I, Takeru ([info]boixboi) wrote,
@ 2008-08-15 08:04:00
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Current mood: busy

Olympics redux
So, I am annoyed by two things at the moment. One of them I touched on yesterday in a post, but I didn't have time to elaborate and people didn't seem to understand, so I will explain my "racism" comment. It is at best laughable that an image-obsessed nation of ugly fatties (such as myself) is crying foul because China admitted to using a lip synching cute little girl instead of the actual singer. As if Americans would have gone ga-ga over some ugly ragamuffin with a good voice. Had this happened in the US, we wouldn't have even found out about it for fifteen years. And don't even get me started on the "Chinese gymnasts look young, so they must all be underage and China must be cheating" thing. These two are hardly the only bits of crazy racist bullshit regarding the olympic coverage, but they're getting a lot more attention, and...yeah.

Next, we have the meme issue. The meme is bothersome, but the fact that so many people are taking this chance to say we're all bad people and furries are nothing but giant whores with no morals, no life, no maturity, etc., is what is really driving me up the wall. Casey/Tailsy put it much better than I can in his entry, in which he said in part, 'I don't think that this meme is a solicitation for sex, so let's clear that up, but even if it were, responsible adults can and do often have many sexual partners in a responsible way, and even if you don't, the responsible thing to do is to let people live their own lives.'

Life is good, but I don't want to talk about it right now. Now, I have to get to work.




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[info]redcardlion
2008-08-15 01:13 pm UTC (link)
I'm not saying we're bad people for that meme. What I'm saying in MY journal is that I find it childish and immature. I think it's somewhat of a distraction. Yes, I care about a lot of people. Yes, I want to have sex with a lot of people. But , call me old fashion, but I'd rather they not know about it in this forthright manner. I'd rather get to know them as someone I consider a friend, and not just come right out and say "Yes, I want to fuck you, him, him , maybe him, definitely him, her , him, his dog, and her."

It's not , in my opinion, that I think furries have no morals. It's that sex is a commodity in Furry, and I've seen sex used as a weapon here like no other group. This just seems a bit too forward of a meme for my caring, and seems more for the myspace / highschool set.

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[info]boixboi
2008-08-15 10:45 pm UTC (link)
I disagree with you about it being used as a 'commodity' and a 'weapon' and these sorts of characterizations are exactly what I'm talking about in my post, as well as this sort of classification of the meme as childish/immature. Not the first time I disagree with you, nor will it be the last.

*hugs* Love ya anyway.

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[info]alfador_fox
2008-08-15 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Underage gymnasts is cheating? Since when? I didn't know there was an age requirement to participate in the Olympics, I thought it was just a "soft cap" where if you hadn't spent a very long time in training, you wouldn't make the cut in the first place.

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[info]boixboi
2008-08-15 10:39 pm UTC (link)
Actually, this has been the case for quite a while. Sixteen is the current age limit for olympic competition in gymnastics.

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[info]alfador_fox
2008-08-15 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Well now I know. Thank you!!

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