i am watching TLC's What Not To Wear

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• Tre

  2013-09-29 22:17:29

  
  

  le sigh
• Obā-san

  2013-09-29 22:19:45

  
  

  it was almost as deplorable as the way this woman dresses
• Anonus

  2013-09-29 22:21:32

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  TLC: the reason I don't want to buy Discovery Communications that bad

  
  

  Also, I hate that "urban" = "black"

  
  

  It refers to inner city ghettos
• Obā-san

  2013-09-29 22:21:45

  
  

  she's the head of the chicago branch of a non-profit and she wears her pyjamas outside
• lee4hmz

  2013-09-29 23:40:01

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  TLC is an embarrassment. Even if Honey Boo-Boo isn't as bad as they say, most of their others shows are.
• Tachyon

  2013-09-29 23:43:50

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  you guys miiiiight not be TLC's intended audience
  
  just saying
  
  tho child beauty pageants are a disgrace, yes
  
• Previous Calica

  2013-09-29 23:48:34

  (flower path)

  Tachyon said:

  you guys miiiiight not be TLC's intended audience
  
  just saying
  
  tho child beauty pageants are a disgrace, yes
  

  eh, the possible racism is still worth discussing, as are how disturbing child beauty pageants are.
• Tachyon

  2013-09-29 23:51:36

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  fair enough
  
  serious question though, how is the use of 'urban' music indicative of racism?
  
  lots of people like that kind of music without being from an actual ghetto
  
• Hexartes

  2013-09-29 23:53:48

  Because it's used entirely because the subject is black.
• Tachyon

  2013-09-29 23:56:59

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  how do you know that?
  
  i mean, i'm assuming you didn't ask the person in charge of the soundtrack what effect they were going for
  
  i haven't actually seen the episode, so it might have been really blatantly because she was black, but i'm having trouble envisioning how that could be the case
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2013-09-29 23:57:33

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Child beauty pageants have always been disturbing, and they have been around for a pretty long time. One of Harlan Ellison's entries in his column The Glass Teat way back in 1970 was about how disturbing he found it to watch one of those things. And his issues are basically exactly the same as the ones that people bring up now, over forty years later.

  
  

  I wonder if it's up online. Ellison has a pretty tight grip on what work of his does or doesn't end up on the Web, but it could be. Hmmm...

  
  

  Also: Casual racism is the most annoying kind of racism, and probably the most dangerous in the long run.
• Salix Babylonika

  2013-09-29 23:58:44

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  "Urban" is a network euphemism.
  
• Obā-san

  2013-09-30 00:01:19

  
  

  Mojave Music said:

  "Urban" is a network euphemism.
  

  also used peeps who make sample packs

  
  

  
  

  Urban Beatz

  
  

  Urban Drumz

  
  

  Urban Loops
• Anonus

  2013-09-30 00:05:25

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Tachyon said:

  you guys miiiiight not be TLC's intended audience
  
  just saying
  
  tho child beauty pageants are a disgrace, yes
  

  TLC's intended audience is ostensibly women
• Tachyon

  2013-09-30 00:07:22

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  yep
  
  with a reality tv slant, if i'm not mistaken
  
• Anonus

  2013-09-30 00:12:33

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  as they call it in the biz, "unscripted programming"