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inulroI really thought I'd become much mellower and less of an intellectual and moral snob in my old age.
I watch TV. I read thrillers. I listen to all kinds of music I didn't in my youth, try to live and let live, and find it really hard to do the Righteous Indignation thing these days.
So it's kind of a relief to find that some things still move me to apoplectic rage. Namely that new group, goth_macros. I'm not even linking to it, given that I know some people have already found some triggering images on there. Making fun of domestic violence? Not OK. ugly people? Not OK. skinny chicks[1]? not OK. Homophobic content? sooooo not OK.
"It's all a joke, get a sense of humour". Some of you, notably![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miss_soap and hirez (and others; apologies for not remembering who) have written recently, far more eloquently than I could, about how this just doesn't wash.
And there's the other end of the spectrum: "Look, we can laugh at ourselves, that makes us OK". What-the-fuck-EVER. Personally I've never given a shit whether people think I, or goths as a group, take ourselves too seriously. Because seriously, if I cared what the rest of the world thinks, would I ever have had pink hair? I'm OK with who I am, I think my friends are great, so take the self-loathing out of my face. Actually, self-loathing is one thing. Public self-loathing that assumes all goths feel the same way about themselves is shit we don't need.
I know that offensive can be funny - hell, I *heart* South Park. However, it appears that some people can't tell the difference between funny and just plain small-minded and mean.
Just when I thought I was losing my standards of intellectual rigour, the whole macros phenomenon with its txtspeak and appalling grammar came along, and I realised I still do care, lots, about proper use of language.
[1] there's a whole new post brewing on this one, and has been for a while.
I watch TV. I read thrillers. I listen to all kinds of music I didn't in my youth, try to live and let live, and find it really hard to do the Righteous Indignation thing these days.
So it's kind of a relief to find that some things still move me to apoplectic rage. Namely that new group, goth_macros. I'm not even linking to it, given that I know some people have already found some triggering images on there. Making fun of domestic violence? Not OK. ugly people? Not OK. skinny chicks[1]? not OK. Homophobic content? sooooo not OK.
"It's all a joke, get a sense of humour". Some of you, notably
miss_soap and hirez (and others; apologies for not remembering who) have written recently, far more eloquently than I could, about how this just doesn't wash. And there's the other end of the spectrum: "Look, we can laugh at ourselves, that makes us OK". What-the-fuck-EVER. Personally I've never given a shit whether people think I, or goths as a group, take ourselves too seriously. Because seriously, if I cared what the rest of the world thinks, would I ever have had pink hair? I'm OK with who I am, I think my friends are great, so take the self-loathing out of my face. Actually, self-loathing is one thing. Public self-loathing that assumes all goths feel the same way about themselves is shit we don't need.
I know that offensive can be funny - hell, I *heart* South Park. However, it appears that some people can't tell the difference between funny and just plain small-minded and mean.
Just when I thought I was losing my standards of intellectual rigour, the whole macros phenomenon with its txtspeak and appalling grammar came along, and I realised I still do care, lots, about proper use of language.
[1] there's a whole new post brewing on this one, and has been for a while.
