Comments on: Douchehound of the day: Whaddya mean, “feminist issue”? http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:31:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: stacy http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-92471 stacy Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:46:29 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-92471 Way too late to the party for anyone but mods to actually see this comment, but just wanted to answer FJ's and others' questions about Wizards closing. (I'm a former employee, laid off in Aug. 2008--and it's still around.) What you're thinking of, FJ, is the very short experiment in retail stores that Wizards did a few years back. Those *stores* closed, yes. But Wizards itself, the game design company owned by Hasbro that makes D&D and Magic: The Gathering and publishes fantasy books in those worlds for adults and children? It's been around for years, and continues on. Headquartered in Renton, WA. When I worked there (for over 3 years), when I mentioned where I worked a number of people asked, "But I thought those closed?" and I'd have to explain the difference between the retails stores and the company itself. Plenty of independent game stores and bookstores and chain stores still sell Wizards stuff. Way too late to the party for anyone but mods to actually see this comment, but just wanted to answer FJ’s and others’ questions about Wizards closing. (I’m a former employee, laid off in Aug. 2008–and it’s still around.) What you’re thinking of, FJ, is the very short experiment in retail stores that Wizards did a few years back. Those *stores* closed, yes. But Wizards itself, the game design company owned by Hasbro that makes D&D and Magic: The Gathering and publishes fantasy books in those worlds for adults and children? It’s been around for years, and continues on. Headquartered in Renton, WA.

When I worked there (for over 3 years), when I mentioned where I worked a number of people asked, “But I thought those closed?” and I’d have to explain the difference between the retails stores and the company itself. Plenty of independent game stores and bookstores and chain stores still sell Wizards stuff.

]]> By: Lizzie http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-81892 Lizzie Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:13:37 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-81892 Wow!! That's, intense. And completely bogus. I've actually had longer lasting, seemingly healthier relationships than a lot of the skinnier women I know. And, I'm currently in a long-term relationship that is moving in the direction of marriage. And I've been overweight since I was a kid. However, Schmucko, is unfortunately not the only one who thinks like he does (well, I don't know that anyone else is quite so ridiculous about it). But, there are men and women who love big women and vice versa. Too bad guys like that are unable to accept that. Anyway, I'm glad there are places like this that help fight such awfulness. Wow!! That’s, intense. And completely bogus. I’ve actually had longer lasting, seemingly healthier relationships than a lot of the skinnier women I know. And, I’m currently in a long-term relationship that is moving in the direction of marriage. And I’ve been overweight since I was a kid.

However, Schmucko, is unfortunately not the only one who thinks like he does (well, I don’t know that anyone else is quite so ridiculous about it). But, there are men and women who love big women and vice versa.

Too bad guys like that are unable to accept that. Anyway, I’m glad there are places like this that help fight such awfulness.

]]> By: Richelle http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-81782 Richelle Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:00:27 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-81782 Do! Not only for its subtle arguments and interesting info, but also to see some unbe-freakin'-lievable ads from the nineteenth century, particularly for face bleaches and hair straighteners. Let's just say they promised to turn you from one racial stereotype into another in seconds flat. A good companion piece (because if you're anything like me, the one thing you really need is more items on your "to-read" list) is Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, in which we learn that, thanks to an intensive marketing campaign, Lysol was the best-selling female contraceptive in the U.S. during the Depression, and that both Goodyear and B. F. Goodrich--yep, the tire people--did a steady business in IUDs. Do! Not only for its subtle arguments and interesting info, but also to see some unbe-freakin’-lievable ads from the nineteenth century, particularly for face bleaches and hair straighteners. Let’s just say they promised to turn you from one racial stereotype into another in seconds flat.

A good companion piece (because if you’re anything like me, the one thing you really need is more items on your “to-read” list) is Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, in which we learn that, thanks to an intensive marketing campaign, Lysol was the best-selling female contraceptive in the U.S. during the Depression, and that both Goodyear and B. F. Goodrich–yep, the tire people–did a steady business in IUDs.

]]> By: fillyjonk http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-81781 fillyjonk Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:34:08 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-81781 Richelle, that's hilarious! And I want to read that book now. Richelle, that’s hilarious! And I want to read that book now.

]]> By: Richelle http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-81780 Richelle Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:19:58 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-81780 Schmucko's fears are, alas, nothing new. I am reading Kathy Peiss's excellent book Hope in a Jar, and she notes that the English Parliament passed an act in 1770 annulling the marriages of women who had lured their husbands into matrimony by using "scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips." Apparently, men in the eighteenth century were as terrified of finding that they'd unwittingly married smelly, splotchy, toothless, bald, bulgy, short, hipless chicks as Schmucko is that some sly harpy will instantly expand like an inflated life raft the minute she's ensnared him. Schmucko’s fears are, alas, nothing new. I am reading Kathy Peiss’s excellent book Hope in a Jar, and she notes that the English Parliament passed an act in 1770 annulling the marriages of women who had lured their husbands into matrimony by using “scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips.” Apparently, men in the eighteenth century were as terrified of finding that they’d unwittingly married smelly, splotchy, toothless, bald, bulgy, short, hipless chicks as Schmucko is that some sly harpy will instantly expand like an inflated life raft the minute she’s ensnared him.

