Amusing Find Of The Day can be read here, courtesy of John Scalzi. Scalzi takes exception to being called a “feminist” by an internet troll who clearly imagines the word to be some kind of devastating insult, and unleashes a volley of rhetorical and pictorial whoop-ass in response. There’s not much coming back from this, really. I mean, the dude owns a lot of land, and a big house. Plus, he isn’t an anti-progressive, misogynist troglodyte. So he has that going for him, too.
Over the weekend, some dudebro with a history of shitting on women took this picture of me (which you may remember from here) and meme-ized it, with the intent, given his personal history and predilections, of mocking me — both for my views as regards women, and for wearing a dress.
Well, this dudebro clearly knows his way to this site, where the picture was originally posted, by me, so let me go ahead and address him directly.
Dudebro: Let me detail for you the various ways this picture has utterly failed you as an attempt to ridicule me.
One: This picture was taken as a result of a dare, to wit: if people on Twitter pledged $500 to the Clarion Foundation in a half hour, I would take a picture of myself in a regency dress, of which there just happened to be one in the house because…
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