Why is my gmail showing snow?

[erastes]

(I use “Tree” background which usually echoes (rather cleverly) the weather outside.  It’s not snowing. and as far as I know there’s no forecast of it. Stop it, Gmail!!

This is the weather symbol for Tuesday.  I have no idea what that yellow thing is.  SCARY!!  Eggses in the sky!

The super-teddypig has a very interesting post discussing some wanker’s opinion on Brokeback Mountain. Amazingly manages to be homophobic and chauvinistic in the same article!! (the wanker, not Teddy). As I said in my comment on the post, time and again I see the argument “this does not represent ‘the gay experience’” – because it doesn’t represent THEIR gay experience.  Well, Mr Man, I’ve news for you. No fiction represents my experience. How could it?  Every single person’s experience is different!  There are cases where people read books and go “OH my god, this was my LIFE!” but that’s pretty rare.  A while back someone else said “this is not my experience” (I believe the complainant lived in LA) and I simply pointed out that a guy from LA is going to have a completely difference experience than one in, say, Cardiff, or Oslo, or Melbourne… or even perhaps from the guy next door…

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Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Why did a man write Madame Bovary? Or Anna Karenina or A Doll's House

It cracks me up that so many guys whine about 'hetero' privilege - though it doesn't apply to a number of us writing m/m - but they don't see that they're speaking from the long-established male privilege that gives them the notion that they have the right to tell women what to do.

As George Carlin would probably have said... un-fuck them.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

It cracks me up that so many guys whine about 'hetero' privilege - though it doesn't apply to a number of us writing m/m - but they don't see that they're speaking from the long-established male privilege that gives them the notion that they have the right to tell women what to do.

The drivel over at Teachmetonight was by a woman. An academic, of course. Several women pointed out that at least one of her presumptions was flawed (the one about m/m writers being primarily straight), but she didn't respond to them...just to the ones who spoke fluent Academe.

I think there's even less excuse for a woman to be demanding justification than a man. A woman should realize that demanding that women writers justify their writing on Topic X when men writers are presumed to have every right to tell any story they please without having to justify themselves to anyone is just buying into male privilege. I can understand a man not realizing what advantages being male gives him...but a woman should see this.