The war is on. It's blond bomb-shells flying across the sky, voices of mass-destruction and pictures that shatters the mind of any sane person watching it. Yes, it's once again time for Melodifestival... and god it's awful. Lame puns, bland songs and people acting like they were made of concrete. Other years there was at least some fun middle-act that at least had some decent music, but not this year. The whole thing is a life-less cadaver that nothing can give the pulse back.
Enough about that stupidity and let us discuss something even more stupid. Or it will at least be more stupid the more I write about it. Sociology, albeit fun, can sometimes crash into discussion regarding certain character traits, or with some generalizations, traits for a whole group. Being mostly a female dominated class you can guess who's the evil part of society. Lucky enough for the male part of the class, the girls aren't that vocal, but what help is that when it's obvious our fault. Now, I don't bother that much, mostly due to that I and the other can defend ourselves with logical reasoning. And that none is very conflict seeking (although I start to suspect one or two of the guys). The only time it became a full-on conflict was when the subject of violent video-games came up. And that's the only time I've seen such deep rift between the men and women in an academic situation. And that wasn't that hard to understand because they (the women) didn't "get" why we, as a group compared to women, preferred violent games (I hoped they meant in various degrees).
And everyone from the guys (cornered in the back of the classroom) spoke up against that generalization (as well as the hinting that it was pointless). It more or less boiled down to our defense position being that in order to be alive and human, you need to feel, and the only way to get that adrenaline rush in a legal circumstance, we play video-games (or watch movies, or read books). Now who is the group protecting our right to be emotional, eh. Say what you want, this is at least an academic discussion, what is troublesome is when you get into similar discussion in swedish newspapers (especially in Aftonbladet). Recent debate is mens objectifying views on women in media and popular culture (written by a female leftist no less in her 60's making me wonder what she really knows about modern culture). And then you read the comments. This my friends is the reason why it's a miracle why democracy is the preferred form of government. The one thing that make this worse is that when I watch music videos, listen to them, read books and watch TV, I knows that it's fiction, but reading the comments I know that they are actual opinions of people. Somehow fictional stupidity can never be worse than the real deal.
Enough about that stupidity and let us discuss something even more stupid. Or it will at least be more stupid the more I write about it. Sociology, albeit fun, can sometimes crash into discussion regarding certain character traits, or with some generalizations, traits for a whole group. Being mostly a female dominated class you can guess who's the evil part of society. Lucky enough for the male part of the class, the girls aren't that vocal, but what help is that when it's obvious our fault. Now, I don't bother that much, mostly due to that I and the other can defend ourselves with logical reasoning. And that none is very conflict seeking (although I start to suspect one or two of the guys). The only time it became a full-on conflict was when the subject of violent video-games came up. And that's the only time I've seen such deep rift between the men and women in an academic situation. And that wasn't that hard to understand because they (the women) didn't "get" why we, as a group compared to women, preferred violent games (I hoped they meant in various degrees).
And everyone from the guys (cornered in the back of the classroom) spoke up against that generalization (as well as the hinting that it was pointless). It more or less boiled down to our defense position being that in order to be alive and human, you need to feel, and the only way to get that adrenaline rush in a legal circumstance, we play video-games (or watch movies, or read books). Now who is the group protecting our right to be emotional, eh. Say what you want, this is at least an academic discussion, what is troublesome is when you get into similar discussion in swedish newspapers (especially in Aftonbladet). Recent debate is mens objectifying views on women in media and popular culture (written by a female leftist no less in her 60's making me wonder what she really knows about modern culture). And then you read the comments. This my friends is the reason why it's a miracle why democracy is the preferred form of government. The one thing that make this worse is that when I watch music videos, listen to them, read books and watch TV, I knows that it's fiction, but reading the comments I know that they are actual opinions of people. Somehow fictional stupidity can never be worse than the real deal.
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