Durakken
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I'm more concerned that people think there is an "anime" style and that it somehow take precedence over Disney which inspired a lot of Anime creators' styles >.> I hate that people think that it's a bad thing to draw on one style more so than another or that one style becomes more popular for a time. The current styles are merges of the various styles, both eastern and western, that are most attractive to people.
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This is against the rules.
The 2012 nonsense is a religious belief and as it is, it is not allowed to be talked about and this thread should be moderated... -
Quote:I'm pretty sure that was at the end of the video >.> Just saying...Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
She still needs to add some polish into her work, but I simply couldn't get past Douchey McNitpick. Just..um...how much were they drinking when that character got made and decided it was a good thing to put into a video? Seriously, I had to stop the video after the character came on and started talking. I think the point of putting up a review is making sure people get to the actual end of the review. -
There are no such characters as Sasha Bordeaux and Manhunter.
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Quote:Yes and No...Originally Posted by Inazuma
This show is based on a comic?
It's based on a comic that was really popular and fun, but then got killed during a change of management at DC.
The team was
Robin III
Superboy
Impulse
Wonder Girl
Arrowette
Secret
Arrowette then quit the team, but still played a major role in the comic.
The team took a break, but 6 others took their place, temporarily, and thos characters were never metioned as part of the team again.
Empress and Slo-bo were then added to the team.
They were then disbanded and then "reformed" as the newest Teen Titans team, and largely ignored almost everything that happened in the YJ comic.
That is Young Justice and it all takes place on New Earth...
However this tv show takes place on Earth 16 and is more a Teen Titans series cashing in on the love of the Young Justice name. -
Quote:Because following the comic would be a bad thing >.>Originally Posted by Inazuma
Considering I missed the premiere a few months ago, I was happy to get the chance to catch this two-part opening over the last week.
So far, I like it.
Though how they dumped Martian Manhunter Girl into the team at the end was kind of weird. -
Quote:No...Originally Posted by Samothrake
Well the 'western' calendar at one time consisted of 13 months, each of 28 days (matching the moon phases) and with a whole week of holidays at the beginning/end. That is likely where the 13 zodiacal symbols came from.
If my memory serves right it wasn't until the invention of the Julian calendar that we went with the 12 months with varying number of days. And why if February the only month with only 28 (sometimes 29) days?! -
Quote:You missed what I said or recognized it and tried to act like your answering it. I didn't say **** was trivialized. I pointed out that it is far worse for the men who do experience it, because it is made worse by that sexist factor against men of western culture.
2) **** is ****, regardless of the victim's gender. It's the sort of trauma that needs to be dealt with on an individual level. Resources exist for individuals who have been victimized, in various different forms. The shaming of victims of **** is reprehensible, regardless of gender. No professional who helps victims will trivialize ****, regardless of gender.
actually the number of women ***** in america according to the stats is 71/100,000 american women will be ***** which doesn't match up to the 90+ percent that is claimed elsewhere because elsewhere in the same source it is sated that 3% of all american men which equated to roughly 2.7 million men while the women number equates to roughly 106,500 women...which includes children...while the male number doesn't.Quote:It may be more difficult for men to locate aid, but that's a matter of statistics. 91% of **** victims are female, and 99% of attackers are male. That does not mean that there are not resources for male victims, just that they are not as widely available, because of the relative rarity compared to female victims. If there are 10 support groups for women compared to 1 for men, that is not sexism, that's demography in action.
Here's one for you, Dur - one in six women will experience an assault in their lifetime. Only 16% will ever be reported. And only a quarter of assaults are by strangers. Most are by someone a woman knows. And women are ten times more likely to be a victim than a man. Those aren't hypotheticals, those are statistics from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.
so yeah the statistics for that are all messed up.
I didn't say it made you sexist. Believing that women are the primary victim indicates to me you don't look for things beyond what is presented to you. Women will always be presented as the victim over any number of men, even when it is not true, just because it makes people react more strongly.Quote:3) Acknowledging that sexism exists, and that the primary victims of it are women, does not make me a sexist. No more than acknowledging that racism exists makes me a racist. -
While Ophiucus has always existed it has not always been part of the Zodiac. I forget how long it takes for one to leave/come back, but there have been few and more in the Zodiac and the one that Astrologers use is from the 1500s.
