but if your life is such a big joke, why should I care?

bookshelf 01.  [notice: burke is pushed back; rousseau and machiavelli both use the words "political writings"]

She feels that my sentimental side should be held with kids gloves; but she doesn't know that I left my urge in the icebox.  She swears I was prey for the female - well then hook me up and throw me, baby cakes, cause I like to get hooked.  I've been swinging all the time think it's time I learned your way: I picture you and me together in the jungle it will be ok.  If you don’t bring up those lonely parts, this could be a good time.  You come here to me - we’ll collect those lonely parts and set them down - you come here to me.  She says brief things, her love’s a pony: my love’s subliminal

And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire

[angst!g/cc] [angst!research paper proposal]

the pieces of jennifer's body. found pieces of jennifer's body.

I think a lot of fandom really hates women.  Fangirls are especially rabid.  It should come as no surprise that the more delusional ones hate the women their beloved men have been written into marrying - but I must admit, I did not expect these fangirls' solution to be eliminating women entirely.  I expected them to craft better, more perfect women as replacements - oh no.  Women have lost their right to be associated with men, for they are stupid, cruel creatures, white sepulchers. 

See: An Empire Reborn, a story by this chick (loves Brokeback Mountain!*  Surprise!  hates the fandom's main female character!  Surprise!).  When a story comes with this kind of disclaimer -

"The depiction of abortion by the characters in this story does not reflect the author’s political attitudes toward the procedure. The sole intention is to create an interesting conflict between the characters and pave the way for a male/male relationship between the two main characters. No offense is intended towards those in favor of the practice or towards women who have gotten abortions"

- I should have known not to read it.  Well, I read it anyway, because I wanted to see if I was right, and I was right.

The story, by the way, uses phrases like "They can have you torn limb from limb and sucked out of the womb in pieces".  And "slaughter". 

Oh my god you guys.  Women kill babies.  Women are teh evil.  Men are noble!  Men = LOVE. 
[caveat: the only good women are women who carry their babies to term, and if they really don't want the adorable little suckers, give them away to a deserving but infertile rich couple, like in Juno!]

Reminds me of my 9th-grade English teacher explaining our school mascots (the Spartans) to us: "Women were considered inferior.  They were only there to produce children.  For men, real relationships could only be had with men, who were their intellectual equals."  (paraphrased, obviously - although it forbade me from ever taking a movie like 300 seriously, and made the fact that wrestling was so popular among the boys of our school hilarious as hell)

So while I was mulling over the question of why so many fangirls hate female characters (and yet do not seem to hate themselves, and will in fact sometimes place themselves into their stories, if anything to end up with the only male character that they like, whom they will allow to be heterosexual.), and find the female characters "unworthy" of their canon husbands, this song came on:

"Peron's Latest Flame".  Change "Peron" to any male character with a canon girlfriend/wife, and you've got the fangirl's theme song.

[Che:] Could there be in our fighting corps a lack of enthusiasm for
[Army:] Exactly!
[Che:] Peron's latest flame?
[Army:] You said it brother!

[Che:]  Should you wish to cause great distress in the tidiest officer's mess, just mention her name

[Army:]  That isn't funny!
Peron is a fool, breaking every taboo, installing a girl in the army H.Q. - and she's an actress, the last straw!
Her only good parts are between her thighs, she should stare at the ceiling, not reach for the skies
Or she could be his last whore
The evidence suggests she has other interests
If it's her who's using him, he's exceptionally dim
Bitch!  Dangerous Jade!

She should get into her head, she should not get out of bed
She should know that she's not paid to be loud but to be laid
Slut!  Dangerous Jade!

Man, I love misogynists.  Especially when they're female.  I'm going to go watch Embodiment of Fire now.  Peace.

* - I too liked Brokeback Mountain.  I do not, however, fetishize it.