Comments | ersatzhaderach: Bitches be crazy

ersatzhaderach

Bitches be crazy

Mar 28, 2008 01:15

Ok, this started out as a response to someone else's post, but it grew and grew until eventually it threatened to take over my brain so I figured it deserved its own post ( Read more... )

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dativesingular March 28 2008, 11:06:28 UTC

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaank you.

ersatzhaderach March 28 2008, 16:31:21 UTC

You is welcome!

have you seen the Joss Whedon 'strong female characters' speech yet? I think you'd love it.

dativesingular March 28 2008, 23:13:18 UTC

I has not. Linkies?

ersatzhaderach March 28 2008, 23:20:14 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs

trillador March 28 2008, 13:43:29 UTC

I agree with everything you say with one caveat:

There are equally powerful and equally effective sociological, physiological, epistemological, and ontological forces at work to make men crazy. The toy gun analogy is an apt one. Look at the gender disparity in prison population, the war dead, and college enrollment.

I, for one, would rather society tell me to want Italian leather than to be cannon fodder.

ersatzhaderach March 28 2008, 16:32:41 UTC

I'd rather society didn't tell us either.

And I know there are, but I don't think I can write about em. I'd love to read someone who could, though (hint, hint).

ersatzhaderach March 28 2008, 16:34:45 UTC

And out of curiosity, isn't the social message on male aggression 'go kill things' rather than 'go get killed?'

trillador March 28 2008, 18:40:56 UTC

You can't extricate "go kill things" from "go get killed" in a war. Perhaps the message, though, is more insidious: "dulce et decorum est...".

sakuroshi March 28 2008, 14:57:33 UTC

I wanted to just go after the neurotransmitter/hormone relationship and couldn't even get around to that, and this was a million times better anyway.

ersatzhaderach March 28 2008, 16:35:18 UTC

Did I get it wrong? Science isn't my strong suit, you know that.

sakuroshi March 29 2008, 18:41:11 UTC

As far as I can tell you got it right. I would've tried to go crazy explaining the science and therefore made it confusing. Your explanation is great :)

erorus April 2 2008, 14:21:22 UTC

I never got around to replying to this, I'm sorry. I guess I'd just like to say, thanks for your point of view, it was very informative. Also, I'm glad you took my post the way I meant it, which wasn't accusatory but more in a laugh-at-life tone. :)