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More attacks on redheads reported at Calabasas school -
Three students reported being beaten up by about a dozen students at A.E. Wright Middle School. Authorities believe the attacks are linked to a Facebook group based on a 2005 episode of ‘South Park.’
Wow. This is terrible. Do people really take South Park that literally? They were joking, gingers do have souls, okay? And there is no such thing as Gingervitis. Ugh. This was a few miles from my house, no less. Um, I think I should stay inside this weekend.
Jesus. H. Balls.I do not articulate well on this subject in writing, but this is indicative of one of our last permitted racist viewpoints. “Ginger” comes from institutionalized stereotypes of the Celtic people (same with “Redneck,” which originally denoted only those of Scottish origin), and draws on a genocidal hatred born from the Anglo-Saxon Protestant tradition.
I’m proudly of Scotch heritage, and this sort of behavior makes my blood boil. I will defend until the end of the Earth any bonnie lass with fiery hair, or any upstanding lad with the same.
(And yes, I know that other cultures have red hair as well, but the Ginger epithet grew from a snotty entitled English point of view, so there’s that. I love the Brits, but oh my holy lord they’ve got some terrible racism in their past.)
This is the same kind of shit that made Dave Chapelle quit his show. A parody of prejudice that’s, in fact, designed to use humor to illuminate ignorant attitudes gets flipped by shitheads into being actual prejudice. I’m usually not big on the Irish pride thing, but it’s a little ridiculous that this is even an issue. There’s no such thing as an ironic beating. See also, the whole Post-Racism trip that was an amazing comedy tool for a couple of years (Wondershowzen etc.) but was eventually bastardized into a way for people who didn’t want to bother computing the whole picture to feel loose about dropping the n-bomb again.
I want to live in a world where we can get our digs in about ourselves and each other while cutting both ways (the Irish-descended PoMo elitist says this as he pours his third drink before noon) and I think stereotypes are some of the best comedy fodder in the world, but if the endgame is having jokes meant to carry genuine insight percolate down into a thin justification for thoughtless hate and violence, I guess we’re gonna have to part with the whole tactic and go back to (shudder?) acknowledging a level of individual comfort and common humanity before being funny about this stuff.
GPOYW- IRL Turkey-Hand Edition
“I saw this ad for electric scissors during an episode of “The Simple Life.” Which is a show that glorifies these two rich, giggling cunts, who have no respect for anyone, and get away with anything. I, right then, vowed that I would retain this image everytime I hear George Bush say ‘the terrorists hate our freedom.’ You know what? I hate our freedom. Little ol’ me, an American! I hate it! That’s all we’ve done with it? We’re fucking assholes, man. We…are…awful.” —
David Cross (via annierachel)
I still think about this quote almost daily. Remember when we all thought the internet was going to be on some Portable Library of Alexandria shit?
Name: Sam
Tumblr Name: raptoravatar
Nicknames: I’ve yet to have someone give me a nickname that didn’t make me want to kick them.
Birthday: 10/25/84
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Current school/job: Screenwriter, Temp, Funemployee
Sexual orientation: Straight
Status: Single
Random fact about yourself: I’m an Eagle Scout
Hobbies/Interests: writing, music, biking, feminism, next-level theory stuff, trippy science, ))<>((, The Entertainment & Arts, Politics, DIY,
Do you smoke/drink: quit a couple months ago/have a Rum & Coke in front of me right now
Favorite Tumblr blogs?: Smart punks, clever gays, peeps who follow the intersection of science/art/new media, The Hofstra kids, The UNC kids, Gawker/YM/Awl peeps, brighter-than-average attention whores, unapologetic nerds, Blipsters, barely contained disasters, quippy fucks, feminists who like to get the knives out, the Joose fueled, the manic-depressive, politically informed cats, surreal image aggregators, counter culture anything… Note that most of the ones that I like fall into several of these categories. I’ll feel obliged to pick favorites when you aren’t all on the same goddamned feed.
Why Tumblr?: Basically, I’d rather trust a social filter to feed me the internet than an RSS (you people are good at cutting the crap out). Idiots haven’t ruined it yet. Whenever they do, they’re easy enough to weed out. I like the conversational aspect. Let’s keep this lightweight-Burroughs-cutup boiling!
Twilight and Abusive Relationships -
Nails exactly why these movies feel so icky to me. I’m pro-letting “tweens be tweens” but the constant predatory edge (I’ve just seen the first one.) echoes so much awful real-life shit and pretty much gives it all a pass. It’s made worse by the fact that any connection the leads share beyond a tolerable baseline of cute-outsideriness is totally ellided.
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. OKAY?! WOW.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Was this motivated by the lack of sleep+need to get work done?
So you wanna be a writer, huh young writer dudes?
Well first thing you duders need to know before you write that tubular novella:
Your type machine can’t just be your type machine, it has to be your lover dudes!
so well put
I can’t tell if this means I should be frottaging the shit out of my laptop or considering it a bizarre hybrid of 50 tiny clits, an addled pottery project and a “Simon” game.
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Space Hell. Lifter Puller. Natural Ice beer/”Natural Light” by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (aoty contender???). Job hunt despair.
re: “I don’t want to be a donor when I die”
I understand that there are belief systems and religions which dictate that the body is a temple and cannot be desecrated after death. I just cannot support such belief.
Yes, we should treat our bodies like temples while we have them. Yes, we should take care to eat right, exercise and go to the doctor. But, when the day comes that our souls are no longer bound to these bodies, why should the body be left to waste away in the ground?
Why should we not share the organs which served us so well during our life? Why should we not allow researchers discover new information in the battles against the things that are destroying us? Why should we not allow medical students to learn how to heal and save lives with the safety of a real person they cannot hurt?
I’m not saying that donation should be forced on anyone who doesn’t want it. I just don’t agree with the arguments against donation.
PREACH
I am 99.99% positive that the judeo-christian belief in your “body is a temple” definitely does not dictate ANYTHING about the afterlife. IN fact, let’s make that 100%, since I’ve read the Bible, and say that there is nothing instructing anyone not to donate their organs. So I’m not sure who these people are who are have a so-called religious reason for not being organ donors….
but….
IT DOESN’T FLY (if they are a part of judeo-christian tradition, that is, which is most people in America, and therefore Tumblr, still).
Even though I’m an atheist, I feel like one of the better things I got from the Judeo-Christian tradition was the obligation to help those in need. If someone has a solid, life-sustaining use for whatever parts of me I haven’t wrecked by the time I go, it seems like a moral imperative to will it all over. If there was anything sacred about me in the first place, it has more to do with neurological coincidences that aren’t going to be replicated anyhow (but if there’s a way to make use of those, it’s not like I’m going to spring up and object). Maybe the fact that I think of myself, my life and my work in memetic as opposed to physical terms has something to do with it? I’m glad we have the internet to help us decouple the person from the body.