No cookies required, but maybe a hug...

I usually drop the ball on these things, but didn't this time. However, not really having the energy to punch through that final tackle (to continue the US sporting metaphor!)

I'm on SI's Football Manager Live (I talked about setting up my team, the Steel Cross Gyrls, in an earlier post), and I occasionally join in the forums on the game. Recently there have been a number of complaints, people whining about bugs in the servers and suchlike, or more often, they just don't like the way the game's rules are designed because t make sit hard to figure out. Anyway, a lot of whining complainers.

So, one person decided to make a point about this. There was just one problem with how he said it, see if you can spot what it was:

20+ people that act like spoiled teenage girls...

So I replied, "Please keep sexism to a minimum: you could just have said 'spoilt teenagers' and it would have had the same meaning". No cookies required! After all, it was unlikely there would be any other feminist person on the game to make an issue of it, so I couldn't just let it go, could I?

Of course, I should have expected the follower (from someone else in this case):

Grow up. he hasn't launched an attack on either sex, he just made a point in the easiest way possible.

I'm sorry. Right now I haven't got the energy to take that on. I know some folks have to deal with that shit all the bloody time, and by God I feel for you! But I log on to the game to have a bit of downtime and relaxation and fun - I at least put down a marker that there's one feminist on the server, but Lord knows I can't face the whole battle again tonight, it's been a long day already.

Nevertheless, I hope my presence will mean it isn't a total safe space for bigotry and sexism.