Brain-bleach. Now.
Cara talks about how fucked up the Judicial System can be.
But seriously:
Yesterday, I received a comment (which was not approved), which snottily asked what exactly the victim in this case had to fear in being interrogated by her alleged rapist, if she was telling the truth. Here I was thinking that I outlined what exactly those fears might be rather explicitly, and in a way that was in fact rather triggering for me to do.
Emphasis mine. I just... I just. Damn.
Also, Cara's yesterday post? Rape Charges Dropped After 14-Year-Old Accuser Commits Suicide.
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the_future_modernes, LJ is fucked up as hell, people. And I'm maintaining my account because a lot of you (and lots of comms) are LJ only.But seriously this shit is fucked up. Read it.
If they take down my account? You all have witnessed it, I refuse to fear this kind of shit.
You would never, not in a million years, see a major pop star launch into a revenge song called “Ur So Asian” or “Ur So Disabled.” That would not and should never happen. But it is still somehow acceptable for a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling major recording artist to sing a song like “Ur So Gay” in revenge as “the crowd cheered and howled in laughter.”
You would never, not in a million years, see a major pop star launch into a revenge song called “Ur So Asian” or “Ur So Disabled.” Uhm. Excuse me? And "you are so retarded" is... what? Also, why do these people always assume that gay people have to be also white and able-bodied? Because talk about whiteness, heterosexuality and ability as default.
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Also, I don't need to tell you to NOT crosspost private things on my journal, or private comments of mine elsewhere.
All of this in class called, "Methodology of Radioisotopes."
This will be a long, long semester.
ETA: Also, I'm always loving folks in this country who seem to live in alternative realities. Because you have to be something to be working in a health area here and say shit like that. ("Something" meaning lots of things. For all I know this woman could be very into the politics of health departments, meaning money, but some things she said confused me. I guess I'm going to have a whole semester to figure it out! Yaaaay!)
Man says he would never vote "guilty" if he were a jury in a rape case despite the evidence because menz are oprezzed by US's law. All the comments agree and consider him heroic because we live in a misandrist world. The whole site is a jewel. (Triggering for rape apologism, victim blaming and lot more shit I can't name.)
Also, there was this post featured about a white US senator saying white privileged was a myth because white people were impoverished.
Hmm. Some days.
Via
aqrima, white lady talks shit because she read an article about India in NY Times.:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/world/asia/10honor.html?src=me&ref=general
I, personally, do not feel that culture is an excuse for violence. In fact, I feel that there is no excuse for violence. Using religion and culture to excuse murder is an act of cowardice. Yet, still they continue…in the name of religion and tradition, etc.
What I find disgusting about this story—beyond the whole pointless death and human intolerance—is that the family changed their story multiple times. Changing your story in such a fashion over and over again is rather indicative of guilt. And an autopsy showing that the young woman suffocated…that, too, seems more like murder than suicide. Were there marks on the neck indicating that she had been hung? Was there rope? Did the rope have any of her DNA embedded in the threads from, you know, hair and skin that would have certainly been torn and irritated? Is there even any evidence that she hung herself, aside from the family’s changing stories?
And isn’t it suspicious that her “suicide” note suddenly appeared after they changed the story?
No, you cannot change society in one day. Ms. Pathak’s brother was right in that. But that doesn’t mean that culture cannot change at all. It can, and it will. Hopefully, one day, the outdated, ignorant, and conservative notion of honor killings will be gone and women will be one step closer to being safe and equal in the cultures that once advocated such archaic systems.
Ah, the condescending attitude and superiority of white people. Imagine if they actually bothered to educate themselves!
