For heaven's sake, guys

[garran]

Attention popular culture and occasional human beings: actually, I understand women just fine, at least in numerous individual cases. I am not bragging here, because it is really not that hard. Their personhood is of the usual variety. Please stop exoticizing, 'kay thanks.

Comments

[xorphus.livejournal.com]

You haven't written the Star Wars / transparency post yet. Just saying.

N.B.

[garran.livejournal.com]

(This was inspired in particular by an appalling guy Rachel saw on wikipedia. Honourably exempted from the list of precipitating factors is Brendan's story Jeremiah, which I take to be doing work sympathetic to the spirit of this entry.)


-Andy H.

[garran.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's waiting at the back of my mind like an old and bloated spider for some time when I'm less supposed to be working on a paper.


-Andy H.

Re: N.B.

[xorphus.livejournal.com]

Hah, Jeremiah makes another appearance on Wednesday. And (as you clearly understand) that story is less about girls being foreign than the concept of fifteen-year-old boys as stateless persons.

Corroboration

[masamage.livejournal.com]

He was pretty appalling.

[zuki-san.livejournal.com]

Gah! Obfuscatory patterns of communication clearly don't help the mystique that "I just don't understand X". Agreed.