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Mar. 2nd, 2007 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Some dickwad has created himself a Livejournal account and set out to leave the same offensive comment to every post he finds that mentions Steak and Blowjob Day. I've decided, in light of this, never to mention the holiday again. Although it would be pretty sweet if he turned up this entry and left the same stupid comment.
Steak and Blowjob Day!
In principle I like the holiday. The idea's a good one. All this emphasis, for Valentine's Day, is put on buying a woman something extravagant and useless because Hallmark tells us to, and there's no attention paid to what people really want. What Is Romantic is a dumb idea. [And indeed, all my flipping out at Valentine's was not because I wasn't going to get Something Romantic, but more because I wasn't getting anything at all, and hadn't been, and really just wanted some reassurance. I'm not saying Valentine's Day is a bad idea, just that people seem to put too much emphasis on the Just Because aspect of its gift-giving, and don't think to do anything individually meaningful. ... Of course you know I've just assured myself that I won't be getting any kind of present until perhaps my birthday at the end of the summer, because Z is contrary and if I tell him he ought to do something, he won't. Like, for example, how his IRA is still with a bank he hates even though my brother-in-law is a financial planner. But I digress.)
Steak, and blowjobs: those are things that many people enjoy.
But it bothers me that everyone assumes that only a man would want steak and a blow job. I like steak. I like oral sex. And he didn't buy me anything at all for Valentine's Day, not even something useful like I asked for, and he never has celebrated the holiday, so why on earth should I celebrate a holiday based on the concept of payback? He gets payback? No no. I thought the holiday was like, you both get to eat steak, and then you both get oral sex.
It does really offend me that most of the literature surrounding it acts as if the woman would not want to give the man a blowjob any other time, and that by giving him one, she is subjugating herself to him. I find such an assumption really disgustingly inappropriate. Dude, when I have someone's genitals between my teeth, I am not in a subservient position, no matter what society's assumptions say.
So, just because I've been forced to think it through by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
robbiechan's frankly offensive spam (if you go to his journal, the lone entry there is pretty much the same as the comment), I am hereby declaring a boycott of Steak & Blowjob Day.
If Z wants to take me out for steak and then give me oral sex, that'd be fine, but I'd prefer he did it on a different day. Also I'd rather have a camera remote than a steak, thanks, because it'd last longer and I still bloody well need one.
Steak and Blowjob Day!
In principle I like the holiday. The idea's a good one. All this emphasis, for Valentine's Day, is put on buying a woman something extravagant and useless because Hallmark tells us to, and there's no attention paid to what people really want. What Is Romantic is a dumb idea. [And indeed, all my flipping out at Valentine's was not because I wasn't going to get Something Romantic, but more because I wasn't getting anything at all, and hadn't been, and really just wanted some reassurance. I'm not saying Valentine's Day is a bad idea, just that people seem to put too much emphasis on the Just Because aspect of its gift-giving, and don't think to do anything individually meaningful. ... Of course you know I've just assured myself that I won't be getting any kind of present until perhaps my birthday at the end of the summer, because Z is contrary and if I tell him he ought to do something, he won't. Like, for example, how his IRA is still with a bank he hates even though my brother-in-law is a financial planner. But I digress.)
Steak, and blowjobs: those are things that many people enjoy.
But it bothers me that everyone assumes that only a man would want steak and a blow job. I like steak. I like oral sex. And he didn't buy me anything at all for Valentine's Day, not even something useful like I asked for, and he never has celebrated the holiday, so why on earth should I celebrate a holiday based on the concept of payback? He gets payback? No no. I thought the holiday was like, you both get to eat steak, and then you both get oral sex.
It does really offend me that most of the literature surrounding it acts as if the woman would not want to give the man a blowjob any other time, and that by giving him one, she is subjugating herself to him. I find such an assumption really disgustingly inappropriate. Dude, when I have someone's genitals between my teeth, I am not in a subservient position, no matter what society's assumptions say.
So, just because I've been forced to think it through by
robbiechan's frankly offensive spam (if you go to his journal, the lone entry there is pretty much the same as the comment), I am hereby declaring a boycott of Steak & Blowjob Day. If Z wants to take me out for steak and then give me oral sex, that'd be fine, but I'd prefer he did it on a different day. Also I'd rather have a camera remote than a steak, thanks, because it'd last longer and I still bloody well need one.
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Date: 2007-03-02 04:04 pm (UTC)Whoa...I have no words...okay, I have a couple.
That is the most awesome thing I have read in weeks...maybe months.
Do you mind if I make an icon using it? (I would credit you of course)
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Date: 2007-03-05 06:19 pm (UTC)I wonder if it could be said more succinctly... but can't come up with a better way. :)