brb, busy being creeped out

[greenconverses]

From this month's Elle magazine: They Like It Like That: Why Every Woman is Desirable

This is probably just about the most skeevy thing I've read in a looooong time. It's like a cross between a shitty Harlequin and a horror novel, emphasis on the horror. Ugh.

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[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

What... what the fuck is that? Did they put out a request for "skeevy guys wanted" or something for that article? *headdesk*

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I hope he doesn't regularly write for Elle because that would make me super uncomfortable if I was working there.

[from-elysium.livejournal.com]

I READ THAT TOO. And I refuse to believe all guys are like that, ie that the moment they walk into any room, they start having imaginary sex with every woman there. I need to not believe this because if it were actually true, it would be impossible for me to ever interact with any male again without feeling violated.

I feel really bad for whoever is married to those creeps.

[from-elysium.livejournal.com]

FURTHERMORE, why would Elle think it's good news for women that guys objectify every breathing creature with a vagina? Are we THAT desperate to be desirable? Jeez.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I don't know how anyone at Elle let this past the editing desk, let alone be printed, without saying, "Uh...this is horrific and wrong, BURN IT WITH FIRE."

I like to tell myself into this that these type of guys are in the minority of the Normal Dude population for comfort.

[from-elysium.livejournal.com]

Okay, upon rereading this article, I am laughing because the authors apparently are really skeevy, but NOT SKEEVY ENOUGH TO HAVE IMAGINARY SEX WITH UNDERAGED GIRLS, YES THAT IS WHERE THEY DRAW THE LINE. Lol.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

ALSO, DID YOU SEE THE SKEEVY BIT WHERE ONE GUY WOULD USE HIS KIDS AS A DISTRACTION TO LOOK DOWN WOMEN'S SHIRTS.

WHAT. WHAT.

[from-elysium.livejournal.com]

That and the whole, using food words as a metaphor thing for body parts/sex was weird. I was like, this article has already reached the boundary of acceptable and went zooming past it, are we really not mature enough to use the real words?

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

No shit. And they were confusing metaphors too! It took me like five minutes to figure out what disgusting thing he was trying to say.

[lambbaby.livejournal.com]

are we really not mature enough to use the real words?

Of course you aren't! They have to be careful not offend a woman's delicate sensibilities.

The food thing made me really glad I wasn't eating.

[bubblexdreams.livejournal.com]

...just choked.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I never write to magazines but I an contemplating writing to Elle about that. That's gross.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I wish that article had a comment section because I'd be all over it. I just don't understand how any woman on staff felt comfortable printing that.

[lambbaby.livejournal.com]

That is a joke right? No really that cannot be a real article. It's too, too wrong to be true. And if that really is some insight into manland then count me the fuck out. Nunnery here I come.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I wish it was, like, some really terrifying parody into the minds of men, but I've met way too many bros like that for it not to be. It's even got all the, "Women just want providers and don't think about sex, hurhur," cliches we know and love!

[lambbaby.livejournal.com]

It's even got all the, "Women just want providers and don't think about sex, hurhur," cliches we know and love!

Glad to see that Elle knows me and my love of cliches so well!

This aticle can DIAF. It's perverted and janky and makes me really uncomfortable about riding the metro.

[letsjamtogether.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, what the --

Why.

Why, Elle, why!

[antistar-e.livejournal.com]

Dude. DUDE. Awkward turtle, for srs :/

... that's just wrong. Why isn't it April? If it was anywhere near April 1st, I could wishfully think away the whole thing.

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

That's just disturbing and wrong on way too many levels. And, granted, I find it highly unlikely that every guy starts mentally undressing every woman he comes across, but still.

Which all goes back to the question everyone else is asking: how the fuck was that published in the first place?

Brb, ordering brain bleach and a chemical shower to stop my skin from crawling now....

[purplesmudges.livejournal.com]

......

I would use my headdesk macro but even that doesn't show how grossed out I am.

Is this what I have to look forward to when I someday date? Oh, jeez.

[angel-2606.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE...............

THEY CAN'T BE..........

UGH!

I am SO freaking grossed out and creeped out right now, it's not even funny. I'm willing to bet that it was a dude who let this article be published. And if it was a woman, she deserves to get the crap smacked out of her for publishing it. Idiot. This article makes me sick! I just..................UGH. I can't even begin to express how grossed out and pissed off I am about this article, and if this is supposed to be a broad view about all men, pfft! I don't think I'll date anyone, thankyouverymuch!

[ladyeni.livejournal.com]

WTF?! Not only is this disgusting because of its content, but also because of how it's written. It isn't hard for me at all to imagine the creep who wrote this... this thing, patronisingly "talking" to us innocent unsuspecting little women, gesturing all over the place and letting us in on this juicy secret of the rough world of men. Urgh. I keep trying to understand who on earth this was intended for, what kind of woman were the editors thinking of when they decided to publish this giant pile of rubbish. I keep trying, but I fail miserably. And don't get me started on the title... Who "likes it like that"? What is that supposed to mean?! Is the last part supposed to make me feel good about myself and forget how disgusting the article itself is?! Just... urgh.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have been as surprised if this piece had been published in Maxim or some other men's magazine, which is where it probably should've been published in the first place...

[wolf-claw.livejournal.com]

I am genuinely repulsed. Just...oh that is so disgusting and degrading it isn't even funny. I don't think I've felt so opposed to a group of people in a long long time.
They better damn well keep themselves annoymous, because what they've written there is just awful.
"but mostly because there were many uncomfortably attractive girls who had to be nos (as I couldn’t be sure they were above the age of consent)." I think I just gagged. Honestly...talk about being sex offenders.