Spotted...

Snap.

The young ones learn fast.

feels old

Just realised blade runner is only set in 6 years.

What's 'Blade Runner'?

And if the primary insult here doesnt relate to females why are we even discussing it?

How would you 'take away' a woman's femininity, the operative gender stereotype here being not strength, but (physical) beauty? Beauty is a more complex stereotype than 'strength' (which in itself amounts to a few confusions), and it doesn't really work as easily as in the male case.

Without "femininity" women, popularly, become monsters. C.f Medusa, Macbeth's three witches, etc etc.

Without "masculinity", men become almost like women, which is (again, popularly) much worse than becoming a mere monster who retains his manly essence.

I wonder if MTV ever did a feminatzi vs Johnny Bravo version of Celebrity Deathmatch

It's inevitable, you're just slower on foot than on a bike.

only because she's walking much further than they're riding. they couldn't keep up that power output for rosie's whole pedestrian commute!

Oh dear, these mad feminists have ruined the Spotted thread!!

I haven't seen any of you SE types in ages! Rosie and Si, I'd love to go for a ride with you guys soon...

On the spotted note, there were a few hipster tonight on black stealth bikes with bullhorn on their usual commuter crit

Without "femininity" women, popularly, become monsters. C.f Medusa, Macbeth's three witches, etc etc.

No, these all have something added to them. Medusa is obviously a much more complex mythical creature, and the witches have magical skills attributed to them.

I mean, the traditional 'feminine' stereotype is beauty, but also the silly idea that women always have to be warm and caring, being able to be mothers and all. I forgot to mention that above. A loss of that warm, caring motherliness comes closer to your citation of female 'monster' figures, and perhaps I should have concentrated on that stereotype more in what I wrote above. (It is closely related to 'beauty'.)

Without "masculinity", men become almost like women, which is (again, popularly) much worse than becoming a mere monster who retains his manly essence.

Well, a physically emasculated man becomes a eunuch, who was traditionally said to be weak and, perhaps, 'effeminate' (while there were many politically very influential eunuchs), but 'almost like women'? I don't think so. He's still just a man who has lost something, and it's a terrible implication that women are somehow less than men, which of course I know is not what you meant, as you were merely citing these superficial ideas.

Even if a woman did become a 'monster' and abrogated all femininity like Lady Macbeth, it would take agency on her part, unlike an emasculation--again, how do you 'take away' a woman's femininity? Do you make her so desperate that she is forced to defend herself and in the process perhaps become a monster, e.g. through committing murder? Is Lady Macbeth's 'femininity' really 'taken away' by some force or does she herself reject it somehow? I don't really know.

Rosie and Si, I'd love to go for a ride with you guys soon...

You'd first have to de-pedestrianise Rosie, though.

since you're on the subject, any thoughts on this?

http://www.lfgss.com/post3849547-3587.html

Btw I was followed by a chap with a beard on a leMond this morning down walworth road. What's it called when you lift up your back wheel and roll along on the front for a bit? Well, he did quite a cool one of those.

the silly idea that women always have..... to be mothers and all.
silly maybe but also the majority? (Given that youre looking across all continents)

since you're on the subject, any thoughts on this?

http://www.lfgss.com/post3849547-3587.html

Meh, common sexist joke, nothing particularly different or new.

True about the key though. Id love a magic key. And an invisibility cloak. Think of all the dorra!

silly maybe but also the majority? (Given that youre looking across all continents)

Great selective quoting which distorts my meaning. :) I mean this idea that it's not 'feminine' for women to be angry and that they have to be mild-mannered all the time, as if they weren't people.

This thread is weird.

This thread is weird.

Spottedist.

Btw I was followed by a chap with a beard on a leMond this morning down walworth road. What's it called when you lift up your back wheel and roll along on the front for a bit? Well, he did quite a cool one of those.

An endo or stoppie... or front wheelie if you like :)

Back to spots.

Saw JessIe in Kinoko and Dmayn91 earlier. Thanks for reserving the tyres jess! They're great.

Cool man, glad to hear.

An endo or stoppie... or front wheelie if you like :)

Right. Next time I'll say "cool endo / stoppie / front wheelie if you like, bro!"