I was trawling on the internet and I came across this article talking about the response from the Advertising Standards Board to That Nandos Advertisement

Here’s a copy paste:

“Nando’s Australia Pty Ltd (Cinema pole-dancer)

(EXTRACT OF RULING JUNE 2007)- Complaint Dismissed

EXAMPLE OF COMPLAINTS

“The ad is almost as repulsive and sordid about men as it is about women. It exploits the current stupid notion that sexual exploitation is “empowering” for women in order to use sex to sell chicken. It is not empowering to see women represented as lust objects, nor is it remotely funny. It is just unspeakably demeaning.”

THE DETERMINATION

The Advertising Standards Board (“Board”) considered whether this advertisement breaches Section 2 of the Advertiser Code of Ethics (the “Code”). The Board noted that the advertisement had been classified M by CAD which meant that it could only be shown after 8.30pm and during the week from 12-3pm. The Board noted that the advertisement had only been shown at the cinema prior to an M classified movie which means that the movie is recommended for persons over the age of 15. The Board also noted the diverse issues raised in complaints about this advertisement.

The Board noted the complaints about the inappropriateness of stripping or pole dancing being shown in conjunction with images of a happy family and the disconnect between poledancing or stripping and family values. The Board considered that poledancing was not incompatible with family values and that there was no breach of the Code in this depiction.

The Board noted complaints that the advertisement vilified men by depicting the man at a pole dancing show, paying for the woman to dance. The Board considered that the man was depicted in a very sterile manner and not in a way that made him appear sexist or sleasy. The Board noted that the advertisement also depicted a man as the father with his family. The Board considered that the advertisement did not vilify men by showing a man enjoying a pole dancing show.

The Board noted complaints that the advertisement vilified women by depicting the woman poledancing and therefore as a stripper or a prostitute. The Board considered that the depiction of the woman pole dancing was not a depiction of a sleasy or overtly sexual woman and that there was no suggestion that the woman was a prostitute. The Board also noted that poledancing is becoming more mainstream with it currently being a popular form of exercise. While noting the change in attitude towards pole dancing the Board agreed that this change was probably not widespread in the community. Regardless of this the Board considered that this depiction of pole dancing was fairly clinical and not overtly sexual and was therefore not vilifying of women or inappropriately sexual.

The Board noted complaints that the advertisement’s reference to ‘nando fix patches’ amounted to a stereotypical portrayal of sex workers as addicts. The Board agreed that most members of the community would not see that there was any such suggestion in the advertisement.

The Board noted many complaints about the depiction of a mother and wife as a pole dancer/prostitute and considered that this vilified women. The Board considered that this advertisement depicted a strong in control woman who went about her work in a professional manner (wearing a suit to work), enjoyed her work, enjoyed being ’sexy’ and enjoyed time with her family. The Board considered that this advertisement depicted the woman as being a strong and empowered woman. The Board considered that the advertisement did not vilify women by portraying a woman in both roles or in a manner that demonstrated that she was ’sexy’. The Board considered that such a depiction was not improper as a depiction of someone who was also a mother and wife.

Lastly the Board considered the pole dancing scene and the woman’s near nudity. The Board noted that the woman’s breasts were covered (albeit by her hands), and that her nipples and genitals were not shown in the advertisement. The Board considered that the depiction of the woman pole dancing was fairly ‘clinical’ with no overtly sexual music and no touching by the man. The Board noted that even when the woman pokes her bottom out, the viewer sees this from the side and there is no actual nudity or inappropriately sexual views. The Board noted that the advertisement is rated M and is therefore not directed to small children or children under the age of 15 without parental supervision.

On this basis the majority of the Board considered that this part of the advertisement did not breach any of the provisions of the Code. The minority of the Board considered that this part of the advertisement was a breach of community standards in relation to sexuality. All members of the Board noted that the advertiser certainly meant to create an advertisement with some shock value and that this had been achieved. The Board agreed that the diversity of opinion within the Board about the advertisement was likely to reflect community views on the advertisement. Finding that the advertisement did not breach the Code on any grounds, the Board dismissed the complaint.”

Point of interest: “The Board noted complaints that the advertisement vilified men by depicting the man at a pole dancing show, paying for the woman to dance.”

I’m interested that MRA’s complained about this advertisement depicting men badly as being cheif buyers of stippers/prostitutes. Frankly men are primarily the people who buy strippers and prostitutes. I suppose depicting it might villify men seeing as the sex trade is encouraged by these men, and encouraging the sex trade is pretty inhuman since it encourages sex-trafficking and rape.

