Topic: Why are people on the internet so sexist? (Read 2315 times)

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dust hes just so adorable sometimes.  you just want to pat him on the head and be like AWWWW YOU
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you could probably make a decent case for it being sexist if you wanted to move into a discussion of the.....the "other"........

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Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being. Michelet writes: ‘Woman, the relative being ...’ And Benda is most positive in his Rapport d’Uriel: ‘The body of man makes sense in itself quite apart from that of woman, whereas the latter seems wanting in significance by itself ... Man can think of himself without woman. She cannot think of herself without man.’ And she is simply what man decrees; thus she is called ‘the sex’, by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex – absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute – she is the Other.’

i mean its a kind of awful thing to do either way but i guess its a more interesting subject in this context than just NERDS ARE GROSS (who knew??)
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he probably has been posing as a girl on some other forums during his free-time.
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who fucking cares? stop chatting with strangers on the internet and sending them your picture
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it's pretty cool how this thread has so many posters that are barely gwers at all
What do you mean by this? What is the qualification for being a GWer other than having a GW account? Aside from theprivatelifeofme, the lowest post count in this topic belongs to buttkiller at 490. I just want to know what you mean by this???
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It is not this specific case that is the problem.  It means something bigger.
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no i dont think it's big at all
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check out the 'i went to a strip club' thread. you may find it enlightening.
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What do you mean by this? What is the qualification for being a GWer other than having a GW account? Aside from theprivatelifeofme, the lowest post count in this topic belongs to buttkiller at 490. I just want to know what you mean by this???
one of them is belross, even tho he was like the longest running global mod I wouldn't consider him a gwer anymore. he just got into a hundred arguments since his return and at least half of them were because he doesn't mesh well with us anymore. buttkiller is more of a gwer than him. I actually have no idea if belross said something wrong because I skipped over his post.

you're a gaming world member once you sign up, but you aren't necessarily a representative of the community. does having an SA account make you a goon?? speaking of goons, it's also about adhering to other website's E-CULTURES. like dok and mince and a lot of oddballs are obviously gwers, but someone who posts just like a goon or a gaian probably isn't part of our community at all. also like the guys afura is apparently talking about, there are very few members of our community who would ever act like that anymore and if they did a gwer wouldn't appreciate it
Last Edit: January 29, 2010, 12:34:16 am by earlchip
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who fucking cares? stop chatting with strangers on the internet and sending them your picture
I'm going to have to agree with this one. Generally, on the internet we're all just anonymous beings with avatars for faces. Doesn't really matter what sex you are, and you shouldn't really ever feel the need to prove it. (Unless you are on a dating site, that might be important.) Because what do you get out of it if they believe you? The satisfcation that... well, there's nothing really accomplished. Not sexism, just adhering to a meme.

I had this whole rambling spiel about women and new media and our tendency to self-label, but then I read it over and it was kind of stupid. So I guess I'll just say that maybe it's mild sexism when people say TITS OR GTFO, but I feel like the internet has enough penis jokes to make up for it. Nobody's really serious about it, and if they are, odds are you probably wouldn't be able to tell, anyway.
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i don't think dust was serious but even if he was or even since you THOUGHT he was idk why you would send him pictures or continue to talk to him

i also don't know why you felt the need to REPORT HIM TO US as if we're his dad
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how does she know he posts here?? did it come up in conversation? like, "hey, check out this forum i post at... the name's Dust, now lets see a pic"
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also "I AM A FEMALE ORGANISM" jesus who talks like that it's embarrassing


considering how many dudes impersonate women on the internet why are you even mad at him for questioning it, i wouldn't be ANGRY at someone for asking for some sort of proof
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in summary: this has nothing to do with sexism but everything to do with the internet
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i also don't know why you felt the need to REPORT HIM TO US as if we're his dad
Clearly because this isn't about Dust himself (notice how she didn't mention him in the first post) but a trend she's noticed that Dust exhibited.

one of them is belross, even tho he was like the longest running global mod I wouldn't consider him a gwer anymore. he just got into a hundred arguments since his return and at least half of them were because he doesn't mesh well with us anymore. buttkiller is more of a gwer than him. I actually have no idea if belross said something wrong because I skipped over his post.

you're a gaming world member once you sign up, but you aren't necessarily a representative of the community. does having an SA account make you a goon?? speaking of goons, it's also about adhering to other website's E-CULTURES. like dok and mince and a lot of oddballs are obviously gwers, but someone who posts just like a goon or a gaian probably isn't part of our community at all. also like the guys afura is apparently talking about, there are very few members of our community who would ever act like that anymore and if they did a gwer wouldn't appreciate it
Disagree with all of this but don't feel like writing a big post about GW culture. I like GW!!!!!!!! But it's gotta change...

You people don't need to be so hostile all the time!
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are you new to the internet or something? can we all see your pic? Please let me see your pic, female life form.
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?
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You people don't need to be so hostile all the time!

I've noticed that "gw culture" basically amounts to learning how to criticize things and learning how shitty everything really is, then becoming really cynical and mean spirited to everyone. This is happening right now with earl and afura. at some point some people just end up mocking everyone and jokeposting all the time (ie me).

it's pretty shitty but it makes for some funny things sometimes.

oh and earl/afura no offense i like you guys a lot, i dont have a problem with the way you post at all i'm just saying (and earl ive said this before!) your posts have seemed really cynical recently. w/e i dont care.
Last Edit: January 29, 2010, 12:57:49 am by goldenratio
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?
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i love you guys. i love every GWer. I have ultimate compassion for all living gwers
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?