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
What do the following senators Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy have in common?
They are both under scrutiny for wasting government money. Wallin, for charging 300,000 dollars of travel expenses to the Canadian Government under what she claims to have been “an accounting error” and Duffy for billing “both the Senate and the Conservative Party on the days that he campaigned for the Tory candidates.”
But that’s not all. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, politics, Shame Day
Tagged appointed, Canada, Culture, elected, Mike Duffy, money, Pamela Wallin, Patrick Brazeau, Peggy Butts, politics, Senate, Sexual Assault, shame day, society
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
I feel like I shouldn’t have to say too much about this. Really, this feels, to me anyway, like it hardly warrants an explanation.
Johnny Depp, a white actor, playing Tonto, a character traditionally portrayed as being of the Potawatomi tribe, in Disney’s upcoming The Lone Ranger is really dumb. “Dumb” is but one of the many four-letter words I could be using to describe it.
Really, though, I should let Mr. Depp speak for himself. He’s an actor a lot of people greatly respect given his extensive acting career, and I think that he should be given the opportunity to explain (1) why he took on the role, and (2) why his character appears the way he does. Continue reading
Posted in film, media, race, Shame Day
Tagged ancestry, blood, Cherokee, Comanche, Creek, Disney, First Peoples, Hanay Geiogamah, I Am Crow, Johnny Depp, Kirby Sattler, Native America, Potawatomi, race, racism, representation, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, tribe
I’ve seen both sides of this debate.
I grew up in a devotedly pro-life home. I was taught pro-life apologetics and arguments (largely from books by Peter Kreeft [go read The Unaborted Socrates]). In spite of that, my study of the development of life and my debates with pro-choicers led me eventually to cross the line. I concluded that if personhood ends with the cessation of brain activity, surely it must begin with it as well.
All that’s to say I’ve had first hand experience with both sides of the highly contentious issue.
But I’m not here to talk about abortion. I’m hear to shine the spotlight on the supreme nitwits who scream the loudest from both sides of the argument. Let’s break it down here. Continue reading
Posted in America, morality, politics, religion, sex, Shame Day
Tagged abortion, abortion clinic, bomb, brood of vipers, Christian, Christian rock, Congress, conservative, debate, democrat, doctor, I blew up the clinic real good, incest, john the baptist, kill, liberal, majority, mermaid syndrome, Mitt Romney, murder, peter kreeft, politician, politics, pro-choice, pro-life, rape, republican, Senate, shame day, SIrenomelia, Steve Taylor
It should be no mystery to us that a lot of movies aren’t made to be good. As a broad generalization, many of the films put out are intended to simply make money. To really hammer this point home I like to point towards Cars 2.
Cars 2 was a Pixar milestone, and the first of their films to beat its predecessor, Cars, in a particular category. It was the movie that garnered a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, an abysmal score significantly lower than the first movie’s 74%.
As someone who’s seen every film the studio has ever done, I was disgusted by the fact that they would create a sequel to what was ultimately my least favourite of the bunch, but then I understood-
This really says it all. I’m not really going to explain this any further.
Money money money. $10 billion dollars of Cars toys, bed sheets, clothing, toothbrushes, the list goes on. So clearly sometimes ratings can be down, if profits are up. But what about when this isn’t the case? Continue reading
Posted in business, comics, Economy, film, money, Shame Day
Tagged box office, cars, Cars 2, comics, DC, fast track, film, Justice League, Man of Steel, Marvel, movies, Pixar, Rotten Tomatoes, sequels, Sony, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Wall Street Journal, Zack Snyder
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