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JD:
The artist I showed you earlier did exactly that.
Comic
Tom:
Lucy, go get your hands on some Charlotte Perkins Gilmore.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: satsugaikaze on 14 Feb 2009, 04:12 ---Yet another picture I would +1/QFT if it didn't break my post apart.
This thread is here to remind people what kind of douches they are to like the series. Or, at the very least, a repository of people who can make fun of it without being subject to bad grammar, fangirl-squeeing and the like.
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Actually, no, it really isn't. Or at least, it was never really intended to be. If it were, I'd be actively ashamed of my participation in it. I'm not a fan of the series but making people feel like they're douchebags is definitely not a goal.
LucyStag:
The Yellow Wallpaper?
I have read part of it. My friend read some of it at a coffee house thing, and was so good that she freaked people out. I was sorry I missed that.
I will read it. Yes, sometimes it annoys me, because I am a female who wants to write books, that female readers and writers have this horrible reputation that so often is justified. (I have gotten the awkward compliment that my writing is masculine -- meaning that I have a strong voice and a confident style. Which is great, except my writing being female would mean...that I am Stephenie Meyer?) When I was 15 I loved George Orwell. I still love George Orwell. I don't like to be a snob about other people, but when I was younger I found it sort of intensely alienating that my peers were into a whole bunch of shit. Sometime I wasn't trying to be cooler than thou (though lord knows I was) but I was honestly interested in things that nobody else my age was, and that made bonding with peers somewhat tricky.
Now I don't care as much. But it still puzzles me -- the "Twilight" obsession type thing*s. And there's something intensely depressing about older women swooning over it. Kind of freaks me out in a romance novel reading housewife sort of a way. (I go to an all-women's college and in the coffee shop is a paperback rack to leave or take a book, and it is almost entirely romance novels! Somebody -- hopefully the sweet girl who works there -- left a note begging people to leave better books.)
(* Have been reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" trilogy lately. The first one is one of my favorite books of all time... Fuck Edward, I have a crush on fictionalized WWI poets!)
Tom:
I actually, I meant Herland.
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