Comments for Feminism to a neurotic extreme http://feministdracona.net/rant "You have a such stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on it’s almost embarrassing to listen to you." -Z. Brzezinski Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:40:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 2 by draconismoi http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1546&cpage=1#comment-54374 draconismoi Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:40:30 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1546#comment-54374 Well it's nice to know someone doesn't think I am being too harsh.... Well it’s nice to know someone doesn’t think I am being too harsh….

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 1 by draconismoi http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511&cpage=1#comment-54373 draconismoi Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:36:22 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511#comment-54373 I think she discovered that it was easier to write porn than bother with piddling little details such as plot or character development. I think she discovered that it was easier to write porn than bother with piddling little details such as plot or character development.

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 2 by Alanna http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1546&cpage=1#comment-54355 Alanna Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:44:06 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1546#comment-54355 You and I are on the same page here, honey. You and I are on the same page here, honey.

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 1 by Alanna http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511&cpage=1#comment-54354 Alanna Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:39:13 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511#comment-54354 I love you so much for that Anita bit because I too used to adore and anticipate those books. It was the first paranormal romance series I had ever gotten into, and the fact that it continued going on for so long made me immensely happy... until around the time of Incubus Dreams. Then it started going downhill. Fast. I will not even pick up an Anita Blake novel to read -let alone buy- anymore and that is just depressing. I even find the Merry Gentry series hard to buy nowadays. I don't get it! Laurell used to be my favorite author! WTF happened?! I love you so much for that Anita bit because I too used to adore and anticipate those books. It was the first paranormal romance series I had ever gotten into, and the fact that it continued going on for so long made me immensely happy… until around the time of Incubus Dreams. Then it started going downhill. Fast. I will not even pick up an Anita Blake novel to read -let alone buy- anymore and that is just depressing. I even find the Merry Gentry series hard to buy nowadays. I don’t get it! Laurell used to be my favorite author! WTF happened?!

]]> Comment on The Birth of a Geek. Also: Bite Me Literary Snobs by draconismoi http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1551&cpage=1#comment-54193 draconismoi Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:25:18 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1551#comment-54193 I suspected I was being a bit too harsh on the classics in general during my rant. I loved some of the classics just as much as I loved my scifi.....I just didn't happen to even vaguely enjoy 75% of the Great Works I was being forced to read. Now I'm trying to think of those I felt something other than disdain for. Keep in mind I was in elementary school at the time. Oh yeah, The Crucible was awesome. As was To Kill a Mockingbird. And there will always be a place in my heart for the works of Kipling and Carroll. (Sometime during high school I got into Chaucer, fell in love with Les Miserables, and started reading poetry). But oh dear fucking god did I despise the works of Jane Austen (to be honest I am still not a fan). All Quiet on the Western Front was awful. I couldn't get into The Red Badge of Courage or Moby Dick. (heh, I remember taking my very first college level english course and hearing the ENTIRE CLASS instantly and unanimously agree that "Call me, Ishmael" was the best opening line OF ALL TIME. No arguments. I was horrified - seeing as how I could barely recall details beyond "blah blah blah my wang my precious wang.") I suspected I was being a bit too harsh on the classics in general during my rant. I loved some of the classics just as much as I loved my scifi…..I just didn’t happen to even vaguely enjoy 75% of the Great Works I was being forced to read. Now I’m trying to think of those I felt something other than disdain for. Keep in mind I was in elementary school at the time.

Oh yeah, The Crucible was awesome. As was To Kill a Mockingbird. And there will always be a place in my heart for the works of Kipling and Carroll. (Sometime during high school I got into Chaucer, fell in love with Les Miserables, and started reading poetry).

But oh dear fucking god did I despise the works of Jane Austen (to be honest I am still not a fan). All Quiet on the Western Front was awful. I couldn’t get into The Red Badge of Courage or Moby Dick. (heh, I remember taking my very first college level english course and hearing the ENTIRE CLASS instantly and unanimously agree that “Call me, Ishmael” was the best opening line OF ALL TIME. No arguments. I was horrified – seeing as how I could barely recall details beyond “blah blah blah my wang my precious wang.”)

]]> Comment on The Birth of a Geek. Also: Bite Me Literary Snobs by unusualmusic http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1551&cpage=1#comment-54191 unusualmusic Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:43:25 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1551#comment-54191 <i> 1. She is reading too fast and too much. Obviously she isn’t really reading. Just skimming. Or pretending. Or perhaps actually reading the words without retaining their meaning. You must slow her down. Force her brain to work at a speed and level that we, random faceless strangers, are comfortable with. 2. Now that we are dictating the speed at which your child is allowed to process the written word, we must intervene regarding the type and quality of the written words she is processing. It’s all trash! Garbage! If she is going to read, make her READ.</i> WHAT?!?!!?! As a fellow fast reader (though I did like teh classics as well as scifi,) i share my outrage at this smug ignorant assholery. 1. She is reading too fast and too much. Obviously she isn’t really reading. Just skimming. Or pretending. Or perhaps actually reading the words without retaining their meaning. You must slow her down. Force her brain to work at a speed and level that we, random faceless strangers, are comfortable with.
2. Now that we are dictating the speed at which your child is allowed to process the written word, we must intervene regarding the type and quality of the written words she is processing. It’s all trash! Garbage! If she is going to read, make her READ.

WHAT?!?!!?! As a fellow fast reader (though I did like teh classics as well as scifi,) i share my outrage at this smug ignorant assholery.

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 1 by draconismoi http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511&cpage=1#comment-54153 draconismoi Thu, 27 May 2010 21:01:28 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511#comment-54153 Which I will promptly take a picture of and send to the publisher with a note about how non-crappy covers look so much better than crappy covers. Which I will promptly take a picture of and send to the publisher with a note about how non-crappy covers look so much better than crappy covers.

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 1 by Feminism to a neurotic extreme » Blog Archive » Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 2 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511&cpage=1#comment-54152 Feminism to a neurotic extreme » Blog Archive » Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 2 Thu, 27 May 2010 20:58:42 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511#comment-54152 [...] Last time I rambled a bit about certain book series that I just can’t stand – and the one rare shining example in which an author managed to totally redeem themselves after an awful first book. [...] [...] Last time I rambled a bit about certain book series that I just can’t stand – and the one rare shining example in which an author managed to totally redeem themselves after an awful first book. [...]

]]> Comment on Your Words Have Shat Upon My Expectations – Now I Hate You Forever: Part 1 by Raul http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511&cpage=1#comment-54151 Raul Thu, 27 May 2010 18:42:47 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1511#comment-54151 ok, this book you hate the cover of but want a non-covered version...buy it, give it to me...i will remove the cover and make you a better one...deal? ok, this book you hate the cover of but want a non-covered version…buy it, give it to me…i will remove the cover and make you a better one…deal?

]]> Comment on Today in Getting Credit for Doing Nothing by Mick http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1498&cpage=1#comment-54125 Mick Sat, 22 May 2010 01:27:39 +0000 http://feministdracona.net/rant/?p=1498#comment-54125 Said not-so-supportive father's name is Frederick Lenzser. Take that, Google search results! Said not-so-supportive father’s name is Frederick Lenzser. Take that, Google search results!

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