Brought on by essay avoidance and rage. This is...baffling.

[llassah]

"This should be a better world," a friend of mine said. "A more honest one, where sex isn't shameful or degrading. I wish this was the kind of world where say, 'Wow, I'd like to touch your breasts,' and people would understand that it's not a way of reducing you to a set of nipples and ignoring the rest of you, but rather a way of saying that I may

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[lamentables]

Gotta love nerdy, under-socialised sf fans, reclaiming the stereotype and trying to make sure the entire genre stays in its ghetto :(

[llassah]

yes- how can what is essentially nerds wanting frat party priveleges be in any way empowering and inclusive? Grrrrr

[lamentables]

Had I not ploughed through a lot of the comments I'd have thought the whole thing a hoax, it's just so ludicrously unreconstructed and unconsidered.

[llassah]

I reserved judgement until I saw his responses. It's unbelievable

[belmanoir]

augh! i hate how they take a perfectly reasonable, even laudable idea: that you can be attracted to someone, "objectify" them even, and still respect them---and then turn it into something shitty, horrifying, sexist, and yes TAWDRY.

::hates::

[llassah]

yes- there's a whole world between thinking 'I'd hit that' and going up to a complete stranger and saying 'I want to hit that.'

grrrrrrrrr

[c_regalis]

Wow. What a cunt. And he seems so proud of himself. Jesus.

[_unhurt_]

c! c! my head is still exploding with RAR SMASH RAR (despite his crappy apology)!

[llassah]

Okay, let's make joe dick burn out cigarettes on him for a while...

man that's a good thought

[_unhurt_]

! i was thinking a good hard kick in the balls, actually. steel toe boots, like. *evil*

is it wrong that i would totally let joe touch my tits? /u\

[jamethiel_bane]

What? WHAT?

GRRR FUCKING SMASH. Just--NO. How can he not understand that women have this kind of objectifying shit directed at them all the time. And it's not done because boobs are sexual? Fine, you can feel an elbow instead.

Also, who the fuck made him the judge of whether boobs are good enough. ALL boobs are good enough. Because they belong to a person.

*growls*

[llassah]

Yup. It's so disheartening, finding this crap dressed up as something empowering. Men just don't *know* what it's like! They can't possibly know how much frustration and fear are a part of any woman's life, and we're damned if we do, damned if we don't, whatever choice we have to make.

And yes! Boobs are all awesome, because they simply are.

[llassah]

He was, I believe, very serious. After all, groping women is the feminist utopian dream. There's more context in the original entry, which has been shunted to the bottom of the page by the grovelling he does at the top, but should still be there. He gives nice male sci fi nerds a bad name