FuzzySkinner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-MUhMm7lM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o10xcWo2k04

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

I do not think that was a joke. I think she was genuinely afraid she would be called out by others for transphobia, and took measures to protect herself.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

So far I've seen celebrities, goons, every news site, thousands of verified twitter randos, and the dictionary take turns swinging at all these frothing mad misogynist nerds angry about the female Dr. Who, but... aside from 5 or 6 twitter trolls (two of which had their tweet deleted faster than I could view the replies) and this guy, I haven't actually seen any of these frothing mad misogynist nerds angry about the female Dr. Who.

I'm starting to think that the massive horde of sexist Dr. Who fanboy geeks that all these people are swinging at isn't actually real and they're all just posturing (and, ironically, working to further enrich a company of sex criminals in the process)

mrmcd posted:

What if I wanna gently caress an avocado but not in a gay way?

The Kingfish posted:

It can be pronounced it just requires a glottal stop. Which Spanish speakers don't use as far as I know.

Milky Moor posted:

it's because it is a fad, for a certain definition of it. the people who make the money have realised that there's an untapped market that is happy to conflate consuming media with being progressive. for example, that new ghostbusters movie article that says you should buy everything to support it.

the problem is, because it is a profit-driven exercise, the moment profits fall behind what is expected -- or word of mouth is that the product is bad, preachy, whatever -- they'll inevitably switch back the previous model.

this is somewhat related to what taintrunner said about how there is always this strange marketing push to 'fight' the 'internet trolls'. the culture war narrative sold by both sides of the political spectrum is just the newest, and probably most effective, way of getting money from people for a product. it is also probably the most insidious because it is teaching people that it is perfectly fine to have your identity marketed providing that you think the person doing it is Good. sort of like how big companies started pushing back against the idea that there is no such thing as gender because it is harder to market products to Every Single Human than it is to Boys And Girls.

it's just capitalism defending itself, and there's a ton of people who don't see the problem of capitalism defending itself in a cloak of idpol, packaging how people choose to express themselves into happy little soundbytes and 'badass' hot takes

Whorelord posted:

he's also a ladies man which is pretty much unheard of for portrayals of asian people

WampaLord posted:

Extra Credits is the most puerile thing I've ever seen. They claim to be educational, informative, and entertaining and they never reach the goal of even being one of those things.

"Let's describe a concept, then show you a couple basic examples of that concept. Let's ask a bunch of questions that might have interesting answers if we actually wanted to dive into this concept beyond a surface level. Aren't those neat sounding questions? Sure would be great if we had answers for them! See ya next week!"

All while speeding up the main dude's voice because...I really don't know why.

Hodgepodge posted:

just gonna yell hate speech at a queer filmmaker trying to speak, very woke here

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

they're part seal, part puppy, part bird, part guinea pig. they're scientifically designed by committee to be as cute as possible so more nerds will throw away their money on funcopops, and kids will demand happy meals with porg toys

zeal posted:

doesn't CineD mosty think zack snyder is a good director tho

apokaladle posted:

It's a little hard to describe. Sometimes you'll see white people online very specifically using gifs of black people that are perceived as especially sassy or otherwise heightened emotionally, in contexts where it lends them a certain legitimacy. It's nothing to do with some claim that only black people can post gifs of black people, before someone decides to post that.

It's not uncommon among white Twitter liberals when attacking leftists, especially when claiming to be more inclusive and less discriminatory, and is actually a pretty decent example of the thread topic. Kneejerk mockery of the very concept because someone's decided it sounds ridiculous, on the other hand, isn't the best look.

Oh Snapple! posted:

chelsea is hated because people on both sides of the aisle have a deep, burning hatred for whistleblowers and want them dead.

you see it with snowden as well.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Inkjet Propulsion Lab

mastershakeman posted:

get that OUT of my face posted:

the only good promoted tweet was the one that urged people to delete system32, which a few select idiots did