Thank you for a sanity voice. Too bad it's from someone who stated themselves as outside this community. Guys anger at being constantly sexually provoked and unable to actively respond could be constructively released in a number of ways, this isn't one of them. Female sexuality isn't the problem, our mutually increasing inability to deal with intimacy is; as well as many many groups use of female sexuality to meet their needs: whether for selling shit or covering inadequacy or getting revenge or whatever. Having been in a female teenage body for that number of years, I can speak to the complete yuckiness of these posts. So much for my fantasies of the general populace's (much less this particular groups') evolution away from mutually-victimizing sexual patterns.
I basically agree that it is not particularly a "boy" movie, which is wonderful. Hopefully not only will more girls go into CS, but also hopefully the next generation won't have so many stupid gender rules to wade through and we'll all be happier.
Just exploring ideas, take a breath. Rape is - let's say - an unexplained isolated violent destructive act that occurs at random regardless of the identity of the survivor. Slashdoting a website is a conscious response to a negative provocation. If a guy perceives a similarity about the two, I'm interested in that. My daughter comes into prime rape age in a while, helping her understand that threat to her and how to avoid it is very big in my life. I know this is off-topic, simply exploring. acting on a website is an anger response many would call valid. Sometimes in movies etc.. seems like the same is true of rape according to some.If that's true for some, I'm better off knowing it.
So, about the word "rape" in that sentence: since this is a case where someone (MTV) did something wrong and they experienced retaliatory consequences that were appropriate and just, is that really a proper word usage in your head? Ick.
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Thank you for a sanity voice. Too bad it's from someone who stated themselves as outside this community. Guys anger at being constantly sexually provoked and unable to actively respond could be constructively released in a number of ways, this isn't one of them. Female sexuality isn't the problem, our mutually increasing inability to deal with intimacy is; as well as many many groups use of female sexuality to meet their needs: whether for selling shit or covering inadequacy or getting revenge or whatever. Having been in a female teenage body for that number of years, I can speak to the complete yuckiness of these posts. So much for my fantasies of the general populace's (much less this particular groups') evolution away from mutually-victimizing sexual patterns.
I basically agree that it is not particularly a "boy" movie, which is wonderful. Hopefully not only will more girls go into CS, but also hopefully the next generation won't have so many stupid gender rules to wade through and we'll all be happier.
Just exploring ideas, take a breath. Rape is - let's say - an unexplained isolated violent destructive act that occurs at random regardless of the identity of the survivor. Slashdoting a website is a conscious response to a negative provocation. If a guy perceives a similarity about the two, I'm interested in that. My daughter comes into prime rape age in a while, helping her understand that threat to her and how to avoid it is very big in my life. I know this is off-topic, simply exploring. acting on a website is an anger response many would call valid. Sometimes in movies etc.. seems like the same is true of rape according to some.If that's true for some, I'm better off knowing it.
So, about the word "rape" in that sentence: since this is a case where someone (MTV) did something wrong and they experienced retaliatory consequences that were appropriate and just, is that really a proper word usage in your head? Ick.