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OH JOHN RINGO NO!
With all the business about this kind of skeevy crap (not to mention the fact there's a massive case of failboat here), is it wrong that I'm perversely pleased that OH JOHN RINGO NO has become a catchphrase (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hradzka must be proud!)?
No, seriously. It's not everyday one is present at the birth of an Internet meme and has the commenting record to prove it.
What? Don't look at me like that.
Anyway, Unfunny Business on Journalfen is going a bit of a round-up on the business.
As for me, I only have one question:
Why is it that whenever someone (usually male) decides that it's time to get "sex positive," it's invariably the women who need to "get over their issues" so they can participate? Also, why is it that they're the ones who usually end up at the receiving end of whatever insane little "sex positive" experiment is being done?
Strange how that works, hunh?
Look, if a woman says the idea of such a "sex positive" experiment (read: giving men a free pass on treating female-type people like meat) is skeevy, it does not mean she's "got sexual issues," or "lacks a sense of humor," or is "anti-feminism."
What it means is that she reserves the right to do one or all of the following if you pull that shit on her:
1) Mace your ass
2) Rip your nuts off
3) Call the cops and press sexual assault charges
It also means that she (and I imagine quite a lot of men) don't like it when complete strangers grope any part of their anatomy, erogenous zone or not.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people that they don't get that?
That said, seeing OH JOHN RINGO NO plastered all over this tempest has had me giggling like a loon all day (much love tothe_red_shoes for using it first in reference to this).
hradzka must be proud!)?No, seriously. It's not everyday one is present at the birth of an Internet meme and has the commenting record to prove it.
What? Don't look at me like that.
Anyway, Unfunny Business on Journalfen is going a bit of a round-up on the business.
As for me, I only have one question:
Why is it that whenever someone (usually male) decides that it's time to get "sex positive," it's invariably the women who need to "get over their issues" so they can participate? Also, why is it that they're the ones who usually end up at the receiving end of whatever insane little "sex positive" experiment is being done?
Strange how that works, hunh?
Look, if a woman says the idea of such a "sex positive" experiment (read: giving men a free pass on treating female-type people like meat) is skeevy, it does not mean she's "got sexual issues," or "lacks a sense of humor," or is "anti-feminism."
What it means is that she reserves the right to do one or all of the following if you pull that shit on her:
1) Mace your ass
2) Rip your nuts off
3) Call the cops and press sexual assault charges
It also means that she (and I imagine quite a lot of men) don't like it when complete strangers grope any part of their anatomy, erogenous zone or not.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with some people that they don't get that?
That said, seeing OH JOHN RINGO NO plastered all over this tempest has had me giggling like a loon all day (much love to
the_red_shoes for using it first in reference to this).
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for the longest time i couldn't quite figure out what it was that was making me feel so:
was it the vicious, lynch mob-like-way in which people attacked for the simple action of expressing an idea? that's definitely sickening...
was it the pure judgmentalism writ large that i saw? that always twists my stomach...
was it the hypocrisy? (my favorite instance being the argument that the experiment was wrong because it might have offended, upset, or discomfited some present...while it's perfectly fine to offend, upset or insult the people everyone is attacking. it's the old, "I'm not bigoted! I hate all bigots!" dance.)
maybe it was the absurdity? (my favorite being the argument that the experiment was wrong because those involved couldn't guarantee that their intentions would be everyone's intentions: "well, sure, maybe you and your friends didn't mean for it to be all the things we've accused you of perpetuating, but can't you see that at some point someone might get out of hand?" If we're getting rid of all things that aren't perfect or perfectly regulated then we're getting rid of all things.)
maybe this...maybe that...there was certainly enough vitriol and bile to go around i think...
but eventually I realized what it was, and, to my anger, considering the amount of time i spent investigating it, I found that the ooky feeling really had nothing to do with this hideous debacle at all.
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It is a certain expectation that going to a public forum means a a standard of communal behavior like not being asked randomly for someone to grope your breasts.
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