Also: The board considered the woman in the advertisement STRONG and EMPOWERED. So I guess the advertisement wasn’t pandering to men after all. Amirite?

Urgh. Fantasy animations created before I was born.

I watched another one of those frustratingly sexist fantasy animations. Urgh. I like D&D, and there are some fantasy novels I’ve enjoyed in my time - but what is up with this genre and timeframe? I can console myself with the fact that these were created awhile ago and things actually do seem to be getting better.

This one is sort of fantasy sci-fi. It’s called “Starchaser - The legend of Orin” and it was made in 1985 by someone who _isn’t_ Ralph Bakshi (creator of Fire and Ice and Wizards, both of which I’ve written about here before.) There’s a dude with a magical sword, and there are fairy like creatures. (Well. Sort of) He’s on a quest. This is all fantasy. There are also robots, lasers and space ships.

The animation starts off in these mines where people are being oppressed by robots to mine for these crystals which are apparently worth a lot. The humans don’t know that there are worlds above the mines and worship the robot leader like some kind of god. One of their religious tennants was never to dig up because hell is in that direction.
One of them gets a magic sword. His name is Orin. He has a lady friend who he is very fond of. The magic sword projects some sort of holograph of a guy who tells them about the upper world. Sword guy and his girlfriend-type decide to go find this world. They leave this little blind kid behind who seems very fond of them and looks like Orin. They were possibly a family or something.

They get out of the mines, have an encounter with the bad-dude, Orins-girlfriend-type gets killed, he meets some smuggler guy, kidnaps some robot woman, goes to visit a pimp in a slum (The smuggler has used the prostituted women in the past.) meets up with some princess. Falls in love with said princess really quickly even though they had a bad set of first impressions. She falls in love with him back. They save the day. Sort of generic stuff I guess - but seriously the standard movie reivew thing isn’t what I want to do here.

Obviously given the theme of this blog I want to talk about _gender._

Now. The main character is this dudely-dude who the story is focused on. His original love interest exists as something for the main character to be upset about rather then being a character in her own right. Not an unusual thing - but worth mentioning. The first bit that seems really worth mentioning is the introduction of the robot lady. We see her all pouty and upset, she’s dropped a bunch of papers and such. As soon as she arrived my housemate says something like “Why would they put breasts on a robot?” which is reminicent of those articles about robot-women that Richie used to have up. (I think he took them down, right?)
I’d ask the counter-question “Why even make a bipedal robot, they don’t balance well and I’m sure a centipede with lasers on it would do the job. Anything humanoid isn’t practical” I’d also think that _given_ we’re making humanois robots just for the sake of their being human then why _not_ put breasts on some of them? (Something about men being default people hrmm?) However my answer doesn’t seem very good because I’m ignoring the spicy, spicy sexism there.
My boyfriend had something which seemed like a more accurate answer: “Well - if she doesn’t have breasts how would we know why she’s pouty?” said in a sarcastic tone.

They kidnap her, and then treat her like shit. I’ll show of video of it later. She kept doing things, like fixing the ship (which had a personified male robot name Arthur attatched controlling it.) and trying to fly the ship and I thought “maybe she’s going to do something useful / not be berated with this task she’s doing.” when these things happened. But it wasnt to be. When she did things, she did them wrong - or if she did them right people complained she wasn’t doing them fast enough. She’s fixing the ship Arthur. Here’s what he has to say about the matter: “What in the world is taking you so long? We’ve got to find Dag. Next thing you know, you’ll be putting up curtains.”
So - she could fix things and fly the ship a bit, but she made a lot of mistakes and was berated. The thing that gets me is that the things she can do (albiet not that greatly it might seem) are all related to her being a robot. Seriously - “sexy robot woman” is her _entire_ character profile. Thats it. Just think of a bunch of stereotypes about robots and some stereotypes about women. Then BAM. You have a character.

I don’t really want to write much more - so here’s that video. If a picture tells a thousand words, how much does 2 minutes of video tell? Uhh. It’s not cut well because I wasn’t able to get sound going in the video editor (some free thing I got from the web.) So there are some non-gender/robot things going on here.
This is not long after they first meant the fembot, when they kidnap her.

