Compare and Contrast

[bcholmes]

[Poll #1157213]

Comments

[redbird]

This feels like I'm being asked to compare 1, 2, and infinity.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

*nod*

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Answer is tempered by not having to TOUCH Outlook. I might have a different answer for Lotus Notes.

[d269330400.livejournal.com]

Irritating, being the operative word.

Can't say I've ever considered the patriarchy irritating. Angry-making, perhaps.

These days, all my spam is re: mortgage foreclosures.

[redbird]

Mine tends to have vaguer subject lines about satisfying my girlfriend--and I happen to know that I'm doing just fine in that regard. (I think this is just randomness, not that the spam is targeted at people with girlfriends and without penises.)

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Because many men are also oppressed by what people call the patriarchy, I find the use of the term patriarchy sexist and offensive. Am I the only feminist to think so? I dunno what term is better, though.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I don't get how those two things are connected.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

You're probably not the only feminist to think so, but I would argue that conflating "men" with "the patriarchy" completely misses the point.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

well said.

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Wanna start a Haitian Creole language study group that meets every 2 weeks or something? We live a cross the street from each other, you know.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I'd be totally up for that.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

I think MS Outlook and Penis Spam are PART of the Patriarchy!

N.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

So the patriarchy is the superset.

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

that's why I picked it!

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

That was tough, but I decided that at least part of the cause of penis enlargement spam is the patriarchy.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Will we even *remember* Outlook in 20 years?

I bet we still have 'the patriachy' then.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

"irritating" is so totally not the word i'd use for how i feel about the patriarchy (it's more how i feel about people who blame everything on it).

i don't see much penis enlargement spam due to really good spam filters.

ergo: outlook. and i don't even use it. it's other people's outlook usage that irritates me.

[sabotabby]

2 and 3 are caused by 1. Trufax.

[firecat]

I can ignore items 2 and 3 pretty effectively but it's harder and harder to avoid item 1.