Comments on: Ye Ha! We done been exposéd!

By: BigUglyManDoll

BigUglyManDoll — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:34:53 +0000

As usual, the good Mr. Shetterly nailed it with #16.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:38:00 +0000

Bahahaha! I admit, I have on occasion found tentacle porn a bit hot. Seriously!

Anyway, thanks for all the comments. This is the most interest my blog has garnered since I picked on fantasy readers a couple months back. (Your comments have the same tenor, too.) But I think your focus on the marginalized-woman thing is obscuring the real issue. As a real-life dog — uh, I mean, woman — I just don’t see how there’s anything sexist about not mentioning her. If I *had* mentioned her name for the sole purpose of identifying her (apparent) sexual status, I think it would have sounded like I was calling her a trollop or something.

Anyway, that’s not the real issue at all, is it? The real issue was that I was mean. Or sounded mean. I actually didn’t intend that post as anything but lighthearted joshing. I just wanted to make fun of family meetings. And, uh, Trotskyism. A little. But yeah, it’s true that I often mock sci-fi/fantasy nerds on my blog. So if you are one, you probably shouldn’t read it.

By: Klavafiend

Klavafiend — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:29:21 +0000

skzb@32:
Of course women can’t be sexist.
Its the same situation as anyone non-white trying to be racist: Un-possible.
The question in my mind is: How old is said blogger? “Fingercuffs”? Really? Is that at least a Chasing Amy reference? Because I’d swear most real readers are far, far past shock at the personal lives of any author, especially as compared to more ‘mainstreamed’ forms of celebrity.
I posit that said Tuffy’s perhaps subconscious marginalization of the ‘woman’ (referred to henceforth as “Reesa” in accordance with the said blogger’s self-styling in eir header) is perhaps a result of Tuffy prefering a yaoi fantasy. You’d be amazed the places anime’s tendrils (or tentancles, though that’s usually hentai related) reach.

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:17:02 +0000

Well, other than the fact that Reesa’s name is on the blog, and that Kit is a he, I agree.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:12:09 +0000

I’m guessing it’s the “… sickest example of chivalry in the last decade …”

Since Kit identified herself in her blog (kind of hard not to), her name was ‘fair game’. Since Reesa hadn’t identified herself, she still had the right to privacy.

Wait, I’m giving a troll credit … never mind

By: catlebrity

catlebrity — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:42:39 +0000

I think you mean sexY!

By: Seth Breidbart

Seth Breidbart — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:39:36 +0000

This is the Internet. Can you prove that Tuffy isn’t a dog?

By: skzb

skzb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:23:49 +0000

Actually, Kit noticed. As for me, mea culpa: I keep forgetting that women can’t be sexist.

By: catlebrity

catlebrity — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:58:22 +0000

Funny that you’ve all got your knickers in a bunch over the fact that Tuffy didn’t identify Reesa by name yet none of you noticed that Tuffy is in fact … a woman. Huh.

By: Springtime for Spacers

Springtime for Spacers — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:28:26 +0000

People are strange — accepting the charge.