I am really wondering, having sort-of attempted to get into his head for a moment (eww!), to just what extent he hates women.
You know, when we were discussing this, and icepixie (hi!) said she thought that this poster was a girl, just based on the whole Theories About Girls! thing? It didn't even cross my mind - and reading this comment kind of put it together for me.
So, here's the thing: my brother is a chauvinist. And a sexist, and a misogynist. However you want to put it. And he's really big on the whole "what women should be like" thing. So he has all these double standards about what is and isn't acceptable behavior. His male friends can do something and it's cool; if his girlfriend does the exact same thing, he screams at her. (Example: canceling plans.) It's not even about stereotypical female roles; he just holds women to a higher standard. And they always don't meet it - because women are people, too, and therefore flawed - so he's always justified in calling women horrible names and treating them like shit.
When I kept going back and forth with him about how the male characters on the show do the same stuff as Delenn, but he never brings those things up, just uses her actions as justification for why she's a horrible character, it was basically the same thing. I can't say that he hates women necessarily, but there is that kind of attitude.
Now, how all that fits in with his interpretation of Kosh as a sadistic bastard who tortures people for fun and treats all the humans like his puppets and just "rewrites personalities" for the fun of it...I have no idea.
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:05 am (UTC)You know, when we were discussing this, and
So, here's the thing: my brother is a chauvinist. And a sexist, and a misogynist. However you want to put it. And he's really big on the whole "what women should be like" thing. So he has all these double standards about what is and isn't acceptable behavior. His male friends can do something and it's cool; if his girlfriend does the exact same thing, he screams at her. (Example: canceling plans.) It's not even about stereotypical female roles; he just holds women to a higher standard. And they always don't meet it - because women are people, too, and therefore flawed - so he's always justified in calling women horrible names and treating them like shit.
When I kept going back and forth with him about how the male characters on the show do the same stuff as Delenn, but he never brings those things up, just uses her actions as justification for why she's a horrible character, it was basically the same thing. I can't say that he hates women necessarily, but there is that kind of attitude.
Now, how all that fits in with his interpretation of Kosh as a sadistic bastard who tortures people for fun and treats all the humans like his puppets and just "rewrites personalities" for the fun of it...I have no idea.