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I've said all I really plan to say about this in a friend's journal where the teapot definitely got a bit tempest-y. I assume that it got to be something of a furor because the page actually went live today, or something of the sort. The name had been around for a while, but I never thought they'd actually do it. I mean, FanPro put up elf porn art for April Fools, but you didn't see them rushing out to print a card game on it.
I bring this up, however, because I wanted to comment on one thing that seems to be going unobserved. In the midst of wormen objectified and general offense and defenders/apologists, etc., guess what this weekend is? I'll give you a hint: my kids had an assembly today to commemorate the battle for civil rights, and a man who led that battle and said things that nobody in power wanted to hear, standing up for the rights of the minority against the status quo and dreaming of a day his children would stand as equals with all other children, a world of oppurtunity available and no artifical barriers left between us.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Superb timing, guys. Way to commemorate how far we've all come. Bravo.
I bring this up, however, because I wanted to comment on one thing that seems to be going unobserved. In the midst of wormen objectified and general offense and defenders/apologists, etc., guess what this weekend is? I'll give you a hint: my kids had an assembly today to commemorate the battle for civil rights, and a man who led that battle and said things that nobody in power wanted to hear, standing up for the rights of the minority against the status quo and dreaming of a day his children would stand as equals with all other children, a world of oppurtunity available and no artifical barriers left between us.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Superb timing, guys. Way to commemorate how far we've all come. Bravo.
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Date: 2005-01-14 11:04 am (UTC)From:You know why they put this out? Because people will buy it. Anymore it seems you can call a man's mother a whore and piss on her grave in front of him and he will pay you for the privilege of watching you do it as long as:
1. He doesn't have to expend effort
2. You can make him giggle somewhere in the performance
3. You can run an ad TELLING him to like it
We can despise this and rave against all we want but it won't stop it because in the end money talks and good taste walks.
My gods but I'm jaded as all hell. And I got this way AFTER having a kid.
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Date: 2005-01-14 11:09 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 11:22 am (UTC)From:Actually, I continually see myself growing up to be like Red Foreman from That 70's Show. Only not QUITE as bad.
And probably with less hair. *Sigh*