gaming, nerds and male privilege.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Dec 16, 2011 7:49:57 am PST #11807 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2011 8:06:41 am PST #11808 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
gaming, nerds and male privilege.
Good article, but dang, I am too tired today to even wade into the comments.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2011 8:10:57 am PST #11809 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also the smell of cloves reminds me of Christmas season particularly, and clove-flavoured hard candies we would have at Xmas.
Nice! I've never had clove candy. Is that a Canadian thing? It sounds like the sort of thing Ple would eat. Or object to strenuously but she'd have an opinion, by gum.
Kate P. - Dec 16, 2011 8:29:02 am PST #11810 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Favorite is the smell of the Christmas tree, for sure. Putting up the Christmas tree while listening to Christmas music and drinking hot cocoa, trying to untangle the lights while keeping the cats from pouncing on them, unwrapping the ornaments and remembering where each one came from, that's probably the ritual I love best. And then you get a pretty tree with sparkly lights on it in your living room, and if someone has gotten home before you in the evening then you can see it through the windows when you come home at night.
Least favorite? Hmm... maybe the recycled airplane air, because I always seem to be flying somewhere over Christmas these days.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2011 8:33:19 am PST #11811 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh! Somebody on AV Club tried to imagine how the Grinch narration would have sounded if Bela Lugosi had done it instead of Boris Karloff:
"Ahl zeh 'oos dahn in 'Oowill vid dehr noise, noise, NOISE!"
Allyson - Dec 16, 2011 8:34:40 am PST #11812 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
gaming, nerds and male privilege.
I could write a manifesto in how often I got mansplained in Firefly fandom like I had no idea what I was talking about.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2011 8:38:40 am PST #11813 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
gaming, nerds and male privilege.
Man, I am so thankful for my comic book store, where I cannot imagine that scene happening at all. The manager is a woman, and there are women on the staff, and there are plenty of female customers. I know that's not the norm, though.
Jesse - Dec 16, 2011 8:53:15 am PST #11814 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nice! I've never had clove candy.
Clove is the best flavor of Necco wafer!
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2011 8:57:10 am PST #11815 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some people tried to explain to me that there were as many female genre and/or nerds as male. And then they treated me like I was mansplaining. It was really surreal. Just because LJ is full of female slash fans...no, it's still a man's world, in terms of numbers and volume of yelling. It's getting better, but there isn't parity yet.
ChiKat - Dec 16, 2011 9:05:44 am PST #11816 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
OMG. This is the longest day of the longest week. I have been ready for Winter Break since 2nd period this morning. I still have 2 classes to teach today AND 4 days next week. Our break doesn't even start till next Friday and I need it to start now. Dear me...next week is gonna suck.