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Kijikun ([info]kijikun) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-06-14 19:27:00
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*rages* IGN and District 9 Don’t Need Women in the Audience
Only boys can win a trip to comic con

As requested by the author of the blog the content of the post as been removed. Sorry folks you'll have to click through.


Edit: On a related subjects about icky girls going to comic con -
http://jezebel.com/5289528/the-girls-guide-to-comic-con-headdesk-powers-activate
http://io9.com/5291470/san-diego-comic-con-not-really-for-girls

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[info]issendai
2009-06-15 01:35 am UTC (link)
Clearly it has to be a male because only men read comics, and the proof is that women just don't get involved in major promotions like this.

.....

Yeah.

Glad to see they changed their minds, if only because the lawyers breathed down their necks.

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[info]kijikun
2009-06-15 01:36 am UTC (link)
I for one will not be seeing the movie. And I've been looking forward to it since LAST years SDCC.

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[info]hallidae
2009-06-15 01:38 am UTC (link)
I'm with some of the commenters. This sounds an awful lot like someone "winning" an unpaid job. That said, the exclusion rule is still BULLSHIT.

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[info]harrylovesron
2009-06-15 01:39 am UTC (link)
This comment "Thom" wins, however:

I think I will enter. If I win, I will go in drag.

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[info]staroverthebay
2009-06-15 02:12 am UTC (link)
(Your icon wins almost as much as that comment. I freakin love Barry the Chopper!)

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[info]adevyish
2009-06-15 04:15 am UTC (link)
Guy deserves cake. A lot of cake.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-06-15 02:13 am UTC (link)
WOW. That is shockingly ignorant, and I'm enough of a cynic that something has to be pretty damn ignorant to shock me.

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[info]fern_on_fen
2009-06-15 02:19 am UTC (link)
Well there's a movie I'll not be seeing, and a website I'll not be visiting for a while...

I mean it's bad enough when trolls pull the, "There are no girl-gamers/fangirls/comic fans" but when actual companies do it? Guh.

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[info]lady_jafaria
2009-06-15 03:16 am UTC (link)
Um yeah, that shit ain't legal. I'm glad they opened it up, although they shouldn't have had to be TOLD "That shit ain't legal" in the first place.

The age thing is weirding me out too. If people over 25 don't like comics, the nonexistence corner just got a whole lot more crowded.

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[info]kijikun
2009-06-15 03:18 am UTC (link)
It's not even comics. It the sci-fi movie District 9, and their 'target' audience is men between 18 and 25, because you know woman don't like sci-fi and once your over 25 you aren't spending your money on movies

Bleh.

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(no subject) - [info]lady_jafaria, 2009-06-15 04:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]fuzzytowers, 2009-06-15 11:39 pm UTC

[info]weaselistic
2009-06-15 03:29 am UTC (link)
I hope a girl wins. I hope it's the fattest girl ever.*






*) I mean, an "unattractive" girl by conventional standards, rather than a pretty model-type nerd fantasy. If they want to use the winner for promotional purposes, and fear their (male! male!) audience would already be weirded out by a female creature, imagine what horror they would go through if that female creature looked like a real woman instead of one from TV. :)

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(no subject) - [info]galletas, 2009-06-15 04:41 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2009-06-16 07:30 am UTC

[info]airawyn
2009-06-15 04:07 am UTC (link)
There's a link in the comments to a post about sexual harassment at SDCC last year. Does anyone happen to know if the Con has addressed these issues?

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(no subject) - [info]bobafeis, 2009-06-15 05:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-15 07:00 am UTC

[info]rosehiptea
2009-06-15 04:14 am UTC (link)
I hadn't even heard of that movie. This isn't exactly encouraging me to see it.

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-15 08:17 am UTC

[info]mael
2009-06-15 05:05 am UTC (link)
Yep. Watch me not watch that movie now. I mean, since I wouldn't have liked it anyways and all.

Assholes.

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(no subject) - [info]sistercoyote, 2009-06-15 06:03 pm UTC

[info]goddessleila
2009-06-15 05:39 am UTC (link)
I was really, really, really looking forward to that movie. Several of my friends adored the book it was based on, and the trailers looked phenomenal. Intelligent, socially aware sci-fi is exactly what I've been looking for. Too bad that they apparently missed the entire point of the movie. (i.e., discrimination is wrong.) Fail. Epic fail.

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-15 09:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]goddessleila, 2009-06-15 02:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-15 06:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ayezur, 2009-06-15 05:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-15 09:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2009-06-16 03:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]goddessleila, 2009-06-16 03:29 am UTC

[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-06-15 06:49 am UTC (link)
Dangit, District 9 looks interesting. Oh well. *boycott mode /on*

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-15 06:53 am UTC

[info]fevered_ego
2009-06-15 07:02 am UTC (link)
While IGN supports gamers of all ages, genders, shapes and sizes, these guidelines were created to foster a buzz for the film among a very narrow target group that the film’s promoters felt would be extremely passionate about the film’s subject matter.

Balls, balls, suck my balls. (Mine are the ballsiest balls of all.)

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(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2009-06-16 03:15 pm UTC

[info]eldritch
2009-06-15 08:08 am UTC (link)
Jesus christ, and I was looking forward to that movie, too. SO MUCH FOR THAT.

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[info]kijikun
2009-06-15 09:27 am UTC (link)
# Julius Says:
June 14, 2009 at 7:33 am

> “So the contest excluded women because they weren’t worth including?”

That can be answered quite matter-of-factly by presenting some revenue figures.

No, women aren’t worth much in revenue when it comes to comics, sci-fi, or videogames.


I would like to hurt this person.

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2009-06-15 09:28 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2009-06-15 09:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]robinterrae, 2009-06-16 02:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-16 09:41 pm UTC

[info]isntitironic
2009-06-15 11:56 am UTC (link)
Why would they be open about something like that? Why not allow both genders to enter, and then rig the selection process so only men can win? That's what everybody else does.

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(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2009-06-16 03:16 pm UTC
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[info]fiiierce
2009-06-15 05:57 pm UTC (link)
The sad thing is that I'll still be unable to keep myself away from this film when it's released.

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-15 09:01 pm UTC
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[info]virgo
2009-06-15 07:16 pm UTC (link)
*headdesks*

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-06-15 09:08 pm UTC (link)
I find myself wondering if Peter Jackson knows of his promoter's little contest? Since District 9 is being released by his Winglnut Films,and all...

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-15 09:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]vzg, 2009-06-21 06:58 am UTC

[info]hypno_jango
2009-06-15 10:43 pm UTC (link)
34. Julius Says:
June 14, 2009 at 7:33 am

> “So the contest excluded women because they weren’t worth including?”

That can be answered quite matter-of-factly by presenting some revenue figures.

No, women aren’t worth much in revenue when it comes to comics, sci-fi, or videogames.

Next you'll tell us that that women shouldn't be leads in video games because it won't sell well because "majority" men gamers wouldn't be interested. (Warning: Video gets Fanboy Loud.)

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[info]melannen
2009-06-26 08:54 pm UTC (link)
We the mods got a polite e-mail from Johanna Draper Carlson, the writer of the blog post you re-posted here, asking "that you respect my copyright and edit this post to include only a link and an excerpt, not the entire post and not the comments."

UFB doesn't have an official policy on long quotations or copyright as long as you aren't violating the JF TOS, so this is not an order from the mods, but I told Johanna I'd pass on her request to you in case you wanted to act, since there was no direct way for her to contact you.

Peace out,
me.

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2009-06-26 09:00 pm UTC
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