I’ll provide a transcript too. I can’t remember anyone but Orin and Arthurs name and I just watched this move. Not a good sign. I’ll call the robot “fembot” (they call her a fembot) and the smuggler dude smuggler.

Fembot: Who the hell ordered this drill?
Smuggler: *Doesn’t answer her. Just picks her up and starts running*
Fembot: Hey!
Smuggler: Come on kid lets get out of here
Fembot: Let me go! Let me go! Get your human hands off me!
Smuggler: Get us out of here Arthur. Fast!
*ship takes off. Cut to the bad guy talking about Orin. Cut back to the inside of the escaped ship*
Fembot: You’ll never get away with this. Crystal smuggling is an inter-planetary offense. And so is kidnapping!
*smuggler has her opened up and he seems to be fixing her or something*
Fembot: Stop that! You have no right to go plumbing around inside me. Oww! *unhappy noises that I can’t make out*
*Fade to flashbacks about the blind kid he left behind, and his dead girlfriend. He’s not met and fallen in love with the princess yet, so she’s in his mind I guess. Come back to the scene inside the ship*
Smuggler: Arthur. Where the hell are the personality files of these G2 Fembots
Arthur: According to the internal schematics manual of the G2 class government model fembots all personality characteristics are located in her… *embrassed stuttering*You’re definately looking in the wrong place.
Smuggler: Well where are they?
Arthur: They’re in her… posterior
*Smuggler grins this creepy grin*
Fembot: You wouldn’t dare
*Smuggler puts some tape over her mouth as she starts calling for help. Opens up her butt plate as she struggles some.*
*Orin starts talking to the smuggler about crystal smuggling as if this whole situation is an ordinary thing. Smuggler plays around in her arse-are, with lights and gizmos flashing up. He finishes and takes the duct-tape off her mouth.*
Fembot: *gets up sexily and then says “hiiiii” in a sultry manner*
Smuggler: Thats more like it
Fembot: Has anyone ever told you that you’re awfully cute for a meat body?

Fin.

Yes. That did happen. Urgh. Later in the movie she’s back to her original pouty angry seeming self, but then even later in the movie towards the end she swoons over the smuggler and they seem to be a couple. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

Also: Orin cures that blind kid of blindness. The blind kid was upset thinking Orin only didn’t want to take him on the dangerous journey because he was blind, and Orin insisted it was because he was _young_ instead, but the cure for blindess seems to be played up as awesome sauce. I dunno. Urgh.

Thats the longest thing I’ve written in awhile.

Damn you fantasy animations created before I was born.

Today I watched the movie Wizards. It reminded me in a lot of ways of Fire and Ice so it wasn’t too surprising when I read just now that they were created by the same dude.

The animation of wizards was pretty bad. Much worse then the animation in Fire and Ice. The start of the movie made me think ‘moving comic book’ more then it made me think ‘animation’ because it consisted of camera’s panning up and down still pages as a voice narrated the thing. So where Fire and Ice had pretty animation as a redeeming factor, Wizards does not.
Wizards actually has some moments in it that I genuinely enjoyed, unlike Fire and Ice, so I don’t know where to balance it out.

A basic rundown of the plot:

Man destroyed the world with nuclear bombs and things like that, and then there were mutants and people died and shit. Then the “true ancestors of man” fairies, dwarves, elves and that shit come back. There are good areas that the fairy people inhabit, and bad (mostly radiated) areas inhabited by mutants, humans and other monstrous shit. (I kind of liked that humans are also considered monstrous, and the conversations showing how the humans pretended to be good, but acted evilly were part of he bits I enjoyed.)
A woman gave birth to two children. Both grew up to be wizards. One (named Avatar) was kind, good and loving, the other was evil and for some reason had skeleton arms. Very cliche. (One of the ways it was demonstrated that the good one was good and the evil one was evil was interesting I must say: The good one spent lots of time with his mother, and the evil one didn’t. Also the evil one tortured animals.) The evil one fought the good one, the evil one lost and swore he’d be back.
He started attacking the ‘good areas’ filled with pixies and whatnot after he summoned some creatures from hell. Mutants, humans, robots and creatures from hell made up his army. He used old technology like guns n’tanks and things. Conversely technology was banned in the fey-folk areas. It was played up as “The fight between magic and technology”
The evil dude lost all the time because his troops were unmotivated and ran away easily. He found some old footage of Hitler and inspired his troops into battle with nazi propaganda. Then the evil guy started winning ’cause as one fey-folk person put it “They have technology and guns, and we just have hope” or something like that.
So the good wizard, a fairy lady named Elinore, an elf dude and a robot that used to be evil but turned good go in search to destroy the projector which shows the nazi-stuff.

