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seiberwing ([info]seiberwing) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-04-05 16:51:00


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Being offended about being offended. Loudly.
[info]fuckyeah makes a run of the mill post in fanficrants about the use of racist phonetic accents in a kink meme fic. Everyone nods and tsks appropriately...except for [info]bgaleb, for whom this is just the last straw. A stand must be taken. And that stand must be coated in more exclamation points than a porcupine's got needles.



I am outraged

I thought all day about all of this and decided to write an open letter to all the pests.

I am sick and tired of all the uneducated fuckheads who took it upon themselves to be offended on behalf of all humanity over a phonetic accent of all things. In that case you have to be offended by half of all classic European literature, you clot-poles!! I am sick and tired of always being politically correct, always being the "smart"one, always being polite and such. But in this case I just fucking can't be all of that!! If you're going to come here and criticize people anonymously, then you can just fuck off.

You choose to be offended by a fucking kink meme for crying out loud!! I don't care about your feelings! I am here to read fan-fiction for god's sake! And it doesn't matter how many people try to reassure the author, or your blubbering justifications, the damage is already done! Because of people like you we can't have nice things. No one wants to hear how offended you are on a kink meme. I am so outraged, I am almost speechless! This is my opinion, if you feel offended by it I do not care whatsoever, you stupid, narrow-minded self righteous fools!

Oh, by the way, if all of you critics are so sophisticated, why don't you go read James Joyce or Leo Tolstoy, not filthy porn on a kink meme then? If you're on a kink meme , you don't have the right to be offended. Hypocrites.

I wish I knew who Author!Anon is so I could console them with hugs and chocolate!


People attempt to explain why kink-acceptance does not mean racism-acceptance, but they are not having with it. The honor of the kink meme must be protected from people wishing to not be confronted by racial caricatures.


I am not here to discuss the law, but a kink meme IS a SPECIAL place indeed! Its is deliciously filthy and kinky and deviant and full of prohibited fantasies and explicit descriptions! If people willingly go there they should be prepared for anything, that's my point. Did you ever read about all the kinks in your daily newspaper? No? I thought not. But if you ever do, THEN you could be offended, because some of the stuff IS PROHIBITED BY LAW in some countries or states.

But we could write and read about it on the kink meme freely. I don't see you complaining about rape or underage fucking or drinking; don't you feel offended by it? So go educate yourself for crying out loud!




[info]bgaleb even posts the offending chunk of the fic so we can all see how unracist it is. It, um...it does not work as they planned. Undaunted, [info]bgaleb continues to yell about how little they care, and flounces eight or nine times in succession until finally the banhammer a voluntary unfriending of the community ends their piteous existence. And nothing of value was lost.

For bonus content and even more exclamation point overload, they go to wail in their journal about it. Something there got deleted, but I have caps should they decide to end the rest.


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[info]rhosyn_du
2012-04-06 09:21 pm UTC (link)
And the author of the fic chimes in!

http://kinkme-merlin.livejournal.com/30557.html?thread=31064669#t31064669

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[info]cyndra_falin
2012-04-06 10:43 pm UTC (link)
So what I'm getting from this reply is "its totally NOT my fault. Its y'alls" cause the author!anon is not from the same culture?

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[info]rhosyn_du
2012-04-07 12:40 am UTC (link)
That's what I'm seeing. Perhaps we'll get more details when author!anon reveals him- or herself.

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[info]phosfate
2012-04-08 10:09 pm UTC (link)
It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that author!anon might not belong to the Western culture. Just so you know – I don’t. Consequently, no, I am not overly familiar with every stereotype said culture perpetuates (nor is there any reason that I should be), am in no way responsible for them, and do, in fact, rely on my own RL experiences a lot when I write rather than some ‘general knowledge’ or some such. Do with it what you want, I just thought you guys might like to know that.

I'm not familiar with Western stereotypes, I'm not responsible for them, but by God I can write them like a Sixties Vegas comic.

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-04-09 04:27 am UTC (link)
Yes, it's amazing how someone who is unfamiliar with Western stereotypes copied those stereotypes perfectly and not the phonetic sounds an actual person with a strong Japanese accent makes when speaking English.

And the author is so very special, they can rely entirely on their own personal experiences and not be influenced by anything outside them.

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[info]lied_ohne_worte
2012-04-09 10:54 am UTC (link)
Yeah. Not being familiar with a particular culture's stereotypes might mean not genuinely knowing why references to African-Americans and fried chicken/watermelon might be problematic (I didn't know about that one until a few years ago, because I am not American). This one is something else. And even if you aren't familiar with a particular stereotype, if you do use it, the appropriate reaction isn't "I didn't know, I didn't invent them, so leave me alone!"

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