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What a fucking dick.

A lot of other people have pointed out the disgusting misogyny and male privilege in this bullshit post, so I’m not going to repeat what they’ve said. But I will add a response to this, since the asshole has pulled a flounce and turned off comments:

a beautiful girl in an incredibly skimpy blue Princess outfit strode down the hallway, obviously putting her assets on display

When I dress in revealing clothes at conventions, I do so because I LIKE THE WAY THE OUTFITS LOOK and I LIKE THE WAY I LOOK IN THEM. It’s for ME, not for YOU. I don’t do it to put my “assets on display” and it is NOT an invitation for men to sexually harass me by asking to grope my breasts.

!!!!!

ETA, because I’m still livid about this: It makes me not want to dress up at DragonCon this year, to hide myself in something huge and frumpy. But I shouldn’t have to! I shouldn’t have to go out into the world with the default assumption that I’m going to be objectified and harassed, and that I’m responsible for taking steps to prevent that by hiding my body. (As if that even works–I still get catcalls in the frumpiest outfits, because street harassment is just as much about power and intimidation as it is about commenting on a woman’s appearance.)

Just… gah… *incoherent rage*.

ETA 2: misia has the best response yet.

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Current Mood: angry

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Jeordie White is a total Star Wars nerd. This amuses me immensely.

Also amusing is the latest Meathead Perspective. I think most of the reason I keep up with NIN these days is to make sure I won’t miss any of Meathead’s jokes.

Veronica Mars last night was stunningly bad. ( not really spoilery, but just in case )

I want the organizers of New York Comic Con to die slow, painful deaths. Preferably after taking off work, waiting outside in freezing windy cold for two hours, being treated rudely at every turn, and not being able to get the autograph of the person they wasted a vacation day to meet.

Seriously, I’ve been to plenty of conventions, and I certainly never had to wait in line for hours to get in at DragonCon or San Diego ComiCon, especially in freezing weather. And I never had to arrive hours early to wait in line and get some kind of special ticket to get into an event at a convention I’d already paid for. The whole thing is a fucking mess.

I skipped Saturday and Sunday, regardless of George R.R. Martin and Stephen King. I don’t care who their guests are in the future; I am never going back.

Huh. I haven’t ranted about anything in a while. That felt good.

Back to happier things…

I watched the last half of the Oscars on Sunday night, because I was channel surfing and came across Robert Downey, Jr. I always thought of him as a really good actor who was also cute, but somehow he’s turned into a really good actor who is drop dead gorgeous. I also realized that he has a movie opening on Friday that is directed by David Fincher (Fight Club!) and is getting great reviews. I’m very excited.

It was also cool to see Ennio Morricone get an award, since those Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Westerns are among my all-time favorite movies, in large part because of Morricone’s scores. Although, yeah, his acceptance speech was a little tedious. Whatever, he deserved the recognition.

And it was cool to see Lucas, Spielberg, and Coppola together. The Oscars are pretty interesting from the perspective of someone who is kind of fascinated by the film industry, although the movies it tends to honor are almost always the boring ones that I haven’t seen. I like fantasy and action, and “Lord of the Rings” was too pretentious for me, so, yeah. My favorite movies last year were “Pirates 2″ and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which only got technical awards. I’m not really an Oscar person, but the ceremony itself was more interesting than I expected.

I’m re-reading A Game of Thrones. I really need to re-read the whole series and take detailed notes (there’s so many lovely bits of foreshadowing and characterization that I note in my head and then promptly forget!), but some of the thoughts that particularly stood out:

( thoughts on the Song of Ice and Fire series )

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