Reddit MRA: My eminent businessman friend who is totally not made-up refuses to be alone in a room with a woman

Treglodyte: While I may have forgotten a single comma, the sentence was actually fine form of English. No, I never recognized any character.

a fine form. Perhaps you meant to say it was finely formed English.

Both are, debateably (because euphony is part of the finess of a phrase; Churchill for one should most probably have decried it as muddy.

What, one wonders, is a “children based conception”? Were you saying children created it? I suppose, but then it’s an act of precocious intelligence, and deserving of adult praise.

So that can’t be it.

Were you saying it was based on children? Again, that steals the sting… Peter Pan is based on children, so too is Narnia, and Harry Potter.

They may be argued about, as to literary merit, but none of them have been ever thought of as something purely for children, no matter that they appeared to be about children.

If, as I believe, what you meant to say was, “How old does it make you thatt you are interested in a childish creation, then you have an actualy insult in the sentence.

But you didn’t, which means (if we are correct in the contextually defensible determination) that you meant to make an insult, and failed, which means it wasn’t a very fine piece of English at all, no matter that grammatically it was diagrammable.

The meaning was lost, it was muddy, and trite.

But, if you can stick the flounce, you can crow your, “victory”, and be reasonable certain your cheering section will not come here to see the actual carnage.

Tregd, love, Rutee is cis and not an asshole; actually she is kind of an awesome person. I realize you may be unfamiliar with this concept.

I, however, am trans all over the place. Not only that, but I have my own weird pronoun, “zie.” AND I’m childish! I adore My Little Pony! You can attack me!

XD XD XD XD XD XD

Rutee: The Happy Meals thing is still going on, I think, so if you want to get one…

@Ozy

Oh…oh my God…are these it?? http://derpyhoovesnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/My-Little-Pony-Happy-Meal-Toys-1.jpg

I know where I’m going to shamefully go for lunch tomorrow. Hope the bronies didn’t get them all first…ugh. How is it they look better than the toys that you actually have to pay for with the shitty hair mane?

Also this will be my exact reactions haha http://bronies.memebase.com/2012/03/18/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-disappointment-in-every-happy-meal

and on the topic of being a geek…my bedroom is full of toys, artbooks, manga, graphic novels, plushies, plushies I’ve made etc. It’s who I am and that’s how I likes it 😛

@Pecunium

It must be a part of the six degrees of separation thing. I find it really fascinating, particularly about blogs like these or anything pertaining to gender issues, but that’s most likely my own bias getting in the way since no one in my group really cares about these things. Unless they’re hiding it.

Why did I get so far behind on this thread? After all, I’m a trans person with an anime icon and an anime inspired nym.

The thing about academic culture that one of the trolls posted earlier was rather hilarious. I’m FAAB and was a philosophy major in undergrad. My faculty adviser was a guy, I met with him alone in his office, like the other students (maybe a bit more, actually, I debated hard whether or not to go to grad school, he tried to get me to consider applying to their department). I was also the only non-male regular member in the philosophy club until my senior year (which had the same professor as an adviser). I’ve been to male professors houses with groups of students. I’ve had coffee with male professors and other students.

I’m thinking that if having one of the students you advise in your office or talking to you in a coffee shop over coffee is suspicious, it’s because there is either something untoward going on in the specific situation (or a suggestion of such), a history of problems with the professor, or the university has already had massive issues with sexual harassment and professors behaving inappropriately as a part of their general university climate.

I still see it as someone peering out, sidewise, over her shoulder, from under larger, but not huge hat.

RE: Kate

I’m with you; that’s what I thought Rutee’s icon was.

RE: Everyone

Aw man. I’m trans and that troll actually managed to upset me a bit with the slur-slinging. I’m kinda disappointed in myself; you’d think after my own dad told me I’d never fit in male society, I’d have gotten a thicker skin…

Awww, I wanted my bullshit diagnosis dammit! C’mon back Troll #259!!

The advert isn’t exactly ‘real’. It’s based on a real ad though, for tampon libra. They did a “I am sorry you’re offended” apology, but at least they stop using it.
But the internet being the internet (ie there are plenty of terrible people on it and almost nothing disappear) someone added on the image all the implied stuff. (the text and voice are not in the initial ad)

RE: Ponkz

It’s okay, it was just a brief sad. The whole reason I comment here is to learn to deal with assholes and trolls, so it’s all part of the experience.