Second time this week I've used this icon...

[mymetalphantom]

...people have really been bringing the stupid.

Thought some fellow slash fans might find this rather amusing. Some guy who OMG, TOTALLY KNOWS WHY WOMEN WRITE SLASH!!!

Vry clevar acedemik!

Seriously, come back when you have gained more insight into the female mind and then we can talk. No love.

Sheesh, even Freud (the big, arrogant, know-it-all that he was) would rather admit that he could never fully understand women than make spurious claims like this guy does.

Still though, his ill informed, borderline misogyny made me chuckle.

Comments

[ceilidh-ann.livejournal.com]

Men should stop trying to figure women out. It'll only scar them for life. *stirs cauldron while cackling maniacally* Excuse the brief madness, I haven't slept all night and I've been reading American political pundit slash fiction since 10pm last night.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

American political pundit slash fiction?

Um...sorry, my mind wandered...

[ceilidh-ann.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's amazing! Seriously, where has Anderson Cooper been all my life? *dreams*

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Anderson Cooper...oh yes... *mind wanders again*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Holy heaven, what is that man's problem O_o This definitely was amusing, though!

*points to self* Lesbian. Also: slasher. Already exploding his theories!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Well precisely! Guy has no idea what he's talking about. Sexuality is more complex than he's making out and it really frustrates me that he has obviously made these sweeping statements without...I don't know...actually researching!

I especially loved his "there's Holmes/Watson slash!" ... really? How odd! I wonder what it is about two men living together and sharing a uniquely strong relationship and saying things like "if you love me..." that makes people want to slash them? People are weird!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Oh, aren't they just? I mean, it would never occur to me to slash a character who is repeatedly said to abhor the softer emotions and who just as repeatedly shows them only toward one other man.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

I know, you'd have to be really strange to slash that, wouldn't you?

And clearly my slashing of Holmes/Watson is because I want to be Watson and have Holmes love meeeee! *eye roll* Because as a female slasher I obviously have the emotional maturity of a toddler.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Especially considering the kind of fictional characters I tend to be drawn to, I'd have to be masochistic as well.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, looking at some of my fics I have the feeling that if Holmes and I were a couple we'd turn each other into gibbering neurotics! No, I don't want Holmes all that much.

Except Vasily Livanov. I would totally marry his Holmes!

[ex-pollute654.livejournal.com]

oh god, this guy is hilarious. i have a girlfriend and i'm asexual. WHERE IS HIS GOD NOW?!

what i'd really love to study is the prevalence of slash fans within the asexual community. i've found a few actually, and it makes sense if you think about it, seeing slash can be used as a creative outlet for one's sexuality.

also, this further disproves his logic that slash is simply a guise for us women secretly wanting HOT HETEROSEXUAL DICKINGS IN THE MISSIONARY POSITION.

"And that's a key element that is always emphasised in slash, that this is monogamous, and it's nothing like real gay male sex is."

hahaha. oh. oh. stop. ahaha. damnit.

the watson/holmes example was amazing.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

"And that's a key element that is always emphasised in slash, that this is monogamous, and it's nothing like real gay male sex is."

Yeah, two men having sex with each other is actually nothing like two men having sex with each other! Seriously, this man makes logic go boom!

I find the whole thing very annoying. I am very interested in sexuality and all its subtle nuances, so when morons like this come along and try to slap big ugly labels on it, then I get pissed off!

what i'd really love to study is the prevalence of slash fans within the asexual community. i've found a few actually, and it makes sense if you think about it, seeing slash can be used as a creative outlet for one's sexuality.

Um, good point there. That would be an interesting study! Sexuality is so fascinating.

[ex-pollute654.livejournal.com]

sexuality intrigues me, too! i think that people make the wrong assumption when they figure out i'm asexual; just because i don't have much of a libido, doesn't mean i'm not interested in the subject itself and all of its fascinating little inner workings!

... i'm also the biggest deviant i know, ahem. *hoards fics* don't look at me like that.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

It's all a question of labels. Once you're labelled as one thing you will always have people making assumptions about you based on their views.

The guy from that video would label me as straight and make the assumption that I couldn't possibly have empathy with people of other sexualities or have leanings in other directions...he'd be very wrong of course, which is why you should ALWAYS DO YOUR BLOODY RESEARCH. Didn't this guy go to school?

... i'm also the biggest deviant i know, ahem. *hoards fics* don't look at me like that.

Ha ha! I wouldn't dream of judging you, darling!