What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Anonymous asked: But Foz, did you not realize that every post you make on your personal blog has to be VERIFIED (TM) by a team of ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT FACT-CHECKERS. Where is your CERTIFICATE OF VERIFICATION. (I'm sorry, you must get trolls far more often than I imagine, but people like that just -- lol.)

Like I’m just. I’m so confused? By the idea that personal anecdotes have to be Verified, as though that’s even possible half the time? Whoever that other anon was, it’s like, I’m sorry, Snapback McAsscrack, I didn’t realise I was meant to keep video records of my entire life and signed affidavits from all my friends vouching for our conversations on the offchance some internet rando wants receipts for something they demonstrably don’t give a shit about. 

My favourite thing is how many ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS STRANGERS are now yelling in the reblogs on the original post about how FEMINISTS ARE JUST LOOKING FOR REASONS TO BE OFFENDED, as though… they didn’t… find the post… and get worked up about it… because they wanted… to be offended? As though, in addition, the whole incident is just me/my friend reaching to feel oppressed, instead of the literal reason why the word Ms was introduced to the language?

I mean, let’s be real, there’s no good goddamn reason to ask a woman if she’s “Miss or Mrs?” when the person who literally just introduced you to them saw no reason to include that information themselves. If the event is so formal that you’re expected to refer to people as [title] [last name], that would’ve happened already; as it didn’t, you’re explicitly being invited to call them by their first name, which you damn well understand. Historically, the only reason we even have Miss and Mrs for women but just Mr for men is to denote whether individual women are available or claimed, so that men know who they can hit on: asking for the distinction straight up is functionally identical to if the first question a woman asked of a new male acquaintance at a work function was, “So, are you married?”. 

ANYWAY. *eyerolls*

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  3. porcupine-girl said: Anyone who doesn’t believe some random dude would ever say that (or even enough random dudes that your friend AND someone on Twitter have both heard it) has apparently not met many random dudes and their awful pickup lines.
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