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Oct. 11th, 2006
I have pretty much enjoyed Home on the Strange since it began, but the latest story line is pissing me off, as it basically consist of "Look - people making art I don't like! What a bunch of idiots! Don't they get that making art I don't like is pointless and stupid???"
Which is an attitude I despise nearly as much as "Look - people at a party talking about stuff I'm not interested in, how dare they have interests I don't care about? I bet they think they're cool, but actually they're not!" - which I bumped into a few weeks back on someone's journal.
If you don't like something, don't do it. If you're not interested in something, don't engage with it. If other people _are_ then that's something they should be _encouraged_ to engage with, rather than belittled for actually having an interest in something, just because it's not what you care about.
Which is an attitude I despise nearly as much as "Look - people at a party talking about stuff I'm not interested in, how dare they have interests I don't care about? I bet they think they're cool, but actually they're not!" - which I bumped into a few weeks back on someone's journal.
If you don't like something, don't do it. If you're not interested in something, don't engage with it. If other people _are_ then that's something they should be _encouraged_ to engage with, rather than belittled for actually having an interest in something, just because it's not what you care about.
Earlier on in the Veils post, myself and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wolflady26 had a long argument over what turned out to be a misunderstanding. Not that unusual, to be honest, pretty much all arguments either boil down to either mismatched assumptions or misunderstandings. But as she says in her final response , she was then left unsure what my actual point was.
Which is understandable, because most opinion pieces consist of "Here is a thing. I do not like this thing. Here is what must be done at once to ever prevent it happening again!" and mine consisted of the first two parts of this trilogy, lacking a conclusive call to arms to round it off.
And that's because I don't have a solution to this problem. All I have is a situation I don't like. This is more and more common for me as I grow up. I no longer believe in easy fixes to many things - all I have is either complex solutions which frankly aren't terribly punchy ways to round off a post, or (as in this case) nothing at all.
It _is_ my belief that with enough time, education, openness, etc. women's lib will reach the places it hasn't yet - and this is something which is already happening with various movements across the Muslim world (and, so I hear, even in parts of the USA), but it's not something I really have any connection to. It's just something I fervently hope.
So yes, all I was really doing was whining - explaining to the world that here is a thing, and I do not like it. I am _delighted_ that numerous people responded, some agreeing, some not, because it is a terrifying thought to me that I might stop debating things with people around me, and thus stop being told what an idiot I am on a weekly basis - that way lies fossilisation of the brain. Which, I suspect, is the main point of me posting it at all, to see what you lot thought, and whether someone would hand me a persuasive argument that changed my mind.
wolflady26 had a long argument over what turned out to be a misunderstanding. Not that unusual, to be honest, pretty much all arguments either boil down to either mismatched assumptions or misunderstandings. But as she says in her final response , she was then left unsure what my actual point was.Which is understandable, because most opinion pieces consist of "Here is a thing. I do not like this thing. Here is what must be done at once to ever prevent it happening again!" and mine consisted of the first two parts of this trilogy, lacking a conclusive call to arms to round it off.
And that's because I don't have a solution to this problem. All I have is a situation I don't like. This is more and more common for me as I grow up. I no longer believe in easy fixes to many things - all I have is either complex solutions which frankly aren't terribly punchy ways to round off a post, or (as in this case) nothing at all.
It _is_ my belief that with enough time, education, openness, etc. women's lib will reach the places it hasn't yet - and this is something which is already happening with various movements across the Muslim world (and, so I hear, even in parts of the USA), but it's not something I really have any connection to. It's just something I fervently hope.
So yes, all I was really doing was whining - explaining to the world that here is a thing, and I do not like it. I am _delighted_ that numerous people responded, some agreeing, some not, because it is a terrifying thought to me that I might stop debating things with people around me, and thus stop being told what an idiot I am on a weekly basis - that way lies fossilisation of the brain. Which, I suspect, is the main point of me posting it at all, to see what you lot thought, and whether someone would hand me a persuasive argument that changed my mind.