Brains! Falling from the sky!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Time for the monthly brainstorming post, wooo!!!

OCD is coming up!

Not dirty.

Comments

Re: Specific ideas

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I understand that but I think this is the wrong forum for it.

Re: Specific ideas

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

That may be, but it's the wrong forum for that joke then, too.

Re: Specific ideas

[bitten_notshy]

I respectfully disagree. He made the statement in public; it's reasonable to take issue with it in public. We all understand he meant it as a joke (most likely), but there's still a lot of baggage in jokes like that.

Re: Specific ideas

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Yeah and if anyone else had made the joke, I doubt anything would have been said.

Re: Specific ideas

[bitten_notshy]

I hope we'd have the courage to stand up to whoever said it.

But no, this isn't the first time he's said something many people in the game would, reasonably, find offensive. I ... really don't think the problem is on our end.

Re: Specific ideas

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

That's an assumption you're free to make, but I honestly wouldn't leave a statement like that unchallenged regardless of who said it. Ignorance is ignorance, and like I said, no one was jumping on him so much as explaining why the joke was inappropriate.

Re: Specific ideas

[icecoldfrost]

Actually, for the record, I get along really well with the player, and I like him a lot. Which is why I was comfortable enough to say it in the first place. Anyone else, I probably would have IMed a dozen people first to ask if I was reading it right.

I am much more comfortable calling out my friends than complete strangers.

Re: Specific ideas

[thatsamilkshake]

I would have said something no matter who made the joke. I was just busy obsessively counting up characters to prove to myself that it was wrong as well as unfunny, and other people got there before me.

No one's deliberately picking on the player. I was around when that was an issue, and I think you remember my opinion on that at the time. That's not what's happening here.

That said, could we all please take a breath? I think the point's been well and truly explored.

Re: Specific ideas

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

This forum is where the joke was made -- letting it stand unchallenged implies tacit agreement with its (however unintended) bigotry.