Aqrima has a wonderful response here:
you’re saying that this is done in the name of (outdated, archaic, conservative, ignorant) culture, and that is wrong. and some people say that this is what the culture says, and it is outdated, archaic, conservative and ignorant.
you’re working on the assumption that 1) there is some primal indian culture that we (indians, south asians) come from, and 2) that you know what it is.
and you don’t. you really, really don’t. i get the sense you (and the person you reblogged) are just another white feminist who thinks it’s okay to make blatantly racist and imperialist statements about our cultures, while you’re completely ignorant about the ways in which, for one, imperialism has shaped our cultures. made it so that we are in this bind where it’s either fundamentalism or modernity, and nothing. fucking. makes. sense.
ETA: White lady responds to Aqrima, after a bunch of nonsense about how she (White Lady) has right to talk: "excusing horrible violence on an innocent victim (a whole line of “but, but, but,” really?) makes you an evil person.."
Because she is so concerned about the killing happening in India. *throws up*
I would say that making fun of an Indian woman's culture while you stamp over a woman's death like that makes you an evil person. No one is fooled.
White lady, an Indian woman calling you on your racism while you pretend concern about a woman's death isn't "excusing a murder," far from it. And you making this straw man and slippery slope towards her and her culture is really awful and privileged.
You, white lady, aren't the one being killed there and won't ever be. You have no idea about these women lives beyond what you read in a NY Times article. So shut up.
A fuckery that no one will make me put a proper name.
You might be pleasantly surprised to know that I've taken the time to learn more about your country these last few days, because I've been so intrigued by your seeming national capacity to take the fun out of everything, including the game I love.
Apparently, there are nearly 7 million of you, my dear Paraguayans, landlocked in the middle of South America, bored out of your minds. I understand that your capital is Asuncion and that your climate ranges from subtropical to semiarid. I'm thinking more of you must live in the semi-arid region than not, but I stand to be corrected.
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I will say -- and I mean this -- that I was stunned to learn that you fended off Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay for six years, between 1864 and 1870, in the War of the Triple Alliance. That seems like a terrifically unfair fight, and I understand it was nearly the end of you. I'm glad it wasn't. I think the world would be poorer without Paraguay in it. I can trust only that you took some comfort in knowing that two-thirds of that Triple Alliance were sent packing in the quarterfinals along with you, and that Uruguay is only still here because Uruguayans, the lesser Guayans, are unsporting, heartbreaking thieves.
I'm sorry, white guy, for taking the fun of your hobbies by existing. You don't have idea how much anguish causes me to ruin the squee of some white Canadian guy because I breath.
You are talking, mocking and trivializing a war that ended in genocide, our genocide, a third world country genocide because... you don't like our football.
And the guy learned of Paraguay in like... a week. So he is a authority to mock a poor developing country's population. (Bored out of our minds? Oh, such a great comedy, you know. Because this isn't a country where people will wish they had some time to be bored instead of surviving. Unlike First World Asshats.)
Also, the fucking disgusting fetishizing that is happening because these white men find a Paraguayan model to be such a novelty.
I mean, I'm tired and don't want to go deep about this because then I will have to go deep about Spain and all the shit it also brought. But seriously white people? You make me so damn tired. You and your incapacity to understand basic and kinda intuitive political concepts that seriously aren't that hard to understand. Your arrogance, your inability to accept privilege, while common and normal, it make me completely and fucking sick out of my mind. And I put like this because I feel kinda nice. So please, get away from me unless you star to grasp some basic things. Like decency.
You also have to learn about history and political and economical context. That is kinda harder, but you need to before talking about "the inferiority" of Developing Nations. Yes, also, actual markets and global economy.
(I also ban and mock people. Ban and mock. Keep it in mind. I don't have "constructive conversations" that aren't really constructive. Just warning. If I hear a "you are generalizing and being just as racist!!" again it will be too soon.)
You can expose trans people to violence. You could get them fired. You could make it impossible for them to find work–word of mouth travels quickly in small towns or closeknit industries. They could be harassed so much they need to quit their job, or to need to move, or all kinds of things. You don’t know, because you’ve never had to live with the consequences. Just because you know and trust someone, doesn’t mean that I can. It doesn’t mean that they won’t be hateful to me, and it certainly doesn’t mean that they will be respectful of my confidentiality.
