So, to all the sarcasm and comedy void thinly veiled moral crusaders on here... will it be OK if I drop names and/or posts relating to content from people like, say, Jimmy Carr and George Carlin on my social networks? Both people who's careers are basically built on the idea of joking about some of mankind's worst built-in tendencies... they make the FHM jokes look like compliments and surely promoting their material means I accept and (this is important) ACT OUT on the things they joke about?
Hell, if we're really THAT serious about our rape/violence epidemic we should immediately confiscate and destroy all public accessible media that's related to joking about these and other serious issues.
It's hard to come to terms with the idea that there's so many lilly bellied losers out there who actually believe that mere words should be physically acted upon with such vitriol stemming from a supposed "moral compass" that's so weak at the knees it can barely lick the arsehole of these "companies" whose "image" we're supposed to protect.
So to FHM, I've never really cared about reading any of your stuff but just remember that this thing goes both ways.
You might have given the self indulgent and misdirected morality dipped ****ers a reason to STFU (for a little while at least) until the next person dares post something that loosely relates to a controversial issue they -who lose their crap over it- do f-all about anyway.
The rest of us out there who doesn't give a crap about mind-policing will now know that if you ever had any credibility as a thought provoking, controversial and cutting edge magazine, well, it's all been flushed down the drain now.... and as we all know, "they all float down there"
So where does this thing leave us now?
1. We're still exactly where we were regarding the issues in this country concernding rape etc.
2. We've got two new jobless people out there, and they'll probably stay that way given how this ridiculous outburst has tainted them.
3. We've collectively shown that it's OK for "companies" to subjectively decide whether our personal conduct (actually, not even conduct, just WORDS), whether it be public, semi-public or hell, leaked from our private lives are too "tainty" for their image... and that it's all just dandy, I mean that over used meaningless ****ing word "disrepute" sums it all up perfectly now, doesn't it?
4. We've collectively shown that mere words (I'm not even getting into the sarcasm/joke part) in a social context from people who have zero political power are in fact approaching the seriousness of the actual action associated with it.
But hey, this is OK right?!?
I mean, the 'Muricans are doing it and when so many people feel so strong about something we should just roll with it?! :erm:
So congratulations everyone *clap* *clap* *clap*.... just remember, next time Zapiro or someone uses rape or violence or whatever in a joke in the public space we should all lose our **** again, or, is that OK because sarcasm, "bad taste" jokes or satire should only be left to the professionals for now, and when they finally die we should ban it all together? Hopefully then these poor beloved companies and economic entities won't die of public interest starvation as people bore their politically correct little lives to death.
Foeitog.
