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OK, so I'm totally not going to comment on Nipplegate anymore in hardvice because it's stale and it's pissing off most of my friendslist. However, since this is allegedly my drama journal, I do have a few more things to say:
The lolliest part of this whole thing for me is people who think I was actually serious about defending Bea's boobies. Now granted, most people don't know me well enough to tell when I'm kidding (always) and when I'm not (never), but still ... could anybody possibly get that worked up over a stupid icon?
Oh wait...they are even as we speak.
As most of you are no doubt aware, my irrational crazy LJ Abuse-correseponding façade is just that ... a façade. Don't get me wrong ... I think most of the volunteers are wildly incompetent and I find nothing to be as much fun as messing with them, but I hold very little actual malice for them. I mean, you need look no further than abuse_lj_abuse, really: nine out of ten postings haven't got a leg to stand on, and ten out of ten would lead to a posting by the other party had LJ Abuse decided the opposite way. It's the nature of their job: somebody is always going to be unhappy with their decision, and since it's the Internet, the wronged party is always an innocent victim of the big, cruel, corporate bully.
Nevertheless, I remain astounded that there's all this sound and fury over a fucking icon. An icon is not breastfeeding. Heck, at 100x100 pixels, it's barely even a picture of breastfeeding. The whole thing just reeks of bored, entitled hausfrau armchair revolutionary zeal. I've got to believe that some of these women are deriving so little meaning and satisfaction from their real lives that they'd turn anything into a cause and a quest and a parade and a letter writing campaign. It's the same kind of urge to be victimised and marginalised that we're seeing out of the whacko christian fringe with their war on christmas and war on easter and war on possibly just maybe not assuming everybody believes what you believe campaigns. It's the same with all the fags among us who are so convinced that the world is out to get them because being a victim gives them a cause, and having a cause gives them a purpose, and having a purpose gives their life meaning. It's old and tired and stale and laughable when much of the world has already accepted your position (and believe me, the breastfeeders are a whole lot farther down the path to widespread acceptance than homos) to scream and wail persecution the first time you run into any resistance-particularly when it's in an area so remote from your core beliefs as to be laughable. Like, for example, a fucking itty bitty picture on a fucking online diary.
I mean, shit, let's assume for a minute that LJ put a ban on boys kissing boys in default icons. Would it be fair? No. Would it be "offensive" for them to do so? Probably, if you buy into the whole "offensive" thing. Would it be worth starting Internet War to fight? Hell no. It's such a trivial aspect of a trivial service as to be a non-injury. I wouldn't even say it's fair to assume that such a policy was founded in homophobia, and that's probably a closer case than saying that a general ban on breasts is founded in a bias against breastfeeding.
While I've got you, here for your benefit is my one-step guide to successful interactions with LJ Abuse:
The lolliest part of this whole thing for me is people who think I was actually serious about defending Bea's boobies. Now granted, most people don't know me well enough to tell when I'm kidding (always) and when I'm not (never), but still ... could anybody possibly get that worked up over a stupid icon?
Oh wait...they are even as we speak.
As most of you are no doubt aware, my irrational crazy LJ Abuse-correseponding façade is just that ... a façade. Don't get me wrong ... I think most of the volunteers are wildly incompetent and I find nothing to be as much fun as messing with them, but I hold very little actual malice for them. I mean, you need look no further than abuse_lj_abuse, really: nine out of ten postings haven't got a leg to stand on, and ten out of ten would lead to a posting by the other party had LJ Abuse decided the opposite way. It's the nature of their job: somebody is always going to be unhappy with their decision, and since it's the Internet, the wronged party is always an innocent victim of the big, cruel, corporate bully.
Nevertheless, I remain astounded that there's all this sound and fury over a fucking icon. An icon is not breastfeeding. Heck, at 100x100 pixels, it's barely even a picture of breastfeeding. The whole thing just reeks of bored, entitled hausfrau armchair revolutionary zeal. I've got to believe that some of these women are deriving so little meaning and satisfaction from their real lives that they'd turn anything into a cause and a quest and a parade and a letter writing campaign. It's the same kind of urge to be victimised and marginalised that we're seeing out of the whacko christian fringe with their war on christmas and war on easter and war on possibly just maybe not assuming everybody believes what you believe campaigns. It's the same with all the fags among us who are so convinced that the world is out to get them because being a victim gives them a cause, and having a cause gives them a purpose, and having a purpose gives their life meaning. It's old and tired and stale and laughable when much of the world has already accepted your position (and believe me, the breastfeeders are a whole lot farther down the path to widespread acceptance than homos) to scream and wail persecution the first time you run into any resistance-particularly when it's in an area so remote from your core beliefs as to be laughable. Like, for example, a fucking itty bitty picture on a fucking online diary.
I mean, shit, let's assume for a minute that LJ put a ban on boys kissing boys in default icons. Would it be fair? No. Would it be "offensive" for them to do so? Probably, if you buy into the whole "offensive" thing. Would it be worth starting Internet War to fight? Hell no. It's such a trivial aspect of a trivial service as to be a non-injury. I wouldn't even say it's fair to assume that such a policy was founded in homophobia, and that's probably a closer case than saying that a general ban on breasts is founded in a bias against breastfeeding.
While I've got you, here for your benefit is my one-step guide to successful interactions with LJ Abuse:
- When they tell you to do something, do it. You don't have to be nice, and you don't have to agree with why they're telling you to do it, but fucking do it. That's it. It's their ball, and they are perfectly free to take it and go home.