:28 am (UTC)And yeah, "feminazi" is a damn nice term XD
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:21 am (UTC)But yeah - that's the point! Both genders act in a crummy manner sometimes, so neither should claim they're better than the other and the other is ruining the world.
Okay, I'm done. *climbs off high horse*
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:29 am (UTC)See? See?!? All humans are stupid, not just men! *big grin at having solved the meaning of life*
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Date: 2004-03-05 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-06 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-05 11:32 am (UTC)Can women rape? I guess they can *various icky thoughts* There are more male rapists, yeah, but there are still evil women.
It was when one of these women said that she found books that 'compromised their feminist principals' i.e. didn't buy in to all this stuff - just as irritating as books with poor plot or characterisation. I really hate it when the art gets totally subjugated to the issue...
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Date: 2004-03-08 05:20 am (UTC)They were really men in disguise.
- Charles RB