Stuck in an eternal playground

Man disagrees with woman by saying he doesn’t consider her sexually appetizing. How very original.

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10 responses to “Stuck in an eternal playground”

  1. Rob Avatar

    Give me five minutes of impromptu video of any human alive and I’ll give you dozens of freeze frames where they look ugly, stupid, creepy, or crazed. Kela would be any easier target than many, so, yeah.

  2. Holms Avatar

    You’d think a person with spinal muscular atrophy would be sensitive to the problems of going after someone by criticising their body. But what am I thinking, this is a man saying he is a woman. Of course he gets to be a hypocrite with no shame, it’s part of the package.

  3. musubk Avatar

    Some of the replies seem to have really lost the plot. Examples:

    They never meet the standards they set for everyone else.

    What standards do they think Jenny Watson isn’t meeting? I’m pretty sure the only standard she’s setting here is ‘be a woman’

    I’d love how she defines “biological woman” seeing as I am a woman and certainly biological.

    Says a man, in a futile attempt to rationalize away the entire concept of sex

  4. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    Veronica Ivy / Rhys McKinnon tried the same bit of sophistry when he appeared on The Daily Show. It’s so patently absurd that it’s hard to imagine anyone’s finding it clever. Or cogent.

  5. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    Also, she’s not unattractive and not the least bit mannish, so what the actual …

  6. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    Meanwhile, simply saying that you aren’t interested in having sex with people with [or without] penises is a horrible hate crime.

  7. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Unless! Unless you’re a man who pretends to be a woman, in which case it’s totally feminist and righteous.

  8. Rob Avatar

    Nulius @5, exactly. That’s the oblique point I was making. Even the most attractive of us can look other when caught in a moment. Other online photos show Jenny is actually quite attractive. Even in a freeze frame from the same video just moments before or after. But even if she were not pretty, or not to particular persons taste – so what? Time after time these people who claim (wrongly) that they are being reduced to their genitals, reduce women and womanhood to ‘would a man want to fuck them’.

  9. John Wasson Avatar

    “What standards?” musubk #3

    In A Conversation at the end of the book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (p. 500) Lee says:

    “I grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, and now live in Harlem. All my life I have been surrounded by all kinds of women who work in menial and middle-class jobs, who lack the resources to join gyms, color their hair, buy cosmetics and skincare, go to dermatologists and plastic surgeons, polish their nails, eliminate unwanted hair, buy expensive clothing, eat less cheap carbohydrates and eat more lean proteins to be slim … the list goes on. Conventional physical beauty takes time, money, and effort, and it is expensive for all women, but it is cruelly so for women without resources. Needless to say, it is a perpetual loop of economic gender cruelty to require women to pay for their physical upkeep and then to punish them financially for not keeping up when they don’t have the funds. … I am interested in the physicality of women who live their daily struggles with integrity; their beauty captivates those who know them.”

  10. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    Rob, their penchant for projection is unmatched.