Caltrops - Cabaret Voltron





	[quote name="Bill Dungsroman"]The LADIES of caltrops (Zseni and Seme, AFAIK) are hardly cut squarely from the mold of the <I>status quo</I>. [quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"]Women are typically uncomfortable dealing with abstractions - I think this is one of the very real differences between the sexes. Most people lack vision, but women also dislike abstractions, and, furthermore, are encouraged in a wide variety of ways to concentrate on exceptionally "trivial" matters. I have to put "trivial" in quotes because, honestly, ain't no big shit happening anywhere on this monkey planet. But yeah, girls have been encouraged to write those dumb depressing stories for the length of their education. Teachers tell them to "write about what they know" and "be honest" while "using writing to express themselves." Whereas men are more likely to receive technical criticisms rather than these sorts of spurious contextual or rhetorical criticisms. Who knows why?[/quote]I do! You're wrong. <I>Everyone</I> gets that particular party line, Zseni. Nobody's funneling girls into writing those types of stories. I would expect each and every Creative Writing teacher on the planet to be screaming inside <I>Oh God won't any of you pretentious little beasts why something different for just fucking once?</I> The results are what's interesting here, and I think boys get technical criticisms because their little action-oriented minds are dreaming up all sorts of (equally awful) stuff. What I'm sayin' is, to use an analogy, the boys are chomping at the bit to take off down the road and get utterly lost while the girls are mulling over which sweater to take, even though it's a trip to a tropical isle. And thus, they get predictable feedback from teachers based off those tendencies. [quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"]Yet I think there may even be something deeper about the Lifetime special thing that starts much earlier. Example: when I was 5, and I was playing My Little Pony with the girl across the street, and we had all the fucking ponies out and they were playing and whickering and brushing each other and whatever else ponies do, Girl Across The Street was always ready to bring THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR over the pony palace. Some pony would turn evil, or evil ponies would come and screw everything up, or my brother's Hot Wheels would run into the bestest ponies and kill them. Having been an ambitiousless and jovial slouch my whole life, I always wanted to know why this had to happen. I even asked her, straight up: how come the ponies can't just be happy? Can't we just have happy ponies for today? WELL THEY JUST COULDN'T. NO HAPPY PONIES. This pattern was to repeat through many girls across the streets and many types of toys, and would continue once all the toys were put away. Without toys, the girls would play No Happy Ponies with real live human beings: each other, and me.[/quote]This anecdote disturbs the shit out of me. What's next, a reveal that almost all guys' dicks are too small, and women can't achieve orgasm without a giant, thick cock? Although it jibes with the behaviors of women in their post-child days, it's unsettling that girls play that way. So, they play with toys that have "Happy" and "Pretty" and assorted (cute) fruits and vegetables in their names, yet drive them to inexorable mental anguish, while boys play with toys with modifiers like "Action" and "Power" and "Mighty" and use them to beat the shit of whatever villian is wack enough to step to them a solid 100% of the time? [quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"]Women and their senseless, innate appetite for drama![/quote]This is reminscent of your latter reports from FitM, when you realized that those women wanted to roleplay gay male anime characters, yet they never actually fucked. Just pissed and moaned about whatfucking ever. No hot pleasureful dominating buttsex, just whining and long, sorrowful glances. IOW, those girls were gayer than <I>fags</I>. [quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"]I got in a ream of shit in junior high for writing a series of stories in which nothing bad happened. They were about happy people, living simple peaceful lives in gorgeous locales, all lavishly described. The teacher, a woman, was furiously at a loss to cope with the pretty writing which was nevertheless bad writing, because it was jovial and ambitiousless. I came to understand that, you know, plot and all, you can't just write stories in which nothing bad happens. <i>It's dull.</i> The implications of this are still filtering through my system.[/quote]Yeah, well, junior high teachers are junior high teachers and not Nobel Laureates for a reason. [quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"]One of the lessons I learned from that incident I will give to you now: perhaps, Fabs, it's human nature. The one good thing in all the hack philosophy in The Matrix was the bit where Agent Smith says humans lived in the beautiful peaceful wonderful paradise and they <i>hated</i> it. Perhaps women are just acting like humans after all, having nothing better going on in their charming little heads. I'll save the discussion of whether anything better <i>should</i> be going through their charming little heads for another day.[/quote]Well, what's funny to me is that girls are prone to writing their own little Shakespearian tragedies with an eye squarely for the third act, while boys will <I>start</I> theirs in the third act and have a fifth act that <I>totally kicks the third act's ASS</I> that utterly disowns it as a tragedy at all (it's only tragic if it's a horror story - but then, the hero of those is the villian, anyway).[/quote]