My new favorite terrible Tumblr blog is this is female privilege, a blog that posts user-submitted examples of, well, female privilege. It’s a pretty MRA-adjacent idea for a blog, seemingly designed to be appreciated only by those who can use the word “misandry” without giggling. The woman who runs the blog seems to be fairly MRA-adjacent type herself; she recently responded to one critic with a sarcastic “Wow waahhhh it’s so hard to be a woman wahhhh!” (Literally; that’s an exact quote.)
So it’s hardly surprising that many of the posts seem to have been cut and pasted straight from the Men’s Rights subreddit – at least figuratively, if not literally. (Click on the pics to see the posts in context at this is female privilege.)
But a lot of the alleged privileges are a bit, well, odder than that. The blogger says she posts everything she gets, so either a lot of people have pretty cockeyed notions of just what privileges are, or some feminists are trolling her blog by sending along the dumbest non-privileges they can think of to make the blog even more ridiculous than it already is.
Some suggest that biological differences are “privileges.”
Some of the so-called “privileges” are the results of traditional gender roles that box both men and women in:
Dude, if you want to shave your body hair, shave your fucking body hair. There are lots of guys who shave or wax.
Some are comically delusional:
Chance this last one was submitted by a guy: 110%.
Some are just kind of whiny.
You know, there’s an easy solution to this: wait for a fucking stall, like women do.
Some are kind of weird:
And some are just, well, beyond hope:
Seriously, if you see these things as female privilege, you really, really shouldn’t be talking about privilege in public on the internet. You’re just making a fool of yourself.
The one redeeming thing about the blog: people argue back in the “notes.”
EDIT: Another redeeming thing: It’s inspired the response blog Actually This is Male Privilege.
EDIT 2: Amanda Marcotte riffs on the one about women having the wonderful privilege of sex any time they want!
Sometimes I think the Doctor just has a really hard time resisting the impulse to piss people off on purpose.
Isn’t that how the Doctor survives at all? Blatantly walk into the center of an enemy compound and give some random aburd speech to buy him time to think of something? Pissing people off is a survival tactic!
* Yeah yeah, he usually has thought things out far in advance, but playing dumb really really works out for him well.
That’s pretty much it, yeah. He knows how to push people’s buttons, and he does it both to get the best out of his allies, and to egg his foes into rash action. The latter is also a favorite tactic of Spider-Man.
Yeah, Ami goes for 11 at the very beginning of the season, but 10 got cloned so that his clone could hook up with Rose. One of my favorite aspects of the show as a whole is how the Doctor and his companion can just be buddies with little or none of the sexual tension you’d typically expect from A Chick And A Dude Go On Adventures Together, and I think Rose really mucks that up.
But the best companion is Romana. Period.
Romana is pretty awesome.
Romana rocks. And if she was still in E-space when the Time War broke out, is probably still alive.
katz — I haven’t seen much old series, but the last episodes with 10, my best friend insists that woman is Romana, because he can’t bear the thought that she voted for the final solution. She seems like a big deal in other words.
And Rose and the Doctor are definitely too sexual (shouldn’t he have um, slightly more serious qualms about dating a human? Aren’t we seriously less advanced than his species?)
Maybe that’s why I love River so much though, she is actually a match for him, intellectually, despite their relationship. (That, and she’s just paradox after paradox…and I’m a little worried that 11 is walking straight into a huge trap, but pretty sure she’ll save his ass, and thus the universe 🙂 )
And if she was still in E-space when the Time War broke out, is probably still alive.
Please, please, please!
Um… and where would the sperm in the sperm bank come from, in this hypothetical man-free world?
I may have skipped over a few comments, but wut? Who talked about a man-free world?
It was in the OP.
Ecclestone kind of pissed me off, and not because of his acting or personality – it was just such an obvious, marketing-y way to go. “Hey, we need to make the Doctor sexy for the noughties! Enough of this professorial, foppish character! Shaved head! Working-class northern accent! Leather jacket! Sexy!!!” I really think the Doctor has to be a posh dude who dresses anachronistically, and though I’ve had screaming arguments in the pub with Ecclestone advocates about how his accent shouldn’t matter, they’ve all had to admit that if the Doctor was ever reincarnated with a US accent, they’d go ape-shit.
Although to be honest, all the current crop of Doctors are a little too peppy and upbeat and hyperactive to me. Of the old Doctors,* only Tom Baker was like that, and even he wasn’t really like that. My favourite was Peter Davison, who had a lovely melancholy edge – he always seemed vaguely stressed or bummed out about something. And my favourite companion was Turlough, which makes me hipper than all of you (although for pure teenage crush value it would have to be Nyssa).
I saw the Hooters episode of Undercover Boss and it was indeed by turns depressing and amusing… Mr Gary Abusey branch manager should have been fucking fired on the spot, and it was funny watching the boss canvassing opinions on Hooters from the locals and then basically saying “Why don’t these small-town Americans want to bring their families to my overtly sexualised restaurant?”
