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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
2:16 pm [harrylovesron]	I'm putting this behind a cut due to anti-semitic and Nazi imagery and apologism for said anti-semitic imagery. ( Read more... ) (85 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 27th, 2011
2:02 pm [anarchicq]	"Ahh, everyone is allowed their opinion except Christians. Typical." - Musiclover84 Unfortunately my posting this outs me as a watcher of Daytime Soap Operas. But this was too rage inducing to keep quiet. So the other day I posted in the Days of Our Lives LJ comm that they've announced an impending gay storyline. Everyone in the comm seems happy or at least they don't care because really, this shouldn't be news right? Musiclover84 however is not happy and he posts in my post, but I thought nothing of it. He has since deleted his post but hey, Gmail is like a Sarrlacc and deletes things slowly. Gays of Our Lives? No thanks. Seems like the gay lifestyle has taken over all tv shows and movies. It's always the same thing too. Gay guy/gal keeps homosexual feelings a secret then eventually find out that hey, it's okay to be gay! *Gag* Anyway, I've been in this group a long time (been watching Days for nearly 20 years) and this is the end for me. Take care everyone! So today, I go to the comm and see a mod post. Maintainer/Mod Update Hi All, I haven't needed to moderate this community in years due to people's ability to be respectful and polite. However, it seems people are overreacting to the news of the upcoming gay storyline. Please remember, you are entitled to express your opinions as long as it doesn't offend other people and some these posts are going over the top. Please keep the criticism of the show in the bounds of good taste. Musiclover returns. Scrolling back in the comm I see that people are expressing their enthusiasm about the new plot but of course, Musiclover breaks in to pee on everyone's good time. Oh BS, like you really want to watch a show that takes away from the couples that have been around forever. I am offended that you are okay with taking this show in a direction away from it's 45 year consistency. Some of us have been watching this for a long duration of that time and the fact that newer viewers are coming through here & trying to ruin this show, greatly offends me. Riiiiight, because Will and Gabby and Abby and Chad have been couples forever. *Rolls eyes* (72 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
11:12 am [ladyrogue]	Jackass is a fandom, right? So obviously we all know that Ryan Dunn from "Jackass" was killed in a horrible car crash early yesterday morning. And many family members, friends, and fans are in mourning right now. But then Roger Ebert had to speak up. Needless to say, many are pissed at his insensitivity. Sadly, I kind of figured something like this was going to happen considering the stunts "Jackass" is known for (and we all remember the "Steve Irwin had it coming" wank), but still... that doesn't excuse Ebert's words at all. Beware the comments in the MSN article, they are just as bad as Ebert's original tweet. ETA: I would normally agree with the comments here as well, except that the police haven't actually confirmed that he was drunk. If it turns out that that's what happened, that's one thing. But... I'd rather wait to find out the results before I agree with one side or the other. ETA 2: Apparently Ebert has apologized to Dunn's family and friends saying he tweeted too soon. From People.com (118 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 17th, 2011
11:00 pm [sandglass]	(Disclaimer: Wizards of the Coast already took the article down, but they also chose to put it up, so phooey on them.) WotC hired a man to write an article on young girls and DnD. ( He begins it with his own disclaimer, and it goes downhill from there ) (29 Comments |Comment on this)
3:16 pm [emily_goddess]	Scott Adams says something misogynist; news at 11 ( But seriously: rape triggers ahoy ) (69 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 13th, 2011
11:21 am [cat_mcdougall]	Putting this here, because it's not funny, and he's a fandom all his own ( Behind a cut just in case of suicide triggers: Terry Pratchett ) Current Mood: Flattened (39 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 6th, 2011
2:05 pm [seiberwing]	Older wank, but still tasty. Misogyny wrapped in status quo and covered with a layer of fully missing the point, as recovered from the back of the wank_report refrigerator. ( Just go play Gor already. ) (27 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
8:18 pm [ladyofviolets]	Well, what can we say. This IS bleachness So, remember that the last Bleach wank had a note about about not-so-funny stuff posted on bleachness? Well, I guess it can be posted here, and thankie to the mice on wank_report for that one too. Bleach chapter 450 comes out with Orihime taking up pages of pretty much being a moe-blob. Some think it's cute, the folks over at Bleachness don't agree. The general consensus is that Kubo's a hack because he wasted pages on Orihime wibbling over donuts, which would be valid point if it weren't mulled over at length in true bleachness style. How dare Orihime like the hero and not be angsty anymore when her life has sucked so much! Let's use armchair psychology on her! Because we say so! ( Here are some quotes, too. Warning for ableist language. ) TL;DR, the people at bleachness have not apparently been reading the series at all because they fail to notice that Orihime's always been eccentric and Kubo's pacing has sucked for a long time. And their ways to "deal" with it? Erm, no thanks. ETA: Not even Bleach Asylum buys Bleachness's bullshit. And Deebie tries to play innocent about allowing such shit to happen. (35 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