For most people, “trans” erases the bit that comes after. This is why you never ever see a headline that says “transsexual woman” [blah blah blah]. No, it just says “transsexual” and is used as a noun rather than the adjective it is. It conjures the ever present “really a man” transphobic trope (quick mental test: see if you can describe a trans person without using it). For women like me, living our lives as a woman is constituted as untruthful. When most cis people become aware that I’m trans, they start treating me different. I can see the change immediately – when pronoun “slips” start “accidentally” happening, when I stop being counted with the right group. Because it’s ingrained, isn’t it? In a cissexist culture, only cissexuality (or a trans person’s ability to appear cissexual) is truly real, and any hint of anything else invalidates the whole.
One time, I inadvertently outed myself to a group of students. I’d been teaching a tremendously interesting media studies class to first years; that is, mostly 17 and 18 year olds. The first three weeks went pretty well. We talked video games and violence, Hollywood, what they actually did with media. The discussions were engaged, it was all going fine. Then, a month in, I came down with a cold. My voice suddenly dropped an octave, because I couldn’t vocalise at my usual pitch. And like that, you could see the lights go on in their eyes. They’d realised I was trans.
Now, as these things go, it wasn’t truly awful (how low my expectations have become on that score). The next week, we did adbuster style cut-ups to jam dominant media messages and several groups turned in transphobic assignments, giggling their arses off. They were laughing at me. Another student spent the lesson interrupting me, telling the class how everything I was saying was stupid. And of course, a number of students stopped attending my classes altogether, trying to get into classes in the same unit run by other teachers. I was losing control of my classes.. and I was still bloody sick.
The point is, the mere fact of their knowing that I am trans meant that they, 17 and 18 year olds with scant knowledge of the subject they were taking, suddenly felt entitled to talk over me, to mock me openly when previously they had been respectful. Of itself, being subjected to ungendering takes its toll, especially if it’s something you experience frequently.
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An also... uhm, yeah. You are going to do some groundbreaking work. I know it's SO the first time I heard that one.
the_future_modernes: Fashionably Colonized: Hybrid Vigor, Brazilian Models, and Global Ideas of BeautyThe smartly-written article takes an interesting turn – while the models associated with Brazil are overwhelmingly white, the country is beginning to embrace nonwhite women who fit their standards of beauty. And yet…
Despite those shifts, more than half of Brazil’s models continue to be found here among the tiny farms of Rio Grande do Sul, a state that has only one-twentieth of the nation’s population and was colonized predominantly by Germans and Italians.
Brazilians are equally perplexed:
The pattern creates a disconnect between what many Brazilians consider beautiful and the beauty they export overseas. While darker-skinned actresses like Juliana Paes and Camila Pitanga are considered among Brazil’s sexiest, it is Ms. Bündchen and her fellow southerners who win fame abroad.
“I was always perplexed that Brazil was never able to export a Naomi Campbell, and it is definitely not because of a lack of pretty women,” said Erika Palomino, a fashion consultant in São Paulo. “It is embarrassing.”
Read the comments.
You know, I could care less about the image "Brazil exports" or "what is presented to the Global beauty market (USA or Europe)," because articles like this are always about what we give to the first world, which of course is white because our ideal is your white supremacy! But this comment by moth:
I read an interview with Giselle (the white Brazilian supermodel) in Vogue in which she described trying to volunteer with an organization for Portugeese speakers in Boston (where she now lives.) In the article she talks about how she wanted to “save” the young impoverished girls she worked with, but she felt she was unable to because the girls were black and Latina and they saw her as white whereas she felt that there was no such thing as race or racial tension in Brazil because “everyone is mixed.” To me, it was a perfect example of Brazilian racial ignorance.
Giselle? There isn't such a thing as "racial tension because everyone is mixed"? Honey, you are the prove of that, aren't you.
Dear fucking God, now racism in Latin America passed from disgustingly blatant to "non-existent" because some white blue-eyed model living in Boston thinks so. Urg, urg, urg, urg.
