Log In

Home
    - Create Journal
    - Update
    - Download

LiveJournal
    - News
    - Paid Accounts
    - Contributors

Customize
    - Customize Journal
    - Create Style
    - Edit Style

Find Users
    - Random!
    - By Region
    - By Interest
    - Search

Edit ...
    - Personal Info &
      Settings
    - Your Friends
    - Old Entries
    - Your Pictures
    - Your Password

Developer Area

Need Help?
    - Lost Password?
    - Freq. Asked
      Questions
    - Support Area

Oxydosic (oxydosic) wrote in otf_wank,
@ 2004-02-16 10:31:00

Current mood:

confused

More joy from customers suck
Someone posts the usual rant. Except they have this odd icon people can't quite identify.

It turns out it's a graphic abortion icon. Surprisingly enough, most people aren't upset. However, the OP decides to slam on people anyway.

Looks like a troll, but still kinda interesting.

(Post a new comment)

	cleolinda 2004-02-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	MY EYES! (Reply to this)

	eiviiaru 2004-02-16 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	As I recall, the OP is the same guy who recently hit LJdrama for bashing a girl for her trich on a journal-review community. The wank is strong in this one, yes... (Reply to this)

	teratologist 2004-02-16 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Of course, in the real world, people are smart enough to know that the fact that something looks gross in pictures has nothing to do one way or the other with the ethics of said thing. They're also smart enough not to feed trolls. Right? Right? looks desperate. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2004-02-16 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	Well, exactly. I'm very pro-choice, and I'm still pro-choice. Doesn't mean I want to be hit with WHATEVER IN THE NAME OF SWEET FANCY MOSES was in that picture while I'm browsing journal entries, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2004-02-17 12:43 am UTC (link)
	First, yay Jem icon! Nice to see I'm not the only fan of old 80's cartoons. Second I agree. I'm pro-choice, however personally I don't know if abortion is something I personally would be able to go through. However I still think that option should be open to women so that they can choose what they feel is best. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-02-17 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	A female friend of mine put my position best: "I believe in a woman's right to choose, but I don't ever want to have to be that woman." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	katsue 2004-02-16 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	I contemplated diving in there and making comments to that effect (aesthetics v ethics) when I figured that the OP was just trolling, so didn't bother. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	calluna 2004-02-17 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Yup. If we're going to make things illegal just because they look gross, that rules out most surgery. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vassilissa 2004-02-17 01:19 am UTC (link)
	Aw, cute! Your icon, that is. Your logic isn't cute, just correct. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rhi_silverflame 2004-02-17 07:40 am UTC (link)
	Oooooooooh, is that a scene from Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) in your icon? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vassilissa 2004-02-17 07:47 am UTC (link)
	Yep! :-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	teratologist 2004-02-17 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	Why thank you! Some people are disturbed by the little two-faced kitty, but he's not illegal, either. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lots42 2004-02-17 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	Two faced kitty is far, far different from graphic abortion pics. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	teratologist 2004-02-17 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	True. I'm not saying that what troll-boy is doing is ok, just that: a.) since I'm pretty sure he is a troll boy, telling him it's not okay is unlikely to have the desired effect, and b.) actual fundies who think that a bloody fetus picture is in some way equivalent to a coherent argument really boggle my mind. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	moonjaguar 2004-02-16 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	I couldn't even tell what it was. It looked like worms. I'm wondering what the picture under "good luck on your surgery" was of. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-02-17 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	The float-tag said something about a heart. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2004-02-17 05:10 am UTC (link)
	I dunno, my only feeling was "Monster! If anything like that grows inside me I'm getting rid of it posthaste!" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	phosfate 2004-02-17 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	coffeespew! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kijikun 2004-02-17 06:39 am UTC (link)
	I so wish i hadnt looked (Reply to this)

	rhi_silverflame 2004-02-17 07:42 am UTC (link)
	Right-wing pro-life groups hire these big ol' 30-foot trucks and drive them around some parts of Los Angeles plastered on all sides with anti-abortion slogans and giant pictures of aborted fetuses. I can tell you that is downright offensive and not at all pleasant on the freeway in rush hour. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	julia 2004-02-17 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	Eeeewww... cringes (Reply to this)(Parent)

	teratologist 2004-02-17 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	And yet, you know that if someone was to use similar pictures to promote, say, a horror movie, they'd be the first to wail about the Children being all unwittingly exposed to that shit. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crickets 2004-02-17 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	But exposing the Children to the gory side of reproduction (while bitching about gasp! sex education in schools) and turning the responsibility of childbearing into an angry guiltfest is okay... Yikes, I sometimes miss living in California, but I certainly don't mind missing that. There's a 'Word!' in there somewhere. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rhi_silverflame 2004-02-18 07:24 am UTC (link)
	But of course. Because there's no Moral (tm) to horror movies, y'know. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2004-02-17 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Y'know, I had an appendectomy once, but I don't make a habit of platering the gory results on bilboards anywhere. Seriously, what's the logic there? Surgical procedures are always ugly - so what? (Reply to this)(Parent)

Privacy Policy - COPPA
Legal Disclaimer - Site Map