zoux posted:

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Also in that video, Benjamin showed examples of other comedians using the racial slur in their routines. He played a segment of black comedian Chris Rock’s 1996 HBO special “Bring the Pain,” in which he talks about the difference between black people and “niggas” who drag them down.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Comedian rants for a week about negative reaction to racial joke

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Also in that video, Benjamin showed examples of other comedians using the racial slur in their routines. He played a segment of black comedian Chris Rock’s 1996 HBO special “Bring the Pain,” in which he talks about the difference between black people and “niggas” who drag them down.

Katt posted:

The very routine that Chris Rock retired because racists kept using it to justify their lovely opinions.

I swear every single racist committed that thing to heart. While conveniently leaving out the other half where Christ Rock completely rips into southern conservative as the white version of "niggas"

SpacePig posted:

Yeah, this was me been back when I was an edgy early-20s guy trying to fit in with what ended up being almost shockingly racist coworkers. If you're naive enough, that stuff can seem sort of reasonable until you start seeing the absolute worst of it. I feel bad that I ever tried to use that as a defense.

Katt posted:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/02/republicans-hate-poor-people-colorado-gop-tweet/

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I like how their follow up is that they totally get and agree with what he was trying to say, but gave him the sack regardless.

Katt posted:

Edgy 20 something me loved this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Back when Rodney King was the major police abuse case in recent memory. Back when police officers, beating a black man who was undeniably guilty of a crime, turned into a major civil rights case with international headlines and before the internet too.

Hindsight Jesus. Today police officers murder innocent black people left and right on camera and nothing happens. They do it with the support of half the nation and lukewarm condemnation by the other half.

belt posted:

Hahaha Alamosa looked poor as poo poo the last time I visited. Probably not the right message to be sending to that base, not that they’d even give a poo poo anyway.

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I could imagine what he saw in me. Pale skin, red lips like I had just devoured a cherry popsicle covered in gloss, two violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor’s. Dark hair curled slightly. And, of course, my boobs. I had them propped up all front and center, in a perfectly ladylike way. Well, kind of. Okay, not really that ladylike.

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she was not what you'd call beautiful: eyes a bit too big, mouth a bit too lush, just a few too many boobs. her hair was dark, because she was smart

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She smiled, but I could see the sadness in her exotic almond-shaped eyes. Her scarf was made of light cotton, but the weight of oppression that came with it kept her head bowed in submission. I dreamed about ripping it off, letting her dark hair tumble free over her booby breasts

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She was forty but could have passed for a year younger with soft lipstick and some gentle mascara. Her dress clung to the curves of her bosom which was cupped by her bra that was under it, but over the breasts that were naked inside her clothes. She had a personality and eyes.

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“Ni hao!!” I yelled at the slight girl across the street; she whipped around, glaring at me with exotic almond eyes as I called to her in the unmistakable voice of her ancestors.

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Agreed rudi reifenstecher, although I’d go a step further and alter it to “Describe yourself as this particular author would.” There are all kinds of bad authors, and limitless varieties of skewed views. The fact that this particular twitter post didn’t die a quiet, embarrassed, and self-conscious death is proof that women are just as stupid and statistically illiterate as men.

The challenge itself is sexist. It’s not even subtly sexist, it’s blatantly and unapologetically sexist.

Ultimately though, one votes with one’s wallet. I will neither be buying this male’s book (whose writing would be mediocre even if he’d nailed the perspective of the female character portrayed), nor Gwen C. Katz’s one-eyed, tunnel-visioned perspective of the otherwise interesting topic of the Nachthexen.

The correct response to views that do not reflect reality is to respond with a perspective that is as close to reality as possible, not with a view that diametrically opposes the original. It doesn’t take a clinical psychologist to know that such ill-reasoned responses on a wide scale will only serve to foster increasing social instability and polarization.

Everyone likes social stability. Men die less often. Women are less likely to be evaluated on the basis of their biological potential alone.

