I just wish people wouldn't fling blame and vitriol at other people and society for not feeling comfortable in their own skin. I don't think that's an effective way to deal with your issues.
I just realized people are using this social justice thing the way some people use religion.
Ideally it's meant to set some sort of moral standard involving acceptance and harmony, but people just wear it as a badge and think it justifies being a divisive and petty hypocrite.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
#things I don't wanna reblog but still made me laugh like a 12-year-old boy
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Would it be a faux pas to unfollow everyone except the people whose posts I actually want to see?
In the glory days, when Twinkies were plentiful and fruit pies weren’t on the endangered species list, superheroes her eager spokespeople for Hostess products, hawking the wonders of Chocodiles and Donettes from the pages of comic books. But Neil Gaiman’s gloomy Dream and the rest of his Endless siblings from Sandman never got in on the pie-selling action, at least not until now. Artist Axel Medellin Machain dreams up the Sandman fruit pie ad that never was.
Over at CBR’s The Line It Is Drawn, other artists have lined up unlikely shills for Hostess’ chemically preserved goods: Rorschach, John Constantine, the Saga family unit, even Swamp Thing and Alan Moore. You can almost see the fury in cartoon Alan Moore’s eyes as he’s compelled to push pies.
I have. My roommate's girlfriend is big into the whole tumblr social justice thing. Speaking of, there's this: http://stfu-moffat.tumblr.com/
Can someone who follows Doctor Who Tell me if there's validity in these criticisms? I'm still on the 9th doctor and I haven't seen any of Moffat's episodes.
I have. My roommates girlfriend is big into the whole tumblr social justice thing. Speaking of, there's this: http://stfu-moffat.tumblr.com/
Can someone who follows Doctor Who Tell me if there's validity in these criticisms? I'm still on the 9th doctor and I haven't seen any of Moffat's episodes.
They're not entirely baseless, but I wasn't offended. I would watch the episodes for yourself and make up your own mind. I would consider the context, as well; sometimes the show might be a little insensitive, but it's not really any more so than anything else on TV.
Moffat's episodes often portray homosexual characters in a favourable light (Canton is both LGBT and completely awesome, and his character is portrayed entirely respectfully) and Doctor Who is still miles better than the vast majority of children's television with regards to portrayal of gay and bisexual characters. It hasn't really touched upon trans* identities at all, although there was a lot of fuss on tumblr at one point about the Doctor allegedly misgendering a horse, which was every bit as silly as it sounds.
Some of it's going to be an opinion. Like the Oswin thing; yes, that was a real line on the show, but a lot of people really do go through "phases" when they're discovering their sexuality, and I didn't feel in any way hurt or invalidated by Oswin's comment. Frankly, a lot of the criticisms look to me like fans are assuming more about characters' sexualities than is ever stated on-screen.
The portrayal of women is perhaps a bit iffier, but I think it's more in the realm of benign ineptitude than outright misogyny. Moffat's characterization, of male and female characters, is pretty hit and miss. Sometimes it's convincing, other times less so, and both Amy and River have stronger episodes and weaker ones. Moffat does indeed have a tendency to put his female characters on pedestals, but that's about the worst of it. The relationship between River and the Doctor is complicated, and I don't think you're supposed to assume it's entirely hunky-dory; regardless, I'm not sure I buy the description of the Doctor as simply abusive, and the claim River is simply accepting of his treatment of her is outright false.
As for the bit about Madge in the Christmas special, I think your blogger is just being overly literal there; it was completely obvious from the context that Madge's line about her husband following her around did not refer to stalking.
So yeah, I would watch the episodes and decide for yourself, but personally I'd say that blog is a severe overreaction.
someone runs a blog full of blatantly untrue "facts" called DidYuoKno, it is intended to be humorous, and a cursory examination of it will show this quite clearly.
Now here's one of the facts
and here's one of the responses to it
I promise you that the individuals who conducted these so-called “studies” did not have vaginas or, if they did, they had never given birth before. Because I have actually watched vaginal deliveries during my OB rotation…and trust me, it is not pleasant. I had to sit out at the nurse’s desk the one day because the person who was in labor was screaming at the top of their lungs because the pain was so excruciating (the fetus couldn’t come through the birth canal, even though the uterus was contracting). They were waiting for an OR room to be prepped so they could do a C-section. The screaming was horrible…we were all cringing because there wasn’t anything we could do.