Like Fire and Ice the lone female adventurer in this fantasy flick was pretty much nothing more then eyecandy. You can see her nipples through her dress at every point as well as a whole lot of cleavage. There are some serious ‘pinup’ moments of her.
Elinore is called a slut at one point, which had been the harshest insult in the movie so far (others basically being close to “you old fool”) but at the end of the movie the good wizard calls the bad one a son of a bitch. Still a gendered insult, but not as jarring as in fire and ice, where female characters were called bitches and sluts, and men were called nothing harsher then fools.
Her father died and she said she was out to avenge him though early, early, early in the trip the good wizard tells her to sing, and she says something similar to ‘I don’t want to” then he goes “Well that’s why we brought you along” and she says
“fine” and starts singing.
Apparently the only reason she was in the party was to be the groups minstrel. Awesome.
At the end of the movie she gets married to the good wizard.

It’s just a bad movie is all. It had some redeeming bits, but on the whole: bad and sexist.

There were no nonwhite people, so there were no racist depictions of them, and the only sexuality we heard about was heterosexuality, which isn’t as blatantly bad as Fire and Ice I guess, but if the only reason there wasn’t overt racism and homophobia is ’cause they chose not to depict those people in their fantasy world…
Well that’s not good either.

>.<

"The Secret"

My mum gave me the book “The Secret” for Christmas some time ago. I keep trying to read it, getting incredibly frustrated and then stopping.
Over the last few days I’ve been trying again. Eck - so many things I don’t like.

Alright. The idea is this: Everything that happens in your life you have created. If you think negative thoughts negative energy comes into your life. If you think positive thoughts positive energy comes into your life. This is infallible. You create everything in your life. Everything.

So, there’s this bit on page 29 talking about how everything that is bad that has happened in your life you have attracted. My “never blame the victim” senses kick in and I don’t like this. I refuse to believe that victims of rape for example attracted the rape into their lives by their thoughts, feelings and attitudes. Nu-uh.

So here’s a quote:
“Often when people first hear this part of The Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event … the frequency of their thoughts matched the frequency of the event … thoughts of fear, separation and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them into being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Ouch. Way to blame victims of terrible tragedies for what happened to them. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

So, thats my biggest problem with The Secret. There’s more.

They have this section focusing on manifesting and creating your bodies ideal weight.
“The second thing to know is that the condition of being overweight was created through your thought to it. … If someone is overweight, it came from thinking “fat thoughts” whether the person was ware of it or not. A person cannot think “thin thoughts” and be fat”
They go on to talking about how if you believe you have a thyroid problem or a slow metabolism and things like that then you’re thinking “fat thoughts” and basically that all those things are just excuses. Anyone can be thin if they think “thin thoughts”
So there’s a thing on asking the Universe (capital U) for you to get your ideal weight, and then believing you’ll get your ideal weight and then receiving your ideal weight. Here’s a quote from the believing section:
“Make it your intention to look for, admire, and inwardly praise people with your idea of perfect-weight bodies. Seek them out and as you admire them and feel the feelings of that - you are summoning it to you. If you see people who are overweight do not observe them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in your perfect body and feel it”
Yeah. That bolded section was my own emphasis. Just ignore overweight people. Nice advice there! Nice way to encourage hatred of fat people. Wouldn’t it be nice if rather then encouraging people to seek thinessesses they encouraged people not to hate on overweight folk?
‘Pparently thats the sort of goal you _can’t_ focus on.

“Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures after they have been transmitted. Its a futile pursuit. … As you resist what has appeared you are adding more energy and more power to those pictures you don’t like, and you are bringing more and more of them at a furious rate … The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drugs movement has actually created more drugs. Because we are focusing on what we don’t want … People believe that if we really want to eliminate something focus on that. How much sense does it make for us to give that particular problem all of the energy as opposed to focusing on trust, love, living in abundance, education and peace?”
See according The Secret we can’t focus on ending hatred of fat people from the world, because by doing that we only encourage more fat hatred. Eck. “It’s not your job to change the world, or the people around you. Its your job to go with the flow of the Universe and to celebrate it inside the world that exists.”

We apparently have the power to change everything - but the status quo.

