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this is not the hamster you're looking for (flightstothesea) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-12-30 17:41:00


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Current mood:Impish
Entry tags:feminism: you're doing it wrong

comment is free! and so is stupidity!
Tanya Gold writes a piece for the Guardian's Comment is Free section. It begins with this headline: Men want us lobotomised.

Oh, goody. The article is about her experience with a speed-dating night, in which she pretended to be a human rights lawyer, an economist, and a vapid florist, among other things. Shockingly, the men preferred the giggly florist to the woman who told them not to wear leather shoes, and so Tanya concludes with this: Everything my mother has ever told me about men is true.

Predictably, the comments are full of indignation, "Deleted by Moderator," assertions that her 'experiment' is not very scientific, and people pointing out that a speed-dating night at a pub is not likely to bring out the best and brightest in humanity, particularly if your opening salvo is, "I'm reading Heidegger." There are some funny bits, however (and not just the fictional cats named Roe and Wade).

AllyF: But then when they say 'You're late, again! Why are you always late?' you can bring in Heidegger.

'Because you are thinking in three-dimensional time, when time incorporates being and is in fact four dimensional.'

Then you sleep on the sofa.

Oh and...

'Well darling, technically since the bathroom door is currently shut, I'd like to referenence Schrodinger and suggest that toilet seat is in fact currently in a state of both upness and downness simultaneously.'

Then sleep on the sofa for a week.


Bonus lolz: someone asking if this Tanya Gold is the same one who wrote this article for the Daily Mail in which she asks Santa to "Please send me a plutocrat with a kind heart for Christmas.... So I can come here every year."



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[info]rosehiptea
2007-12-31 06:01 am UTC (link)
My friend used to sort of spy on the place. Apparently about 90% of the posts are people who think you will end up pregnant for not using two forms of birth control every time (and while they could probably by pregnant should probably calm down a little) and some of them seemed to be obviously pregnant and in denial.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-31 07:22 am UTC (link)
"I haven't had a period in the last six months and I've been throwing up the whole time and my abdomen is extended and firm and I think I just felt something kick! OMG do you think I could be pregnant? HELP!"

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-01-01 03:14 am UTC (link)
It's kind of looking that way, yes.

Why do I always have to look? WHY, GOD, WHY?

...o rite there is no god nevermind

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