I think he started with something else. He wanted to engage in conversation. I don't know if he wanted to explain away the idea of male gaze. There are inconsistencies in his story which are big old flags (e.g. he didn't understand typical subjects in matociquala's Lj, but he, "never has anything to to say," to her).
I do, however, from looking at his journal, think he expected to be able to explain things about how the world works, and; as the way he closed his comment to me, with an attempted barb, which failed for misquotation, though it would have been worse had he quoted me correctly), shows, he's not as clever as he thinks he is (his intelligence we can't plumb).
And it was his attempts at clever which set his doom. A lack of actual examinatiin of what was happening sealed it, but he overreached his talents trying a 5.10, when 5.5 is about his max.
At which point he does get to play the martyr, so he probably sees it as a win/win situation.
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Date: 2009-02-27 11:48 pm (UTC)I do, however, from looking at his journal, think he expected to be able to explain things about how the world works, and; as the way he closed his comment to me, with an attempted barb, which failed for misquotation, though it would have been worse had he quoted me correctly), shows, he's not as clever as he thinks he is (his intelligence we can't plumb).
And it was his attempts at clever which set his doom. A lack of actual examinatiin of what was happening sealed it, but he overreached his talents trying a 5.10, when 5.5 is about his max.
At which point he does get to play the martyr, so he probably sees it as a win/win situation.