It's Only Words...*
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msgenevieve? How do you like my new icon? *eg* Stolen from hp_speculations.
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So. One more swastika wank. Funny how my brain *always* associates the swastika with the Hindu swastika first (it's *everywhere* around me. people have swastikas on their front doors, even. i knew a girl by that name. she was annoying.) - and *then* I go, "Wait, wait, it's on the wrong side - that's the *bad* swastika, stupid!" I don't know much of the history (and am too lazy to look up right now), but whoever picked the symbol must've had one twisted sense of humour.
This wank finally prompted me to make a post about something I've been thinking about for a while now - that line between dark humour and being offensive. I mostly started thinking about it due to a RL incident. There's this comic called You Said It that comes out everyday on the newspaper. It features The Common Man (this is the only link I could find. not Laxman's best, but accurate. see the funny little man in the audience with a frizzy moustache, bald head, and glasses? that's the Common Man. he never speaks, just observes the people around him, although his wife is known for her sarcasm *g*), who silently observes the insanity that goes around him everyday in all spheres of life, from politics to sports. It's known for its dark humour and spot-on sarcasm - mostly good, sometimes very funny, occasionally dull, and at times just plain fabulous. A recent issue had someone telling the Common Man, "If this tsunami had gone to Iraq, it would have saved a lot of trouble for George Bush". Many readers found this in poor taste, while others saw nothing wrong with it, and there was much argument, a lot like the one going on in Fandom Wank. I hadn't paid much attention to it, mostly because it hadn't struck me as outstandingly funny (unlike some others, which I will remember forever), but I didn't find it particularly offensive either. And now I'm wondering if I was being insensitive. It's a very thin line, isn't it?
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Also, stories you must read:Grim bycruisedirector. Trelawney, gen. Finally, *someone* who understands her and treats her with respect! This is a lovely, lovely story, just the right combination of the Trelawney-mistyness and pathos and darkness and lost opportunities.
A Bree-fic forjaybee65, written by jennyo, whose fics you've already read. I didn't read - seeing that my knowledge of the show is close to zero - but thought you might want to know. She writes good stuff.
*Song stuck in my head. Mmmm, Ronan Keating...
msgenevieve? How do you like my new icon? *eg* Stolen from hp_speculations. *
So. One more swastika wank. Funny how my brain *always* associates the swastika with the Hindu swastika first (it's *everywhere* around me. people have swastikas on their front doors, even. i knew a girl by that name. she was annoying.) - and *then* I go, "Wait, wait, it's on the wrong side - that's the *bad* swastika, stupid!" I don't know much of the history (and am too lazy to look up right now), but whoever picked the symbol must've had one twisted sense of humour.
This wank finally prompted me to make a post about something I've been thinking about for a while now - that line between dark humour and being offensive. I mostly started thinking about it due to a RL incident. There's this comic called You Said It that comes out everyday on the newspaper. It features The Common Man (this is the only link I could find. not Laxman's best, but accurate. see the funny little man in the audience with a frizzy moustache, bald head, and glasses? that's the Common Man. he never speaks, just observes the people around him, although his wife is known for her sarcasm *g*), who silently observes the insanity that goes around him everyday in all spheres of life, from politics to sports. It's known for its dark humour and spot-on sarcasm - mostly good, sometimes very funny, occasionally dull, and at times just plain fabulous. A recent issue had someone telling the Common Man, "If this tsunami had gone to Iraq, it would have saved a lot of trouble for George Bush". Many readers found this in poor taste, while others saw nothing wrong with it, and there was much argument, a lot like the one going on in Fandom Wank. I hadn't paid much attention to it, mostly because it hadn't struck me as outstandingly funny (unlike some others, which I will remember forever), but I didn't find it particularly offensive either. And now I'm wondering if I was being insensitive. It's a very thin line, isn't it?
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Also, stories you must read:Grim by
cruisedirector. Trelawney, gen. Finally, *someone* who understands her and treats her with respect! This is a lovely, lovely story, just the right combination of the Trelawney-mistyness and pathos and darkness and lost opportunities. A Bree-fic for
jaybee65, written by jennyo, whose fics you've already read. I didn't read - seeing that my knowledge of the show is close to zero - but thought you might want to know. She writes good stuff.*Song stuck in my head. Mmmm, Ronan Keating...
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:32 pm (UTC)But of course! *preens*
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