the airing of grievances
Jul. 16th, 2008 04:59 pmI hate this trend of "updating" children's/YA books. Like when the publishing company decides to find+replace Walkmans to iPods or typewriters to laptops. I know the Sweet Valley High and Babysitters' Club books have become "updated"; there was at least one more (something about a copy machine vs mimeograph machine?) but I can't remember. Holy christ, kids can fucking handle it, it is not like they don't understand the concept of books being published in the past. It's so unnecessary and makes it look like they think kids are dumb as rocks. Plus it's just desperate whorey marketing.
Peeve: when people want to highlight a difference in education or "intelligence" or... ~*depth*~ or what the fuck ever by making a character not know the meaning of a word or saying the character hadn't read a bunch of books. That's fucking retarded. Those things don't say ANYTHING about how smart or learned a person is and it just makes me think that the author is stupid. Urggggh.
I want to watch Bob Ross, not a million shitty parodies of Bob Ross. Who would want to watch these dumb assholes in fro wigs over the pure spirit that is Bob Ross?!
disco posts on ontd make me nervous. People haaate the disco so much. They are fragile flowers to me. :(
OMG I went to Mindy Kaling's blog for the first time in forever and being a creeper, I wanted to track down references to BJ Novak on there, so I googled "mindy kaling ben-jo" and was leisurely scrolling down, as you do, when zoomgg I had a mini-heart attack seeing
( this )
Good grief and holy cats! LOL, that is a perfect sentence to show up though. ~creeper since 88~ D:
Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl and corresponding video:
a) Katy Perry seems like a shallow and awful human being
b) I don't know quite how I feel about stagegay/people "performing" sexual orientations and I don't see anything wrong in experimenting, but this song skeeves me out. It's just so blatantly exploitative. It's supposed to be edgy and naughty or whatever b/c it's about a drunk bicurious girl making out with another girl. But of course it's not SERIOUS, LOLOLOL! The video could've turned it around by actually having her kiss a girl or jesus have any girl kiss another girl and make it look even the sliiiiiightest bit not trashy, or just even like the girls are actually interested in each other instead of using each other as a prop for the audience, but nope! It's allllll titillation. It's okay everyone, no one is ACTUALLY gay! Just focus on how hot she is! Millllllions of close-ups on her ass and down her cleavage!!11 Also the lines "It felt so wrong/It felt so right" especially bother me; like why does it feel wrong? B/c being gay is wrong? I get that it's supposed to be a oooh forbidden thrill thing, b/c "good girls don't" and all, but that's a shitty message and again makes it look like there is no actual attraction and it's just, you know, BICURIOUS FOR THE LOLZ!!1 Ugh idk this song is glorifying a lot of shitty things. I think there are less shallow/stupid/asshole/offensive ways to talk about drunken bicurious...ness. bicuriosity. Why is there no 'u' in that word? Fucking english. And uh still be fun and playful, whatever, i'm tire.d
c) and musically this song is just... not good
d) this is more disappointing than it would be otherwise b/c she looks a lot like Zooey D. and I thought, well this could be redeemed a little if she at least sounded a little like Z.Desch. But SHE DOESN'T ;d
ontd h8s Katy Perry too. Like a lot. Even though I agree with some of the h8, I have been noticing more and more lately the way ontd is much more brutal toward females than they are toward males. I don't think this is an ontd-specific problem but it's just magnified by the size and nature of the comm (no holds barred celebrity gossip). More female figures are hated than male figures are hated. You get less people willing to disagree with the h8/stand up for the figure. The insults/criticisms are always more thorough and more personal than they are for guys, with the gendered insults and all, calling out sexuality etc, and more likely to go off really really unprovoked. It gets overwhelming and it's sad. K going back to the beginning of this paragraph: I don't like Katy Perry either, and it's not like she's making any great strides for equality in any realm, but reading five pages of "this stupid desperate slut needs to die," it's not good for anything.
That being said, MILEY FUCKING CYRUS OMFG. MY EYES BOILING IN H8. OMFG. NO ONE LIKES HER!! HOW ARE THERE STILL SO MANY POSTS?? Okay. Okay. But you know what? As much as I am annoyed by everyone's insistence on like validating Miley Cyrus's existence, I am annoyed by THE FUCKING JONAS BROTHERS SO, SO, SO MUCH MORE. CAMP ROCK ASELKJFLWE;;SWFKJL. WHY ARE THEY POPULAR?? MY MIND.
WORST: people sneering at "political correctness", or the internetty equivalents, people mocking "lol sensitives." They have these weird built-up delusions of what these terms mean when everyone else is just saying "stop being such a fucking cocksmear and THINK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE." Obvs a lot of the time this "anti-PC" thing betrays sentiments that are in fact racist/homophobic/sexist/misogynist/otherwise -ist. It's like the "I'm not racist, but..." evolved into an angry asshole. "I'M NOT RACIST, YOU'RE JUST TOO SENSITIVE AND TOO PC." If you feel like you just cannot say ANYTHING, like you are soooooooo oppressed and cannot EXPRESS YOURSELF because of how ~sensitive~ EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET is, MAYBE YOU ARE JUST A FUCKING ASSHOLE. Goddamn reach a reasonable conclusion. Yeah some people take it too far but seriously is it that much of burden, to think, maybe... maybe... someone else...? has had... no, surely not! but just maybe...? someone else has had... different experiences than I have had... and so... you should... take that into consideration and try to respect their feelings??? LIKE WHAT IS THE FUCKING ISSUE THERE, DO YOU JUST NOT HAVE THE TIME OR ENERGY IN YOUR IMPORTANT LIFE, YOU FUCKING DICKJERKY
I really hate that.