So, yes….I always love seeing things like this that say such-and-such is worse than childbirth…because you KNOW the folks responsible for them have never actually given birth before.
Believe me: there is a reason I say that my who-ha was made for pleasure and not for baby-makin’. *shudders*
did the name of the blog not give it away, or....
also for reference here is another post, a few below that one
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
i.e.
For those of you without a degree in CSIII, XSS (cross site scripting) means a website does not properly sanitize input and thus script can be executed on the page. This is one of the oldest methods of web penetration, and should be extinct in 2012; thanks to the hard working development team at websites like tumblr, these vulnerabilities remain unpatched to be exploited by people like the GNAA.
There were numerous XSS vulnerabilities embedded inside of tumblr, including in the video post field (the same one applied by the GNAA), the image post field, and every single mobile post field.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
^well, they knew:
First off, tumblr was made aware of the vulnerability two weeks prior to the exploit. We at the GNAA did not receive a single word back from them after attempting to assist them in securing their services.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Why do so many people willingly turn a blind eye to security flaws until it actually becomes a problem?
It's like when someone had to hack Fast Eddie's avatar on TVT to get him to fix the exploit that made it possible.
whenever someone says they hacked a website to "expose security flaws" I think of that fuckrocket that hacked a board for epileptics and posted a bunch of flashing .gifs.
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oh man
Youcan's comment on the last page made me realize I can totally use my asthma as an excuse for being total dicks to these people now.
You watch
I'mma do it.
I think I had something else I was gonna say, but fuck it
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I know, I follow it on twitter (I almost typed "her", is it weird that I think of the account as female even though it's a bot?)
for similar ramblings follow: literally any weird twitter artist.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
it's weird that there's a whole art movement, essentially, around imitating Horse eBooks and similar bots.
also sometimes it gets strangely profound
has anyone ever found out who exactly runs the bot? Or programmed it or whatever you want to say?
actually nvm it's apparently run by uh
horse ebooks.
Also, best fucking thing. BEST FUCKING THING MAN.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
neil-gaiman:
Can someone who follows Doctor Who Tell me if there's validity in these criticisms? I'm still on the 9th doctor and I haven't seen any of Moffat's episodes.
Moffat's episodes often portray homosexual characters in a favourable light (Canton is both LGBT and completely awesome, and his character is portrayed entirely respectfully) and Doctor Who is still miles better than the vast majority of children's television with regards to portrayal of gay and bisexual characters. It hasn't really touched upon trans* identities at all, although there was a lot of fuss on tumblr at one point about the Doctor allegedly misgendering a horse, which was every bit as silly as it sounds.
Some of it's going to be an opinion. Like the Oswin thing; yes, that was a real line on the show, but a lot of people really do go through "phases" when they're discovering their sexuality, and I didn't feel in any way hurt or invalidated by Oswin's comment. Frankly, a lot of the criticisms look to me like fans are assuming more about characters' sexualities than is ever stated on-screen.
The portrayal of women is perhaps a bit iffier, but I think it's more in the realm of benign ineptitude than outright misogyny. Moffat's characterization, of male and female characters, is pretty hit and miss. Sometimes it's convincing, other times less so, and both Amy and River have stronger episodes and weaker ones. Moffat does indeed have a tendency to put his female characters on pedestals, but that's about the worst of it. The relationship between River and the Doctor is complicated, and I don't think you're supposed to assume it's entirely hunky-dory; regardless, I'm not sure I buy the description of the Doctor as simply abusive, and the claim River is simply accepting of his treatment of her is outright false.
As for the bit about Madge in the Christmas special, I think your blogger is just being overly literal there; it was completely obvious from the context that Madge's line about her husband following her around did not refer to stalking.
So yeah, I would watch the episodes and decide for yourself, but personally I'd say that blog is a severe overreaction.
someone runs a blog full of blatantly untrue "facts" called DidYuoKno, it is intended to be humorous, and a cursory examination of it will show this quite clearly.
Now here's one of the facts
and here's one of the responses to it
did the name of the blog not give it away, or....
also for reference here is another post, a few below that one
clearly a dead serious blog.
There were numerous XSS vulnerabilities embedded inside of tumblr, including in the video post field (the same one applied by the GNAA), the image post field, and every single mobile post field.