31st Oct, 2009

Naruto Chapter 469 - WTF Kishimoto?

Spoilers for the latest Naruto Chapter below.

In which even Lee facepalms )
So, from now on, joining the cries of "QUESAAAADA!!!" "LIEEEEFIEEELD!!!" "KUBOOO!!!" I will start with "KISHIMOTOOOO!!!".

Other People Weighs In:
ccsharumun
fated-bliss
Random Curiosity

14th Apr, 2009

Amazon.com Fails

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/

On a side note, it doesn't affect me as they refused to take my card months ago, so it's not like I can support them.

Still...

AMAZONFAIL!

Nowadays, searching "homosexuality" brings up:
A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
You Don't have to be Gay
Can Homosexuality Be Healed?

What is this shit?!

28th Mar, 2009

Strawberry Cheesecake, Dora the Doll

Childhood trauma?
Once upon a time, there was two child icons... who got on a slim fast diet.


For those who doesn't take a look at cartoons now and then, that's the makeover of Dora the Explorer and Strawberry Shortcake.

Both a cartoons aimed at younger girls, and both, coincidently, had baby fat because, you know, they're young girls. Their adventures also didn't call for long and silky hair or slender, long limbs.

Dora, for example, is supposed to be in the jungle with her animal friends, exploring and adventuring. What about a pink, flowy top says adventurer?

People might call me a hypocrite because I watch Winx Club, but, the difference is that Winx Club didn't take previously average to slightly chubby weight girls, practically and comfortably dressed, and turned them into thin waifs.

Oh, and there's rumours that makeover Dora will move to the city and discuss nail polish with her girlfriends. And no words about her monkey sidekick (probably kicked out).

30th Dec, 2008

WTH?! Abortion through the eyes of otaku males

Okay, so I browsed a "General World Stuff" section on an anime forum. There they had a thread saying something like "Abortion: Right or wrong?". Considering that most of the people I've seen posting on the forum seemed to like strong, independent women, even if they were like 90% male, I clicked it.

In it I found:
1. Most thinks that abortion is wrong, regardless of the reasons ("I don't want someone to abort my child!" not even calling it "our child").
2. One thought that their sister/cousin/whatever she was's abortion after rape was right, but no other abortion (even if it's rape) should occur.
3. Women should realise that pregnancy is a side-effect after sex. Ergo, if they don't want to be pregnant, they shouldn't have sex (but whyyyyy wont someone sleep with me?!).
4. Birth control never fails!!!!1!One!!!Dammit!
5. One is arguing for abortion, but is told to quit because their logic is worse than the anti-abortion logic.
6. Calling a foetus a "foetus" instead of a "baby" is evil, murderous and so on.
7. Courts should decide who gets to have abortions! And NO LATE ABORTIONS (like what would happen when a woman must wait for the court to decide).
8. Abortions hurt women! So we should take away this choice because they don't know any better!!!

And... My blood-pressure, which my doctors often have a hard time finding because it's usually so low, is now through the roof.

It contains classic examples of:

My Abortion is the ONLY Justified One!!

The fact that men should be able to have as much sex as they want, but women, when accidentally getting pregnant, should suck it up or not have any sex at all.

Impractical compromises that still takes away the choice of a woman (BUTBUT SHE CHOOSE TO GO TO COURT!!) but giving her choice to someone else.

Women are incubators for men's sons (rarely they'll mention daughters) once they're pregnant, and that women should have no say in it if the man tells her to stay pregnant.

Silencing the women's voice.

Women doesn't know what's best for them. Hence, they should let patriarchy decide.

The myth that birth control is 100% effective, that they wont break and that every woman is capable of taking hormonal chemicals regularly without any ill effects.

It's a baby at the moment the sperm enters the woman.

No one even thinks about this:

That women forced to bear their rapist's children are more likely to hate/hurt/kill themselves.

That women have careers that could end upon becoming pregnant.

That women can have a hard time getting daddy to step up on responsibility.

That women doesn't all like children.

That women could die, could become permanently paralysed, could enter depression, could develop many, many medical problems because of their pregnancy.