12:23 pm [overlord_mordax]	Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store Robot 6 posts this story: Amazon pulls yaoi from Kindle store Excerpts: Yaoi manga is a niche genre, but like all niche genres, it has a devoted following. Yaoi readers gobble up the books like romance fans read Harlequin novels, which is not surprising as they are basically the same thing, except that yaoi 1) is manga, 2) is a love story between two men, and 3) often includes lots of sex. ********** Recently Amazon has become more strict in enforcing their content requirements for ebooks. Several DMP books that have been available online since 2009 are getting the axe, beginning with our 801 Media titles like Weekend Lovers and King of Debt. However, in the last few days the issue has spread to the June imprint by Amazon’s refusal of The Selfish Demon King, and the removal of The Color of Love from the Kindle store. ************** ....all the reviews I checked described the book as more sweet than sexy, which raises the question: If this story had been about a man and a woman, would it have been removed from the store? A quick search suggests that the answer is “no.” Titles currently available on Kindle include Christmas Creampie, a graphic novel in which “horny Whoreville hussies show a frustrated dildo shop owner the true meaning of Christmas,” and Little Lorna in Resort Sports (I’m not even going to link to this one), in which Little Lorna, who is spunky, sexy, but “not too bright,” goes on vacation to Mexico with her Uncle Bob; “nudity, spanking, and sexy humor” result. So apparently a sweet love story between two men is unacceptable, but an orgy in a dildo shop is OK. Thanks to crabby_lioness for posting this over at noscans_daily (79 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
2:19 am [bcaluroso]	ED Goes Down, Permanently. An ensuing shitstorm also goes down. This is slightly old news, but I don't see it having been posted anywhere, so I'm going to go ahead. I hope ED counts as fandom - it did not seem to be in line with the usual topics of Unfunny Business. I'll be happy to move it if this proves not to be the case. So, it seems that Encyclopedia Dramatica, unofficial wiki of 4chan, has disappeared. It now redirects to OhInternet, a sanitized version of ED (which seems a bit like having a cleaned-up pile of shit.) Says Geeko System: Last night, visitors to Dramatica’s home page found themselves automatically redirected to a new site called OhInternet which appeared to have more in common with the new, slicker generation of Internet culture trackers than with the unvarnished, offensive Dramatica of old. Some fans of Dramatica wondered if this was an elaborate troll or an April Fool’s joke; visiting Dramatica’s old IP address, 208.99.87.133, gave a message that was interpreted by some to mean that Dramatica was only temporarily offline. But the redirect is permanent, Encyclopedia Dramatica founder and current OhInternet primary contributor Sherrod DeGrippo told me by email, and OhInternet is here to stay. Encyclopedia Dramatica is no more. EDIT: Warning for sexist, racist, NSFW language, graphic threats, privilege, misogyny . . . you know what, if there is any type of offensive text that you do not wish to read, I suggest you not visit this article. There's . . . there's something for everyone, there really is. ( And then the Internet expoded. ) (81 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
3:50 pm [h_landless]	Yes i would blame the jew if she just left her friend cause he/she was/is a part of the Hitleryouth! Once there was a fan called RedPassion who liked to draw her Mary Sue Emily with Louis XVI. Later she moved to HP fandom and started drawing Emily with Snape. Recently she made a comic about Snape, Emily Sue and Lily and it was full of sexism and stupidity. Here are some comments from RedPassion herself and the people who liked her comic: “By the way I don’t think Lily was an egoistic person. Naive, yes. Incomplete character, yes. Boring, totally yes. BTW she is just a character I think poorly of .” “She always used him for help at school our before to get details about the wizard world and most of all to married potter without to give a thought what could happened to Severus” “I mean, how can Snape forsake his housemates and Dark magic when HE IS SURROUNDED BY THEM ALMOST 24/7?!” “I’m sick and tired of all the fanart where Lily ‘forgives’ Severus. It should be the other way ‘round.” “Some people are blinded by her protection of Harry and can’t find a fault in her” “Lily can also be read as a gold-digger. By this view she would have been delighted to hear Severus say that one forbidden word. Here was just the excuse she needed to move up in the world.” “The best thing that resulted out of Lily was the complexity of Snape because of all the heartache. If I were Lily, I wouldn’t have deserted my best friend just because he called me a name. After all, friends forgive each other, right?” “He deserves way better than some childhood sweetheart who ditched him because he said one word. (Emily is making me sssooooo jealous, though XD) I am so tired of seeing SnapexLily fanart. She’s dead, and he’s on the market.” “Lily was a bitch *nodnod* Running off with the people who tormented her best friend. Such a fickle woman -.