Oh, and Steele, sincerely, thank you for saying “Logic bomb” with a straight face at the end of your moronic post . I’ve got a long day’s work ahead of me, and that has really set me up for the day – I can tell I’m still going to be giggling about it this evening.
* Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy never happened LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU
11 did mostly just seem freaked out when Amy kissed him…
(shouldn’t he have um, slightly more serious qualms about dating a human? Aren’t we seriously less advanced than his species?)
I might be missing something because I’ve never really watched the show, but does anyone else find the way in which the “sexy” Captain Jack character from Torchwood will try and bang anything – even if it looks like an amoeba or a cloud of gas – incredibly creepy and wierd?
And isn’t it weird how, although I’m a sub-editor and get paid to spell things correctly, I always fuck up the “ei” in the word “weird”?
i was in love with Leela…i was too young to notice the ridiculous outfit, i just loved how fierce she was. my memory is hazy but that is what i took away from her as a companion. i think you always love your ‘first’ Doctor, mine was Tom Baker, but i loved Patrick Troughton’s grumpiness. Davidson i loathed because he wasn’t Baker, and poor old Colin and Sylvester, they got royally shafted by cuts in the BBC and falling audience share (bit chicken and egg though). I think Eccleston was necessary to kick start the series again, a well known and ‘hip’ actor after the travesty Dr Who had become. i think it was a shame he was in for such a short time but i think he only ever wanted to play a brief part.
i think Tennant was fabulous and am pleasantly surprised by Smith.
I LOVED Donna.
i had a very one sided conversation with a disinterested friend about how the Doctor appeals to the child in us, he is the parent that scares away the bogey man. i think that’s why i’m not really keen on the sexual attraction they bring in, i feel like i’m finding out about my mum or dad being unfaithful or when you realise your parents have sex.
I love Tom Baker, but I’ve also got a soft spot for Jon Pertwee, who doesn’t seem to get a lot of love. The only doctor I really disliked was the sixth, though I agree with what someone said up-page that it’s a case of disliking the sixth doctor, not Colin Baker himself. He’s a very charming actor, and it’s a pity he didn’t let more of that charm show through when playing the Doctor. Of course he was also lumbered with some of the worst scripts, sets, supporting actors and (or course) costumes of the classic era.
Gandalf and the Doctors are essentially just the coolest teachers a kid (or hobbit) could ever have. They’ll take you out on a school trip (in the future! in space!), you’ll learn and have fun on the way – but when they tell you to run, you’ll f**king well run.
Out of trust and respect.
Wanna be a teacher? Aspire to be one of those epic nerds and use their mojo along with the the ways of your awesomest old teachers.
Ecclestone’s surly northern Doctor was just a palette cleanser, like “hello, we’re back! This man’s a serious actor who’s gonna sod off anyway, glad we got your attention, the whimsy will be along shortly”.
And River was a bit of a let down in the end…like how Nancy Spungen was never gonna be as cool as Poly Styrene because she’s just the groupie, not in a band of her own. Sorry.
The Olympic swimming team are all shaven for maximum streamlining….and yet being really, really good at something they love will never block out the mocking laughter of men who apparently can’t understand how toilet cubicles work?
And the crotch shot? Vaginismus lads…look it up. If that’s your version of “female privilege” you are even more messed up than I thought.
I quite liked what I’ve seen of Jon Pertwee.
Too young to really remember much of Leela, but my parents have on more than one occasion bemoaned the way she was written out.
Apparently she met a dude and was suddenly all “Oh, this dude is cool, I’mma marry him and settle down and have babies and stop being awesome now.”
(Do not mean to imply people who settle down and have babies can’t be awesome, but she stopped being awesome like Leela.)
Apparently Ecclestone quit because he was worried about being too associated with one character and not getting any other work afterwards. Not too sure he made the right choice, as (1) we haven’t really heard a peep out of him since and (2) being the Doctor doesn’t seem to have hurt David Tennant’s career at all.
Probably old news for most, but the Romana fans among you may be amused/envious/appalled/indifferent to know that Richard Dawkins is currently, in the modern youth parlance, “hitting that”.
@Morkais, yes, she wanted to leave the show so they wrote her out. they replaced with her Romana, whom my 9yr old self never liked, i found her too cold after Leela and most my games at the time involved playing with toy bows and arrows and building lean-to(s)(not sure how to pluralise that), not being coldly brilliant and efficient. I suspect if i had been older, Romana would have appealed more.
Tossing this out there…Blake’s 7 anyone?
Don’t have a problem with writing Leela out, just the way they did it…
I’ve heard a peep from Ecclestone since- he was in a thing called Blackout that just finished, playing an alcoholic on the city council. Quite good, I thought.
i know it was odd, not consistent with her character but it was the 70s….