How to live my life
Feb. 20th, 2012 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gryphonsegg1. Spend two days writing a worldbuilding-heavy fic and planning out the complicated magic/marriage/kinship system for a secondary world that I started constructing after going meta about annoying trends in fanfic and profic.
2. Plan to write a really long post about those two things, containing some abstract systematizing of fictional superpowers and laughing at myself for reusing my favored character archetypes AGAIN.
3. Come home from work wondering whether to make that post this afternoon or save it for later and post a fanfic snippet today instead.
4. Find out that Jezebel posted an article from Hugo Schwyzer explaining that men love 'barely legal' porn because they're not ready to accept being adults yet.
5. Dissolve into spluttering rage and lose desire to post about anything self-indulgent or funny because AN INTERNET LIKE THIS ONE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. Also lose desire to write or post anything about characters of any age or gender combination having any kind of interaction that might ever lead to sex because one is too skeeved out to go there.
2. Plan to write a really long post about those two things, containing some abstract systematizing of fictional superpowers and laughing at myself for reusing my favored character archetypes AGAIN.
3. Come home from work wondering whether to make that post this afternoon or save it for later and post a fanfic snippet today instead.
4. Find out that Jezebel posted an article from Hugo Schwyzer explaining that men love 'barely legal' porn because they're not ready to accept being adults yet.
5. Dissolve into spluttering rage and lose desire to post about anything self-indulgent or funny because AN INTERNET LIKE THIS ONE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. Also lose desire to write or post anything about characters of any age or gender combination having any kind of interaction that might ever lead to sex because one is too skeeved out to go there.
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Date: 2012-02-21 04:42 am (UTC)(I...have definitely met men who were wildly immature and unable to grow up and who were intimidated by the expectations and backbone of adult women, so I'm not willing to write it off as a factor. But it did not actually make them less creepy in any way. Also, I have very little sympathy for the decades-long adolescence of so many men--and not a few women. I'm not giving them a pat on the back for watching "barely-legal" porn, and I'm not sure lacking predatory intent in any way mitigates predatory behavior.)
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Date: 2012-02-25 03:43 am (UTC)There's also the difference in levels of exploitativeness between the television industry (which is not doing so well itself) and the pornography industry (which is off the charts) . . . but maybe I should stop here because that gets into my opinions about live action porn as a thing that is bought and sold, which make up only a fraction of my reaction to the vast complex of wrongness that is the entire Hugo situation.
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Date: 2012-02-25 04:00 am (UTC)Yeeeah IDEK what I think about live action porn honestly. I figure I have enough opinions about everything else to probably make up for it.
And really the important thing is that Hugo should shut up forever.