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Both ends of the delusion spectrum.

Did you follow the link at the bottom to the article about the lawsuit she lost? Kind of explains it all.

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 3:08pm by gbaji

Huh, I didn't know that he wrote for Sarkeesian. I feel sort of bad now because I've said many times that Sarkeesian needed to get herself a writer because her own writing sucked and here it was someone else's writing that sucked all that time. [TheMoreYouKnow.jpg]

Some people just try to be everything. Can't she choose just one thing to fail at?

You retards blabbed about Sarkeesian so much she's on the Time 100, are you ever going to stop?

That's a 'no, I will continue to dedicate my life to making her rich and famous', then?

If there's anything that can be said it's that she understands controversy sells.

Actually, I've dedicated my life to making that vein in your forehead explode. For the lulz.

I'm not mad, Poldaran. Just disappointed.

I haven't seen a lot of heavy men wearing those t-shirts, either, and the ones I have, well, I just assumed they were wearing the shirt ironically.

I don't know, it seems like all of this feminism, sexism, and gender equality stuff is meant to act as a label for people to to stick on their "cynical ***-hole" attitude, making it socially acceptable, or even commendable, for them to lash out at others for no apparent reason.

One of my female friends posted one of those generic "Love Your Curves" Wordpress articles on Facebook, and I replied with something like: "If you feel bad about being overweight, why don't you just eat less, or work out a little?" The next 20 comments in that post was me trying to fend off an angry mob of complete strangers calling me a misogynist and a sexist for daring to suggest that slightly overweight wasn't the ideal weight.

They take everything as a personal insult, and then they just ****-ing run with it. Like Forrest Gump on crack cocaine. It's tiresome.

Edited, Apr 28th 2015 8:54pm by Mazra

Learn how to not call a chick fat on facebook, then? I mean really, wtf did you expect to happen?

I think that some people become overly sensitive to this though and assume that when someone suggests diet and exercise that they must be imposing a stereotypically unrealistic ideal on them. But in many cases it's not. I obviously don't know the specifics of the above case, but it was framed as "if you feel unhappy about your weight...". I guess I just don't see anything wrong with suggesting that there is a medium between "unrealistically thin" and "give up and accept being fat" (ie: learn to love your curves).

And yes, I'm well aware of how social pressures around women do create a "ridiculously thin or bust" situation. And that in turn leads to the "give up if you can't be super thin" idea. I have a close friend who is struggling with this very issue and it's always difficult to even broach it. I've seen her go on diets and try to maintain the petite figure she had for most of her life as a young woman. But she can't, so she gives up on even trying. Result is that she's been ballooning over the last few years to what is almost certainly an unhealthy weight for her. I remember the last time I tried to gently suggest getting back on an exercise regimen (and not snacking on chocolates), and she said "what's the point?".

It's a very tricky situation.