As discussed here, when Annalee Newitz got an article published at Slashdot, she was perturbed to find that rather than discussing her ideas, a lot of commenters instead engaged in a colloquy about whether they found her personally attractive. She wrote about this here. Today at Pandagon, Amanda Marcotte noted that one of the comments about this piece that Newitz received was as follows:
So let me get this straight: If a man looks at a woman and thinks about having sex with her, that is”sexist”? If so, call me and every other man on the planet sexist. Apparently, men are supposed to ignore and overcome millenia of evolution, merely to fit into your PC paradigm. I thought this sort of Victorian, sexless feminism had been discredited by the likes of Camille Paglia long ago.
To which Amanda responds:
We need to get together a hit squad of straight women and gay men together and start hitting big blogs run by men and turning every single discussion into one about whether we’d fuck the guy or not. Refuse to engage on the topic at hand and when anyone says this isn’t about his fuckability, get all pissed off and accuse that person of being an anti-sex prude and suggest they join the Christian right. Sometimes just turning the tables tells the whole story.
This gave me a pretty good laugh, although the comments that followed the post were predictably discouraging. Read the whole thing here.
–Ann Bartow