Yuck, yuck, yuck.

I watched Death Proof and Planet Terror last night because the universities roleplaying club was having a movie night and those movies were selected for viewing.

I can see how someone might make the argument that they’re not that bad.

First I’m going to talk about Deathproof. This is Tarentino’s movie.
The first half of Death Proof made me feel a little ill.
An hour of the movie was spent watching this group of girls sitting in a car, and sitting at a bar, talking about making out with dudes ad nauseum. I kind of got this ‘If I could have hot women talking in a car, what would I have them say?’ only, I doubt that’s how it actually went because later there’s people talking about things like pee fetishes.
Enter Kurt Russell.
Kurt Russel is a mysterious and creepy stunt car driver.
He tries to get a girl to give him a lapdance after she refuses he tells her about how he writes the name of everyone he’s ever met down in a little book. (For a book supposedly containing the names of everyone he’s ever met, it was quite small btw.)
He says that he’ll file her name under ‘chickenshit’ if she doesn’t, so she does. One of the guys in the room yells “So _that’s_ how you get women to give you lapdances!” at which point I loudly whisper “Protip: No it isn’t.”
We got a long scene of this girl giving him a lapdance. Utterly unnecessary.
Then - he offers to give one of the girl a lift. He explains how his stunt car is ‘deathproof’
%100 deathproof.
>.>
<.<

She gets in, he brutally slams her around the car for a bit scaring the hell out of her. before killing her with his stunt driving, because she wasn’t in the ‘deathproof’ part of the car. Then he goes and slaughters the other girls in one big car crash.
Yaaaaay!
Watching him torture and kill the girls made me feel sick. Thinking about how the other guys in the group of people there were disappointed because they sat through an hour of crap just to have ten minutes of women being killed was… disappointing.
So then, we watch the second half of this awfully craptaucular movie.
This time, there’s more shitty exposition as girls talk about things related to sex, without actually talking about sex itself, and Kurt Russell shows up again. He creepily touches and licks a girls foot while she doesn’t know about it.
Then later, does that “trying to kill them” thing, only this time the girls know how to drive cars, kick his ass, shoot him some, and beat him to death.

So - the ass kicking girls could have been there to ‘even out’ the dude killing group of girls. Like “This movie isn’t woman hating, because the girls kick ass too, and beat him.”

Interestingly, the guys in the room thought the second half of the movie was shit, and that it had a shitty ending. They were like “The girls beat him to death and then said yay? what is that?” I imagine their reaction would have been different if the guy beat the girls to death, and then said yay.

All in all - rather uncomfortable.

I’ll talk about Planet Teror later.

I was watching the news tonight, and I saw coverage of the civil rights protesters rallying about the Jenna Six. I saw the dude man talking, and the icon about the news item to be talked about came up, and there was a picture of a noose with the word ‘Jenna’ or something like that.
I saw the icon and was like ‘WTF they’re covering this on real live television! That’s awesome’ so I sat down to watch it.

The news report was _not_ awesome.

They basically said that six black students had been accused of assaulting a white student, and that black protesters were upset about racism. It used phrases like “Jena was filled with a sea of black faces” noting that one the day “all businesses in the small town had been closed.”
It felt to me like fear mongering. Be afraid of these black protesters, or at the very least, mock them.

The whole thing about white students hanging nooses from trees that the black students decided to sit under one day? Not mentioned. The fact that a white guy drew a gun on a bunch of men of colour? Not mentioned. The fact that black students had been harassed and intimidated? You guessed it. This news article didn’t mention any of that.

All it said was that 6 black students had been accused of assaulting a white student, and that a sea of black faces had come to protest racism.

THEN: They talked to some white peeps who lived in Jena. One white guy said something like it was just humans sweating, or something, and that the black people in Jena don’t even care about this trial.
Some other white lady was also most displeased.

Why did they get a _white guy_ to talk about how the _not white guys_who live there think? They couldn’t ask people of colour what they think themselves? We have to get these things filtered by white guys who seem to know all?
Grr.

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

*stupidracistmediaI’mgladIhavetheinternetorI’dbealotmoreignotantthenIalreadyamand
jesuschristthat’ssayingsomethingfuuuuck*

Rape in the movies. *warning may trigger*

This entry may be triggering. I describe in detail something that triggered me, and go on to explain how I felt when I was triggered. if that’ll make you feel bad then please don’t read this entry.

