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The Mad Bishounen ([info]jkefka) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-06-29 17:16:00


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Warnings Wank 2: Electric Clusterfuck
This shit be ugly y'all.

Following the previous 1000 comment unfunnybusiness post there have been some further entries to the fail-lympics, and to make things slightly easier and spare [info]doriangray's inbox I'm making a new post.


First, an update that didn't make it into the original post: [info]wistfuljane posts an open letter to zvi, thanks to [info]ingrid for linking it. There is, naturally, more wank in the comments.

Now for some new stuff. From [info]wank_report, the mousies found a couple of new posts on the issue, each one with its own wank. The first definitely has more than the second, starting with a lovely quote in the post:

"2. If you're that mentally and emotionally fragile, you probably shouldn't be reading fic at all. Or watching television. Or reading regular novels. And for god's sake, you'd better get off the internet right now."

That turns into a nice little teal deer wankfest in the comments.

There is some voice of reason in both posts. It is far too dilute to be of any good.

Finally, we have an added enormous clusterfuck inside the house. [info]esorlehcar and [info]oulangi get into a monstrously ugly fight in the comments of the first post. I don't even know, kids, I really don't.


And that's the ugliness. Anyone else has major developments they want to link put 'em in the comments, I'll try to keep up but I make no guarantees.

ETA 1: [info]agent_hyatt reports further wank inside the house. On a completely ADD note, I really need to figure out if I can do that Il Pallazzo cosplay.....

ETA 2: [info]caoilainn drops us a couple more links with plenty of wank to go around. Enormous clusterfuck is ENORMOUS.

ETA 3: More from inside the house, courtesy of [info]miss_padfoot. Here it's [info]misswindy talking about potential connections with racefail and setting off another hoard of teal deer.

ETA 4: A couple fresh links for you courtesy of [info]kelmendi and [info]esclaramonde! Aukestrel puts up an apology/flounce and zvi puts up what I might even call a genuine apology.

ETA 5: [info]sparklepuss brings us one more passenger on the failboat. ETA 5.5: And another.


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[info]agent_hyatt
2009-06-30 01:01 am UTC (link)
I think they're working under the assumption that none of us have been sexually assaulted and none of us are authors, either, so we're just detached people handing down moral judgment from our computer desks.

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[info]faultypremise
2009-06-30 01:04 am UTC (link)
Ah, now it all makes more sense.

I think.

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[info]lilpocketnin
2009-06-30 01:46 am UTC (link)
Yup. Assault victims/POC/(insert other group whose treatment is regularly academically discussed) NEVER USE THE INTERNET EVER.

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[info]agent_hyatt
2009-06-30 06:20 am UTC (link)
No, they do; they just shouldn't. Because they're not normal.

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[info]adevyish
2009-06-30 07:14 am UTC (link)
According to studies, half of Canadian women have been sexually assaulted and 43% of Canadian women were sexually assaulted before the age of 16. I guess the other half are using the internet.

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[info]fools_game
2009-06-30 02:22 pm UTC (link)
Half. I think I might be sick.

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-06-30 05:56 pm UTC (link)
I've seen figures as high as 75% for sexual abuse in general, and 50% for men- this includes molestation short of rape and sexual harassment by peers. Everybody's got some damage, because even if you accept the lower figures it means you're probably close to someone who's been raped, and you live in an environment where sexual abuse is a constant and real, if not always overt, threat.

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[info]fools_game
2009-07-01 06:18 am UTC (link)
I knew the rate was high, but I've never heard it put that high.

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-07-01 07:13 pm UTC (link)
The plural of anectdote is not data, but I have never spoken seriously to any woman about the subject without some sort of sexual assault being mentioned- once you start talking about unwanted breast grabbing that leaves bruises, the rate soars.

It's easy for people to trivialize that kind of assault, but the thing is, once you're aped, you don't get your card punched and are never grabbed, groped, subjected to verbal abuse of a sexual nature, et'c again: one of the reasons the high rate of sexual assault short ofrape is important is that it retraumatizes rape survivors.

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[info]adevyish
2009-07-01 05:40 am UTC (link)
Canada has one of the highest rates of reported sexual assault in the world, so yeah.

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