Yeah I think it's a personal thing. I expect extreme levels of real world shittiness from Andy, so if he parrots the beauty=worth meme that exists damn near everywhere in our culture, it's kind of water off a duck's back to me.
I absolutely buy the gender essentialism bit. I remember reading one comment in the DAYD LJ community that explained to all the bonny lasses present why men like structure and discipline as opposed to group consensus, which is a female thing, of course.
And wasn't that ridiculous "I bear no grudge to womankind!" HP application written during DAYD's height of popularity?
You can actually see the performative shift. Andy's now switched from a devil-may-care/tells-it-like-it-is rake (a la DAYD Seamus) to an enlightened, sensitive progressive (once he started fixating on Misha Collins). It's like his entire personality is based on whatever male figure he happens to admire at the moment.
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I absolutely buy the gender essentialism bit. I remember reading one comment in the DAYD LJ community that explained to all the bonny lasses present why men like structure and discipline as opposed to group consensus, which is a female thing, of course.
And wasn't that ridiculous "I bear no grudge to womankind!" HP application written during DAYD's height of popularity?
You can actually see the performative shift. Andy's now switched from a devil-may-care/tells-it-like-it-is rake (a la DAYD Seamus) to an enlightened, sensitive progressive (once he started fixating on Misha Collins). It's like his entire personality is based on whatever male figure he happens to admire at the moment.