May become ranty, feel free to ignore

[lustmordred]

Reading a post in fanficrants this morning--about mpreg and how exactly does the baby get out of there etc--and the writer of the post said I mean, with the kind of vagueness I typically see from you people, my imagination fills in the blanks with how female hyenas give birth*...yeeouch. And someone took slight offense to "you people" and man, WHAT? When the

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[amberdreams]

Ha ha I have heard people say "That's so British" and meaning it as an insult (and points to all the Brit characters that are usually cast as bad guys...) but admit I am guilty of thinking (if not outright saying) "that's so American" when something happens that is OTT or maybe monumentally arrogant - which is bad of me, and smacks of prejudices that are largely unwarranted. Mea culpa....mea maxima culpa.... I think a lot of it is down to being seen as the US's poor cousin and having the equivalent of penis envy on a national level.

[lustmordred]

See, and I see a lot of the bad guys being cast as Americans, usually of the stereotype redneck southerner variety. Which is wrong in a lot of ways, not just because it's an American, but wtf is with every evil dude out there talking like he's been kicked off of Hee Haw? The accents I hate a lot are actually most of the American East Coast accents, like Massachusetts. Oh my god, so annoying. But still, at least to me, when an American character is cast as the villain, they're usually these idiot, pervert, skull fucked rednecks while British villains, though evil, have class. They're monumentally fucked up bad guys, sure, but they're like badass and smart evil. Which is cool and all, but very skewed

[amberdreams]

Prejudice is universal, it's true - the key is recognising it, even (or especially) in yourself. Then hopefully you can overcome it.

Now can I be a classy bitch villain, please?

[lustmordred]

The classy bitch villains are the best :D

[portraitofafool]

Hear, hear! What I find ever-so nice, too, is that people get their panties in a bunch over something like, "you people" and yet those same people will still fling around terms like, "That's so American" and assume that is okay. What I find most annoying is the sheer hypocrisy of this stuff; it's mindblowing. As I've said before, it's getting to where I don't even want to travel to other countries because people seem to hate us so much. We're so "famously" rude here in America, but the rudeness I am seeing is not from Americans at all.

The southern thing... fml... I could rant about that for days (maybe months) because it's so skewed, it's so wrong and at the risk of sounding like a small child, it's not fair. Talk about something that is so steeped in blind ignorance that popular media betrayals have become the (inter)nationally accepted idea of what a southerner "really" is and I think I can say that kind of bias/prejudice has reached epidemic proportions. Jfc. *growls*

[lustmordred]

I get really tired of it, period. Then conversely you've got whackos like these furry freaks getting pissed off because you used a word such and such way that (unknown to normal people) is offensive in Furry Land. Which sure, is probably a prejudice of my own, but I stand by that shit. I should not have to know all about your disgusting subculture just to avoid being screamed at for offending you unintentionally. Fucking freaks.

[portraitofafool]

I find furries alarming at best, this is true, but furry prejudice is an international thing for me. I'm not cringing over only Russian furries. Furries piss me off on a whole new level with their particular brand of subcultural hypocrisy. They don't eat meat, but hey, it's no big deal to scrape the skin off a dead animal so they can do god-knows-what with its bones. Or, ya know, buy genuine wolf pelts online because it is totally okay to go yiff all over the skin of an ENDANGERED SPECIES. Assholes. That wolf died so you could rub all up on it and no, that is not okay. Ffs. Get a clue.

Stopping that now, Ranty McRant is getting all frothy-jawed.