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I heard a statistic on the radio the other day that made me blanch. Apparently one in five movies depict rape. Now, I’m curious as to whether this includes independent films, and whether films from countries other then America are taken into account or not what year this study was from and how many years worth of movies did it look at. There was a podcast of the interview where this statistic was dropped, I’ll see if I can find it and link it here some time.

Now, I don’t know exactly what that statistic includes, but my god isn’t that scary? One in five movies depicting rape. That doesn’t make the movie theaters seem like a safe space for women in any way whatsoever. I mean, I thought the Mo Movie Measure was bad enough but this really puts things into perspective for me.

The other night to drum up interest in John Travolta’s new film Hairspray (which I know that Grace enjoyed. Though the idea of Travolta in a woman suit makes me feel uneasy) Grease and Saturday Night Fever were on. I enjoy Grease like a lot so I sat down and had a gay old time singing the songs and being pretty merry. I’m a sucker for musicals. I was in a good mood.
Saurday Night Fever started, and I was excited because I’d never seen it before and it’d been talked up to me a lot. So before the movie comes on we get the usual screens including the rating. The movie was rated MA15+ for sex scenes. No big deal, I don’t care about sex scenes in a movie. It opened with John Travolta strutting, and if there’s one thing I enjoy watching it’s John Travolta strut.
He did and said some jerkish things to women, which I didn’t like, but for that strut and the fun dancing it was worth it.
Then comes the scene when he’s in the car with his friend and that girl. One of his friends is having sex with her, and she seems to be into it, but when he stops a different guy crawls on her, she starts protesting and then he proceeds to MERCILESSLY RAPE HER while she’s crying loudly and no-one in the car does anything to stop it. We see John’s character grimacing, like he doesn’t like what’s going on. They stop the car and everyone gets out except for John’s character and the crying woman. He says something like “Is that what you wanted? You’re a piece of cunt now!” like he was angry at her for having sex in the back of a car full of guys and not angry at his FUCKING PIECE OF RAPIST SHIT friend of his.
She proceeds to run out of the car crying, and John goes out to comfort her. (WHAT THE FUCK!)
Not more then a few minutes her REAL TRAUMA AND PAIN is ignored, because one of the guys while being stupid falls off a bridge to his death. Yeah, I guess someone tragically dying in front of you would occupy your attention, but the writers didn’t have to write it that way did they?

I don’t know what happened in the rest of the film because I went to my bedroom and started crying. I wanted to know why nobody had told me. Why so many people I knew recommended the film to me and didn’t tell me about the on screen rape. I wanted to know why the rating screen said “Sex scenes” instead of “On screen rape sequence” as though sex and rape are the same thing. I wanted to not feel like shit. I wished I had enough control over my thoughts and feelings so I could just stop comparing the rape scene in the movie to my own (different) rape, or that I could stop caring about it.
My boyfriend came in the room. He knows about my rape, and when he saw me crying he knew why I was doing it. I asked him if he thought it was possible for me to learn to control myself so I wouldn’t feel like this again and he said that it seemed unlikely for someone in my position with my history.

I’m tryin’ to control myself not to start crying again now. Doing reasonably well I guess. N I’m thinkin’ how can one in five movies depict rape? If one in three women have experienced sexual assault, how can women even go to the movies?
How can they not provide a warning at the start? If one in three women have experienced sexual assault, how can they provide so much triggering, painful and hurtful material without even warning anyone about it?

Sex and rape are not the same thing. A classification warning for “sex scenes” should be different from a classification warning for “rape scenes.”

I don’t know? Part of me wants to say “At least they didn’t glorify rape by making her enjoy it by the end” and the other half says “that’s not fucking good enough.”

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Women in D&D - a short linklist.

Alright. There was this thread on the wizards of the coast board called “Astrids Parlour - a haven for women in gaming”

It was full of whiny young men talking about how women don’t need spaces to talk about gaming, because aren’t they just like everyone else? This is sexist! RARHRARGHRAGH!!!

The thread got pulled down and replaced with a lss controversial “How to support women in gaming”

See how the first title was a place for women to talk, and the second title seems to imply to me a place where men can talk about women? I’m not sure I like that.

Here’s some links anyway.

http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002101.html
http://peaseblossom.livejournal.com/448610.html

"Yellow Rage"

Juat thought I’d share this powerful stuff.

I’m going to write this in full writing, though the words might not come out right, because I’m doing this by ear. Writing it out in text should make it more accesible to people who can’t hear so well.

