Current mood:

*sporfle!*

Politiwank on Pajiba
I thought about posting this on f_w, but decided that it was more that people were wanking about politics and it just happened to be on a movie review site, rather than a fannish phenomenon.

So! Pajiba is a movie review site which specializes in brief but brilliant takes on current releases. There is a comment section after each review, and while most discussions in the comments are fairly benign, Jeremy Fox's review of The Wicker Man garners a really strange wankfest.



Matt starts the ball rolling with this comment:

And aside from women, its also a-ok to take cheap shots at the suburban middle class without true fear of reprisal(American Beauty, The Quiet, Little Miss Sunshine, Donnie Darko), Republicans (The Day After Tomorrow, Ice Age 2-this own website seems to verify this), and Christianity (that God-awful adaptation of Silent Hill). Did I miss anything? Probably.

Vi replies:

Ok, yeah. Despite the fact that, as groups, they have the most power and voice in the country, Christians, Republicans, and suburban dwellers are sometimes portrayed as (gasp!) the bad guys. But the mild cultural disrespect those groups sometimes get is one thing; the real problems women deal with (and anticipate) every day are a whole different story. Can you really say that Christians, Republicans, and suburbanites face the same vilification, threats of violence, and life-altering discrimination that women, gays, and minorities face?

I call bullshit.

And it's on! Various other posters begin to chime in with their opinions, and it gets increasingly heated. Nazis are invoked. Good times. A few gems:

Oh GAWD. If I hear another Christian complain about how persecuted they are in this country, I'm gonna crucify myself. Seriously, are you nuts? Please stop expecting the rest of us to overindulge your fairy-tale fantasies.

And yeah, as a white guy, I'm sure you're sooooo friggin' persecuted...

Ah, the white christian male, so persecuted, so segregated, forced to live in rich ghettos forever forced to enjoy 95% of all the wealth generated in this country, oh, poor poor white guys.
Cry me a fucking river Adolf.

Charlotte, I recommend a silicon-based lubricant to help scrub the sand out of your vagina. It doesn't dilute in the bathtub the way the water-based stuff does.

I guess if the facts don't jive with your own biases, you own't consider it and will dig up whatever to make a comeback. This makes you a presumptuous twat. Seriously, do I have to break out puppets to explain this to you?

And my favorite wtf non sequitur:

I agree, but let's not forget about Italian-Americans. It's apparently also perfectly OK to demonize us.

It goes on and on. I'll say it again: Good times.