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this is not the hamster you're looking for ([info]flightstothesea) wrote,
@ 2008-04-16 09:16:00


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Current mood: angry

as if i needed another reason to hate journos
I'm enjoying the lolz this trial is giving me, knowing that Aardvark is going to get his ass handed to him and then quite possibly get sued by the publisher that he's more than happy to sell out.

What I am not enjoying is the misogynist bias in just about everything the media has to say about it. Steve looks like a schoolboy? What the actual fuck? I'm trying to tell myself that it's all about creating as sensationalist a story as they can, and an extremely rich author suing a fan over something like this is just begging for a David and Goliath angle, but jesus fucking christ. Jo cries, so the bitch is obviously faking it for sympathy. Steve cries, and awww, don't you just feel bad for him? Fuck you very much, journalists, and way to undermine any credibility you might have had-- not that the NYT has much credibility at all anymore, after its OWN scandals. Maybe that's why they're so sympathetic to Stevie: they don't have any integrity either.

Mostly though, I'm just goddamn sick of misogyny and patriarchy everywhere I look. Of course that evil whore doesn't deserve to protect her copyright: she's a woman, so if she had any sense, she'd step back and let the big, smart, completely un-fucking-qualified man write it. She's stepped out of place, she doesn't need that money, and she should get her ass back into the kitchen. After all, she was asking for it.

All this is aside from the fact that SVA is a typical entitled middle-age douchebag adulterer who dumped his family to run off with a younger woman and try to ride someone else's coattails to fame and fortune. I hope the contemptible bastard is unemployable the rest of his life, because it's exactly what he deserves. Yes, I am angry. Patriarchy and institutionalised misogyny are always going to piss me off, especially when they involve painting a weasel like this as some kind of sympathetic character.



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[info]llama_treats
2008-04-16 02:05 pm UTC (link)
If Steve looks like a schoolboy, I must look like a sperm and and egg.

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-04-16 06:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm a first-trimester fetus!

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[info]sepiamagpie
2008-04-16 02:59 pm UTC (link)
You realize we must kill them now, I hope.

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-04-16 06:23 pm UTC (link)
But that's so messy.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2008-04-16 06:42 pm UTC (link)
don't be squeamish, hamster

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-04-16 06:48 pm UTC (link)
I'm not. I just don't want to do the clean-up.

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[info]didi
2008-04-16 08:15 pm UTC (link)
*waves hullo*

Watch this and this for relief from epic amounts of fail! So far it's working for me today. :)

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-04-16 08:19 pm UTC (link)
D: That XBox ad is disturbing.

But yay, Monty Python! That reminds me that I should watch moar QI as well. :D

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[info]emiweebee
2008-04-16 11:00 pm UTC (link)
Sweetie, please tell me you haven't been reading the jkrtrialblog, because if you want to see misogyny, just check out what she has to say about Elanor. Not to mention the defense of Steve at her expense in the comments.

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[info]flightstothesea
2008-04-16 11:18 pm UTC (link)
Oh dude, that's part of what I'm talking about. I don't know who that person is or what their agenda is, but wtf is their obsession with what everyone is wearing? It's very tabloidy. I give them until the end of the week, max, before they're *unmasked* as some person in HP fandom looking to gain more exposure.

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[info]emiweebee
2008-04-16 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I got the feeling that the "Melissa in a lovely b+w sundress" comment was thrown in after the itty bitty wank about the Elanor dressed like a whore! comment in the first day.

Note, also, that she (CLEARLY she) specifically details female wear, and affords menswear an, "Oh. Slytherin tie. Whatev."

Also, in the same Elanore dresses like a whore post, she also says JKR's shoes = fab, but not how/why/what they looked like.

Clearly, she's not a fashion expert, only using it to her advantage when she's feeling bitchy. /fashionista rant

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