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goiflin
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada1218 Posts
April 11 2011 14:06 GMT
#101
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.
mathemagician1986
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany549 Posts
April 11 2011 14:33 GMT
#102
you had me waiting so loooooooooooooooong!!!!!1

thanks man, I always love your blogs!
huameng
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1133 Posts
April 11 2011 14:34 GMT
#103
On April 11 2011 23:06 goiflin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.


This argument doesn't make any sense. Literally anything could offend. Instead, we should be removing things that actually offend; I think we'll have a hard enough time with that. And certainly there are more people offended by the word "rape" on this forum than the word "own", (as demonstrated by this thread and the previous thread on the use of "rape") and we should start by removing the more offensive features of our society before moving on to the lesser ones, right?

Also when rape is used on the internet as in video game culture, there's no reason to assume it's referring to a man raping a woman. I'd bet it's about a man raping another man. I don't have any real reason to believe that except when a man tells another man he's going to rape you, it seems weird to assume he'd mean it in any other way.
skating
fnaticNoname
Profile Joined January 2008
India858 Posts
April 11 2011 15:07 GMT
#104
I don't normally like reading blogs but yours are always a great read. Thanks!
potatoedoughnut
Profile Joined July 2008
United States334 Posts
April 11 2011 17:53 GMT
#105
I put "ESPORTS" into fuckyeahnouns.com and it broke

Eagles may soar, but weasels do not get sucked into jet engines.
Breadloaf
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States15 Posts
April 11 2011 17:56 GMT
#106
Thanks for another great read + music, JWD. These always basically make my day when they go up.
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
April 11 2011 18:27 GMT
#107
Ah I know what I've been missing now.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
Aberu
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States968 Posts
April 11 2011 18:36 GMT
#108
On April 11 2011 23:34 huameng wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 11 2011 23:06 goiflin wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.


This argument doesn't make any sense. Literally anything could offend. Instead, we should be removing things that actually offend; I think we'll have a hard enough time with that. And certainly there are more people offended by the word "rape" on this forum than the word "own", (as demonstrated by this thread and the previous thread on the use of "rape") and we should start by removing the more offensive features of our society before moving on to the lesser ones, right?

Also when rape is used on the internet as in video game culture, there's no reason to assume it's referring to a man raping a woman. I'd bet it's about a man raping another man. I don't have any real reason to believe that except when a man tells another man he's going to rape you, it seems weird to assume he'd mean it in any other way.


The argument is a counter-appeal to ridicule, showing that him ridiculing that idea, is ridiculous in itself.

I personally don't use the word rape in this way, because I do feel like it may offend someone, but I don't want to push my judgements on other people, since I can't accurately say that they mean it in a mysoginistic way.
srsly
huameng
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1133 Posts
April 11 2011 18:45 GMT
#109
On April 12 2011 03:36 Aberu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 11 2011 23:34 huameng wrote:
On April 11 2011 23:06 goiflin wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.


This argument doesn't make any sense. Literally anything could offend. Instead, we should be removing things that actually offend; I think we'll have a hard enough time with that. And certainly there are more people offended by the word "rape" on this forum than the word "own", (as demonstrated by this thread and the previous thread on the use of "rape") and we should start by removing the more offensive features of our society before moving on to the lesser ones, right?

Also when rape is used on the internet as in video game culture, there's no reason to assume it's referring to a man raping a woman. I'd bet it's about a man raping another man. I don't have any real reason to believe that except when a man tells another man he's going to rape you, it seems weird to assume he'd mean it in any other way.


The argument is a counter-appeal to ridicule, showing that him ridiculing that idea, is ridiculous in itself.

I personally don't use the word rape in this way, because I do feel like it may offend someone, but I don't want to push my judgements on other people, since I can't accurately say that they mean it in a mysoginistic way.


There is a difference between the argument "people are being offended by this, so you should stop saying it" and "people could be offended by this, so you should stop saying it" JWD is making the former argument, with regard to "rape", and the appeal to absurdity wrt "own" was of the form of the latter, so JWD's ridicule is not ridiculous. Well, it might be, but it being ridiculous doesn't mean the argument against "rape" is.
skating
Aberu
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States968 Posts
April 11 2011 19:12 GMT
#110
On April 12 2011 03:45 huameng wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2011 03:36 Aberu wrote:
On April 11 2011 23:34 huameng wrote:
On April 11 2011 23:06 goiflin wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.


This argument doesn't make any sense. Literally anything could offend. Instead, we should be removing things that actually offend; I think we'll have a hard enough time with that. And certainly there are more people offended by the word "rape" on this forum than the word "own", (as demonstrated by this thread and the previous thread on the use of "rape") and we should start by removing the more offensive features of our society before moving on to the lesser ones, right?

