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seriousficOnce again, Scans_Daily has proved it has the best moderators on the internet, except for all other moderators ever. I'm including the moderators of the Interracial Dolphin Lovers Society in that, as they do a very good job considering the controversy blowholing elicits.
Now if I may channel Dr. Strangelove for a moment... "Of course, the whole point of a discussion community is lost, if you don't allow discussion!" If members aren't allowed to feel certain ways about certain characters, (and no, don't say this is about how they express those feelings, these goalposts have been changed so much that sheer incompetence can no longer be a valid excuse for active malice), why don't these all-knowing, all-wise, all-singing, all-dancing mods simply inform the fawning masses of the latest developments in comics and then tell them how they should feel about it? Wouldn't that save so much time? Wouldn't that clear the goddamn air some?
It's important to understand, back in the day, if you wanted to talk about social justice in comics fandom, your only real options were Scans_Daily and Girl-Wonder.org (where people post articles justifying a character whose origin is being gang-raped until she's a badass). Now, of course, S_D provides a very different function: comic scans for people with crippling phobias about tumblr. Because at just about every other function it claims to attempt, it fails miserably (I say "just about" so as not to insult the tag system, which people worked very hard on).
But what has become of S_D? I was trying to think up a fresh metaphor to describe Scans_Daily to people who, let's face it, have better things to do than catch up on concentrated irrelevance. Then it hit me. I know who the mods are. They're Madam Umbridge. Not the Madam Umbridge from Harry Potter, mind you, I'm not making some hyperbolic Godwin's Law comparison to Nazis here (S_D mods lack the charm and fashion sense). No, the Madam Umbridge from A Very Potter Sequel.
"There are just some very simple rules here. No advocating violence against women... UNLESS THEY'RE CRIMINALS! No using gendered insults... UNLESS YOU'RE CALLING SOMEONE A DOUCHEBAG! But seriously girls, if I do catch you breaking any of the secret rules that only the cool kids know... I’ma rip your pretty little boobs off."
But I digress. Keep fighting the good fight, Scans_Daily, protecting us from the oppression of disabled lesbians and African-American gay men who would attempt to criticize the work of straight white men. Because that's what social justice means to me!
ETA: Of course, by S_D's own logic, me calling them Madam Umbridge means I want them to be raped by centaurs. Not true! I simply want them trapped in loveless centaur relationships. For the sake of their quarter-horse, half-human offspring. What's the final fourth, you ask? I gave science a ring for that very question and I still haven't heard back. I think I scared it. I scared science.
Now if I may channel Dr. Strangelove for a moment... "Of course, the whole point of a discussion community is lost, if you don't allow discussion!" If members aren't allowed to feel certain ways about certain characters, (and no, don't say this is about how they express those feelings, these goalposts have been changed so much that sheer incompetence can no longer be a valid excuse for active malice), why don't these all-knowing, all-wise, all-singing, all-dancing mods simply inform the fawning masses of the latest developments in comics and then tell them how they should feel about it? Wouldn't that save so much time? Wouldn't that clear the goddamn air some?
It's important to understand, back in the day, if you wanted to talk about social justice in comics fandom, your only real options were Scans_Daily and Girl-Wonder.org (where people post articles justifying a character whose origin is being gang-raped until she's a badass). Now, of course, S_D provides a very different function: comic scans for people with crippling phobias about tumblr. Because at just about every other function it claims to attempt, it fails miserably (I say "just about" so as not to insult the tag system, which people worked very hard on).
But what has become of S_D? I was trying to think up a fresh metaphor to describe Scans_Daily to people who, let's face it, have better things to do than catch up on concentrated irrelevance. Then it hit me. I know who the mods are. They're Madam Umbridge. Not the Madam Umbridge from Harry Potter, mind you, I'm not making some hyperbolic Godwin's Law comparison to Nazis here (S_D mods lack the charm and fashion sense). No, the Madam Umbridge from A Very Potter Sequel.
"There are just some very simple rules here. No advocating violence against women... UNLESS THEY'RE CRIMINALS! No using gendered insults... UNLESS YOU'RE CALLING SOMEONE A DOUCHEBAG! But seriously girls, if I do catch you breaking any of the secret rules that only the cool kids know... I’ma rip your pretty little boobs off."
But I digress. Keep fighting the good fight, Scans_Daily, protecting us from the oppression of disabled lesbians and African-American gay men who would attempt to criticize the work of straight white men. Because that's what social justice means to me!
ETA: Of course, by S_D's own logic, me calling them Madam Umbridge means I want them to be raped by centaurs. Not true! I simply want them trapped in loveless centaur relationships. For the sake of their quarter-horse, half-human offspring. What's the final fourth, you ask? I gave science a ring for that very question and I still haven't heard back. I think I scared it. I scared science.
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Re: * correction 2.0
Date: 2011-11-07 02:11 pm (UTC)I particularly like, BTW, how when the *actual hermaphrodite* showed up to shoot down Miss Bitchy's argument that "hermaphrodite is an evil term only used to dehumanize," she was *nowhere in sight* on that one. (Ironically, my father is transgendered, and I'd only heard the term "intersex" used once before, by a non-native speaker of English; how can one claim that it's the "standard, preferred term" when *nobody actually uses that term*?)
Oh, and also, her getting all offended that someone might use the term "dumb," which, last I knew, had last been used to refer to someone who's mute in "Pinball Wizard" back in the 60s, because it could be offensive to mutes... yet showing an official etymology of "jerk" that *specifically* refers to it possibly being derived from "jerking off," and not recognizing that it could be JUST as offensive to chronic masturbators! ;)
Re: * correction 2.0
Date: 2011-11-07 02:58 pm (UTC)My problem is less with good behavior than consistent modding. VodkaShakes was dismissing the opinions of others, quite rudely and profanely, but the second someone mocks her in a snarky fashion, koshka banhammers like a thunderbolt form Zeus.
In fact, as far as I can tell, they're not even particularly friends; neither is on the other's flist. Kosh is giving VS a pass just because she agrees with her. You can't honestly claim to be egalitarian, yet enforce double standards. You can't.
If I didn't need to lower my Raeg Meter to get homework done, I'd link to that one feminist blog I found that said if a woman accuses a man of sexism falsely, she needs to make him reach out to her to understand why she made the accusation, and how it's nothing compared to what women go through every day and only "feels" representative to the guy in question. That's arguably true, but a) it's mealy-mouthed blame-dodging victim-blaming nonsense, and b)it doesn't mention the possibility of apologizing or even admitting error.