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Raging Assholes.
Oct. 1st, 2013 07:03 pmDespite the title, this will not be a post about an epic farting battle between two strongly motivated rear ends. I'm just deeply annoyed with the world in general, and this journal is pretty much the last safe avenue for expressing rage that I have.
Not that I am actually going to rant and rave here. You guys are decent people, so everything that's pissing me off would just be preaching to the choir, really. All I can say is that I basically had a very bad encounter with a person on someone else's facebook feed, over a post about the way in which free (and plentiful) online pornography is affecting the sexual perceptions of under-age kids. Needless to say, the other guy was an asshole. The kind of asshole who thinks his own experiences are the be-all and end-all of everything ever, kids don't really watch porn and even if they did it's ok because porn is awesome.... and that people who complain about porn are just jealous, ugly feminists with gross stinking body hair who wish they were as hot as the lovely shaved and 'normal' women in the movies, and could use a good shag and a shave (I'm paraphrasing, but that was his main point, really.) >_>
Needless to say, this has not coloured my evening well. I don't advocate violence, but there will always be a part of me that wishes that there was a button on my keyboard that would allow me to administer sharp electric shocks to anyone who spouts such rubbish on any public forum or space. I would make me feel better about the world, it really would.
*seethes*
Also, and kind of nearly related.... I've discovered that it's really hard to write a whole novel without using sexist language. >_> And that makes me sad, because it shouldn't be a struggle to imagine heated arguments that don't result in someone (male or female) being called a bitch, or something similar. <_< It's actually given me a lot to think about- the way that our very language has become so saturated in sexism that it almost feels unbelievable when you read an exchange that doesn't contain any. -___-;
Not that I am actually going to rant and rave here. You guys are decent people, so everything that's pissing me off would just be preaching to the choir, really. All I can say is that I basically had a very bad encounter with a person on someone else's facebook feed, over a post about the way in which free (and plentiful) online pornography is affecting the sexual perceptions of under-age kids. Needless to say, the other guy was an asshole. The kind of asshole who thinks his own experiences are the be-all and end-all of everything ever, kids don't really watch porn and even if they did it's ok because porn is awesome.... and that people who complain about porn are just jealous, ugly feminists with gross stinking body hair who wish they were as hot as the lovely shaved and 'normal' women in the movies, and could use a good shag and a shave (I'm paraphrasing, but that was his main point, really.) >_>
Needless to say, this has not coloured my evening well. I don't advocate violence, but there will always be a part of me that wishes that there was a button on my keyboard that would allow me to administer sharp electric shocks to anyone who spouts such rubbish on any public forum or space. I would make me feel better about the world, it really would.
*seethes*
Also, and kind of nearly related.... I've discovered that it's really hard to write a whole novel without using sexist language. >_> And that makes me sad, because it shouldn't be a struggle to imagine heated arguments that don't result in someone (male or female) being called a bitch, or something similar. <_< It's actually given me a lot to think about- the way that our very language has become so saturated in sexism that it almost feels unbelievable when you read an exchange that doesn't contain any. -___-;
