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Biz ([info]bizzle) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-08-13 07:49:00


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But what are your thoughts on homosex?
Sci-fi writer John C. Wright does not approve of the Sci-Fi channel's apparent pandering to the "homosex" crowd.

The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to include more homosex in future shows, and to do it nonchalantly, just as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment. The shows will not actually come out and say sexual perversion has no bad side effects. They won't actually lie and tell you homosex won't destroy your life. But they will imply the lie. They will play along.

Homosex. It's almost kind of catchy!

I'd like someone, anyone, to explain to me how my culture reached a position where a public entertainment company can be criticized for failing to contribute to the moral decay of the land, and that the criticism would be taken seriously, and the company would cringe and promise to do better.

Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence.


Explain they do. As soon as the post is referenced in a MetaQuote, the dissenters are off to reply to Mr. Wright. The initial reaction is small, but promising. Most responses are rational and non-inflammatory. Others are quite succinct and curt. A number of users coming in presumably through MetaQuotes announce Mr. Wright's loss of a potential customer, as long as Mr. Wright does indeed use their filthy, filthy Leftist dollars.

Come, my liberal leftist comrades! You openly boast of your superior intellectual power and more profound moral sobriety than we mere working Joes of flyover country (including working Joes like me with a doctorate in law who works in DC). You have anointed yourselves our superiors: that means you are smart enough to explain it. By what logic is the sole and single standard of virtue in your world view an absolute devotion to vice? By what logic is the sole and single sin the sin of having standards of virtue, what you call being intolerant?

'dem sure be fancy words.


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[info]sevendeadlyfun
2009-08-13 02:45 pm UTC (link)
If only there were an internet community dedicated to discussing the unfunny homophobic and racist ramblings of self-righteous cockbibs like this guy. IF ONLY.

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[info]bizzle
2009-08-13 02:49 pm UTC (link)
The irony is that I almost posted this to [info]fandom_wank instead before slapping my forehead and going, "no, wait! That's not the right spot at all!"

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[info]bizzle
2009-08-13 02:50 pm UTC (link)
Though I do find his insistence on using the word "homosex" as a noun hilarious.

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tetradecimal
2009-08-13 03:16 pm UTC (link)
Maybe it's like when Japanese teenagers decide words are too long, like birthday present -> birthpre. Or Bennifer. Homosex!

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[info]honorh
2009-08-17 05:46 am UTC (link)
Dejikam! Pasokon!

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[info]llama_treats
2009-08-13 03:31 pm UTC (link)
Homosex homosex oh homo homo homo homosex! *POP*

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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-08-13 04:12 pm UTC (link)
Ba bum bum bum.

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2009-08-13 06:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bigbigtruck, 2009-08-13 10:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2009-08-14 03:13 am UTC

[info]mister_terrific
2009-08-13 06:51 pm UTC (link)
And a hearty welcome to today's earworm...

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[info]lemone
2009-08-14 06:19 am UTC (link)
I think it sounds like a rockband.

"Hellllooooooo Cleveland! We're Homosex and we are here to rock yooooooooooooooou!"

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[info]roachspit
2009-08-13 04:58 pm UTC (link)
Think of it as a game: Every time he uses the word "homosex," mentally replace it with "buttsex." It doesn't make it any less fail-y, but it does make it funnier. Kind of. In a way.

No, I've got nothing. He's just a douche.

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[info]alya1989262
2009-08-13 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Someone should create [info]food_wank, for funny otf_wanks.

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[info]sevendeadlyfun
2009-08-13 03:01 pm UTC (link)
People would just use it as a dumping ground for discussing PETA. I'm beginning to wonder if we should have a comm dedicated exclusively to explaining the difference between funny and unfunny.

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[info]bizzle
2009-08-13 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Then it is here that I will state I found this man's ranting to be funny. If this post is brought to the attention of a moderator and said moderator believes this to be off topic for the community, then I would approve heartily of it being deleted.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2009-08-13 03:19 pm UTC
[MONOCLE POPS OFF] - [info]bizzle, 2009-08-13 03:22 pm UTC
Re: [MONOCLE POPS OFF] - [info]phosfate, 2009-08-13 03:25 pm UTC
Re: [MONOCLE POPS OFF] - [info]bizzle, 2009-08-13 03:29 pm UTC
Re: [MONOCLE POPS OFF] - [info]phosfate, 2009-08-13 03:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2009-08-13 05:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2009-08-13 05:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mister_terrific, 2009-08-13 05:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rimrunner, 2009-08-15 08:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]librarianmouse, 2009-08-17 07:20 am UTC

[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-08-13 09:14 pm UTC (link)
and while we're at it, a comm dedicated to determining whether something is or is not porn.

