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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]doyle
2007-12-31 02:17 pm UTC (link)
My favourite comment:

It's funny, I've never had a man want me to dumb down my intelligence. Hint: you can have a brain AND be feminine. If you don't like what you're catching change the bate!

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[info]dez_chan
2007-12-31 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Y'know, I made that comment too on my lj about this. People who are truly intelligent don't need to rub it in other people's faces. I've yet to have to quote Nietzsche at someone for them to go, "My god, you are smart!"

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[info]doyle
2007-12-31 06:45 pm UTC (link)
My amusement was far pettier, I just liked the statement that she's never had to dumb down her intelligence... followed by misspelling a 4-letter word *g*

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-12-31 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Word. I actually have visible proof of a genius level IQ (I qualified for MENSA), and I am not even sure who Heidiegger even is. (Well, save for being a boozy begger who could think you under the table...)

Smart is sometimes more about thinking your way around situations rather than just knowing random factoids so you can show off with them. quoting "fancy stuff" just means you memorize well, and hell, homing pigeons can do that.

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[info]shaysdays
2007-12-31 09:05 pm UTC (link)
See, you say "Nietzsche," and all I hear is, "Don't call me stupid!"

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[info]mcity
2008-01-01 03:28 am UTC (link)
All I think is "one is best punished for one's virtues", the syndicated TV show "Andromeda", and the awesome video game "Beyond Good and Evil".

My brain is a complicated place.

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[info]lyppy
2008-01-01 06:28 pm UTC (link)
I think of Little Miss Sunshine. That must make me unintelligent.

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[info]oddplaces
2008-01-05 05:31 am UTC (link)
My first thought is fighting catboys, so I'm frankly afraid of what that must make me! :D

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[info]mcity
2008-01-01 03:26 am UTC (link)
People keep being surprised at how much I know.

I think I'm doing it wrong.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-01-03 01:16 am UTC (link)
Some guy I met in Paris told me something along the lines of "wow, you actually are as smart as you look". Gee, thanks.

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