Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Muse: How (Not) To Be Incredibly Racist…, in reply to Aquila G,
and a suggestion that they might change the cover for future shipments
Yeah, that’s the bit that went under my whelm. So, let's see if I've got this right. Anchor Bay might - please note, might -- change the racist and sexist cover art to something a little less racist and sexist as long as people buy all the offending units they've already shipped?
M'kay... perhaps I'm really cynical, but I'm not feeling the sincerity and commitment here.
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Muse: How (Not) To Be Incredibly Racist…, in reply to Danielle,
Yeah Craig, how dare you use your platform as a blogger about the arts to, like, blog about the arts? I am SHOCKED.
I believe Russell has retired to the fainting couch at getting not only more than one post in a calendar year, but two with less than a month separating them. Don't fuck with my roll, people.
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Muse: How (Not) To Be Incredibly Racist…, in reply to Che Tibby,
but all ur monies were mine :(
You're not missing out on anything. At the moment, I'm being quite literal in the strictest sense of the word.
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Muse: How (Not) To Be Incredibly Racist…, in reply to Che Tibby,
Call off the dogs of law, I've added this to the post:
ETA: Because credit is cool as the outgoing Doctor Who's bowties, many thanks and hat-tips to Che Tibby (@Che_Tibby), Dan Slevin (@danslevin), Chris Philpott (@s) and Moata Tamaira (@MoataTamaira) for much stimulating Twitter dialogue and pointers. The opinions expressed below are my own, but they're damn fine folks to refine my views on.
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The most famous person in an ensemble always gets the cover. Anyone who doesnt like it can go cry into their ipad.
You know why I’m going to call bullshit on that? Here’s the box art from the DVD release in the UK, where I’d respectfully suggest O’Dowd is a much bigger name than in the US. Notice the difference?
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Excuse me, pardon... shoving to the front of the line here...
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Russell Brown,
It’ll have to be very clear and focused on threat rather than language. I don’t think distant third-parties parsing abusive language is necessarily going to work out well.
I take your point, Russell and it's a fair one. OTOH, telling someone on Twitter they're an uptight cunt who deserves to go get raped? Well, the "threat" might be pretty abstract, but I don't think it required Talmudic scholarship to say "yeah, nah, you're not doing that here, boyo."
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
But would terminating the abuser’s account have any effect – if people are that nasty, won’t they just recreate another one, and use an untraceable IP to boot?
That strikes me as putting the emphasis on the wrong end of the transaction. How about putting the weight on the abused not being subject to threats of physical assault, rape and being harassed with hardcore pornography right fucking now. And believe it or not, not every misog-troll is some techno-wizard. They're sad little gits who shit on uppity women because they can, because they're never had to face any cost or consequences.
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Lilith __,
PS I did receive one threat myself, and I found the old reporting system incredibly complicated and difficult to navigate, especially while stressed.
And when that's precisely what misogynist trolls are depending on (and they do), it's not good enough for Twitter (and Facebook and ISPs) to say "it's just too hard". I'd argue it's prettu damn close to IRL when women don't report being raped or abused by their partners because the thought of being re-traumatized and slut-shamed over and over again is just too horrible to face.
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