Also, if you scroll down the comments, you will see how this woman's fail gets worse.
ETA: Also? The NYT article is full of shit. Just to leave things clear, "what many Brazilians consider beautiful." I'm kinda skeptical in that aspect. (Well, yeah, the women put as examples of "Brazil beauty" are very light-skinned, so it may be right after all.)
Cuando comencé a hacer mis primeras armas en medicina como practicante, aún estudiante, la histeria era algo realmente molesto para los clínicos. Y a tal punto que cuando llegaba un caso de histeria el Jefe de Guardia, decía “- ¿Quién es el último que entró a la Guardia? Que se ocupe así nosotros no perdemos tiempo con esto y nos ocupamos de los casos ‘en serio’”. Recuerdo a una chica llegando semiparalizada en brazos de su padre, con la madre, el novio, alguna tía y otros familiares angustiados acompañando el cuadro que semejaba más al de una opereta que al de una emergencia. La pobre histérica caía así en manos del más inexperto de la guardia, por aquellos tiempos llamado el ‘perro’ por haber sido el último en llegar, y que tenía la siguiente instrucción: a) sacarle el público, b) hacerle parloterápia, quedarse con ella y hablarle hasta que se le pase.
El Jefe de Clínica Medica de donde hacía la Unidad Hospitalaria tenía su remedio para la histeria, decía “- Cuando tengan una paciente histérica, busquen el analgésico intramuscular más doloroso e inyéctenle en la nalga a presión, de esa manera verán como deja de ocuparles el tiempo y pueden dedicarse a lo suyo”. El se consideraba a sí mismo benévolo “- Yo soy mucho más suave que mis maestros, ellos me enseñaron que había que apretar los pezones para sacarla de la crisis”.
No solo vemos el aspecto misógino y de género en "histeria" ("cuando venga una paciente"), sino también vemos que el abuso sexual y maltrato a pacientes "histéricas" que está no solo no mal visto sino fomentado. (No, el hombre no desaprueba para nada en lo que sigue de su artículo algo de esto.) Esto es profesionalismo, digo, ¿no hay algo que habla la ética sobre esa actitud condescendiente, paternalista y de burla hacia sus pacientes o qué se yo? (Y el médico que se ve en su santo derecho de apretarle los pezones a una paciente porque la ve "histérica". No es abuso sexual, ni feas dinámicas de poder, ni nada.)
Pero lo peor está por venir:
La idea de la solución de las crisis histéricas en relación a un quehacer con lo genital es algo que siempre estuvo presente, incluso fuera del modelo médico, lo mismo que la idea que la histeria está relacionada con un déficit de satisfacción sexual.
Sí. No os jodo. Esto lo dice él. Sí, esto que Freud decía hace 50 años, sigue vigente para algunos médicos.
Una noche, cerca de las dos de la madrugada, tocan el timbre de mi domicilio y al abrir me encuentro con el clásico cuadro: la hija aupada en brazos de su padre, y apretujados a su alrededor, muy afligidos, el novio, la madre, la hermana. Entran y el padre deposita con mucho cuidado a la joven de 17 años en la camilla del consultorio. Ella le sostiene la mano y no lo deja retirarse sino tras algo de resistencia. Ya a solas con ella me llamó la atención la forma de hablar como si fuese una nenita de cuatro años, y usando no solo el tono sino también la escasez de vocabulario propio de esa edad. Gesticulaba y movía su cuerpo como el de una niña contrastando con el desarrollo corporal de su edad actual. Le hable largo rato mientras como al pasar me cercioraba que sus signos vitales y motrices estuviesen normales. Ella siguió en su “personaje” de niña desvalida y átona, hasta que, para mi sorpresa pidió ir al baño, se lo permití y con gran soltura y seguridad se incorporó de la camilla y fue al baño. Pedí a la madre que hiciera una vigilancia discreta mientras yo hablaba a solas con el novio. Habían estado en uno de los bancos de una plaza de Quilmes, era una noche cálida. El contaba que, habitualmente, sus mimos llegaban hasta cierto límite que ella imponía, pero esa noche estaba más suelta y pudieron avanzar mucho más, y que cuando comenzó a aflojarle la ropa para coronar la noche escuchó, con cierto espanto, que una voz de nenita le decía: “no te potes mal con la nenita, nene malo”. Creyó al principio que era una broma, pero la cosa fue de mal en peor hasta que terminaron en el consultorio. Cerca de las cuatro se retiraron todos, ella recuperada. En el momento que debía dar el paso hacía la mujer, esa joven decidió esperar detrás de su nenita.