-“ Also look at this gem of a conversation: ladysugarquill Well, Lily and Snape didn't fight because of one nickname. They fought because Lily got fed up Snape was into the Dark Arts and wanted to be a Death Eater (that is, people who think it's fun to torture and murder others because they're muggleborn - just like Lily). She spent 5 years trying to convince him not to become a MURDERER, but he was so scared of not belonging that he wouldn't listen. And he didn't slip, he threw a racist insult to her face. Would you blame a jew girl for not staying friends with a member of the Hitler Youth? Knowing that he, or his friends, could kill her and her family tomorrow, just because she dared to be born from certain people? RedPassion I hold it like ~DoomOverlord. I won´t discuss this further, cause i would just repeat myself again and again. And i don´t think we both would chance or opinions on it. :/ I just can say that i´m half german and half british and i that don´t care of that when my friends needs me. No matter in what. Most of all when such a sad and bad background happened in their life like Snape has! Cause in that case it was Lily who felt ashamed for Severus infront of her friends even if actually Severus had "much more reasons" for it when we look at this from the point of e.g the different houses... Its true that you shouldn´t care from where someone came ect. And yes i would blame the jew if she just left her friend cause he/she was/is a part of the Hitleryouth! As said i´m am german and i was growing up in germany and not everybody there back in days where a Nazi!! Was Bad or something like that. E.g Sophie Scholl from the resistance movement the white rose "Weisse Rose" was there and she was pleased with it cause she could spend time with others girls in her age and she lost her life later cause she was executed cause she fought together with her brother and his friends against Hilter and for the jews and a free Germany! But even she was in the Hitleryouth she never was against jews! Hans Scholl also was in the Hitleryouth as well and he gave e.g his iron ration and cigarettes to a jewish girl even it was forbidden and he already worn his uniform and was a soldier of Hitler in that way... and he also would never have killed a jew! (84 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
10:12 pm [dottiness]	Right, so, Ginia Bellafante did a terrible, sexist, uninformed review of HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones including statements about how it was boy fiction, the sex and intrigue was only in there as a bone thrown to women viewers, and she'd never met a woman who would rather read "The Hobbit" than a piece of literary fiction. Apparently she got hundreds of angry emails, hundreds of angry tweets, and "three supportive notes from people she is personally considering adopting." So what lesson does she take from all of this? "Pull up a throne and let's talk" includes such well-written responses as this: "As I wrote in the review, I realize that there are women who love fantasy, but I don’t know any and that is the truth: I don’t know any." "But they have also sent long and vitriolic attacks claiming that, in my negativity, I made it clear that I had no idea what I was talking about. I appreciate the economy of those readers who began and ended their comments: “You are a complete idiot.” Phrases like that constituted a whole subgenre of the online response." Lots of comments on both sides of the issue, but, unsurprisingly, a tremendously large number calling her out on her excuse for saying no woman would ever want to read fantasy. I didn't know where this should go, so I stuck with the old "if you aren't sure, put it in UFB!" rule. The last post about this was in fandom_lounge, but I think her continuing to dig the hole deeper probably belongs elsewhere. (81 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 18th, 2011
12:21 pm [staroverthebay]	Is the use of "derpy" ableist? Disclaimer: I initially planned to post this in equestria since it's largely about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic but I changed my mind and chose to post here because while this discusses primarily MLP:FiM, the issues under discussion are not only unfunny and potentially rage-inducing, it's also something that could be applied to almost any fandom. If I have erred and this belongs in equestria, then I will move it over there, but due to the unfunny issues involved, and the fact that this could be applied to nearly any fandom, I chose to go with the F_W rule of thumb: "When in doubt, UFB" ( A little background on the character in question, for those who don't watch the show ) So, I was browsing Tumblr the other night, and came across an unusually vitriolic (and overly-generalizing, I think) comment by a user named "tumblrvigilante" decrying the name "Derpy Hooves" and the entire internet "derp" meme. ( tumblrvigilante's rant ) In other words, tumblrvigilante believes that the use of the word "derp" is ableism, and calling the pony "Derpy Hooves" is tantamount to making fun of her unusual appearance. The owner of the tumblr blog the comment was posted on was rather confused and taken aback by the comment, and posted a long response on her personal tumblr blog, hayjulay. Later, tumblrvigilante replies with his or her own long response, further insisting that the use of the word "derp" is ableist and harmful, regardless of intent. hayjulay replies again, and subsequently the point is presumably dropped by both sides. Both sides have made valid points (as well as some less-convincing points) in argument for or against the "derp meme" being ableist, and it appears that they have come to the "agree to disagree" conclusion. This exchange between tumblrvigilante and hayjulay has been on my mind since I read it, and I briefly discussed the topic with a few friends. However, I'm curious to know what everyone here at unfunny_fandom thinks. Is the whole "derp" meme an ableist slur, making fun of someone who is less fortunate or something that can't be controlled? Is the nickname "Derpy Hooves" actually ableism in disguise? Or is it all effectively a mountain made from a molehill? (128 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