I sound cranky in this entry but I was not really; it just turned out... 100% complaints.
Peeve: when people want to highlight a difference in education or "intelligence" or... ~*depth*~ or what the fuck ever by making a character not know the meaning of a word or saying the character hadn't read a bunch of books. That's fucking retarded. Those things don't say ANYTHING about how smart or learned a person is and it just makes me think that the author is stupid. Urggggh.
I want to watch Bob Ross, not a million shitty parodies of Bob Ross. Who would want to watch these dumb assholes in fro wigs over the pure spirit that is Bob Ross?!
disco posts on ontd make me nervous. People haaate the disco so much. They are fragile flowers to me. :(
OMG I went to Mindy Kaling's blog for the first time in forever and being a creeper, I wanted to track down references to BJ Novak on there, so I googled "mindy kaling ben-jo" and was leisurely scrolling down, as you do, when zoomgg I had a mini-heart attack seeing
( this )
Good grief and holy cats! LOL, that is a perfect sentence to show up though. ~creeper since 88~ D:
Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl and corresponding video:
a) Katy Perry seems like a shallow and awful human being
b) I don't know quite how I feel about stagegay/people "performing" sexual orientations and I don't see anything wrong in experimenting, but this song skeeves me out. It's just so blatantly exploitative. It's supposed to be edgy and naughty or whatever b/c it's about a drunk bicurious girl making out with another girl. But of course it's not SERIOUS, LOLOLOL! The video could've turned it around by actually having her kiss a girl or jesus have any girl kiss another girl and make it look even the sliiiiiightest bit not trashy, or just even like the girls are actually interested in each other instead of using each other as a prop for the audience, but nope! It's allllll titillation. It's okay everyone, no one is ACTUALLY gay! Just focus on how hot she is! Millllllions of close-ups on her ass and down her cleavage!!11 Also the lines "It felt so wrong/It felt so right" especially bother me; like why does it feel wrong? B/c being gay is wrong? I get that it's supposed to be a oooh forbidden thrill thing, b/c "good girls don't" and all, but that's a shitty message and again makes it look like there is no actual attraction and it's just, you know, BICURIOUS FOR THE LOLZ!!1 Ugh idk this song is glorifying a lot of shitty things. I think there are less shallow/stupid/asshole/offensive ways to talk about drunken bicurious...ness. bicuriosity. Why is there no 'u' in that word? Fucking english. And uh still be fun and playful, whatever, i'm tire.d
c) and musically this song is just... not good
d) this is more disappointing than it would be otherwise b/c she looks a lot like Zooey D. and I thought, well this could be redeemed a little if she at least sounded a little like Z.Desch. But SHE DOESN'T ;d
ontd h8s Katy Perry too. Like a lot. Even though I agree with some of the h8, I have been noticing more and more lately the way ontd is much more brutal toward females than they are toward males. I don't think this is an ontd-specific problem but it's just magnified by the size and nature of the comm (no holds barred celebrity gossip). More female figures are hated than male figures are hated. You get less people willing to disagree with the h8/stand up for the figure. The insults/criticisms are always more thorough and more personal than they are for guys, with the gendered insults and all, calling out sexuality etc, and more likely to go off really really unprovoked. It gets overwhelming and it's sad. K going back to the beginning of this paragraph: I don't like Katy Perry either, and it's not like she's making any great strides for equality in any realm, but reading five pages of "this stupid desperate slut needs to die," it's not good for anything.
That being said, MILEY FUCKING CYRUS OMFG. MY EYES BOILING IN H8. OMFG. NO ONE LIKES HER!! HOW ARE THERE STILL SO MANY POSTS?? Okay. Okay. But you know what? As much as I am annoyed by everyone's insistence on like validating Miley Cyrus's existence, I am annoyed by THE FUCKING JONAS BROTHERS SO, SO, SO MUCH MORE. CAMP ROCK ASELKJFLWE;;SWFKJL. WHY ARE THEY POPULAR?? MY MIND.
WORST: people sneering at "political correctness", or the internetty equivalents, people mocking "lol sensitives." They have these weird built-up delusions of what these terms mean when everyone else is just saying "stop being such a fucking cocksmear and THINK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE." Obvs a lot of the time this "anti-PC" thing betrays sentiments that are in fact racist/homophobic/sexist/misogynist/otherwise -ist. It's like the "I'm not racist, but..." evolved into an angry asshole. "I'M NOT RACIST, YOU'RE JUST TOO SENSITIVE AND TOO PC." If you feel like you just cannot say ANYTHING, like you are soooooooo oppressed and cannot EXPRESS YOURSELF because of how ~sensitive~ EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET is, MAYBE YOU ARE JUST A FUCKING ASSHOLE. Goddamn reach a reasonable conclusion. Yeah some people take it too far but seriously is it that much of burden, to think, maybe... maybe... someone else...? has had... no, surely not! but just maybe...? someone else has had... different experiences than I have had... and so... you should... take that into consideration and try to respect their feelings??? LIKE WHAT IS THE FUCKING ISSUE THERE, DO YOU JUST NOT HAVE THE TIME OR ENERGY IN YOUR IMPORTANT LIFE, YOU FUCKING DICKJERKY
I really hate that.
I sound cranky in this entry but I was not really; it just turned out... 100% complaints.
