Anecdotes
Let’s please give a belated round of applause to all the fabulous guest bloggers. Yay guest bloggers! Wooooooo spring break!!
Ahem. Two stories from today, and one from this weekend:
- In a housemate’s class, the GSI (“TA” – unionization brings better working conditions and nonstandard acronyms!) made long, constructive remarks about all the male-dominated groups’ presentations, and said “okay, great, next” to the female groups. Said friend intends to speak to the professor about this, hoorah.
- A guy was sitting around near the BART station, calling out “hey beautiful! Hey sexy!” to all the passing women. I asked him why he was doing that; he claimed it was a device for meeting girls, I told him he was an asshole. He stood up, loitered for a bit, and went away.
Fuck this flies and honey shit, I like speaking truth to assholes.
- The Ani DiFranco discussion has morphed into a giant collage of responses written on scraps of paper, taped to the wall where the lyrics used to be. Coming home tonight, I read the latest developments and realized that at Tech, such a discussion would almost certainly have included the words “FUKKKKK YOU” in black marker. Not only that, but when I playfully bapped someone on the head for making a comment about women being unpredictable, he came up to me later to talk about it! Awww.
Feeling like even my most hairy-legged concerns are taken seriously is a high like I don’t know what. Being a man, maybe?
It’s hard to get to bed on time in this house, people keep sucking you in to games of Trivial Pursuit when you just wanted a bedtime cup of tea.
Sabine wrote:
“Fuck this flies and honey shit, I like speaking truth to assholes.”
Amen to that. Getting called a bitch doesn’t bother me in the slightest (which is always the best thing they can come up with).
Posted 09 Sep 2020 at 8:27 am ¶
yami wrote:
Heh, yeah, it’s amazing people can’t “think outside the bitch” and be more creative in their responses to uppity wimmins – I mean, they have how much ugly history to draw on?
Posted 09 Sep 2020 at 8:51 am ¶
Moebius Stripper wrote:
Man, I wish the guys who catcalled me were stupid enough to do it from a bench. But no, they yell out obscenities from their cars, and they’re probably not delusional enough to think that they’re actually going to meet any girls that way.
Posted 10 Sep 2020 at 12:46 pm ¶
yami wrote:
I’m not sure this guy thought his technique was going to *work* – it seemed like more of a face-saving excuse. Because how many catcallers really have the balls to say “yeah, I’m an asshole, I like to make women feel self-conscious and afraid”?
Posted 10 Sep 2020 at 1:40 pm ¶