Comments | cheesemon: Discrimination must die!!

cheesemon

Discrimination must die!!

Mar 22, 2006 22:52

I just wrote a 4686-word essay using 92 references . . for an assignment that asked for 2000 words and 5 references.

"You wanna keep your message to the point and simple. When you make it too detailed, too complex, it goes over the head of the people." - Donald Trump's Business Lesson 3.20

I think he was talking to me. ><

Segue: Canadian fired ( Read more... )

tv_shows, rant

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If only we finished that Avro Arrow . . cheesemon March 23 2006, 07:28:40 UTC

Well, in this case, it wasn't a Canada vs. America thing. The Canadian was discriminated against because he was fat and unattractive. If he was a tall, handsome macho Canadian, I'm sure his team would've treated him better.

werewolf_song March 23 2006, 08:00:30 UTC

(About paper) Hee. Why doesn't that surprise me? [Grins]

Unfortunately, the discrimination thing doesn't surprise me either. And it's funny that Donald's quote covers this sort of thing. (Hmm, what did Donald think of the Canadian?)

cheesemon March 23 2006, 08:58:38 UTC

It's kinda hard to gauge Donald's opinion since he only appears in the last ten minutes to fire someone, and he often bases opinion on what other team members say. His reason for firing the Canadian was that his team doesn't respect him, which is true. Donald wasn't pleased with his anger management either: while he had a right to be angry, his fatal flaw was that he let it control him and became pretty rebellious during his final episode. He was kinda Michael Moore-ish, I guess.

Seeing your PR reviews, I assume your essays were pretty long, too? ;)

werewolf_song March 23 2006, 09:33:06 UTC

Hee. Depended on what it was. With a topic I could sink my teeth into, I often found myself trying to trim four or five pages off of something that was only supposed to be one or two...

And I'd like to see you do it with a sentai episode just to see how long it'd be and what sorta stuff you notice.

cheesemon March 23 2006, 10:20:41 UTC

Heh, I probably posted a long episode review somewhere on the net, but I only review the good episodes and there hasn't been any in a loooong time. If I ever posted one here though, it'd probably be short since maybe only 3 people on my flist know about it. Lately, I've been writing w/ the reader in mind. If I was writing about War of the Worlds which most have seen, I'll ramble a little longer and maybe get a discussion going. But let's say w/ j-pop, which like sentai isn't that big on my flist, I usually just start with a grabber statement and keep the rest simple with the goal of getting the non-fans interested. I have such a journalistic mindset to blogging. XD

Which is WHY I'm gonna keep bugging you to move your long reviews over to the PR community, you deserve more readers for the amount of work you put in 'em! You could still write some highlights/lowlights pointform thing on your journal, and then add a link at the end: "Wanna read more? Go to the PR community!" Just my two cents. :)

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I would rather kill... cb_anime March 24 2006, 20:34:57 UTC

...unhealthy discrimination rather than all discrimination......smiles and wonders if this is too nitpicky ... With no discrimination we might accept just anything. I agree, though, that too often the atypical person who doesn't fit into the approved sterotype gets the axe, figuratively or literally, and the one who fits and conforms to the approved mold is showered with approval and rewards.

I agree also that disrespecting someone on so shallow a basis is sad and disgusting, saying much more about the disrespecter than the target. I have not been watching the current Apprentice season myself, so I will keep my comments (relatively) brief. ...thinks I have been on the brief side myself on occasion with interesting results...

Perhaps the firing of The Canadian speaks more to his strengths and positive qualities as well as to the superficial qualities of his detractors......wonders where the previous seasons' winners are and where their success on the show has taken them... From the perspective of one who knows little of the current ( ... )

Re: I would rather kill... cheesemon March 25 2006, 02:59:19 UTC

Heh, the subject was just parodying "Romeo Must Die" . . love that title but that movie must die. But you brought up a very good point about discrimination. I guess I just usually use the word as a catch-all for bullying or segregating people because they are not like you.

I was reading around for other people's reaction to the firing, and I found a very insightful opinion at blackenterprise.com. ^^ Here's an excerpt: "His problem was not the discrimination he faced, but his obsession with it. By the fourth task, Brent was so convinced of the bias against him that he couldn’t see past it. In fact, he began to see it even when it wasn’t there, allowing every slight to become personal." The rest is here if you wanna check it out. :) As I was telling werewolf_song above, The Canadian had a right to be angry, but his flaw was that he couldn't control it and he wasn't good at articulating his complaints. I just wish he was given a chance to prove himself rather than being ignored from the get-go ( ... )

werewolf_song March 25 2006, 20:35:45 UTC

Wow. Double-asterisk horrible? That's really bad. ;-) And Magiranger sounded interesting. (Then again, so did Wild Force...)

I think you'll like Mystic Force. It sorta goes back to PR roots: five high-school-age kids are selected to deal with bad folks. Basically, there's a forest that no one's supposed to go into, but an old guy's brother gets taken so they go in, get attacked by neo-Putties, get bailed out by the sorceress Udonna, who turns out to have been the old guy (she was magically disguised and testing them.)

Udonnna is Magimother, who isn't their mother in PR, but had something to do with the last round with the baddies. Once upon a time, they'd invaded the magical world before and were going to go after the human world next when either all the Rangers or just the Red Ranger sacrificed themselves/himself to seal the villains away. Now the gate that kept them sealed in the underworld is broken, and only she, the White Ranger, remains... but she does have the others' wands. Somehow she knew that the teens were to be the next ( ... )

werewolf_song March 25 2006, 20:37:50 UTC

Friends/allies so far ( ... )