Wow...Dave Sim is an idiot...

[pyrephox]

"It was really the first time in my adult life that I spoke to women who I found physically unattractive and the first time I spoke to women with any motive besides getting them into bed. In the case of the attractive women that I interviewed, it was a guarantee that I was not going to get them into bed - "mothers and daughters," as subject, existing at the opposite end of the conversational spectrum from those topics which lead to sex - and (knowing that) for the first time in my adult life the intellectual, reasoning, "writerly" part of my mind was engaged when talking to women."

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[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

I managed to make it through 12 pages of the pdf before my mind revolted and forced my eyes to close in self defence. What a mess of an "essay." I'm embarassed to see that the guy is Canadian, and unsurprised to see that he is divorced.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Did you see the part about his administrative assistant quitting in disgust after he published the second part?

[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Of course, that wasn't relevant. Her disgust was /obviously/ due to her emotional weakness and inability to see the manifest truth of his greatness.

I especially admired his often-expressed thesis that anybody who disagreed with him was incapable of reason, if female, or brainwashed by the power of sex if male.

In other words, "Yeah, more than half of humanity thinks I'm wrong but that's because they're all stupid and weak." Well reasoned, my friend, well reasoned.

[cappadocius.livejournal.com]

Once again, I feel compelled to point out the crazy.

[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. So what? That fact certainly isn't mentioned in the essay, which is floating around out there being read. I may have some sympathy for the guy's condition but that doesn't make his writing any less stupidly misogynist.

[cappadocius.livejournal.com]

"Well reasoned, my friend, well reasoned." is, well, ironic rather than sarcastic in the context that he's crazy; obviously his logic is... bad.

I won't even go into the fact that this is some of his less misogynistic writing after the psychotic break.