And I’m thinking “No Sara - don’t be a misandric/man hating bitch. Some people just like to make conversation on trains, don’t assume he’s trying to get in your knickers.”
Goddamnit. “I have a boyfriend” are the magic words. They are the “Well, either I have a boyfriend so I’m out of bounds, or I don’t like you enough to make up that I do, so I’m out of bounds.” words. You do not ignore those words unless you want to be kicked in the teeth.
8/10 people that speak to me on trains end up asking for my number. The ninth tried to convert me to Christianity by telling me how evil women are, which didn’t exactly persuade me.
This leads me to several possible conclusions.
1- Desperate people travel on trains.
2- I’m just so goddamn lovely =P
3- I look like a prostitute. I’m leaning towards this, despite not wearing makeup or dressing skimpily or standing on street corners, because I’ve been offered money before to “go to the cinema” with someone. (wth? Prositution wasn’t even legal back then. And I was standing at the sodding bus stop. )
This makes things really awkward for the 1/10 people that talk to me without intentions, because someone starts talking to me and I’m thinking “oh god not again” and being rude, and it turns out I’m just being big headed and thinking everyone wants me. (Or thinking that “all men do this” which is terribly, terribly misandric and unfair.)
On a side note, I was doing some research some time ago about feminists and how fair feminists aren’t taken seriously because of the silly man hating feminazis and came across news of the film “Teeth.”
I’m interested to see where it goes - whether it’s a man hating pile of bollocks or whether it’s actually any good. This girl has teeth where quite frankly, there should never be teeth and discovers them when she gets abused by a doctor.
Now is it going to be a case of justice on the bastard, but she herself suffers from not being able to have a physical relationship with a partner because having teeth down there just isn’t all that convenient? Therefore symbolising the difficulties one has when they may have gotten legal justice but the event still haunts them? Or is it going to be “Yeah, that’s right, I’m going to take all you rapists DOWN!”
A character becomes the ‘everyman’ when s/he becomes a representative of their social group (in this case, gender.) If the dominating male presence of the film is the manbeast(s), then all it’s doing is reinforcing the “all men are evil” thing going around, regardless of the actual intent by the director. At the same time, because it’s such an evil thing, it’s going to take a huge dose of “there’s healthy decent men in the world” in order to balance it out, otherwise it’s “every man in the world is evil, apart from my boyfriend.”
I don’t want to see it, though, because I’m generally quite sensitive to footage like that and it ends up bothering me some time afterwards.
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