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Apr. 4th, 2007 07:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jheti
It must be a man.
To which, good sir, I will apply the best fandom of all for this sort of thing.
"Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man."
I'm not saying, of course, that the Bayeux tapestry wasn't constructed by a man, because obviously anything with any sort of technical outlook or sophistication and definitely anything that depicts violence accurately must have been made by a man.
After all, women know nothing about these things.
And I was really having fun with it, too, until then. It's not sexism I mind so much; I'm raging sexist myself, in the opposite direction. I'm a proper misandrist, and it gets worse every year.
It's that casual offhand way with which it's applied and never corrected. ZOMG MEN KNOW EVERYTHING.
Including, apparently, when it comes to embroidery.
Do you just not understand how very much a real live man of that time period would not be caught dead with a stitchery needle in his possession? Which part of that was not supposed to be horrific and funny?
If the writer had dared suggest that maybe it was a group of uninteresting female chattel stamping out designs MADE and DIRECTED by a group of men who were there. (My opinion must be right)...it would, of course, be written off as feminist polemic.
Be a man? Nay, I cannot! And if you must ask why, it's very simple.
Nothing unreal exists.
To which, good sir, I will apply the best fandom of all for this sort of thing.
"Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man."
I'm not saying, of course, that the Bayeux tapestry wasn't constructed by a man, because obviously anything with any sort of technical outlook or sophistication and definitely anything that depicts violence accurately must have been made by a man.
After all, women know nothing about these things.
And I was really having fun with it, too, until then. It's not sexism I mind so much; I'm raging sexist myself, in the opposite direction. I'm a proper misandrist, and it gets worse every year.
It's that casual offhand way with which it's applied and never corrected. ZOMG MEN KNOW EVERYTHING.
Including, apparently, when it comes to embroidery.
Do you just not understand how very much a real live man of that time period would not be caught dead with a stitchery needle in his possession? Which part of that was not supposed to be horrific and funny?
If the writer had dared suggest that maybe it was a group of uninteresting female chattel stamping out designs MADE and DIRECTED by a group of men who were there. (My opinion must be right)...it would, of course, be written off as feminist polemic.
Be a man? Nay, I cannot! And if you must ask why, it's very simple.
Nothing unreal exists.
