Comments on: This from a man who can’t even use the word “woman” in his post http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442 Because we care about stuff Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ElizabethM http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11947 ElizabethM Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:28:53 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11947 Ah, what an innocent life I lead. I guessed pooned was some shortening of harpooned. Okay, granted, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Ah, what an innocent life I lead. I guessed pooned was some shortening of harpooned. Okay, granted, it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

]]> By: Josh http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11736 Josh Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:35:58 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11736 When you're killed in Halo the screen shows your character lying there until the respawn timer runs out. It's very common for enemy players, knowing you will be watching, to crouch over your body repeatedly (see helpful GIF linked above). Humping/Teabagging is so pervasive that it seems odd when someone chooses not to humiliate you this way given the opportunity. I think the writer was just pointing out that it doesn't get any less humiliating with "the ladies." Although, "Pooned" does usually refer to being pwned by a woman. When you’re killed in Halo the screen shows your character lying there until the respawn timer runs out. It’s very common for enemy players, knowing you will be watching, to crouch over your body repeatedly (see helpful GIF linked above). Humping/Teabagging is so pervasive that it seems odd when someone chooses not to humiliate you this way given the opportunity. I think the writer was just pointing out that it doesn’t get any less humiliating with “the ladies.”

Although, “Pooned” does usually refer to being pwned by a woman.

]]> By: BetaCandy http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11694 BetaCandy Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:33:55 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11694 OMG. *palmface* It's not just your experience that ladies is a term of condescension. That's why it's so popular among redneck boys in the Southeast. They refuse to stop segregating genders in their heads, so they think using a nice term like "ladies" reduces one's ability to call them on their political incorrectness. It's kind of like saying, "Did you hear the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the African American gentlemen? What? What'd I say? I didn't use the N-word, so you can't complain!" As for the pooning and the humping, my mind went just where yours did. By suggesting he got something pleasurable out of being whumped, he neutralizes the victory over him. And by turning around and saying it's humiliating, he's reminding us that he's incapable of enjoying an equal partnership with women. OMG. *palmface*

It’s not just your experience that ladies is a term of condescension. That’s why it’s so popular among redneck boys in the Southeast. They refuse to stop segregating genders in their heads, so they think using a nice term like “ladies” reduces one’s ability to call them on their political incorrectness. It’s kind of like saying, “Did you hear the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the African American gentlemen? What? What’d I say? I didn’t use the N-word, so you can’t complain!”

As for the pooning and the humping, my mind went just where yours did. By suggesting he got something pleasurable out of being whumped, he neutralizes the victory over him. And by turning around and saying it’s humiliating, he’s reminding us that he’s incapable of enjoying an equal partnership with women.

]]> By: I Read the Internets - 11/18/06 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11643 I Read the Internets - 11/18/06 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:24:05 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-14_442#comment-11643 [...] In other women-in-video-games internets reading, tekanji at the Official Shrub.com Blog talks about how the wrong language can make even the most pleasant ideas unpalatable to a reader who feels patronized, in “This from a man who can’t even use the word “woman” in his post.” [...] [...] In other women-in-video-games internets reading, tekanji at the Official Shrub.com Blog talks about how the wrong language can make even the most pleasant ideas unpalatable to a reader who feels patronized, in “This from a man who can’t even use the word “woman” in his post.” [...]

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