At Comic Con / NerdHQ 2012, an audience member asked if Nathan could give a personal shout out to her two friends in the audience, who had introduced her to “Firefly” and “Castle”. Instead of simply filling the request with a quick “Hello!”, it turned into quite the emotional moment. ♥
Nathan: “Ladies, it’s because of people like you.. and this is gonna sound goofy, but this is, actually, I’m gonna be serious.”
Let me tell you something: as someone who faces sexism on a very personal level, I have no interest in politely trying to educate misogynists when we live in a culture in which their misogyny has no repercussions. Our government is introducing bill after bill of offensive, woman-hating legislation, murder is still the leading cause of [death of] pregnant women, and rape is under-prosecuted at staggering numbers. Birth control is up for debate, governors are rolling back equal pay laws, and you think I have the energy to be polite to these people?
No.
Because it doesn’t do any good. There’s no evidence that being super nice to sexists, or racists, or homophobes, or bigots of any kind will make them see the error of their ways - it’ll just make them more comfortable to be around you because you’re playing by their rules.
My blog is one of the only times these people will face any repercussions for being bigots. And you know what? They can turn off the computer and go right back out into the world where they are sexist jackasses and people tolerate it or even encourage it. When I turn off the computer, I’m still in a world of sexist jackasses that are tolerated and even encouraged. There’s this culture of not having any accountability for being a bigot, and I’ve created one tiny space on the internet where that’s no longer true.
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One time I say to him, ‘If there’s a God? Is he a man?’ and the question catches him by surprise a bit. But after a while he says that, yes, he thinks in the end God is probably a man. So I say to him, ‘What does he look like? Does He have a beard? Does He wear robes? Does He have long while hair?’ He says to me that the thing about God is that whatever I think He looks like, well, He will look the absolute opposite to that. And whatever I think He is least likely to look like, then that is what He will look like. So I ask him if he means God looks a bit like Gary Glitter and he tells me not to be so bloody silly. So I say to him, ‘If you can’t tell me what He looks like, if you don’t know what He looks like and He doesn’t look like anything, then how do you know He is anything more than just an idea? Just something you made up?’