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Not so surprisingly these women jumped on the occasion to show both their poor taste for sarcasm as well as their lack of talent.

The description provided by the original author is legitimate, far from perfect from sure, but it does picture what a woman character could thought in a cheap erotica genre. The genre itself is low quality anyway.

I am still wondering how women can still believe men are not able to depict credible women characters, it’s not like Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary or that Léon Tolstoï produced Anna Karenine.

Do these women even read?

No wonder I am not hiring any women and perfectly against diversity, they are not producing anything beside diversity crap.

3rd wave feminism, and the whole LGBTQIABCDEF* movement is so poorly defined that the wikipedia article for Queer resemble a satire and newspaper now publish articles about “how should you dress to go into abortion”.

I invite any sane man to categorically refuse hiring any women, people of color, LGBTQIABCDEF proponent that puts his gender/color/sexual preference before anything else, trust me you don’t want this kind of attitude in your company.

That’s the only way you can fight “female-only entrepreneurship groups”, “people of color only social events” and constant white male bashing (yes, they are even perpetrated by white male themselves).

“Il ne faut pas que les acteurs de l’IA soient tous des mâles blancs quadragénaires formés dans les universités européennes ou américaines.” (Google translation because someone is pretentious: "AI actors must not be white males in their forties trained in European or American universities," said by Emmanual Macron in a speech about AI)

And this is being said by the president of a country who is LOSING the battle for AI. No wonder why I went to study in China and why they are attracting all the bright mind at Tsinghua University and the likes. Why? Because they don’t bother, they just hire the best, plain and simple.

Feel free to discriminate against anyone using inclusive writing too, it’s an abomination, if you are not easily convinced, just imagine yourself reading an Ernest Hemingway with inclusive style.

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I come here when I need my daily dose of misandry… If you think this is the “Funniest thing in ages!”, you need to walk outside your cubicle.

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this is great, as it is always awesome to make fun of someone who sucks at their craft but believes themselves to be great at it. as an indictment of all or most male authors, i don’t know if it is accurate, or if its even appropriate to believe that there is a “correct” way for someone to describe a person from their own point of view. its one thing to make fun of a terrible author who is full of himself, another to extrapolate to the degree of some of these hecklers. if the end goal is inclusion, then either every individual’s viewpoint has some validity/credibility, or no one’s does.

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Here’s how I would write myself if I were a male author:

She wasn’t much to look at, but she could at least carry her side of a conversation without whining about how poo poo men are. Never accused me of mansplaining once. It was almost as if she felt my opinions and experiences might have some validity. I kept looking at her short hair, her comfortable shoes, and thought, “there’s got to be some catch. In a moment, she’ll reveal herself as just another ‘empowered’ woman claiming moral superiority over half the human population,” but as the night wore on, and the empty wine bottles accumulated on the table, I began to realize there was no Medusa inside her that might be let loose even by alcohol, eager to unleash some bitter diatribe against me just because penis.

She caught me looking at her boobs a couple times, but didn’t seem to hold it against me or feel threatened by the attention. What a refreshing change from everything I’d become accustomed to! She was 47, well past her prime, but somehow, the more she spoke, the less I noticed. We disagreed on many things, and she certainly made me think beyond my own assumptions, but through our entire conversation ran a vein of mutual recognition of the differences in our experiences, and a mutual respect for each other’s humanity — the good, the bad and the ugly of both men and women, and of individuals.

Is this what it’s like to be intellectually challenged by a woman, rather than morally judged? I don’t have enough experience of such a thing to know the answer to that…

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For me, I will never forget one particular July morning; the grey clouds that hovered over the ancient trees lining the street; the wind that blew swiftly through my blonde hair. It also spun about the chunky pieces on the lower half of my long hair, which I had dyed to be a multitude of fun colors. Today they were pink, purple, blue, and a turquoise green, but I have a habit of changing the colors frequently. My perfectly cut bangs stayed mostly unaffected by the wind except for a few squirrelly pieces.