That women doesn't always have the financial means to take care of a child.

That there's already too many children in the adoption systems around the world and adding more is hardly nice towards the children.

You see, all pro-choice people want is CHOICE. No one wants forced abortions, all they want is for women to have the choice to carry the child or not.

But anti-abortion people likens it either to murder or that women takes abortion lightly and uses it instead of the pill/condom. (The more extreme ones say that the pill is a "chemical abortion" and should also be banned.)

It's a medical procedure, it costs money and isn't fun. I hardly believe that women will just skip to the doctor every time they've had sex.

Fucking hell. The stupidity is giving me a headache.

2nd Oct, 2008

*Speechless @ stupidity*

Okay, I no longer recommend this blog.

It's an activism site against animal cruelty. Specifically horses.

The story is about how a Chihuahua attacks a horse at a trail and then a "pit bull" --forgive me for being skeptic, but most pits wont even approach being "large dogs" --joins in.

So now, the site advocates that all pit bulls and their mixes should be exterminated.

In the meantime, there's disableist (against people with disabilities) wording and remarks. Sexist wording. Racist wording (specifically against Hispanics/Any Latins) and remarks. Perpetrating urban myths... And even a whole lot of hypocritical/circular/trollish "arguing".

Saying that all pit bulls are time bombs that might go off at any moment? That they are solely bred for dog fighting and that "Latins" are the ones responsible for this "menace".

Laughing at a mother of a retarded child who requests that people will not use her child's condition as an insult. Apparently the mother was being too politically correct. Even as she suggested that use "idiot" and its synonyms instead because that was what the poster meant. (Seriously, can people not see the problem in this: A disabled person meets enough prejudice and obstacles in their life without having their existence being used as an insult!)

Despite what you might think, gendered insults are sexist. And in these comments we have a prominent one:
skank
"unattractive woman," 1970s, from skag in this sense (1920s), of unknown origin. Meaning "dance to reggae music" is 1976, probably not the same word, but also of unknown origin. - Online Etymology Dictionary


It plays into the stereotype (the comments even say that stereotypes exists because they're true! So all those girls that faint instead of doing something... all those ANGRY Black Bitches... And so on) that women are only worth something if they look good. And you know, calling a pit bull owner a skank because she's a woman that owns a pit bull is kind of... *too angry to finish*

The urban myth that pit bulls have "locking jaws" even though there is NO FUCKING DOG OR EVEN CANINE THAT HAVE LOCKING JAWS! Do they LOOK related to CROCODILES to YOU?!

The trollish parts of these arguments is that the people against destroying an entire breed is called "Pit Bull Apologists", "Too young to know better", "Inexperienced" and other personal attacks.

Yet somehow, they need to use racism, sexism, disableism, urban myths, stereotypes and sensationalist media to get their points across.

And they wonder why other activist groups are leery about animal activism.

Seriously, is there no way for them to argue for the well-being of animals without stunts like the ones PETA are doing.

Don't they realise that by going against other minorities, they are effectively cutting down on the argument why "their" minority should get special treatment. Don't they realise that they could work together with these people instead of against them?

You can argue against irresponsible dog owners without using insults that automatically insult disabled/coloured/female people. Hell, you can even argue against dog breeds.

Words like "skank", "hysteria", "retard" [as an insult]... they all internalises discrimination. Can we stop using them in arguments that is supposed to bring about something better. Please?

25th Jun, 2008

The End of an Eternity [Spoilers]

Inuyasha is a series that started a looong time ago by then famous Rumiko Takahashi, of Ranma 1/2. Major points included:

Kagome is Kikyou's reincarnation.
Kikyou was Inuyasha's former lover.
Inuyasha kept mixing them up.
The Shikon no Tama disappears when the right(eous) wish is made.
Kagome is from the future, has a life, friends and family in the future.
Inuyasha is in the past and is just finding his friends and family.

And then, the ending happened (remember me complaining about Winx Club and Harry Potter? Well...).

Once again, the girl sacrifices everything for her hero... This is NOT a post-feminism world )

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