Comments on: Hell: Imaginary, and Quite Possibly Frozen Over

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:44:32 +0000

Fuck, you put my name at the top and I thought I’d done something to piss you off. Waaah!

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:12:05 +0000

This made my morning. My favorite so far:

“That’s like saying Alex Perry’s inability to think critically is both his parent’s fault for painting his crib with lead paint but it’s also his own fault for not overcoming the resulting brain damage.”

By: Rachel_in_WY

Rachel_in_WY — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:00:32 +0000

@Awkward Avenger: well, ya know, the Greeks had a system for dealing with this problem… but I’m thinking Mr. Perry might not be so keen on their solution.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:13:18 +0000

I humbly submit that the phrase "girls enable men" be entered into the Gender Fail Hall of Fame. And that, if such a thing does not exist, we make one.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:28:14 +0000

Yeah, he’s what? 19? 20? Not too surprising for someone that age who’s grown up immersed in porn-y dudebro culture. Hopefully some of the righteous smackdown he’s getting will register somewhere in his testosterone-addled brain, even if it’s only in a small way.

By: Katharsis

Katharsis — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:00:44 +0000

@beckysharper: Not just sexually inadequate but profoundly terrified of genuine relationships. And given that his entire final paragraph reads like a primer on vicious gender stereotyping (blame the victim!, binge-drinking leads to rape!, sad and lonely women pining for relationships obsessively over facebook!), Alex Perry doesn’t seem to know any actual women with actual lives and actual personalities.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:42:45 +0000

Does anyone else read this screed and get the sense that Alex Perry–like most misogynists–has a deep, poorly-hidden terror of being found sexually inadequate?

By: Katharsis

Katharsis — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:18:53 +0000

@beckysharper: Thanks! I’m thrilled to finally “be here.”

@Awkward Avenger: So women should stop hooking up with men, but men should not stop hooking up with women? Who are these men supposed to hook up with, if all of the women stop consenting to it? Does this dillhole not realize that if we follow his logic to its natural conclusion, all premarital sex would actually be rape? Absolutely spine-tingling.

THIS! The mental gymnastics the author had to go through to write this piece staggers me. And I would bet that he/she did not have the cognitive ability to reach the natural conclusions of his/her own argument.

By: mkp

mkp — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:10:52 +0000

I hate it when sex is considered something (hetero)men “get from” (hetero)women rather than something two people participate in together. Bleargh. Yay for smackdown.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:01:48 +0000

Oooh, I love this comment from Dave: “In all honesty, it’s great to see a bunch of female citizens who feel free to express themselves both socially and sexually. As a society, that is a great step forward, and nowhere does Perry state that he’s against this.”

Privilege much, dude?