Forum - View topicHey, Answerman! [2010-06-05]
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penguintruth
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Did you just equate homosexuals with rapists? |
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enurtsol
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It's not just women, but when men hyperbolize rape, it's meant more towards the prison-shower-dropped-soap type. 
(What proportion of males get sexually assaulted anyways?) |
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Tamaria
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Yeah, it's perfectly natural when a drunk driver hits and kills two young children. It may not have happened to you or someone you know, but it happens, it's horrible and it shouldn't prevent us from using 'death' or even 'murder' in other, not nearly as horrible contexts. |
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ikillchicken
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What?! Hell no. Where did you get that from? Obviously the two are not comparable. In fact, That's precisely my point. Trying to equate using the word 'gay' to using the word 'rape' is completely ridiculous. Calling stuff 'gay' as an insult is offensive to homosexuals because it inaccurately implies that being gay is a bad thing. Obviously though, being raped or being a rapist is a very bad thing. I see no problem using the term 'rape' to mean something bad. Rape should mean something bad because that's exactly what it is. Hence the comparison makes no sense. |
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PetrifiedJello
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Oh, you mean this word which once meant happy? Imagine, for a second, how all those people felt when they found out their thesaurus was abruptly abused to include homosexuality as a definition. I'm siding with the folks here who feel a chill pill is needed, especially when arguments like this are being made which completely ruins the credibility of finding us at fault for not using a thesaurus accurately. |
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Greed1914
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That's exactly what I was thinking. The best way to get the prices to come down is for people to not buy if they think the price is too high. While it sucks for consumers, people are allowed to sell products for as much as they want as long as somone is willing to pay for it. If nobody buys, then the price will come down. The prices get ridiulously high because somebody will probably pay it eventually. And I wouldn't feel bad about holding out for a lower price since used items rarely contribute back to the original people that made it. That $100 for a used manga volume isn't going back to Japan or even the company that licensed it. |
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aereus
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I can relate to feeling out of touch at most conventions these days. The age range has skewed WAY down in the last 10 years or so. I'm 29 now, and when I went to my first convention in 1999, the average age was still probably around 20-22. Nowadays it's more like 16-17.
Also, girls make up a huge amount more of the fandom at conventions these days than before. I would have to say it's a solid 50/50 from what I've seen. I'm a pretty varied fan of anime though. I like a lot of the older titles from the 80s and 90s, as well as many current shows. As well as genres ranging from shoujo and slice of life, to some shonen action series. The disconnect for me mostly is just the silly emotional high you have in high school from doing things you only get to do like once a year, etc. that I'm not apart of anymore, and that the bulk of current fans haven't seen much beyond the last 5-7 years. I've heard people call Love Hina "Old" etc... In closing: SOME WAN WAN! 
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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Okay, this defense of using the term "rape" in a casual context is getting ridiculous.
The context: The questioner asks if s/he should "...bend over for Amazon?" Brian replies:
The use of the term "bend over" in both the question and the answer implies being taken advantage of, and presumably the individual asking the question was a man, so "bending over" and "taking it in the wallet" is hysterical! Totally in context! Nothing wrong with using a term that implies a violent sexual act if it's only a metaphor for loss of income! Ya see, since "rape" is not considered a term walled off by the politically correct Joke Police yet (y'know, those people that insist we stop using various racial slurs and perfectly viable four letter words in polite discourse), it's still funny and perfectly acceptable. Plus all who are offended by it are probably just oversensitive women or individuals who have been raped themselves. they have no right to speak out against the rest of us non-victims of sexual assault about the words we use! The audacity of people reacting publicly to being offended! 
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eyeresist
 Posts: 995 Location: a 320x240 resolution igloo (Sydney) |
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Don't worry. The End of Dubs will take care of that 
Don't worry, I think he was joking. |
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