A Crash Course in Feminism Mk. II (or, why everyone should be a feminist)

[Psychosplodge]

And it's easier to reason with a cat.

[eldargal]

The first Executive Editor of the New York times paid considerably less in salary and benefits than her male predecessor, [URL="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/05/why-jill-abramson-was-fired.html"]gets sacked when she asks for more[/URL].

[eldargal]

My favorite pony is Fluttershy and I still taste the blood in my mouth from where a boy’s elbow met my cheek. He hit me hard enough that I hit the floor. His shirt had her shy face on it. I kissed the concrete and he kept walking.

I am five feet and two inches and I’ve been shoved to the side so many times that if you are going to look for me, always scan the edges of a crowd for a small girl with wide eyes and bruises on her knees. I like Fluttershy because she’s like me, she likes animals more than people and when things get too loud, she shuts down. I like her because I’m scared of most things even though I know I shouldn’t be.

I am filled to the brim of moments where My Little Pony started turning into ashes where once had been a harmless little girl’s show. Boys with Rainbow Dash on their hoodies have sexually harassed my underage sister. They have touched my hair and made comments to my brother about whether or not he and I were ****ing. They have made me scared for the little girls in my second grade class who are old enough to search for pictures of their favorite show. A boy with a pony bag threatened to rape me because I said I was a feminist. I wasn’t even talking to him at the moment.

I have grown to fear the title “brony.” I use to love the idea that a show could teach everyone who watched it friendship and compassion. I loved the idea of an all-inclusive community.

My favorite video game is anything I can shoot things in. I have been playing since before the PS was a thing. Yet with more geek cred than my boyfriend, I have been stripped down by worse words than I care to repeat. I have been asked to do anything from make a sandwich to suck a dick to kill myself. The whole nerd culture rails against the idea that I can dress in flower print and still have played both Portal games more times than I can count. I’m not supposed to be a girl and be in their space. This is for boys, get away.

This is my petition for every girl who has been spat on for liking comics. This is my petition for every person who loved something hard and watched a group of angry men ruin it. This is for every man who flinches because they’ve taken his fandom from him and made it disgusting.

Step on them by giving them the exact **** they’ve been shoving down your throat since you were fifteen and admitted that you liked Bioshock. Ask them if they only like My Little Pony because their girlfriend does. Ask them if they know every word to every episode. Sneer at them when they dress up, ask them to get back behind the grill, catcall them. Let them know you’re done letting them walk all over what you love. Take it back. Take back everything they wrenched from your fingers. Make the spaces they poisoned become unsafe for them. Stop rolling your eyes and letting it happen. Stand up. Destroy them.

I am sick of privileged babies making every community cater to them. I am sick of their pickup lines and reddit threads and antifeminism. I’m sick of their memes and fedoras and resistance to women. I am sick of them.

Take it back. This is my petition. I’m calling it reappropriation

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[Mr Mystery]

Right on, Sister!

Does make me want to pick the brains of those geeks and nerds who simply take the crap they're given by the 'cool kids' and vomit it onto others. I mean, being nerd isn't always fun, and you do get bullied. You'd think there might be a natural drive for us to club together. But no. Nerd Elitism is ****ing horrifying, and often the victim becoming the perpetrator.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Right on, Sister!

Does make me want to pick the brains of those geeks and nerds who simply take the crap they're given by the 'cool kids' and vomit it onto others. I mean, being nerd isn't always fun, and you do get bullied. You'd think there might be a natural drive for us to club together. But no. Nerd Elitism is ****ing horrifying, and often the victim becoming the perpetrator.

The answer is these people aren't geeks, they're jerks who happen to be geeky.
Jerks are always jerks whether their wearing a football jersey or an MLP T-shirt.
Jerks are jerks because they're self-entitled spoiled little bell ends who think the whole world revolves around them.
The problem in part is that we've been conditioned to see geeks a certain way, so this somehow is surprising.
It's just proof that in reality privilege, and self centred idiocy are rife.

[Morgrim]

I can't remember who said it, but to paraphrase a quote: "Bullying doesn't teach the victim to be compassionate. It teaches you it's a lot better to be the bully than the victim."

[Gotthammer]

Also don't forget that a common way of comforting bullied geek boys is "one day you'll be in charge of those dumb bullies and have a hot wife and show them!", when in reality geek boys are as ****ty to geek girls (ie not hot) in their younger years, chasing after the ones who only date "*******s" (because they actually share interests with said "a-holes") and getting shot down. So it ends up that society is yet to fulfil its promise of power and hot babes on demand so they wall up against any intrusion by "*****es" and "posers" because, as Morgrim said, they learnt that the bullies got what they want so that's what they need to do, though in this case it's justified because victim complex. #rant

[Psychosplodge]

The answer is these people aren't geeks, they're jerks who happen to be geeky.
Jerks are always jerks whether their wearing a football jersey or an MLP T-shirt.
Jerks are jerks because they're self-entitled spoiled little bell ends who think the whole world revolves around them.
The problem in part is that we've been conditioned to see geeks a certain way, so this somehow is surprising.
It's just proof that in reality privilege, and self centred idiocy are rife.

yep...

[Mr Mystery]

Here's a nice pic to cheer people up, because it's all got a bit depressing over the past few posts (content, not people!)

[Psychosplodge]

Here's a nice pic to cheer people up, because it's all got a bit depressing over the past few posts (content, not people!)

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