11:04 am [platedlizard]	Want a little creator-wank today? What do you do when you are a famous cartoonist and people post threads about you on the internet? Sockpuppet, of course Oh yes. So, over on Metafilter a thread is started about an article by Scott Adams. Plannedchaos shows up to white knight for Scott. This is easy for him to do, because he is Scott. ( Some choice quotes: ) Posted to unfunny_fandom because the last wank Scott was in is mentioned allllll over the place. (103 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
6:36 pm [sandglass]	Reported to me by a friend. Over on the Lemmasoft forums, a review post is made for a new game. All is mostly well, until Deji posts this comment: ( Trigger warning for homophobia, sexism, ableism, racism, and mention of suicide ) ( ETA: The Lemmasoft homophobes/homophobe apologists have found Kinougames' blog post! ) (40 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 8th, 2011
12:30 pm [harrylovesron]	4Kids Files For Bankruptcy As a followup to this post (in sum: 4Kids were shafting the Japanese creators of Yu-Gi-Oh on royalties and making secret agreements under the table with TV networks and video distributors and not reporting the income from said agreements; the creators responded by terminating 4Kids' licensing agreement and suing)... 4Kids Entertainment Files for Bankruptcy under Chapter 11 ( Article text ) ETA: (Potential sexual assault trigger warning for the Encyclopedia Dramatica link.) darksumomo has some unfunny from Usenet on this subject to share. (23 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
5:37 am [quietladybirman]	Screw The Quake Victims, Give Me My Anime. Admission up front: I'm in here a couple of times as sevendials. I stopped posting before I wrote this up and will not be saying any more. Puella Magi Madoka Magica is one of the currently-airing shows in the winter anime season. It's a deconstruction of the Magical Girl concept, created by Gen Urobuchi and Studio SHAFT. Ten episodes of the projected twelve-episode run have been shown so far, and it's pretty obvious that however bad things already look for Madoka and her friends, they were only going to get worse. It's been on hiatus since the Tohoku earthquake, for what many fans feel to be obvious reasons. madokamagica is a Livejournal community that discusses aspects of the episodes, shares icons and fanmixes. It's usually fairly low-pressure, and has been pretty quiet since the show went on hiatus. That all changes when doctorcasey makes a community post about the show's status, suggesting that the last two episodes may not be screened at all out of sensitivity to the victims of the quake. First red flag: the tone of the initial post was rather entitled, but it appears to be a direct quote from another message board so it was easy to assume he was simply spreading the word. Things remain reasonable until people start to post in support of the decision. Whereupon it becomes obvious doctorcasey made the post because he disapproves of this kind of "political correctness" and was hoping the rest of the community would agree with him. What. The. Hell. ETA: doctorcasey has left the building. Really! He's going right now! ETA 2: doctorcasey has been in contact with me via Livejournal messaging, and has requested that I post the following apology here on his behalf. Everything below the cut is him: ( And cut. ) (108 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
1:58 pm [h_landless]	Lily totally abused Snape! Rabid Snape fans continue to be misogynistic douchemuffins. Lily's Hypocrisy ( The chosen bits under the cut ) (48 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
10:54 am [anarchicq]	"That's a DUDE? EW! I Need to Bathe!" So, over on That Guy With the Glasses MarzGurl has been reviewing the Land Before Time franchise. Movie number 8 has a new spike tail named Tippy who looks like this. MarzGurl is disturbed. It starts at the 4:20-ish mark of the video. For those who don't want to click, here's a transcription. Adult Spike Tail: Come on boys. MarsGurl: Wait, wait, BOYS?!...That pink thing...It's a DUDE?! Ew, what the hell?! It even has this big girly eyelash thing going on that the girl LittleFoot look-alike had from a few movies back. Ugh. UGH! I think I need to bathe after this. Luckily the comments are full of clue-bats for the most part and call her out on the offensive reaction. My personal favourite comment is "Really MG, you watch anime; you should be very very accustomed to "dude looks like a lady" by now." (72 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
4:31 pm [harrylovesron]	"Yu-Gi-Oh!" creator sues 4Kids I wasn't sure whether to post this here or fandom_lounge, but am following my gut and putting it here, because this is... wow. "Yu-Gi-Oh!" Creator Terminates U.S. Deal and Sues for Millions of Dollars ( Full article text underneath cut ) (19 Comments |Comment on this)