continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

Comments

Re: Questions about DAYD's popularity

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it was written around the time Andy was complaining that the HP "fandom is infested with girls. Little bubble-headed shipperchibbies who spaz all over me because I write from the perspective of a guy, as a guy", and explaining that "I have been told that my guys are blunt, agressive, hot-tempered, that my fics are unnecessarily violent, that my guys aren't sensitive enough about their own feelings and the feelings of the girls they deal with. Um, well, I hate to break it to you, Hannah Montana, but guys are like that, and moreover, war is like that. We do not speak the same language you do. Yes, we have all had those kinds of thoughts about the Patil twins. Seamus is Irish. There is no filter between his brain and his mouth, and when Padma twists herself like that to duck a jinx, he will make a lewd comment. He's seventeen. At least half the time, his brain is in his pants or wanting to hit someone. It's called testosterone, and we don't deal with it well. That's why they make boy bands, so you don't have to deal with the real thing." So at least he was coherent in his misogyny?

Re: Questions about DAYD's popularity

[(Anonymous)]

Every time I see that quote I just get a little angrier. Not least because Andy has actually managed to provoke me to say #notallmen.

Re: Questions about DAYD's popularity

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, that one's #notanymen. The way he portrays men and boys (and women and girls) in DAYD is completely ridiculous, like he's an alien who's read some Laurell K. Hamilton books and decided that all men are like that but more so.