You can watch Rebecca’s insight in action right here folks on this very blog. Watch how, when things don’t go their way. the fire-works begin – personal attacks, insults, hyperbole, all with a heavy dose of condescending mansplination. “But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates them and their universe, and when you see the rage, the pettiness, the meltdowns and fountains of male tears of fury, you’re seeing people who really expected to get their own way and be told they’re wonderful all through the days.”
— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Lolita to Me
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January 25, 2016 at 4:20 pm
jasonjshaw
That can happen when anyone doesn’t get their way and is banking on poorly evidenced arguments, whether white man, feminist, salesperson, politician, theif, etc. etc.
When the insults start flying, chances are the basis for that person’s argument is not all that strong.
I’d be curious to see where a feminist is able to take a joke. The first thing I sensed upon reading this was irony!
Side note, upon watching the new feminist frequency and thunderf00t videos, thunderf00t does go overboard in some of his criticisms. He seems to be trying to go head-to-head in ridiculousness with Sarkeesian on his latest. With so much cherry-picking between the two of them, it kind of makes me hungry for some pie!
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January 28, 2016 at 12:30 am
emma
Loved that essay. So much of a woman’s life, and not just our experience with / reception of literature, is ‘explained’ to us by male ‘experts’ via male normative metrics. Still, in spite of much progress. I wonder if it will ever change.
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