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What is the difference between reading something that you are predisposed to agree with and following rational thought including it in how you view and think about the world, and being swayed by repeated hammering of a concept? I've always been more sensitive than most to implications and subtext in words, and how they might seem to people of backgrounds that aren't my own, so it's nothing new for me to be upset by something that others find funny.

The other day while running around youtube, I stumbled on a video where a ~18 year old woman was ranting about how people were blindly accepting and unwilling to use critical thought. The tone of the video was very aggressive and confrontational, both in her presentation and the editing style used, and apparently attracted a fair number of responses and nasty private messages. One of the responses was a video where an apparently love struck young man swoons over her image, camera shots focusing on her lips and on her eyes. This goes on for a good minute to accompanying strings, until the guy hits the "mute" button. All the sudden you can hear her voice as she responds to the people who have responded to her. The guy is mortified and hides his face from the dream girl turned nightmare.

so the takeaway message? Even if you are "hot" you should shut up and stay hot. Great. awesome.

**sighs**

I probably would have mentioned it and been annoyed/upset, but as I've been exposed to a fairly high dose of radical feminism right now it's really stuck in my craw :P