¿Se pueden imaginar? Una chica que quién sabe que estaría haciendo para protegerse viene a parar con semejante médico que no solo es increíblemente condescendiente con ella, sino que dice cosas como "en el momento que debía dar el paso hacía la mujer, esa joven decidió esperar detrás de su nenita". Nótese la dicotomía entre "mujer" y "nenita". "Dar paso hacia la mujer" es iniciarse sexualmente según este psiquiatra, por lo tanto el género, la mujer adulta como siempre estará definida por su sexualidad (heterosexual por supuesto).
En nuestra práctica profesional nos enfrentamos con varias tipos de manifestaciones histéricas: aquella en la que lo preeminente es la dramatización, es el caso de la histérica que comienza narrando qué le pasa con su esposo, por ejemplo, y se deja llevar por el personaje y poco a poco nos va convirtiendo en su esposo hasta que terminamos por vernos insultados en nuestro propio consultorio por una mujer furiosa. Aquella otra que es seductora y graciosa, la gracia es la armonía de los gestos, es el caso de la histérica que arma y adorna todo su discurso con la gracia de una buena actriz; sabe que lo hace bien y disfruta de tener un espectador donde desarrollar su histrionismo y seducción. Y aquella que presenta una artificialidad muy marcada pero carente de gracia y que no logra agradar a su espectador ocasional.
Otra vez, la feminización de la histeria, y la sexualización de sus pacientes. Una mujer que "ataca al psiquiatra que ve como esposo" o una "seductora." Las mujeres discapacitadas, con algún problema son tratadas de esta forma por médicos. No son seres humanos, son arquetipos, una cosa hipersexual e histriónica, o una esposa "dominante y maltratadora" que ataca al pobre médico por su odio al marido.
Esto es una gran caricatura.
Se desprende también de la práctica profesional un rasgo de inevitable presencia, la histérica demanda, los derechos son suyos, las obligaciones son de los demás para con ella y deben ser cumplidas como y cuando lo requiere. No es retributiva. Pide, abusa, tiraniza, siempre quiere más: “contentada nunca, conforme jamás”.
¿Necesito decir algo? La Histérica.
Se trata de una paciente de unos 45 años que tuvo una parálisis de su hemicuerpo. Ella me comenta “Yo estaba sentada porque no podía moverme, y veía que todos mis familiares estaban alrededor mío con una gran angustia, y yo trataba de decirles que no se preocuparan, que estaba todo bien, que estaba tranquila, no lo podía decir porque tenía problemas para articular, pero yo me sentía bien y para mí estaban exagerando”. Médico, internación, exámenes. Tenía un coágulo en la zona occipito-parietal derecha que le daba la hemiparesia. El caso presentaba las características de una bella indiferencia y era un cuadro orgánico neto.
Dios me libre. La mujer tenía un coágulo, pero su tranquilidad era por supuesto "histeria", porque una mujer haciendo cualquier cosa es histeria. Si se ponía nerviosa era histeria. Si está tranquila también es histeria!
Y las características de la histeria:
- curiosidad
- chismografía
- fantasía [...]
