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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]dez_chan
2007-12-31 07:33 am UTC (link)
Why are my beautiful, clever female friends living alone, watching DVDs and eating cupcakes, like a gaggle of rancid Bridget Joneses?

Because your beautiful, clever friends aren't going out? They're staying at home watching movies and eating. This isn't conductive to "not being single." I mean unless where you live, they just deliver potential mates to your house...which they might. I believe it's called an "escort service." Besides, you just described them as "rancid", how wonderful can they be?

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[info]riah_chan
2007-12-31 08:40 am UTC (link)
Yep, getting out of the house is usually helpful in finding a someone. Not have you head up your ass helps too.

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[info]perletwo
2007-12-31 10:10 am UTC (link)
Maybe they should try watching DVDs of Bridget Jones, who actually did get up off her ass at some point?

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[info]yattara
2007-12-31 01:52 pm UTC (link)
And maybe they don't want to be in a relationship. Honestly, why is she this disfavourable about people she supposedly loves?

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[info]lyppy
2008-01-01 06:26 pm UTC (link)
I, personally, happen to like watching DVDs and eating cupcakes.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-01-01 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Well who doesn't, honestly? They're cupcakes. But chilling in your house with baked goods isn't conductive to meeting new people in any capacity, whether for hot monkey sex or to find you a new dry-cleaners. Y'kinda have to go out for that. Unless you can find a door-to-door sex and dry-cleaning service...

*May have just hit upon a new industry, hang on...*

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[info]wickedwitch
2008-01-01 09:56 pm UTC (link)
Like my programmer/escort idea.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-01-03 11:28 pm UTC (link)
Back where I went to college, they were called "Harvey Mudd students."

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-01-04 03:32 am UTC (link)
...Clearly I should have gotten the email of that cute friend of my ex's. DAMN.

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[info]bobgenghiskhan
2008-01-03 08:39 pm UTC (link)
I'D BUY THAT.

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