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please feel free to get in touch with @marginsbeware on twitter and let him know what you think about THIS piece of shit.

Part of me wishes I had the energy to go through this piece of runny diarrhea line-by-line to point out everything wrong with it, part of me wishes I had twitter (for the first time!) so I could say something nasty to this complete and total waste of life and resources, but I somehow hurt my back this morning (while feeding the cats, even!) and I have a million things I have to do and I’m really tired.

Just… just go fuck yourself @marginsbeware. Fuck yourself with a rusty butter knife.

“Those of us who spent our formative years answering to “Hey Faggot”” should maybe try not to cling to our high-school victimhood as something that defines us completely. And maybe recognize that there are actual women and actual faggots (hi! I’m right here!) who are interested in the same things that you are, and that policing the boundaries of geek-dom (or whatever) as something to be exclusively inhabited by straight white men demonstrates only that you have learned nothing of empathy from your lived experience.

“For those of us for whom it was simply never an option to be anything other than who we are” - you mean, like women living in a patriarchal society? and people of colour? and queer people? and other people whose presence is routinely erased from (most) of “geek culture” despite the fact that we are here, kicking and screaming to be heard and seen, only to have to put up with inexcusable crap from books/movies/comics/art that we want to love? like the bullshit racism over an alternate-universe black Spider-Man? or the tokenistic queering of Gaeta in webisodes as the bone thrown to representation in BSG? or hey, let’s talk about why Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney will never get as much adoration as Asimov et al.?

Because you know - attractive women are good enough to be objectified as “super hot” but not good enough to share your interests. And ‘faggots’ are simply what you get called for loving computers and comics and MMORPGs - a label to suffer through, and an emblem of your own persecution. Certainly not actual gay people. [/sarcasm] (P.S. There are real lesbians, too! And some of them like science fiction and gaming, also! And they don’t just exist to make out with each other for your benefit.)

We all suffer alienation and heartbreak. In our society if your race, sex, sexuality, gender identity, class, etc. etc. etc. are not the dominant one, you cannot change it. You are outside the box and were never allowed inside the box in the first place.

You do not get a pass on sexism and homophobia and racism and cissexism and so forth just because you played Magic: The Gathering or can quote Monty Python or could read Quenya and Sindarin in high school. (I did all those things too?) Be human. Grow the fuck up. Stop looking for reasons to feel better than people.

Ugh.

I don’t usually hateblog but haha this is kind of amazing? I don’t know whether the perfect handwriting makes it more or less likely to be a complete troll.