]]> By: aelo http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-80924 aelo Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:19:14 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-80924 maybe part of schmucko's problem is that he chooses to express this opinion here,anonymously, on a fat positive blog to women who he must know will find his attitude repellent, and therefore consider him to be to be completely unattractive. No one here will want to be with him, so it's safe to splash it around. It's safe to reveal himself as a human being that likes to get on the internet and 'express himself' by telling other people they are unloveable. But will he mention this on first dates? out loud and in front of witnesses? To a fiancees parents? to her best friends? Or will he keep it to himself when he meets a real woman, and instead of letting her know what he really thinks, waste her time by insisting he loves her for herself, and that he enjoys her company and her love means everything to him... thinking all the while, "I only mean it till you pork up, babe. then i dont love ya at all...." and the half of my stuff comment? I broke up with my ex husband 12 years ago... and even though in that time he has blown his half of the proceeds of th house we owned together AND the proceeds of the WHOLE of the house his new missus owned, AND asked my father for money he is still sitting there oozing fury that he can't get a share of the house I own now. Cos unless he has more than me, then any success I have is all because I took 'half his stuff' maybe part of schmucko’s problem is that he chooses to express this opinion here,anonymously, on a fat positive blog to women who he must know will find his attitude repellent, and therefore consider him to be to be completely unattractive. No one here will want to be with him, so it’s safe to splash it around. It’s safe to reveal himself as a human being that likes to get on the internet and ‘express himself’ by telling other people they are unloveable.

But will he mention this on first dates? out loud and in front of witnesses? To a fiancees parents? to her best friends?
Or will he keep it to himself when he meets a real woman, and instead of letting her know what he really thinks, waste her time by insisting he loves her for herself, and that he enjoys her company and her love means everything to him… thinking all the while, “I only mean it till you pork up, babe. then i dont love ya at all….”

and the half of my stuff comment? I broke up with my ex husband 12 years ago… and even though in that time he has blown his half of the proceeds of th house we owned together AND the proceeds of the WHOLE of the house his new missus owned, AND asked my father for money
he is still sitting there oozing fury that he can’t get a share of the house I own now. Cos unless he has more than me, then any success I have is all because I took ‘half his stuff’

]]> By: yael http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-80411 yael Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:22:05 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-80411 Wow, Schmucko kinda reminds me of the guy who told me that men are genetically programmed to like women with bigger breasts, and that men who date women with smaller breasts are "just settling for less". And the ex boyfriend who told me that I'm slim now, but that I had "fat genes". But seriously, what Schmucko is really worried about are THIN WOMEN WHO MIGHT SECRETLY PLAN TO GET FAT AFTER ENSNARING HIM INTO MARRIAGE!! See, in Schmucko's scary world, Real Men are not safe even from thin women, because scheming skinny girls can trick him into marriage, then suddenly put on huge amounts of weight, overnight - forcing poor Schmucko to perform a penis-ectomy before running away with HIS STUFF. You can't trust thin women. Or fat women. Or women. Wow, Schmucko kinda reminds me of the guy who told me that men are genetically programmed to like women with bigger breasts, and that men who date women with smaller breasts are “just settling for less”. And the ex boyfriend who told me that I’m slim now, but that I had “fat genes”.

But seriously, what Schmucko is really worried about are THIN WOMEN WHO MIGHT SECRETLY PLAN TO GET FAT AFTER ENSNARING HIM INTO MARRIAGE!! See, in Schmucko’s scary world, Real Men are not safe even from thin women, because scheming skinny girls can trick him into marriage, then suddenly put on huge amounts of weight, overnight – forcing poor Schmucko to perform a penis-ectomy before running away with HIS STUFF.

You can’t trust thin women. Or fat women. Or women.

]]> By: fillyjonk http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-80327 fillyjonk Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:32:04 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-80327 Well, you still have to <i>deal</i> with them... you just don't have to have sex with them. Well, you still have to deal with them… you just don’t have to have sex with them.

]]> By: DocMarten http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-80321 DocMarten Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:36:51 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-80321 [Sometimes I think these trolls are stealth marketers for lesbianism.] As a lesbian myself, I completely agree. One of the nice things about being a gay woman in this society is not having to deal with assholes like Schmucko. [Sometimes I think these trolls are stealth marketers for lesbianism.]

As a lesbian myself, I completely agree. One of the nice things about being a gay woman in this society is not having to deal with assholes like Schmucko.

]]> By: Optix http://kateharding.net/2009/01/08/douchehound-of-the-day-whaddya-mean-feminist-issue/#comment-80187 Optix Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:57:47 +0000 http://kateharding.net/?p=2404#comment-80187 <i>@A Sarah, make sure you remember to drink during the day. </i> OMG, I SO read that comment wrong.... (Although depending on how grueling it is, stashing a flask might not be a bad idea!) @A Sarah, make sure you remember to drink during the day.

OMG, I SO read that comment wrong…. (Although depending on how grueling it is, stashing a flask might not be a bad idea!)

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