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I was going to do a meta post asking people what level of sexism or misogyny they'll tolerate in a movie or TV show or whatever before it either ruins it enough for them to either stop watching it and they handwave it in an effort to enjoy the festivities, but then I pictured the glorious wank that would inevitably follow and I told myself, "Oh, no, honey, we're not doing that."

So let's try this:

I want to see baby animal pictures. Share some with the rest of the class.

Date: 2009-05-17 02:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-17 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apetslife.livejournal.com
My issue with discussions like that isn't so much the discussions themselves (I love good debate!), it's that peoples' levels of sensitivity and awareness--heck, even the things they notice in any given movie or show--are so different that "level of sexism or misogyny" might be totally different from one viewer to the next.

Some things that my friend finds utterly appalling because of personal experience, I might barely notice, and vice versa. Something that makes me cringe might seem like a plot or character device with few or no misogynistic overtones to my friend. Of course, there are broad and obvious things that will hit everyone, but past that, it's so hard to say. So until we can come up with a quantifier that everyone can agree with, I feel like the "level of sexism or misogyny" is such a personalized conclusion and thermometer, so to speak, that I think it's hard to debate.

Ahem. Yes. Here! Baaaaby ponies! These are pics of my pony's neice, actually, and her name is Sarah. She lives in Canadia now. *grin*



Edited Date: 2009-05-17 02:46 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-17 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ethrosdemon.livejournal.com
Yeah, you've really hit it on the head here. I think the basic and fundamental problem is that people seem to have no room to allow others to have differing life experiences without going postal. When someone says "in my opinion..." that does not equal "and everything you feel is WRONG!" but people keep on reading it that way. All I can say is--can't they go troll cuteoverload?

Re: My Theresa

Date: 2009-05-17 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apetslife.livejournal.com
Oh my goodness CUTEST WEE TURTLE EVER!!!!! Oh adorable!

Re: My Theresa

Date: 2009-05-17 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coolgrin.livejournal.com
She's huge now. But still very cute.

Re: Baaaaaaby Octopus

Date: 2009-05-17 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ficangel.livejournal.com
That is simultaneously adorable and horrifying. I want one.

Re: Baaaaaaby Octopus

Date: 2009-05-17 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maryavatar.livejournal.com
It is, isn't it? One minute it's all 'Awww, look at de widdle tenacles!' and then 'Augh, sinister not-a-brain head thing!'

Date: 2009-05-17 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
Okay, the otter one is KILLING me.

Date: 2009-05-17 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apetslife.livejournal.com
BABY COWS OMG. OMG!

Date: 2009-05-17 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coolgrin.livejournal.com
IZ ded from the cute.

Date: 2009-05-17 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com
*squeak* I think the baby elephant got me stuck in an AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW loop.

Date: 2009-05-17 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] everywherestars.livejournal.com
I have no idea what that second one down actually is, but that face is exactly what I look like when I'm excited ;)

Date: 2009-05-17 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com
Waaaaaaank would have been a pleasant distraction from trying to write my stupid meta post about writing, though. YOU'RE SO SELFISH, GOD.

Because I am SELFLESS I bring you a shitload of baby pandas:

Date: 2009-05-17 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
YOU. YOU. WHY DID YOU SHOW ME THAT PICTURE AT A TIME WHEN I CAN MAKE EMBARRASSING FACES IN A PUBLIC PLACE?!

*squeals*

(Dude, if I get dragged into wank, the bisexual rockabilly superheroine is going to stomp right out of my head and I won't get any writing done today.)

Date: 2009-05-17 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com
It is my WICKED REVENGE for having to write this goddamn thing. *strikes an evil pose*

(Tut, she's something of a fairweather friend there. Surely the position a superheroine should take is one of "FUCK YEAH, BRING THE WANK"?)

Date: 2009-05-17 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apocalypsos.livejournal.com
(Well, at this point in the story she's reacting to her numerous confusing problems by getting plastered, so I figure she's allowed to throw a strop just this once. ;))

Date: 2009-05-17 03:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aurora
(maybe-not-really-a-)BABY WOMBAT!

Date: 2009-05-17 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com
ACK NO THAT IS TOTALLY A WOMBAT and he wants you to cuddle hiiiiim! God, his wee happy face is like a tractor beam of cute.

Date: 2009-05-17 04:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-17 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wal-lace.livejournal.com
... I just made sound effects for that picture.

Date: 2009-05-17 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madripoor-rose.livejournal.com
BOOP? That's the sound effect I make for the picture.

Date: 2009-05-17 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wal-lace.livejournal.com
My current desktop background at work.



Their names are Orla and Kevin, by the way. I don't know why they're ignoring one another so pointedly, but when I'm stressed at work I like to come up with theories.

Date: 2009-05-17 04:49 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-17 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madripoor-rose.livejournal.com
Macro Explanation: In DC Comics, there is a giant mindcontrolling starfish from outer space. This is canon.

Date: 2009-05-17 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coyotegoth.livejournal.com
Yup- that's why it's FTW :)

Date: 2009-05-17 10:35 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-17 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com
LOL!

Smart.

Date: 2009-05-17 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sassygirl.livejournal.com
FFFFFFFFFFFF, THE HEDGEHOGS!

Date: 2009-05-26 08:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fyrdrakken
Wee batling! Eee!

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