that fanfic research thing

[carmen_lj]

Regarding this fanfiction survey fail, I have only one question:

"Well, slash is kind of the female equivalent of the straight male interest in transsexuals"

Huh?

How is that even trying to disguise itself as anything distantly related to logic?

Bally idiots.

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[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I just read that! And then I had to go walk around the house, trying to excise the stupid from my mind.

[medie]

Oh logic and this guy live on different planets. Suspect he's a Ferengi who's had ear reduction surgery.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

This whole thing is like a car crash, I just can't look away... I'm just over here making popcorn and watching from a distance.

[nonelvis]

Slash is kind of the ... what now?!?!? Where is he getting this shit?

You'd think after the lambasting he's gotten over the past day or so he'd have learned something, but apparently not. Which is entertaining and all, but if he actually turns any of his incredibly bullshit assumptions into a published book, I will be furious.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

This whole thing is such a train wreck. I just keep shaking my head and going "THEY CAN'T REALLY BE THIS STUPID, CAN THEY?"

But it seems they are. Stupid, and privileged, and condescending, and STUPID.

[such_heights]

WHAT. WHAT. ALSO, THIS COMMENT. *goes a little 'splodey*

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

You, I actually wondered if people weren't being a bit harsh on these people at one point. Now I realise it was excessive kindness to call them too stupid to live.

[drho.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, they don't have to question their assumptions to make a quick buck or to laugh at everyone taking them seriously.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Slash is... what. No.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

HOW DO THEY HAVE PHDS OH GOD THEIR SCIENCE HURTS MY SOUL.

That said, it is an absolute joy to see my fandom friends and many others, these spectacular people with their own advanced degrees and plain old common sense, leaping all over these guys and ripping them into tiny little shreds of illogic.

[pextheunalive.livejournal.com]

Without even clicking on the link, you can tell that's just dumb. Besides, if it were the female equivalent of anything, wouldn't it be the female equivalent of the straight male interest in lesbians? That would be the opposite, after all. Not really sure where transsexuals enter into whatever the debate is about, but...oh nevermind, that one sentence has done gone and hurt my head. I'm off to take a couple of Extra Strength Tylenol... :D

[longtimegone]

This icon has never been more appropriate o_O

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

OMFG, I think I just died laughing. For their sakes, I hope this really is a social experiment.

*side eye*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

...

i am getting the feeling that i maybe know a bit more about dr. ogas now than i wanted to.

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

surely it's more likely to be the female equivalent of the straight male interest in lesbians?

[tgjerusalem.livejournal.com]

I'm a transman, gay/slash fan, and confused and annoyed by this crap. WTF?

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

Any chance they deliberately posted the Survey of Fail and all those lame replies just so they could study the reactions of people? That explanation is better than the alternative, that they really are that stupid and thoughtless. But extremely unlikely, sigh.

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

...that makes my brain hurt.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

We occasionally murder fictional men and use bullshit defences?

Wait, what?

[tree_and_leaf]

What. The. Frell.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

There is just so much stupidity there. I seem to be the only person whose first thought was "If you are a man who fetishises (I assume) trans women then you are clearly not 'straight'".

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Every time when I think I have seen the worst from them, they manage to surpass themselves anew.

It's so frelling hard not to go into full capslock modes and yell at them, "Oh, fuck you, YOU FUCKING FUCKERS."