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(no subject) - [info]sevendeadlyfun, 2009-08-13 09:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2009-08-13 09:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sevendeadlyfun, 2009-08-13 09:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2009-08-13 10:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]_goblin_, 2009-08-13 11:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-08-17 05:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]yoritomo_reiko, 2009-08-14 08:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2009-08-15 12:24 am UTC

[info]serai
2009-08-15 05:20 am UTC (link)
Maybe the problem is that "funny" means different things to different people. You think?

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(no subject) - [info]sevendeadlyfun, 2009-08-15 05:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]serai, 2009-08-15 05:33 am UTC
(no subject) - tree, 2009-08-15 01:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]snarkhunter, 2009-08-17 11:32 am UTC

[info]beccastareyes
2009-08-13 03:16 pm UTC (link)
But that would leave out craft wank. (Maybe garden wank? I remember seeing some minor freakouts when a study was published showing that growing things organically didn't magically make them tastier and contain more vitamin C*.)

* Funny, I thought the point of eating organic was that you preferred trace amounts of bugs and manure to trace amounts of pesticides and fertilizers.

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[info]ellensmithee
2009-08-13 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha, this doesn't surprise me. I can't eat organic because it usually contains much higher levels of mold (mold allergy) than non-organic fruit and veggies by the time it hits the shelves. A lot of people refuse to believe that organic could possibly be unhealthier than non-organic for some people.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2009-08-13 05:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sistercoyote, 2009-08-13 06:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mercutia, 2009-08-13 07:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2009-08-13 08:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sistercoyote, 2009-08-13 09:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2009-08-13 09:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ellensmithee, 2009-08-14 07:28 am UTC

[info]pariforma
2009-08-13 06:21 pm UTC (link)
You said "craft wank" and I thought, "Yeah, we don't get enough Wiccan and pagan wank around here."

Could apply to Masonic disputes, too.

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2009-08-14 09:44 am UTC

[info]eldritch
2009-08-13 06:04 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I hate to be That Person, but I read this last night and found myself seething with rage to the point where I couldn't manage a proper sentence to summarize my reaction. Nnnnot so much with the funny.

... also, I don't think the word "homosex" is funny, either. It's being used as hate speech.

</soapbox>

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[info]julian_black
2009-08-13 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I don't find 'homosex' funny because it dehumanizes actual GLBT people and refuses to acknowledge the complexity of their lives. By using 'homosex' to refer to any portrayals of GLBT people on TV (whether explicit sexual activity is involved or not), he's identifying gay-ness as nothing more than a set of aberrant, disgusting sexual practices. In that view, GLBT people aren't born as they are; they don't have deep and genuine love lives; they cannot possibly be happy (because they must, by the very nature of their 'perversion,' be self-destructive). They are no homosexuals; there are simply morally bankrupt individuals who choose to engage in (or support) the 'abomination' of homosex.

My God, what a stunted, ugly soul that man has. And after watching his wife slop her own blight of both mind and spirit out on her LJ post-Worldcon, I can only shake my head in dismay.

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[info]eldritch
2009-08-13 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Yes, this. You put my scattered thoughts on the matter into a coherent whole.

God, between him and his wife, I... I don't know. I guess there's truth in the saying that there's someone out there for everyone, but, well. The idea that they might reproduce just horrifies me.

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(no subject) - [info]sionja, 2009-08-14 02:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]eldritch, 2009-08-14 02:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2009-08-14 04:05 pm UTC
*puts on the serious hat*
[info]tofuknight
2009-08-17 08:46 pm UTC (link)
For me, the whole "homosex" thing was funny. Because he couldn't be bothered to type another three letters, because of it's relation to buttsex, because his arguments are basically of the "It will lead to sins that get me off at night!" type, I found it fucking hilarious. But other days, it would make me cry or scream with rage. I totally agree that it's a real life problem, because of all the things you said about defining people by an act and denying them personhood or happiness, etc.. But here it was funny. I'm sorry it wasn't for you; it might not be to me tomorrow.

I don't really have a point other than the it's ok, and advice to just not read if it's upsetting. But over half the time, I can't follow that advice either, so. I hope maybe it's funny to you later? Or that you find more funny elsewhere?

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[info]rhosyn_du
2009-08-13 08:37 pm UTC (link)
This guy is over the top enough that he crosses into "mocking this is the only way I can retain my sanity" territory for me, but, yeah, seething rage is not an inappropriate response.

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(no subject) - [info]eldritch, 2009-08-13 08:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhosyn_du, 2009-08-13 10:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]taterbird, 2009-08-14 12:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhosyn_du, 2009-08-14 01:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]fern_on_fen, 2009-08-14 01:45 am UTC
(no subject) - ultimi_scopuli, 2009-08-14 03:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lady_ganesh, 2009-08-16 01:49 am UTC

[info]veleda_k
2009-08-14 03:42 pm UTC (link)
I very much agree, and I don't mind being That Person at all. It's certainly therapeutic to rip into to this guy and watch others rip into him, but that doesn't make it funny.

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[info]serai
2009-08-15 05:18 am UTC (link)
I don't know, the idiot sure made ME laugh.

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