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Arrrrgh, _skating drives me crazy in a lot of ways and I think one fo the big ones is something that seems fairly endemic among skating fans - if people's favorite doesn't do well, they immediately blame the judges and the federations for being biased and conspiratorial. I'm not saying it never happens, but it doesn't happen every time. And you cannot think like that, because it will drive you crazy.
Sometimes the judges might see things from a different angle, sometimes the complicated COP rules cause what looked like a strong program to have lower points, sometimes the judges can't appreciate the style of a particular skater but don't have it in for them, sometimes the good things about a skater you don't like might not be immediately evident to the casual viewer. There are so many reasons someone's score might not be what you think it should. And sometimes, that reason might be wheeling and dealing by the federations, but with so many other possible reasons I prefer to ignore the one that I can't verify and that will send me spiraling into a vortex of paranoia and hate.
However, if you're wondering why I'm still there when I'm so down on them, it is stuff like this Evan Day post. Btw, Evan's hobbies are cars, golf, and modeling. MODELING. That boy will never fail to crack me up.
Kate Beaton continues her rampage of awesomeness around the internet by addressing the way sexism plays into responses to her comics. She'd previously tweeted:
"I get two kinds of critiques on my work: The regular kind and the ones where I am either sexually attractive to nerds or I am not. #internet"
and then:
"I do, of course, make the comic hoping that I may go on dates with many nerds, for what other reason would a woman make a comic? #obviously"
I guess some people interpreted this as an attack on nerds but obviously I interpreted as an attack on male nerd sexual entitlement. I mean, I have a massive raging crush on Ryan North but when I've emailed him to tell him that Dinosaur Comics make me laugh, I have not mentioned this fact to him.
Plus, I was thinking a lot of the time when I read about sexist crap, people are like "Oh, that happens to guys" but you really can't just make these things analogous.
( illustrated using short track, of course! )
Sometimes the judges might see things from a different angle, sometimes the complicated COP rules cause what looked like a strong program to have lower points, sometimes the judges can't appreciate the style of a particular skater but don't have it in for them, sometimes the good things about a skater you don't like might not be immediately evident to the casual viewer. There are so many reasons someone's score might not be what you think it should. And sometimes, that reason might be wheeling and dealing by the federations, but with so many other possible reasons I prefer to ignore the one that I can't verify and that will send me spiraling into a vortex of paranoia and hate.
However, if you're wondering why I'm still there when I'm so down on them, it is stuff like this Evan Day post. Btw, Evan's hobbies are cars, golf, and modeling. MODELING. That boy will never fail to crack me up.
Kate Beaton continues her rampage of awesomeness around the internet by addressing the way sexism plays into responses to her comics. She'd previously tweeted:
"I get two kinds of critiques on my work: The regular kind and the ones where I am either sexually attractive to nerds or I am not. #internet"
and then:
"I do, of course, make the comic hoping that I may go on dates with many nerds, for what other reason would a woman make a comic? #obviously"
I guess some people interpreted this as an attack on nerds but obviously I interpreted as an attack on male nerd sexual entitlement. I mean, I have a massive raging crush on Ryan North but when I've emailed him to tell him that Dinosaur Comics make me laugh, I have not mentioned this fact to him.
Plus, I was thinking a lot of the time when I read about sexist crap, people are like "Oh, that happens to guys" but you really can't just make these things analogous.
( illustrated using short track, of course! )
