Oh, God

[lirazel]

I had sworn I wasn't going to do the link-to-whedonesque thing anymore. I'm sure it annoys y'all that I constantly have to scurry back here to get reassurance. I really am going to try to do it less in the future.

But this one time, I have to get my rage out. I'm feeling sick to my stomach and shaky.

Someone on whedonesque just made the most ridiculously sexist, homophobic, patronizing, self-congratulatory comment about shipping ever. And I am ANGRY.

Quote:

Saying that everything has to come down to some ship is kind of insulting. I know you probably weren't meaning to be. But.

I'm not a shipper. You can tell by how I'm a heterosexual adult man. I just like a good story.

Shipping itself is, in my humble opinion, not just stupid but destructive to the fandom. The story is what is what it is (and I'm including the TV show in this), but I can't comment on what actually has happened because it'll offend people who think things should be another way.

Let's say I decide that Riley should have been Buffy's true love, and regardless of what happens in the show, I get angry when she hooks up with anyone else. Doesn't matter that the events clearly show that that's not happening. Im'ma get pissed anyway. See how stupid that would be?

[eta] EMPHASIS HIS.

I...just...WTF?????

I called him on it. How much you wanna bet that he'll pull the whole "oversensitive" card?

It's okay. I will link the hell out of Derailing for Dummies. Never fear.

Comments

[next_to_normal]

It's a good thing I don't have an account at Whedonesque or I'd probably be getting banned today. :-P

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I erased my original comment like three times before I posted. The first one was like, "OH JUST WHAT US HYSTERICAL WIMMINIZ NEEDS. A BIG STRONG RATIONAL MAN TO SHOW US THE ERROR OF OUR WAYS" etc., etc., etc. It was ANGRY.

I sometimes wish I never signed up for an account there.

Every time you use that icon, I come closer to stealing it...

[deird1]

The first one was like, "OH JUST WHAT US HYSTERICAL WIMMINIZ NEEDS. A BIG STRONG RATIONAL MAN TO SHOW US THE ERROR OF OUR WAYS" etc., etc., etc. It was ANGRY.

Probably a good thing you didn't post it... but I kinda wish you had. That would have been very satisfying to watch.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I was so close...

But it's good that I didn't over there, because I know Simon would have told me to drop it, and then the implication would have been that I was at fault as well. *sigh* Oh, well. I feel like my finally posted comment communicated my anger well enough.

[next_to_normal]

Hee! You know you wants it...

I also feel that this one is appropriate.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh! That one is awesome, too!