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- Patty comes home tonight!

- Kali and I have started the next fic in I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling

- This thing that irritated me yesterday? http://community.livejournal.com/obama_2008/1422540.html
Infinitely more annoying now. Apparently a feminist is always over-reacting.

- Still feel like crap.

- Really hope the Whole Foods has their Mediterranean Chicken today as I am craving.

- Finished Trace Memory and will be posting about it soon. There's some tantalizing stuff in it.

- May briefly pop in on the DWNY thing tonight at Peculiar Pub.

Comments

[chite.livejournal.com]

Sorry you feel like crap, but glad Patty is coming home.

The McCain thing really annoyed me too. My MIL and her husband are about 30 years apart--her 2nd marriage and his 3rd. They are one of the most awesome couples I know. My own parents are 10 years apart (nearly 11). There are a lot of things to complain about with McCain but his wife's age is not one of them.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

See how you restrained yourself? If the OP had asked me why I had reacted so strongly, I'd have said something like, "Because I hate the Stupid, and this post is teeming with it."

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Trace Memory is the next on my list, am reading Twilight Streets currently, probably will wait reading your post about it until after I have read it, then, I suppose.

About the McCain thing - I shared the link with my partner. It got her hackles raised, too, quote end, even if she will vote for Obama (in Texas, no less). (Besides the issue at hand in the post she dislikes the attack-mentality from either side of the camps - since I am not American, I'll refrain from commenting on that). She is 22 years older than me. We have had surprisingly few issues with people to date considering there is apparently folks with those type of more extreme opinions running about, most of our circles of friends came around after the first odd 'er huh' reactions. She's been married once, widowed, and says she celebrates having a younger partner now. We've been together almost 4 years now, I was 20 when we met, I suppose I should feel cradle-robbed *smirks* but I am not.

ps. Also looking forward to another I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling

The attack-mentality from either side of the camps

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I don't think the concept of legitimate opposition is very deeply rooted in U.S. political culture, which is most unfortunate, given that, on the whole, they are quite fair minded people

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

Yay! for Patty coming home.

I'm also excited to hear about another Traveling tale. I'm going to end up a Torchwood fan whether I like it or not, I think.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

To be honest, when I first found out she was 18 years younger than McCain I was shocked too. She looks at least as old as him. :-P

...guess money *can't* buy the best plastic surgery there is...

Anyway, I've found when people are annoyed at a perfectly valid comment on the sexism of something, that comment has hit the mark solidly.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Apparently a feminist is always over-reacting.

Nothing gets me on my soap-box faster than the "Jeeze, it was just a joke. Chill out, will ya?" response when one gets a bit vexed about something grossly offensive.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

" I'm quite sorry, but, due to an unfortunate childhood illness, I do not happen to have a sense of humour. As, I was saying..."

Apparently a feminist is always over-reacting.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Apparently, any response short of the enthusiastic waving of pompoms is politically incorrect.
But of course, as was pointed long before me by someone more pugnacious than myself, people do not over-react. They react. If they react in ways that one did not anticipate, the error is ones own failure to predict.
Silly women, always wanting things!

[morinon.livejournal.com]

The problem with the internet is that tone is not obvious, and has to be inferred based on the internal biases of whoever is reading. And while I don't belive that the majority of feminists are over-reacting (and you certainly weren't there, it's definitely something I saw), there have been enough fairly public feminists who have, or at least people get that impression.

People don't like to think they're biased, so when someone says 'hey, you're biased,' their first reaction is 'no, you're overreacting.'