Moar Rantseseses

[wook77]

As a follow-up to this set of letters -

Dear Law Enforcement, Radio Decency People, Radio personalities and, specifically, the management at KRXQ,

Just so I understand how this works, a white supremecist shock jock says violent things directed at politicians and he gets criminal charges but Rob and Arnie say violent things directed at

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[reddwarfer]

Done. I couldn't have said it better myself. This is the sort of behaviour that is inexcusable.

[wook77]

Awesome! I love the power of communication and righteous outrage.

This is exactly the sort of behavior that should have people fired and/or brought up on charges. Who the fuck thinks this sort of shit is funny?

[reddwarfer]

And, honestly, I feel that at least our part of fandom should be more active. If we can have a prurient interest in these sorts of things (and it's totally okay)then we should support it in real life. I gnash my teeth whenever I read slash writers/readers act homophobic.

[wook77]

Exactly. So we can giggle and squee over it, we can feel all risque but when it comes to supporting it, even just with a quick form email or a post, it's way too involved.

I hate that this isn't all over my flist. The amazonfail was all over my flist. Racefail is all over my flist. Racefail redux is all over my flist. And these things should be all over the flist but I've barely seen any sort of mention of this at all. I just discovered it yesterday and went immediately to "let's post about it and get the word spreading". I just wish more people would be willing to do that.

Sometimes, I think slash fandom forgets about the "t" in the LGBT issues.

[reddwarfer]

Yes. It does. It really does. It hits home for me because my second cousin? I think...is transgendered MtoF without the final surgery. Her mother accepted her as she was. We all call her Charlene. We don't insist on calling her by her birth name or refer to the gender she was born. Though, it wasn't always easy. Some of my relatives had more than a bit to say.

Still. We have a ways to go.

[wook77]

One of my really good friends is FtM and that's really brought it home for me, too. I'm all for LGBT (being part of the community, that whole forgotten "B" part) but now the whole thing is just super important. I would've been enraged before but now I'm so incensed that I can't see straight at times.

The fact that inciting abuse is lulz for these people let alone abuse towards children that are already at-risk just makes me froth in rage.

Also - I love that you have a Dr. Katz icon.

[reddwarfer]

You are the first person to recognise my icon. Yeah, the whole B part. I've basically come out to my whole family about it. (As long as you don't bring a girl home to meet your daughter is the response I usually get and I'm like wut? I'm not going to bring anyone to meet Trina and she knows I'm Bi, so what?)

I think that they're hoping kids get their identity beat out of them is sickening. And at the end of the day, beyond how disgusting it is and how these kids aren't doing it out of spite, when has being beat ever solved anything? These kids are still going to be transgendered after they get hit. It'll just be that much more traumatic. It's traumatic enough being born in the wrong body.

[wook77]

Hee! I loved that show!

But yeah - my family has a don't ask, don't talk about it policy when it comes to sex of any sort. My mother still likes to pretend that my brother is a virgin and he has two kids.

Yeah. THAT. WTF?! Advocating child abuse let alone child abuse of at-risk kids? Jesus Christ on Toast how the fuck is that funny? Where the fuck are the lulz?

And the thing that pisses me off is that this doesn't just affect the questioning kids. It affects the kids that might possibly act a bit more feminine or masculine (respectively) than their peers. It's condoning it. It's encouraging it.

[reddwarfer]

It affects everyone. It affects the kids that do the beating and the parents that are involved or complicit. There's no one that remains unaffected by a society that condones violence like that. Which is, really, a huge point. That's why we have sports. If you want violence, watch football or hockey. If you want it that bad, play Grand Theft Auto IV and run over everyone and shoot people. But to take it out on at-risk children is sickening and it makes everyone involved lose a piece of themselves.

[wook77]

Exactly! God forbid we ever realize that we're all humans and deserving of basic decency.

Exactly on teh sports thing. If you want to do harm to someone, if you have to get an outlet for that reaction, there are plenty of things that you can do that does not harm another human. Cage fighting comes to mind.

[reddwarfer]

I wrote to their boss and asked why they weren't fired.

[wook77]

I did too and got the standard "it's for the lulz" reasoning. Cause, yanno, I just have no sense of humor or anything. I obviously do not see their awesomeness. It is my failcakes :(

[reddwarfer]

Did you just get an email from the Bank of America?

[wook77]

YES!!!! Homg homg homg I really feel like we're making a difference! I'm totes excited!

[reddwarfer]

:D Me too! And I miss that commercial...

[reddwarfer]

Glee. Because it's working. I just got another email. I have no faith in humanity, apparently, because I didn't expect it to, and it did work.