- sensibilidad
- representaciones hipocondríacas
- tendencia a las escenas
- tendencia al romanticismo
Aschaffenburg
- extraña mezcla de frialdad y entusiasmo, de amabilidad y hostilidad
[...] Es de destacar que lo que ya se planteaba por el año 1900 sobre pacientes histéricos puede encontrarse en diversos criterios asimilables a la histeria presentes en el DSM IV y poseen absoluta vigencia ateniéndonos a la práctica clínica cotidiana.
Aparentemente, cualquier mujer que... sea humana será "histérica" en algún momento de su vida. Porque recordemos que es un término muy ligado al género. Y. Nótese la vigencia. Palabra clave para este hombre.
Dentro de las psicopatías relacionadas con la histeria es posible distinguir los fantasiosos puros, la pseudología fantástica o mitomanía, como algunos la llaman, y los farsantes.
Los fantasiosos puros, Schneider los llama fantásticos aunque a mi parecer se ajusta mejor la nominación fantasiosos puros, son los ensoñadores, aquellos que están siempre imaginando cosas, ensoñados, idos, un poco distraídos, olvidadizos, siempre muy introvertidos y en su mundo, soñando despiertos y tratando de que el mundo de la fantasía los salve del mundo real.
Otra vez, no jodo. Esto lo dice el hombre. Adoro la patologización de todo.
La proporción de casos de pseudología fantástica es de tres hombres a una mujer, a diferencia de la neurosis histérica donde es de común conocimiento la enorme proporción de mujeres respecto de hombres
"Es de común conocimiento". Esto es ciencia y el resto son tonterías. La base es "el común conocimiento". Ah, cuantos estudios siguiendo el método científico se habrán hecho al respecto. "Es de común conocimiento que una pseudoenfermedad que se atribuyó a mujeres de clase alta debido a la asquerosa misoginia de un siglo atrás sea en la actualidad atribuida a un enorme número de mujeres con respecto a hombres".
Esta es la psiquiatría que se practica y es "vigente" en muchos lugares. Dios sabe que mis pensamientos están con esos pacientes.
Pues bien, mi reacción al encontrar esta página es "histeria" porque primero tuve la ilusión de que sería algo serio, pero al encontrarme con semejante mierda tuve la reacción contraria, liberando así mis instintos sexuales en forma de rabia hacia el pobre médico.
Y aclaremos esto, la "Histeria" es un concepto que surgió en los comienzos de 1900 en la medicina occidental debido a que la sexualidad de cierto grupo de mujeres se veía como patológica. A preguntarse.
But what the fuck is this shit?
Apparently, the not so smart ONTD crew felt all butthurt (you can see some jewels there) because SHE DARED to say "bad things" about Sandra Bullock adopting a black child (which was pretty spot on), and then went at her blog to troll her with racist, ableist, sexist shit. Because white people can't be racist but they can go to stalk and insult a black woman who criticized a white celebrity.
Pffft, okay this is kinda funny:
From ONTDSupporter:
I'm not an ONTD member but I read it and I'm a supporter. You are one dumb b*tch I'm sorry to say. I too came here to read the disgusting piece you wrote on a woman saving a child's life (Sandra Bullock adoption story) but refrained from commenting because I could not believe the amount of ignorance and hatred in you and your supporters. I let the "disgusting ONTD trolls" put you in your place. But after reading this on ONTD I just had to say something. So here it goes: [...]
Then this person writes three long paragraphs with a bunch of nonsense that goes like: Renee is feeling "pissed" because ONTD people "outnumber her" (how old are these people anyway?), she has to STFU about this Sandra Bullock/ONTD issue, but at the same time she has to accept that people have different views because this is the internet! And 3) she is an ignorant bitch. She doesn't know about Sandra Bullock and other white celebrities Holly Mission like this person who "wrote an essay" (by their own words) clearly does. No, wait, 3) is apparently about stealing, what it is and what isn't, and how she is a hypocrite because she has downloaded a song. (Yeah, I got confused there for a moment, even when I disagree with Renee, uhm, I don't think any of those things are even equivalent. ETA: Wait! Apparently they just assumed she downloaded music and movies. I mean, she obviously did those things because this is the internet, and it serves their purposes. So, uhm, she is an hypocrite. Because, in their minds, Renee downloads music and watch movies from the internet for free like you and me. Even when she never actually wrote a post implying she did those things -that I can remember-, but she had to! Probably Lady Gaga's songs*.)
