The male dialogue in this webcomic is all taken word for word or adapted only slightly from web commentary by hurt and confused men with Very Important Things To Explain, usually to women. Artistic license is exercised in editing commentary for brevity, spelling and grammar, but the spirit of the original comment is always faithfully observed. Witty rejoinders are also ‘found dialogue’ where possible.posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 5:24 PM on July 1, 2014
"Feminism in the Anglosphere is a false grievance industry"do not strike me as phrases that display emotion, regardless of who says them.
"Am I supposed to take into consideration a woman's dolphin vegan soul when wanting sex?"
"People commit violent acts against people on a regular basis. These attempts to make it gender specific are getting tedious. And predictable."
A woman's worst nightmare? That's pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."Whining about misandry; don't be that guy.
"Whining leads to wallowing in self-pity. Wallowing in self-pity leads to misogyny. Misogyny leads to becoming an MRA douchebag making the rest of us look bad."I paraphrase.
But to read Mansfield Park as a kind of Middlemarch is to miss the far more complicated story Austen has told. Fanny Price’s story is less about her individual virtue, or her richer relatives’ lack thereof, but about class, about privilege in its most insidious form—before the term ever cropped up in contemporary social justice discourse. Fanny isn’t moral or upright because she wants to be, but because the role—along with a whole host of so-called middle-class values—is forced upon her. For all we know, she may well wish to be as carefree, as filled with dynamic sprezzatura, as Woodhouse or Elizabeth Bennet, Austen’s more fortunate heroines, but the social dynamic, and the circumstances of her birth, deny her the security necessary for such frivolity. Fanny has too much at stake to be easygoing.posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:08 AM on July 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
She is, after all, a poor relation, sent to live with her wealthier cousins at Mansfield Park by a kind of nominal charity. From the first, her rich aunt insists that she never forget her social inferiority to her cousins:
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posted by immlass at 10:32 AM on July 1, 2014