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Gyno-Star
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[2011-04-16 19:49:01 +0000 UTC]
"Rebecca Cohen"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 87; Deviations: 139; Watchers: 212
Watching: 37; Pageviews: 35734; Comments Made: 2882; Friends: 37
# About me
If you enjoy my feminist point-of-view and slightly snarky, sometimes dark sense of humor, you should become a member of my Patreon! Learn more: patreon.com/gynostarThank you to everyone for your faves and follows. I'm sorry I'm not able to thank you individually or respond to all comments - I just don't have the time. But know that I deeply appreciate your feedback and responses.
# Comments
Comments: 277
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Was Gyno-Star's ability to make men feel the pains of childbirth inspired by Celtic mythology, or is it just a happy coincidence? =o
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I made fan art, yo.
...also, i made this months ago.
SIGH. WHY.
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Thanks, 3 months later!
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Hi there! A question that might be interesting to mull over:
I'm an inhabitant in Internet, and additionally, most of my friends are male (partially due to going a mostly-men university). When reflecting my life with my male peers over all the years, a thing I have noticed that most of the Internet trolls' behavior resembles that of teenage guys.
This makes me make a hypothesis that says that a significant enough part of internet trolls are, in fact, teenage males. They are going on the stage of the life in which hormones are going and there are young guys are peer-pressured to imitate anything SO REBELLIOUS and SO FORBIDDEN (includes disrespectful and often poorly typed comments towards women). And Internet is a perfect place to cultivate and, perhaps more remarkably, learn these attitudes, thanks to anonymity and lack of filtering.
I'm NOT trying to say that "oh it's natural and thus acceptable", rather vice versa. I'm rather saying that teenage guys (and why not girls) and their, how to say, social culture is a perfect ground for brewing hostile attitudes towards women; teenagers' life is surrounded by several peer-induced social values and myths that make little sense in larger scope, such as perceptions about what owning certain brands of jeans makes someone popular or that cat-calling girls makes you masculine. Sure, there are also teenagers who are go through that phase without negative effects (thanks to their up-bringing / core personality / circumstances / luck / etc.), and many teenagers come to their senses later, but there are also situations in which these attitudes carry on to adult life.
What I try to say is that focusing the change effectively towards teenagers (especially boys) could have pretty impressive results, if we find a way to do it well. At best, it could break those Internet and school yard myths about acceptance of anti-women(/anti-etc.) mentality, which would be a great input for the future. Teenagers drain influences all around them, whether we wanted or not, and getting the healthy "dude not cool" mentality in would help a lot.
What does make it more difficult is some teenagers' partially hormone-caused and partially socially-caused pressure not to conform authorities, making the gender respect education more difficult. (The "breaking rules makes me cool" mentality prevalent in unfortunately many teenagers, you know.) The way to teach it should be thought carefully and be based on insights made by the teenagers by themselves ("Would you like your butt being slapped? No? Then would that girl like it, either?"), and trying to avoid making it sound like that teenagers would just cover their ears and go "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU". There are unfortunate attitudes towards anyone who wants to open up about feminism/trans-gender/gay rights/racial equality/etc. issues, so therefore, finding the right way to feed the stuff is important to avoid triggering the "LALALALA DON'T WANT TO HEAR" mindset - in which I see that personal insights are a way better way to go than repeating the "dissing people is wrong" mantra.
Thoughts on that ramble?
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I think you're exactly correct.
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I'm not a teenager expert, and partially therefore I also wonder what kind of methods would actually be most effective for educating teenagers. Sure, there are those who are responsive, but theeeeen there are those other ones...
I hope that this is thought more by someone(s) with better studies and experience under their belt.
I just do physics. Often much easier to comprehend than teenagers, believe or not.
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lol, I often work with teenagers, and I definitely believe it.
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In with situations do you work with teenagers? Something work-related? Educating? (If you think that reveals too much from your personal life, skip the question.)
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That explains 
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I work at an educational nonprofit in Oakland. I work with students of all ages, grades K-12, in a variety of capacities.
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*nod* I used to think about a high school physics teacher career some years ago, but then I figured that I'm not very good in explaining things orally or following if the students understood what I tried to explain. That's a set of skills that not everyone has.
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Oh, by the way, I really enjoyed your write-up on Mad Max (couldn't figure out how to leave a comment on it)... it got me thinking about the contrast with Old Town in Sin City.
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I don't even remember Sin City, it's all a blur of hookers and guns and using black for negative space to me.
But thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
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LOL Well you're probably not the only one on that front. 
The thing in particular that stuck out to me was that in the books (and the movies), Old Town is described as a place where the hookers (obviously all women) run the entire place, independent of anyone - not men, not the mob... to the point that the cops won't even drive into the neighborhood out of fear or respect or some combination. It seems like a kind of striking contrast to the Vuvalini who leave the citadel to find safety in the wilderness and are largely invisible in the film.
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What a nice compliment. Thank you!
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Thank you everybody for the birthday wishes! I haven't been on DeviantArt in so long... I missed all of them at the time of my birthday. But they're appreciated!
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Happy one...! 
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