“Yellow Rage”

Two Asian women are standing on stage. They are speaking at the same time, it is quite hard to make out what they are saying.

Woman on the right: “listen asshole my words were meant to be mentioned in meticulous and “indecipherable word” manner, yet your mispronouncing and manhandling mouth fucks it all up! My meaning is misused for miscommunication. Misconstrued, misinterpereted, mispoken, mistake. Mother fucker. It makes me mad.

Woman on the left: *sentence that I cannot make out* You picked the wrong Asian woman to mess with. Because my tongue is split. It is forked and steel tipped, and it will puncture and bleed you, and if you don’t know, now you know. Asshole.

*speaking seperately now*

Woman on the left: Listen asshole, stop trying to guess what I am.

Both: Stop trying to tell me what I’m not.

Woman on the left: I was born in Seoul which makes me Korean. These slightly slanted eyes aint just for seein’bitch, I see right through you. You expert on me with your:

Both: Fake asian tattoo

Woman on the left: You expert on me with your:

Both: Tae-bo and Kung-fu

Woman on the left: So what you try and *words I can’t make out* on the menu?

Woman on the right: So what you’re a fan of Lucy Liu?

Both: So what, you read the Joy Luck Club too?

Woman on the left: That makes you an expert on how I should look? Fuck you!

Both: What the fuck do you know about being Asian?

Woman on the left: I’m about to put you in your place son! What do you know about:

Both: Napalm and Saigon?

Woman on the left: About Hiroshima and Nagaaki?

Both: About Ghandi?

Woman on the left: What do you know about demilitarized zones zones and No Gun Ri?

Both: About Milai (likely spelled wrong again) and the military?

Woman on the left: What do you know about the killing fields and the signs they wield?

Both: “No Chinese and dogs allowed”

Woman on the left: What do you know about comfort women and geisha girls? About colonization all over the Asia world?

Both: What do you know about the great wall?

Woman on the left: I could school you on each and all, motherfucker I’m about to get raw!

Woman on the right: You picked the wrong Asian woman to mess with!

Woman on the left: “You picked the wrong Asian woman to mess with! Because my tongue is split. It is forked and steel tipped, and it will puncture and bleed you, and if you don’t know, now you know.

Both “Asshole”

Woman on the right: Listen, don’t ask me what I’m saying in my native tongue. You wanna know so badly, so learn it yourself.

Both: Twenty years!

Woman on the right: It took me to perfect the language my mothers and her mothers spoke

Both: Twenty seconds!

Woman on the right: it took you to ask what me and my sister spoke about? If I said I wasn’t talking to you, why don’t you stop bothering me all up in my business?

Both: How dare you step to me!

Woman on the right: Invade my privacy! Waste my time to ask me if I’m able to relay you the contents in my conversation? What nonsense is this?

Both: Do I look like your private translator?

Woman on the right: Nosy motherfucker! You probably though the dialogue was centered around you, and you just wanted to make sure. Is that because you’re paranoid and insecure, or just jealous because my tongue has got more… skills then yours?
So you wanna learn how to say “I love you” and “hello?”

Both: Why you need to know?

Woman on the right: You think of me as some Asian ho? Ready to turn around at your calls of:

Woman on the left:”Hey baby! Anyung Hasaiyo, Anyung Hasaiyo!” (Again, likely spelled wrong due to personal ignorance)

Woman on the right: Or:

Woman on the left: Ni hao ma, I love you china doll.

Woman on the right: Please, your shit doesn’t impress me at all because my words were meant to be mentioned in meticulous and “indecipherable word” manner, yet your mispronouncing and manhandling mouth fucks it all up! My meaning is misused for miscommunication. Misconstrued, misinterpreted, misspoken, mistake. Mother fucker. It makes me mad, so you better have listened to me asshole, and listened well. Don’t talk to me anymore, don’t fuck with me anymore, because I am done talking to you!

Grrlcot Nandos Chicken

I just watched this advertisement on my television, just now. Umm. Jesus Christ.

What was the fucking point? Alright, we know that the point was to show women on a platter for the consumption of men, by showing a glam happy stripper with the hope that the many men who find the consumption of women funny, sexy, or otherwise good might also enjoy the consumption of Nando’s foodstuffs.

But…

Oh jesus Christ.

My friends eat at Nando’s every now and then. From now on, I aint joining them.