Comments on: LA Times publishes article about woman; global reserves of sexist stereotypes dangerously depleted

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:05:40 +0000

So the next time I complain that female spies seem to do little beyond occupy skintight suits in movies- I’m supposed to lighten up because it’s not hurting anybody. Good to know.

By: wiggles

wiggles — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:31:41 +0000

@nails – I don’t think the Obama administration wants us to look so closely at the oil spill and the wars and the economy as we may have been. It’s not good for capitalism.

By: nails

nails — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:03:14 +0000

I am pretty sure that this is all total bullshit, and that there wasn’t any real spying going on. The story about what the ’spies’ were trying to find out doesn’t even make sense.
No one knows what they even found out and transmitted back, and they were not charged with espionage.

I read a whole deconstruction of the ‘bulgarian connection’ of that guy who tried to shoot the pope, our press tried to pin it on russians. It was done about this poorly. The media was at this level of irrational craziness, too.

This all broke right after the president of russia met with obama, and after the FBI had been watching these people for about a decade. People are less scared of terrorists than they used to be. Russia and the us have used fear of each other for political gains for quite some time, maybe they are trying to spark up that fear again? I don’t know. This whole story seems to be completely manufactured, and I wonder who decided it was a good idea and why.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:21:03 +0000

Do dudes ever comment on this blog without sounding like they want to put a gold star sticker on Twisty’s work?

Yes, but I delete’em because they all go like this: “You take great delight in posting calls for cold-blooded mass murder. You’re an idiot. Your writing style is awful, too.”(actual comment).

But dudes who aren’t trolls and who agree with me generally have to pronounce from on high. They can’t just give me a “you go, girl” for some reason.

By: Lullabee

Lullabee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:51:13 +0000

Spot on as usual.

Do dudes ever comment on this blog without sounding like they want to put a gold star sticker on Twisty’s work? Twisty gets a check plus!

But, indeed, it is a spectacularly sexist and pointless article. Pretty much Russian spy fetish porn.

By: FemDoc

FemDoc — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:09:58 +0000

Our local news referred to Anna Chapman as a “Bond girl”, thus further demoting her into a supporting character of her own story.

By: Earnest O'Nest

Earnest O'Nest — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:05:51 +0000

It’s a very curious psycholinguistic phenomenon that makes the same term ‘Russian spy’ synonymous when referring to a certain person and to ‘evil igly genius out to destroy zee world’ when referring to a dudely person.

By: janicen

janicen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:27:15 +0000

“… global reserves of sexist stereotypes dangerously depleted”

No need to panic, citizens. It’s our most highly renewable resource.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:06:47 +0000

“Practiced deceiver”? According to the bible/P women are naturals and don’t need practice. What the heck have I been doing practicing the violin?
Must have been a slow news day. Oil spills just aren’t sexy enough.

By: Pellegrina

Pellegrina — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:00:37 +0000

Yes, I was saying just the other day that it’s amazing how the Russians have managed to set up a whole spy ring consisting entirely of identical foxy redheads called Anna Chapman. They must have a factory somewhere.