GORDON: Ladies and gentlemen, things are happening in England.
No, no that.
I’m talking about the recent decision by the Cameron government to make pornography blocked by default on British internet service.
EVAN: To segue into us talking about this in earnest, I thought it’d be good to go into our personal experience with this.
No, not that. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, Europe, Evan and Gordon Talk, internet, morality, politics, pornography, sex
Tagged Block, BNP, Britain, Cameron, censorship, children, commercial, current-events, Daily Sun, David Cameron, EDL, government, Internert, law, parenting, parents, politics, porn, pornography, society, State, Tabloid, UK, under-age, Web, Youth
Exactly one week ago I was browsing imgur and saw that 4chan was up to its old tricks again. To break this down and provide some context as quickly as possible, 4chan, as defined by Urban Dictionary:
you have just entered the very heart, soul, and life force of the internet. this is a place beyond sanity, wild and untamed. there is nothing new here. “new” content on 4chan is not found; it is created from old material. every interesting, offensive, shocking, or debate inspiring topic youve seen elsewhere has been posted here ad infinitum. we are the reason for “not safe for work”. we are the anonymous army. cross us and you will fail. anonymous is everywhere. you depend on us every day. we bag your groceries, we fix your computers. anonymous sees you before you see him. sitting at desks around the world right now is a nameless, faceless, unforgiving mafia composed of the best of the best.
For anyone who doubts the ability of the users of this site to get things done, allow me to direct you to the winner of TIME Magazine‘s 2009 Most Influential Person of the Year, Christopher Poole, a.k.a. moot, a.k.a. the founder of 4chan. As a little icing on the cake, you can check out what happened to nominees 2 to 21. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, internet, music, sex, Shame Day, Youth
Tagged #justice4charles, 4chan, biggest fan, Charles Z., contest, hivemind, Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Imgur, internet, Justin Bieber, Kiss 108, moot, North Korea, prank, reddit, Selena Gomez, sexual harassment, shame day, Taylor Swift, Time, vote4charles
Every day, without fail, I read three webcomics.
Cyanide & Happiness, SMBC, and Sinfest.
Here’s what greeted me when I read Sinfest today:
Sinfest: July 15, 2013.
Posted in cartoons, comics, feminism, internet, morality, politics, pornography, sex, Shame Day
Tagged adam scott, cosmo, Cosmopolitan, Dilbert, feminism, feminist movement, inequality, Ishida, Men, misogyny, patriarchy., repression, sexism, sexploitation, Sinfest, Tatsuya Ishida, wage inequality, Webcomic, webcomics, women
Pinterest. What is it you ask? Well, it’s a virtual bulletin board where you can find interesting pictures and articles and “pin them” for later. It’s essentially virtual hoarding, but not just hoarding of stuff, but also craft ideas, photography, tattoos, cool houses and much, much more.
Some people seem to think Pinterest is limited to women who are focused on one thing.
I’m pretty sure this only shows the men who are openly on Pinterest, ’cause John pinterests from my account all the time.
Posted in advertisement, advertising, feminism, health, internet
Tagged Culture, Dieting, dove, Ernestine Shepherd, feminism, health, Hollywood, Jennifer Lawrence, media, memes, pinterest, Real Beauty, Roni Davis, society, thin
It should be no mystery to you that the writers here at Culture War Reporters are not afraid to call out people, industries, or even activities when they’re clearly in the wrong. Heck, we have an entire Shame Day feature dedicated to that very idea.
They typically feature this little guy yelling at people.
In this age of internet anonymity I believe that it is especially important to call attention to people who are being sexist, racist, and just generally bigoted. Too often we forget that what we say online [or anywhere, really] is able to be recorded, and that we can be held accountable to those words. It’s part of the reason I dedicated a Fame Day post to a tumblr called Public Shaming, run by a man who screenshots particularly egregious tweets to showcase how truly reprehensible some people can be. Just one example:
I was going to embed the least offensive one, but seriously, they’re all pretty much equally offensive.
Posted in bizarreness, internet, language, lgbt, race, Shame Day
Tagged ableist, appropriating, appropriation, BigBang, blackface, celebrities, cornrows, GDragon, Johnny Depp, Misha Collins, offended, offensive, One Direction, politically correct, Public Shaming, racist, sexist, transexuals, Tumblr, Twitter, Your Fave Is Problematic
Here’s the deal, folks. My grandfather has been ill since Sunday, and in the hospital since Tuesday. I’m getting up very early tomorrow to spend an hour with him before work, and probably should have been in bed over an hour ago.
Not only that, but I saw Man of Steel on Tuesday.
Let me just say that there were bound to be some people who took issue with the reimagining of the character, and still others who would stand by its merits as a film, but I never foresaw this. The amount of divisiveness this movie has created is unbelievable, and the opinions I’ve read have been at such far extremes and delivered with such furor. People have debating Man of Steel like it’s the church’s stance on predestination.
The thing is, I am one of those people. Continue reading
Posted in comics, film, internet, review, writing
Tagged anachronism, CBR, Chris Sims, ComicsAlliance, disappointment, io9, Jim Smith, Justin Zyduck, Kelly Thompson, Kit MacFarlane, Man of Steel, Mark Waid, Mightygodking, reviews, Rob Bricken, She Has No Head!, Superman, Zack Snyder
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