After an incident in which someone was using nasty racial epithets and *I* was scolded for objecting (because I am supposedly “too sensitive”), there is a current moratorium on the prize of the day for sexist gamer forum crap, because even trying to keep the mindset of an anthropologist observing savage animals in their native [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Well…
June 26, 2007Particularly Virulent Misogyny Today
June 20, 2007From a chat room, a discussion of clothing with words on the butt:
“Simply put – if you don’t want raped don’t wear those kind of clothes. Next time I’m in a large city and I see a girl with words on her butt I’m going to drag her into an alley and rape her.”
No [...]
Yet Another Epiosde of Male Gamer Sexism
June 19, 2007This one more along the lines of “OMG THE FEMINAZIS HAVE TAKEN OVER!!!!”
In today’s episode, after referring to Senator Clinton of NY as “Bitch Hilary”, the poster, in a chat room for WoW players, goes on to bemoan legislation in New York which means he can’t even “hit on” his significant other in the hearing [...]
Male Gamer Sexism of the Day
June 14, 2007“… female GL’s [GL = Guild Leader - the leader of an in-game social organization] can’t be trusted sometimes (note that I said sometimes), they’re either way too nice and get walked over or completely nutso and start gkicking [gkicking - ejecting people from guild] when people aren’t kissing their feet.”
Oh yes – because you [...]
What? WHAT? Good News?!
June 14, 2007http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage
Male Gamer Sexism of the Day
June 8, 2007This comes from a thread so long and full of vileness I could just take one post at a time from it and keep you all hopping mad for about 2 months – really. But I’m picking on this one, just, well, just because:
The women that are worth being with never learn, and time [...]
Ugly Girl
June 8, 2007I’m an ugly girl.
Now, when I say this, well-meaning people rush to tell me “Oh no that’s not true! You’re beautiful! Beauty is in the eyes fo the beholder!” And many other soothing things to make be feel beautiful again. And I know they mean well.
But the truth is, by the standards of our culture, [...]
At Work All Women are Secretaries
June 6, 2007So I am sitting in my cube today, doing my job. I am trying to concentrate on something when the guy in the cube next to me puts a customer on hold and asks me to look up something for him. I tell him he is able to look that up from the [...]