My well-worn and once brightly colored (but now badly faded with dirt spackle) Converse high-top sneakers made a quick tapping noise on each step. I had just replaced the laces on them so at least they looked somewhat decent. My favorite high-waisted Levi’s dark denim skinny jeans—ripped in all the right places—made the swishing noise as I lifted my legs and my perfect flowy Lucky’s top that I wear far too often billowed around me. I rarely think this but I wish a photographer had taken my picture at that moment as the outfit and the background and I may have produced a cool-looking photo.

The house is big, old, and four stories high, made of wood with large framed-glass windows. Mostly the house is well kept, the white paint is slightly faded and cracking in a few places due to the hot and humid muggy weather in the summer. It’s still nice, though, and the picket fence around the house lends to its antiquated Southern look. Not quite as big or grand, but reminiscent of the O’Hara’s estate in Gone with the Wind.

I pushed my long, many-hued hair out of my way the best I could, as I threw my luggage into my car. A dark blue streak caught the light with a shimmer. I glanced at myself in the reflection of the car side mirror. People tell me I’m pretty all the time, beautiful even. I’m not sure I see what they see. I think I’m more of a cute, average-looking girl. I’m slender but I do not believe most would say skinny. Not “hot-girl skinny,” at least. I have long legs that are toned but I think my thighs are too large and I do not have a thigh gap. My arms are kinda flabby and while I do have an hourglass figure I have always felt my butt is a little too big and my face is a bit too round. Maybe people are just being nice. In a small town where everyone looks like they fell out of Mayberry, I think I look different. Maybe just the fact I stood out was what they were seeing. I know how the neighbors described me as sweet and kind, but rough around the edges. I’ve just always thought I was a determined free spirit and tough only when necessary.

trickybiscuits posted:

Women started to described themselves the way a [bad/average] male writer would.

kirbysuperstar posted:

https://twitter.com/GamerTakes/status/981304681459744769

SpacePig posted:

I wonder at what point Rock realized that this stuff was being interpreted as entirely unironic by white people and starting to be co-opted into their racist arguments. I know he's said he's regretted the bit from Bring the Pain, but I'd like to see a something of him talking about it.

chitoryu12 posted:

One of the worst descriptions of a female character that I ever read came from Handbook for Mortals, which is basically a self-insert fic so the author is trying to describe herself.

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Ularg posted:

starts tearing up

their green eyes started to change to a misty hue

wyoming posted:

"breasted boobily" is so good.

cash crab posted:

Holy gently caress, this is amazingly bad.

Katt posted:

Edgy 20 something me loved this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Back when Rodney King was the major police abuse case in recent memory. Back when police officers, beating a black man who was undeniably guilty of a crime, turned into a major civil rights case with international headlines and before the internet too.

Hindsight Jesus. Today police officers murder innocent black people left and right on camera and nothing happens. They do it with the support of half the nation and lukewarm condemnation by the other half.

Ularg posted:

Why not fill out details organically as they come up? Like if a character starts tearing up you can say that their green eyes started to change to a misty hue. Is it really necessary to do a character profile dump within the first page of meeting a character? May as well print a D&D character sheet on the page before the chapter that introduces them.

sneakyfrog posted:

breasted boobily is the loving best username i have ever heard.

Somfin posted:

Basically if it isn't story-necessary, it's just not useful and including it is forcing a weirdly visual idea of your story on the reader. You're writing, not directing a film. Is a character having pale skin story- or theme-necessary? No? Then why not let the reader fill in the skin tones?

Weatherman posted:

I think there's a purple prose thread in CC you can post this in, dude.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Mods change my name to "sjw plauge"

Sexual Aluminum posted:

Did you ever hear the tragedy of SJW Plageous the diverse?

trickybiscuits posted:

Women started to described themselves the way a [bad/average] male writer would.

Midnight Voyager posted:

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Picnic Princess posted:

"Strict gun laws" lmao

Memento posted:

Oh poo poo I didn't realise the attack on the YouTube headquarters happened somewhere other than the USA.