Am I just reading this wrong?
Aug. 28th, 2009 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunI like a well written peice of meta, even if ultimately it's POV is not one that I hold. However, and I may be getting this wrong, but how do people read this:
These two men, for neither of them are women (I cannot tell you how much the feminisation of either of them, when it is not a deliberate kink, annoys me!), are realistic and pragmatic to various degrees.
It sounds to me like the writer is saying that women can't be realistic or pragmatic.
The whole idea that there are some character or personality traits that male or female specific annoys me. I've had enough of my RL friends over the years tell me that I don't 'think/act like a woman' Surely the fact that I am A) a woman and B) do think/act like that, mean that women can and do think/act in that way. I hardly think I am unique to the human race.
I mean what's a woman supposed to act or think like? I get the impression some times that people seem to think that unless you like fluffy kittens, painting you nails, and watching rom-coms with a bunch of other women, you're somehow abnormal as a woman.
Me, I'm a geek, I admit it. I play RPG's, and MMRPG online, I'm not fashionable and I can't remember the last time I did my nails (hell my brother owns more make up than me), I do my own repairs on my car and laptop. Fun is going to a real ale pub and talking sci-fi and putting the world to rights, or going to a reenactment event - there's nothing like being at a real battlefield event, the smell of the canon smoke, the drums before the fight and how they go silent as the two sides meet, feeling the weight of history around you, and wanting to put on the best fight display you can, not for you or for the watching public, but for those who really fought there, because they deserve nothing less.
Okay, stopping now this gets longer and more rambling than it already is.
These two men, for neither of them are women (I cannot tell you how much the feminisation of either of them, when it is not a deliberate kink, annoys me!), are realistic and pragmatic to various degrees.
It sounds to me like the writer is saying that women can't be realistic or pragmatic.
The whole idea that there are some character or personality traits that male or female specific annoys me. I've had enough of my RL friends over the years tell me that I don't 'think/act like a woman' Surely the fact that I am A) a woman and B) do think/act like that, mean that women can and do think/act in that way. I hardly think I am unique to the human race.
I mean what's a woman supposed to act or think like? I get the impression some times that people seem to think that unless you like fluffy kittens, painting you nails, and watching rom-coms with a bunch of other women, you're somehow abnormal as a woman.
Me, I'm a geek, I admit it. I play RPG's, and MMRPG online, I'm not fashionable and I can't remember the last time I did my nails (hell my brother owns more make up than me), I do my own repairs on my car and laptop. Fun is going to a real ale pub and talking sci-fi and putting the world to rights, or going to a reenactment event - there's nothing like being at a real battlefield event, the smell of the canon smoke, the drums before the fight and how they go silent as the two sides meet, feeling the weight of history around you, and wanting to put on the best fight display you can, not for you or for the watching public, but for those who really fought there, because they deserve nothing less.
Okay, stopping now this gets longer and more rambling than it already is.
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Date: 2009-09-06 08:38 am (UTC)I don't think you have to be mumsy to be a good mother. At least your baby will have a mother who will let them be who they are and encourage them to think outside of society's stereotypes. I have a friend who was never interested in children, but in her late 30s wound up with two - and she wouldn't change that for the world. They're both in their late teens now. Ak! I'm letting my advanced years show! All these young people on the net make me feel positively ancient, but I plan to grow old disgacefully since I never actually grew up =D