random thought exercise

[fuyu]

Meet Grim Eyes, a hunter in the highly matriarchal hyena society of Digger. (Unless you already read Digger. ... Which you should anyway.)

I'm curious. What are people's gut reactions to this? I think it makes for an interesting thought exercise, so feel free to tell me what you think. Anon comments are fine of course, IP logging is off.

Comments

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

I think my gut reaction was ARGH FURRY to be honest, but then it decayed into one that's pretty similar to yours. The woman's obviously a misandrist and completely casual about it, and my instant reaction was something along the lines of 'ha, that's funny, stick it to 'em'.

And I don't like that. Because if I reverse the genders she becomes a horrible 'he'.

So, yeah, I feel quite uncomfortable.


From a fictitious point of view, I think it makes a pretty interesting point that prejudice isn't an exclusively male thing - it's a simple lording-it-over-the-underdog reaction, and that's supported by situations I've seen in everyday life (for instance, I'm only starting to notice the patronising, slip-up-once-and-they'll-have-you, women-are-the-default way that men (particularly straight men) are treated in fandom, one of the most liberal societies ever).

My own gut reaction, though, suggests a lot of truths about myself and my society that aren't totally happy.

[fuyu]

Man, why all the ARGH FURRY. XD

Joking aside, that sort of reaction is very interesting, and I think part of the reason this kind of thing is good to show. It's very illustrative about the nature of prejudice.

It is pretty uncomfortable, when you sit back and look at it. I was kind of bothered that I wasn't more bothered by her casual misandry. Especially because I at least like to think I rail against misandry as much as I do misogyny, because the two tend to feed into each other and are both wrong, but the fact is this just didn't bother me the same way beyond kind of a >:/ face at Grim Eyes for being an unknowingly sexist asshole.

Also, fuck you and your Phoenix Drive icon. Why did I even recognize that.