You have to love these people and their simplified lives. I guess in the world of celebrity gossiping there are no nuances due to politics, issues are never complicated by differences of power, economics, history- heck, race is apparently a thing people just use to oppress the white beautiful actresses!
So, feel for white rich ladies and their inalienable right to adopt kids of color. But women of color on the internet have to shut up about the issue and their own articles published on a comm for white hipsters who love celebrities from USA.
And for once, I don't agree with her in that post about linking without permission, and I don't think I will ever, but seriously? Seriously?
* Nothing to do with my position about her post on that aspect. She probably has her own reasons, I have no idea, I still disagree with her. And with the trolls that say not wanting your blog article posted in other sites has to make you condemn music and mp3 free downloads. Heck, I'm not even interested in discussing that issue, I'm just pretty amused that they are accusing her of something they don't even know she does.
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deadbrowalking.What the fuck is this shit. Seriously. Those comments...
Oh, and Neil Gaiman? His wife's husband.
I just want to hear more fans of him sounding all butthurt because people dare to say "mean tings" about their idol! Come here, little ones, I know how to use banset. (Translation: I really don't care about hearing you.)
And lolol at the one going "with all the real racism going on there, you just focus on...!" It sounds so familiar.
sparkymonster makes the post that will saves us a lot of trouble from stupid people:A lesson in good vs. bad irony thanks to Amanda Palmer. (Very triggering about racist violence and pictures of bodies.)
Not that big fan of Gaga here, but seriously, Palmer. You, white lady, don't know what you are saying. (And the same goes to the rest of white ladies and gentlemen who, undoubtedly, will come out saying things like "it's not that offensive, you are not reading her right!")
hotcoffeems sums it up on this comment:Here is the only thing I personally can conclude about why she thinks this is on ANY level O.K.: the KKK and the endemic and brutal evil that it is symptomatic of really means nothing to her except as an abstract. To her, it means little more than another possible tool in the box to use to promote herself as an "artist." There is NO WAY anyone could say such a thing, especially on the heels of that steaming Evelyn Evelyn mess, then follow it up with the "teehee, for those upset about the Klan reference..." Twitter and actually and genuinely comprehend that what the KKK is and represents is a profound evil in the world.
I'm so pissed that I'm reacting pretty badly to other and non-related online arguments I'm having right now. Yeah, avoid me.
The group “People Against Racebending: Protest of the Cast of The Last Airbender Movie” has been removed because it violated our Terms of Use. Among other things, groups that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down groups that attack an individual or group, or advertise a product or service. Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in your account being disabled.
... uhm. How's that. Apparently racial equality in fiction is a very insulting idea for some people.
Because you see, I have no main fandom right now, so I'm sticking to a fandom full of 12 year-old weaboos who have no idea about anything.
Because seriously, why do people have to use this icon where I can see it?
So give me something or I may come back to this shit like I do every day.
Anything. Please.
(Boy, I know all fandoms are like that, but this was kinda record for me.)
( And spoilers for latest Reborn chapter, the one that still hasn't come out. I don't know which number it is. )
In other news: I was googling for a correct way to phrase something for this entry and the first result for that search was actually this: Fancy a Fight? In Paraguay, Dueling is Still Legal.
Uhm, what? Excuse me? Like, really. I have no idea what you are talking about, son. Why am I seeing pictures of Jedi, fencing, and white men boxing anyway?
rydra_wong, Google Buzz is a serious threat for privacy, and guess what? You have gmail, you have it.ALERT ALERT ALERT.
Here is the correct way of getting rid of it because apparently turning it off isn't enough. Yeah people, it can make public who your most e-mailed contacts are. Dear God, Google.
