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3996: Dirty Picture

Sep 27, 2011 03:00

I'm not cutting any of this to be obnoxiousmake sure at least some of it catches your eye. If you don't like that, I reiterate that you can unfollow/filter me out. Would have liked to post something fun again like yesterday's, but it's hard to find the material lately ( Read more... )

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digoraccoon September 27 2011, 16:40:39 UTC

I always thought the internet won because it gives people the anonymous ability to be jerks and not get identified for it.

Though I agree with Gavin de Becker's quote. I was a geek growing up and while I could easily make friends with ladies, I always had a difficult time getting a date. Doubly so because of my lack of height. A lot of times I couldn't just ask someone out because I felt they'd just laugh like I was making a joke (And a few times that kinda happened), but anyway...

Yeah men and women live in vastly different worlds. We think differently, but we all make mistakes and have faults just the same. We should be more tollerant of what others like and think, even if we disagree.

BTW, I saw the reboot of Starfire. WTF?!
It's like a comic of nothing but blatant fanservice. :/

jimboomega September 28 2011, 19:39:57 UTC

I don't quite understand the controversy or the meta-controversy. It sounds like ( ... )

jen_aside September 28 2011, 21:01:05 UTC

The controversy includes but is not limited to

Ms. Magic Date claimed [but has since edited] that Magic Champ lied on his profile, when the "lie" seems to be purely that of omission of what he perceived as irrelevant even though she clearly did not [this was my original, non-"Let's see what the Internet has to say about it!" complaint about the article],
Every gamer and his uncle hopped on the "She's a stupid bitch" bandwagon basically out of herd mentality, that one woman insulted "all of Magicdom" with her not-quite-thought-out article saying that Magic-playing makes a poor dating candidate.

I just threw in the sexism-in-DC-comics bits because they were going around and just another symptom of a subversive trend.

Of course, it's quite possible that Ms. Magic Date's original intent WAS just to make people mad, in which case, Mission Accomplished, but if it was trying to be informative, there were much better ways to get her point across; i.e., the Strike Three element didn't need to be there, as that comes across as Holier-Than-Thou ( ... )

jimboomega September 28 2011, 22:02:24 UTC

There are a whole set of male-specific insults, typically insulting sexuality or masculinity. Listen to the chat in a Halo game and you're sure to hear them.

I hesitate to argue the proportionality, but I would say, that on the internet, it seems like you sort of have to be hardened to this sort of thing. As penny arcade discussed long ago. You have whole communities dedicated to trolling, and now that they have what they feel is a legitimate beef ("She insulted our hero!"), they go crazy ( ... )

jen_aside September 29 2011, 01:25:35 UTC

The bile and hatemail [haha, I typoed "hatemale"] element is an obvious hazard of putting oneself in the public eye, which is why I thought her article wasn't a good idea--and, as I said, if it was her intent to rile people, then I guess there's nothing else to be said. [Don't feel as though you have to censor things in my LJ, incidentally--it's not supposed to be searchable, so I don't care--unless you have a reason for doing that that isn't coming to mind ( ... )