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.

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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

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, goody! A flounce!

BEING TOLD YOU'RE A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN BECAUSE OF YOUR GENDER??? WELCOME TO BEING A WOMAN. WE FEEL LIKE THAT ALL THE DAMN TIME.

Oh, God. I don't know if I have the patience to do this for the rest of my life. So often I feel like I spend vast portions of my life doing Feminism 101 for people that I could spend being, you know, happy.

GAH!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

He just shut down the communication and told me to stuff basically. That he wouldn't be talking to me period.

Why do men keep doing this to me????

UGH.

I've sent him Private Messages with that link btw. We'll see if he acknowledges them.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Because they're scared of your power.

Seriously. It's just like Buffy in Checkpoint realizing that they're bothered by the words woman and power in the same sentence.

Your words are powerful. They are scared of the way you're refusing to stay in the place the hegemony has assigned you to. That's the answer.

Do let me know how he responds to it.