Also when rape is used on the internet as in video game culture, there's no reason to assume it's referring to a man raping a woman. I'd bet it's about a man raping another man. I don't have any real reason to believe that except when a man tells another man he's going to rape you, it seems weird to assume he'd mean it in any other way.


The argument is a counter-appeal to ridicule, showing that him ridiculing that idea, is ridiculous in itself.

I personally don't use the word rape in this way, because I do feel like it may offend someone, but I don't want to push my judgements on other people, since I can't accurately say that they mean it in a mysoginistic way.


There is a difference between the argument "people are being offended by this, so you should stop saying it" and "people could be offended by this, so you should stop saying it" JWD is making the former argument, with regard to "rape", and the appeal to absurdity wrt "own" was of the form of the latter, so JWD's ridicule is not ridiculous. Well, it might be, but it being ridiculous doesn't mean the argument against "rape" is.


The point is that JWD may influence some about the word, and that's good, but the name-calling, the obvious attempt to say that he isn't part of the problem that keeps women out of Teamliquid, and yet he is. There are just so many things wrong with him posting publicly about this, decrying so many people. He even posted an argument that he sorely lost against one of the "insensitively lazy" people. He basically said he had a right to be condescending, which is wrong, and he did say some presumptuous things about the person in question. Just the overall attitude, is bad. I feel by exposing the logical fallacies in his debate tactics, and his hypocritical actions (due to past postings of very potentially offensive videos and pictures), maybe he will settle down on the self-righteousness a bit.
srsly
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
April 11 2011 20:25 GMT
#111
Some of those Kate Upton shots were on mytasteinwomen. I can't decide if it's good or bad that I recognize them ^_^

Always interesting stuff to find in your blogs though
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
April 11 2011 20:41 GMT
#112
Very nice blog, always looking forward to seeing your next one. Frida Gustavsson is not of this world (btw, she's just saying where she bought her clothes/what brand they are). One thing though: Please don't wear a tie to a button-down shirt, it's utterly pedestrian.
Adams Æbler
redFF
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3910 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-11 22:08:08
April 11 2011 21:40 GMT
#113
Good blog as always.
DyEnasTy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3714 Posts
April 11 2011 21:41 GMT
#114
Good blog. I think the point about the women in Starcraft was awesome.
Much better to die an awesome Terran than to live as a magic wielding fairy or a mindless sac of biological goop. -Manifesto7
Glaven
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada554 Posts
April 11 2011 23:15 GMT
#115
Posting here so I can refer to suit guide later.
Special Tactics
LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
April 12 2011 01:02 GMT
#116
That Kate Upton video is cute.
Bwenjarin Raffrack
Profile Joined November 2008
United States322 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-12 01:39:52
April 12 2011 01:38 GMT
#117
On April 11 2011 23:06 goiflin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 11 2011 13:32 JWD wrote:
On April 11 2011 13:24 -yoda wrote:
you should take off "own" as well from that list if your so bent on removing words on the internet that target a selective crowd.

yeah and demolish should go too. for the construction workers!


You joke, but "owning" someone does relate to slavery. If you think rape should go, anything that could offend should go too.


Except here the etymology of the slang "owning" is that of hackers taking possession or control of someone's computer, which was very close to that of the traditional meaning of ownership. It gradually morphed from the hacker slang usages, such as writing "Owned" on a hacked and defaced website, into what is now its common slang usage in gaming and so on as a taunt for humiliation.

The etymology of "rape" though would be exactly that of a fourteen year old internet thug trying to find a word to describe the greatness of that last headshot he landed on you, and the only parallel he can draw to your powerlessness is to that of brutal prison sodomy.

And no, "rape" as gamer slang isn't entirely or harmlessly divorced from its meaning. You'll frequently see it in live reports or comments on other websites. "Oh man, he just got bent over and raped" or "He just had his way with him" and worse. The parallel to physical rape is almost always present.
I'm not as thunk as dreople pink I am.
duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
April 12 2011 02:52 GMT
#118
I'm a big JWD fan but calling the bro culture of TL terrible and publicizing his effort against it in the middle of a post full of porn is very ???
funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
LanTAs
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1091 Posts
April 12 2011 04:42 GMT
#119
LOL MY KATAMARI DAMACY BALL GOT SO BIG IT PICKED UP PICUTRES!!

nice post JWD! looking foward to more!
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
April 12 2011 11:25 GMT
#120
Nice...
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