You folks here?

YOU ARE ASSHOLES.
No really, you are.

You are exhibiting classist, ageist, racist, -asshole- behavior.

And by doing so while identifying yourself as a member of the steampunk community, you are negatively reflecting upon the rest of us.

Some choice quotes of asshattery:

"What is this T shirt you speak of? (I only wear those ( Read more... )

Ok. So. In recent times two of my very favorite creative-type people, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, have been dishing on the fail pretty fucking hardcore.

I covered Amanda Palmer here and here and kynn is covering the Neil thing better than I could here.

( Infographic and navel-gazing below the cut. )

I was so done with the movie just from hearing the premise, but This Article says it all much better than I could.

For further information, see Noble Savage, Magical Native American, and Mighty Whitey.

For This awesome post on the spuriousness of Christian wagnsting surrounding Christmas by alyxbradford

I'm going to follow that up with my annual posting of ( 40 Examples of Christian Privilege )