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kiya ([personal profile] kiya) wrote2009-04-16 06:48 pm

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What is it about rasfc that provokes people into saying idiotic things about the LGBT community? Is there some sort of stupidity projector inhabiting that newsgroup that turns people who otherwise appear to be not damned fools into drooling incompetents with neither a sense of empathy nor sufficient imagination (as writers!) to comprehend ordinary humans?

Exhibit umpteen, which I found when I cycled usenet in the hopes of finding something that would break my vague state of useless depression:

    Personally, it would be cool if bisexuals didn't exist. They're confusing to heterosexual people like me, and also to homosexuals. And I imagine some of the bisexuals themselves are frustrated because they (some of them) want monogamy but can't decide what one sex they want to be monogamous with.


... what ... does one say? (Aside from, maybe, "How fortunate I am to not be a heterosexual person like you.")

And of course if I say half of what's in my head I'll be That Angry Queer again, never mind that I'm straight. But I know I'm pigeonholed from the last umpty-lump times someone said something that head-asplodingly blockheaded.


Also:

Whitney works on an LJ post about it, runs out of easily bringable-to-mind synonyms for 'stupid'.
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[personal profile] ardaniel 2009-04-16 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
My new saying for that sort of shit comes from AmazonFail, wherein one of the EPU guys found a Joseph Nicolosi book on Amazon tagged with this work of genius:

"a load of dingoes' kidneys"

So. What a load of dingoes' kidneys that poster's come up with there.

[identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be a load of fetid dingoes' kidneys. :P
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[personal profile] djm4 2009-04-17 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's both. Ford Prefect certainly uses 'foetid', but in the Guide's Babelfish entry, it's "Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingoes kidneys but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune..." (emphasis mine).

I note that I am not a heterosexual person like the one quoted. Thank goodness. I am an entirely different sort of heterosexual person who is unconfused by the bisexuality of most of his friends.

[identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. I really feel more in common with non-heterosexual people than with the type of heterosexual people who would say crap like this. :)

[identity profile] dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com) 2009-04-16 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Canonically, that's a fetid load of dingoes' kidneys; it's from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It must be very sad to be the original rasfc poster, and possessed of intellectual attainments incapable of extending their taxonomy system to encompass the tiny fraction of the observed world that is human social interaction.

[identity profile] shana.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I don't have to feel bad about marking most of the posts as read after reading the posts of my favorite posters...

[identity profile] badseed1980.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd love to say to that person, "Funny, I'm straight, and bisexual people don't confuse me at all. People like YOU confuse me."

[identity profile] tiger-spot.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I am consistently perplexed by people who believe that all members of one sex or another are fungible.

Pity there are so many of them.

[identity profile] starfrosting.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I love the well-reasoned argument about non-monosexual attractions and monogamy!
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[personal profile] redbird 2009-04-17 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
How do I say to such a person "Your confusion is your problem, not an excuse to call for destroying me and many of the people I love" to such a person?

Would "don't worry your pretty little head about it, I'm sapiosexual and you don't qualify" work, do you think?
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[personal profile] thene 2009-04-17 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Just think, if all the bisexuals went away straight people would never have to be confused about anything, ever!
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[personal profile] keshwyn 2009-04-17 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
That's because the bisexuals can't make up their minds, you know. They introduced uncertainty into the binary system.

But that means, if we took the bisexuals, and turned them all into transistors, we could solve the problem of trinary computers!

Pity I don't want to be a transistor...

[identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yet another candidate for "people I'd like to load into a trebuchet and launch out to sea".
Edited 2009-04-17 02:21 (UTC)

[identity profile] fierceawakening.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I am pleased that the fact of my breathing confuses people this moronic.

That is all.
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[personal profile] briar_pipe 2009-04-17 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

Personally, I think it would be cool if bigots didn't exist, because then I could live my life without having someone on the sidelines idly watching and calling out useless advice, like "You should pick a gender!" when I've managed to pick a person, which is more than many heterosexuals do.
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[personal profile] zeborah 2009-04-17 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
...I missed that quote. How did I miss it? It was in reply to *me*.

<goes to rectify this>
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[personal profile] brooksmoses 2009-04-17 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for quoting!

And, yes, that wins.

[identity profile] pariyal.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, thanks for quoting, because having a bad case of Holy Week I can't be hedgehogged to read rasfc at the moment.

(And I want to be monogamous with this person dammit; that he happens to be a man is handy for having kids)

[identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Me (to husband): How are people that stupid able to be out in society without a minder?

Husband: You don't know if they are. All you know is that they're posting on the Internet.

[identity profile] tzeenj.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
How bizarre. The three women in my life who I’m closest to are all bi, and although they all do manage to confuse me from time to time in a variety of ways, they have never managed to do so in such a manner.

I’d like to believe in the stupidity-projector concept, really I would, and I’d love to apply it to many other situations, as it would make me feel better about the human race in general.

But, lets face it, actually *learning* things, gathering real facts and having real experiences, takes *work*, while making stupid shit up and running your mouth about it doesn’t.

And by doing this, you get to create your own little reality (not to be confused with objective reality), and get to have all of these things that you disapprove of in it, making your reality suck so that you can get that big ego-boost by having something to bitch about and oppose.

Living in a state of self-imposed delusion is soooo much easier then objectivity. It takes hardly any effort at all, and you also have the comfort of already knowing the answer to everything.

And yeah, re: the Angry Queer thing- it is funny, isn’t it? That to argue for an alternative viewpoint means that you’re automatically typed as a member of that group. I was just musing to a co-worker about how much more interesting my life would be if I actually *was* everything that I’ve been typed as. Especially amusing if I was all of them at once.

Whatever made you think that usenet could help your vague state of useless depression? Trawling through there actually *induces* that state in me (primarily by validating my tendencies towards misanthropy), which is why I stopped going there years ago.

[identity profile] pantryslut.livejournal.com 2009-04-17 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You say, "I'm sorry that you think your personal confusion merits the disappearing of an entire class of people, thx."
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[identity profile] aquaeri.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I am very, very close to just abandoning rasfc to stew in its own pathetic straight white male juice.
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[identity profile] aquaeri.livejournal.com 2009-04-19 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ammit seems in the right general direction.