EGAD! It's NOT a post about politics!
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redneckgaijinThere have been a few people who remark that, because I write and publish stuff about women with absurdly large breasts, I am a misogynist.
Long story short, I'm not- or at least I don't think I am one. I definitely have a number of blind spots and strange things that don't stand up well in polite company, but I don't hate women. I firmly believe that a woman's place is wherever the hell she damn well wants to be, and it's nobody's business but hers. I'm a bit of a misanthrope, but if I have any particular contempt or animus for a gender it's the male side, not the female.
That said- if you don't want to see what misogyny looks like, then don't read this book review.
I did- and it is appalling. What. The. Fuck. appalling. I'm not actually surprised, as such, that nobody called the dickhead who wrote the book being reviewed on his behavior (like, say, an EDITOR) before it was published. I AM surprised, however, that this shining example of love and consideration stayed married after impregnating his wife without her consent.
This is the sort of thing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starcat_jewel is talking about when she refers to "the rape society." This is the kind of behavior that, if you condone it, if you joke about it, if you even TOLERATE it without at least calling it out as wrong, then you're not just an asshole, you're an irredeemable dickhead. The very knowledge that such attitudes are not only tolerated but accepted by a large enough portion of the public to float a bestselling sports book is an affront to morals.
Read the article. Then do NOT buy the book. If, by some strange circumstance, someone gives you the book as a present, decline it and tell them why: the author believes that women are nothing more than vaginas waiting to be filled, not really human and CERTAINLY not equal to a man- and that belief is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE.
I'm dead serious. Even the handful of excerpts in the review are DISGUSTING. I don't want to THINK about the rest of the book.
And if Bill Simmons gets a commentator slot on any sports program I watch henceforth- CLICK. Off. I'm too casual a sports fan to give my ratings to any network that would employ such a dick.
And if any of you found any part of any of the quotes in the review funny, amusing, or resonant in any way whatever- do NOT tell me, because if you do I do NOT want to know you.
Long story short, I'm not- or at least I don't think I am one. I definitely have a number of blind spots and strange things that don't stand up well in polite company, but I don't hate women. I firmly believe that a woman's place is wherever the hell she damn well wants to be, and it's nobody's business but hers. I'm a bit of a misanthrope, but if I have any particular contempt or animus for a gender it's the male side, not the female.
That said- if you don't want to see what misogyny looks like, then don't read this book review.
I did- and it is appalling. What. The. Fuck. appalling. I'm not actually surprised, as such, that nobody called the dickhead who wrote the book being reviewed on his behavior (like, say, an EDITOR) before it was published. I AM surprised, however, that this shining example of love and consideration stayed married after impregnating his wife without her consent.
This is the sort of thing
starcat_jewel is talking about when she refers to "the rape society." This is the kind of behavior that, if you condone it, if you joke about it, if you even TOLERATE it without at least calling it out as wrong, then you're not just an asshole, you're an irredeemable dickhead. The very knowledge that such attitudes are not only tolerated but accepted by a large enough portion of the public to float a bestselling sports book is an affront to morals.Read the article. Then do NOT buy the book. If, by some strange circumstance, someone gives you the book as a present, decline it and tell them why: the author believes that women are nothing more than vaginas waiting to be filled, not really human and CERTAINLY not equal to a man- and that belief is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE.
I'm dead serious. Even the handful of excerpts in the review are DISGUSTING. I don't want to THINK about the rest of the book.
And if Bill Simmons gets a commentator slot on any sports program I watch henceforth- CLICK. Off. I'm too casual a sports fan to give my ratings to any network that would employ such a dick.
And if any of you found any part of any of the quotes in the review funny, amusing, or resonant in any way whatever- do NOT tell me, because if you do I do NOT want to know you.
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Date: 2010-12-18 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-18 06:39 am (UTC)Secondly, I found it very interesting that most of the commenters (who seem, by their screen names, to be mostly male) agreed with the writer of the column. There were only a couple of apologists, and one of those was more "Hey, there's a market for it, you can't blame him for hitting* it if it makes him money" than "Where's your SENSE OF HUMOR?".
Thirdly... in True Porn Clerk Stories, there are a couple of references to somebody named Rocco who has a whole series of porn videos called "Animal Trainer"; the "animals" therein are women, and each one supposedly ends with Rocco pushing her head into a toilet and flushing while he fucks her up the ass. Wanna bet it's the same Rocco?
* Yes, that was very intentional.
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Date: 2010-12-18 07:50 pm (UTC)Also, FWIW, I don't think you're a misogynist. I think some of the things you write and/or publish are extremely objectifying and therefore problematic, but (a) not all of them, and (b) that doesn't make you inherently misogynistic as a person.
Ye Gods!
Date: 2010-12-18 08:18 pm (UTC)Yeah, this idiot never left the frat house, mentally. What a waste of a life; the greedy, self-centered, arrogant, uncaring life that this shlub is living is a total waste of existence.
At least he serves as an example of who and what not to be; but that's about it.