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]

You live in South Carolina? Is that where you are?

OH IF HE HAD MENTIONED MY PERIOD I WOULD HAVE CUT HIM.

The point of fandom isn't for "us women" to to get overly hyped up about a situation we can't change, ti's about expressing our views on somethign we love, whatever that might be. YES!

*huffs too*

[serendipily.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Close. Utah. *thud* Where necklines are to your nose and God will send you to hell for even thinking another person of the saem sex is remotely attractive.

If he had mentioned your period, i think all of th efemale population would ahve cut him. With stakes. Burning the holy wate rhell out of him. *giggles*

I just noticed how ranty that post was.