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logansrogue) wrote2009-03-14 04:09 pm
logansrogue) wrote2009-03-14 04:09 pm
Fuck you, PC Authority.
PC Authority magazine, an Australian publication (don't know if they have it in the states) has the following headline:
- HP's Stylish Mini 1001TU: The netbook your girlfriend WILL steal.
Okay. Let's break this down point by point, shall we?
* The main posit of this sentence is that it takes 'shiny' to make a woman interested in computing. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of women publishing blogs, using social networking software, taking part in creative pursuits on the internets. "Never mind the fact that I, myself, would love any laptop that can vibrate."(Scotty added to my sentence. He's partly right. I'd love a vibrator that you can hook into... hey, those exist! Anyway...) Never mind the fact that I, myself, would love any laptop that can run my favourite games, applications (Photoshop, Painter, music software, video editing software), has a decent display and is light and highly portable. I am batshit about keyboards. And I have a vagina. So no, I don't need a pretty paint job or shiny keys to use the fuckers, thank you.
* The presumption that only men read the magazine. Uhm... it's my MUM'S SUBSCRIPTION! She built the computer I am currently on! And the one in my room! She knows more about computers than anyone in my house.
* The idea that the girlfriend would steal YOUR laptop, and not, say, buy her own? Or that she'd lack a laptop that she'd need to steal yours?
It's a little thing, piffling really. But when you get little messages like that, day in day out, little things that tell you you're not supposed to be in the club (GIRLS use COMPUTERS!? WTF?!), it gets to you after a while. Makes me want to punch a fucker, that's for sure.
- HP's Stylish Mini 1001TU: The netbook your girlfriend WILL steal.
Okay. Let's break this down point by point, shall we?
* The main posit of this sentence is that it takes 'shiny' to make a woman interested in computing. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of women publishing blogs, using social networking software, taking part in creative pursuits on the internets. "Never mind the fact that I, myself, would love any laptop that can vibrate."(Scotty added to my sentence. He's partly right. I'd love a vibrator that you can hook into... hey, those exist! Anyway...) Never mind the fact that I, myself, would love any laptop that can run my favourite games, applications (Photoshop, Painter, music software, video editing software), has a decent display and is light and highly portable. I am batshit about keyboards. And I have a vagina. So no, I don't need a pretty paint job or shiny keys to use the fuckers, thank you.
* The presumption that only men read the magazine. Uhm... it's my MUM'S SUBSCRIPTION! She built the computer I am currently on! And the one in my room! She knows more about computers than anyone in my house.
* The idea that the girlfriend would steal YOUR laptop, and not, say, buy her own? Or that she'd lack a laptop that she'd need to steal yours?
It's a little thing, piffling really. But when you get little messages like that, day in day out, little things that tell you you're not supposed to be in the club (GIRLS use COMPUTERS!? WTF?!), it gets to you after a while. Makes me want to punch a fucker, that's for sure.
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(I kid. I'm not really super smart at all.)
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