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Post by X-pert74 on Feb 10, 2019 20:33:08 GMT -5
Ironically I read once that the anime director hated Tuxedo Mask and thus intentionally tried to downplay him, to the point where he has the same powerset series-wide where he apparently gets upgrades in the manga like the girls do (I didn't read the manga so not sure if this is correct). If the show still comes off as a little sexist despite that... yeeeaaah that doesn't bode well. Tho I've gotten to expect some sexism in anime because even girls there seem to believe a lot of myths. I remember one manga where a kid who was developing early asked a teacher what makes big boobs happen, and the teach said drinking milk helps, so the kid avoided milk (she was embarrassed about her chest cuz kids made fun of her). I guess nobody in Japan ever reads science research because boob size is literally all genetics, and all drinking lotsa milk will do is cause you to get lactose intolerance... kinda surprised that's not an epidemic in Japan honestly. ... Back on the topic of Hbomberguy's stream, I saw another forum trying to throw shade on it by claiming the Mermaids group intentionally targeted pre-teens and had a philosophy that any boy who played with dolls needed to get trans operations (which for what its worth, I think you should wait until you're eighteen before doing severe body modification of any sort unless your life depends on it)... but that forum had basically no proof of this. I think that forum was just transphobic. A common fearmongering tactic among anti-trans groups is to stretch the term "sex reassignment surgery" to the breaking point. Anything from hormone blockers to just letting them live as their preferred gender is treated as literally the same as surgery. Yeah, no one is performing GCS on little kids. (at least not in the context of transgender people; forced surgery on intersex babies, on the other hand... that does happen, obviously without consent from the child, and it's devastating)
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Post by kaoru on Feb 10, 2019 20:46:54 GMT -5
In this special case, they probably got it from the horses ass Graham Linehan himself. After hbomberguy's stream brought attention to what a garbage human he is, he tried to defend his original agenda of blocking the money that Mermaids was supposed to get by tweeting a lot of BS about them, trying to portray them in a bad light. "I'm not a transphobe, this organisation is just... uh, harming children by forcing surgery on them... and erasing the gays by telling them they need to transition" and all such nonsense.
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Post by edmonddantes on Feb 11, 2019 12:30:18 GMT -5
I don't remember either of these two things. If its part of the show, then it's a footnote to her character at best. I can certainly see why someone would say Toph is a better feminist role model for little girls than the chicks in Sailor Moon. It's really not hard to imagine that standpoint. She wasn't saying Toph was better than anyone in Sailor Moon, she was saying Toph was more feminist than *any anime female at all.* I forget all her criteria but it started to seem like the only anime this person had ever seen were Sailor Moon, Lucky Star, and Kanon or some other KeyAni. She was also convinced that the visual novel Kawata Shoujo was a fetish game where you get girls to bang you by showing how not-ableist you are (which it isn't... part of its genius is that you get to know these girls so well that their disabilities become a minor detail rather than a defining trait of their character), and seemed under the mistaken impression that Ranma 1/2's author intended you to agree with Ranma's views (you're clearly not). I remember at one point explaining that authors draw from the world around them so some questionable aspects are just reflecting reality (at this point we were talking about victorian-era novels), to which she said "Reality is Irrelevant." Which makes me wonder if she wasn't an anti-feminist trying to make feminism look bad by RPing as an exaggerated stereotype.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 14, 2019 19:47:40 GMT -5
So a guy named deadmau5 got himself banned from Twitch for homophobic remarks and Paste Magazine wrote about it in the best possible way.
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Post by toei on Feb 14, 2019 20:09:51 GMT -5
Who gives a fuck if he's 38? Like "middle-aged" people aren't more homophobic than 13 year olds on average. Why do they keep harping on his age in that shitty article?
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Post by kaoru on Feb 14, 2019 20:16:57 GMT -5
Because you'd expect a bit more maturity from him then?
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Post by GamerL on Feb 14, 2019 21:46:03 GMT -5
38 is middle aged? Yikes.
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Post by toei on Feb 14, 2019 21:54:24 GMT -5
Because you'd expect a bit more maturity from him then? Not if you've got any experience with actual humans, though. GamerL That's a huge stretch, but I'm guessing they were trying to be snarky and just weren't very good at it.
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Post by GamerL on Feb 14, 2019 22:31:59 GMT -5
Well good, I certainly don't like to think of being middle aged in just another 8 years.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Feb 15, 2019 0:26:20 GMT -5
Dude I'm 38 next year. I'm practically a dessicated corpse.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 15, 2019 6:25:08 GMT -5
Of course they are a bit facetious, should be clear the article was supposed to be humorous. Which at least worked for me, seems no one agrees, but that's sense of humor for you. Though the average life expectancy is somewhere in the 70s, so while the 'official' definition of middle aged is 45 up to make old people feel younger, 38 is your half way mark
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Post by edmonddantes on Feb 15, 2019 12:29:07 GMT -5
My problem with the article is a bit... well...
A local medical center in my area has a sign in their lobby that says they will turn you away if they hear you speak any profanity. I've always wondered about that... like, if I got in a car crash, was in extreme pain, and was wheeled into the E.R. and accidentally let a few profanities slip because, you know, I'd be in pain, would they then kick me out?
I would hope not, but articles like this make me wonder. From the sound of it, dude had one heated moment and Twitch overreacted (and he's right, they are hypocritical because its not like he's the only person to use the word they claim he used--which they don't name but I can guess--and I doubt he'll be the last. Also the word in question has other uses... for example it used to mean firewood. So by Twitch logic I could be livestream reading Lord of the Rings, get to one line about needing a bigger fire, and be banned.)
What is it with big services and asking everyone to be perfect robots who never react in the heat of the moment or ever feel strong emotions of any kind?
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Post by kaoru on Feb 15, 2019 12:40:26 GMT -5
A medical center denying you life saving services and a streaming plattform banning you for breachin its ToS on hatespeech are not at all comparable. And the guy knew exactly why he used that word, he was not proclaiming his love for a book trilogy or anything, so the cute little "but what about the other [obscure unless you are British] meanings that word could have" doesn't really work either.
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Post by edmonddantes on Feb 15, 2019 13:15:49 GMT -5
I'm not making excuses for the guy, I'm just wondering how far these rules extend... partially out of self-interest because reading a book on stream is actually something I thought of doing for my niece and nephew.
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Post by Snake on Feb 15, 2019 13:37:51 GMT -5
What is it with big services and asking everyone to be perfect robots who never react in the heat of the moment or ever feel strong emotions of any kind? I predict that we'll live in the world of Demolition Man in a decade or so. Los Angeles and San Diego counties will combine into San Angeles. We'll be using the 3 seashells instead of toilet paper. You'll be fined by a robot for any sudden blurted word that is listed as profanity/hate-speech (which might lead to a decline in Mandarin and Korean speaking tourists who might get penalized for simply saying "nikke" or "nae ga"). Taco Bell will be the most dominant fine dining establishment.
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