Also...wen you talk about astrology/astronomy you have to understand until fairly recently they were the same thing and the difference between them is something like only a few hundred years which is why both groups use the Zodiac and a number of other terms... and why Astrologers were much more revered back a few hundred years ago. -
Quote:There is a high suicide rate in young men, especially young white men. This has been thought to be linked mainly with the huge socio-economic pressures of being a male. And I'm pretty sure I could find the research on this topic if I wished to, but so could you, and I don't care enough about your opinion to go look up said information to change it when your likely not going to change your opinion regardless.Originally Posted by Smersh
I would love to see a set of statistics that shows a high rate of suicide among men who feel that they are victims of sexism. Until that time, I'll put this argument into the category of 'things Durakken thinks but can't prove in any way.'
Let me ask you something though... let's say a woman and a man gets ***** and are in very similar circumstances. Who do you think is more likely to find help, be laughed at, and be believed? Why? And don't you think that that alone would do a great deal of damage to a person's mental state and is very sexist?
Sexism is defined as showing favoritism or prejudice towards a party because of their gender. Ie. you are not treating both genders equally, whether positive or negative.Quote:Wrong. If you want to define sexism as 'different treatment based on gender', then you can say what you said is true. I define sexism as 'ill treatment based on gender.' -
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Chinese Astrology is based on the year you are born and is just cyclical. If you are born in x year then you are born under the sign of x.
Western Astrology is based on the Zodiac...sorta... which is the blah blah blah, which none of you care about... and it is true that that now has 13 signs in it, but what we commonly refer to as Astrology ignores that... or a least it has for the last several hundred years... and uses the Astrological works of Nostradamus, because well, it's easier to just look at what some dead guy wrote rather than do the math to do it correctly according to how your supposed to do it.
Alot of Astrologers and Astronomers know this. They don't care. And the general public mostly doesn't..and they don't care either. -
Since noone answered... I had to go and look it up... mike Marts says it's Damian...
Does this make Terry and Damian Brothers? How does cloning and genesplicing effect the whole family dynamic? -
Quote:Whether you are for it or not makes no difference. A woman beating on a man is cheered for and laughed at by, I'd say, a majority of people still.Originally Posted by Smersh
Teenage girl beating up on her boyfriend for no real reason? Not something I cheer for. Woman in fear for her life beating up an attacker? I can cheer for that. Man threatened by a woman with a gun? I'm all for hoping he can pull that one off. Gender doesn't even enter the picture, it's all about self-defense, or defending another person who is in imminent threat of injury.
If you don't do this and find this vile we are in the same boat, but the act that happens shows that there is sexism, on both sides of the equation. i just view it as worse on the male side because no matter what the guy does he's in a losing position and he will likely be chastized for any course of action which makes the already present sexism worse.
Yes the reason why people are cheering the woman on is because they view women as weaker, but if she realizes that then at leas she is getting her frustration out. The guy on the other hand, if he does anything besides stand there and take it a number of other repercussions and this type of thing builds mentally and ends up in an outburst of anger or very low self-esteem, not to mention that the public perception of this person will be degraded and lower their self esteem too which ends with quite a high suicide rate.
I consider this situation worse than the inverse and thus why i view sexism vs men as worse.
I never said being a soldier was dishonorable. I said that it's not a privilege to be a soldier. People may say different, but people also tend to bastardize language and misuse words constantly.Quote:I'd prefer that you do not make assumptions about my stance on violence. If you must know, I am against violence, for gun control, and have never served in the military. I am also married to a disabled veteran, and believe that being a soldier is an honorable profession, despite being against war. I have no problems with holding any of these positions, and do not see any cognitive dissonance inherent in holding them.
You said what I described was not sexism, which means both participants got equal/fair treatment. The only way that is the case is if prejudice and idiots inhabit that world.Quote:The world I would like to see need not be populated by prejudiced people or idiots.
What you are now saying however is different and what you are saying different I agree with; treat people equally/fairly, but that clashes with what you said earlier about that situation where there is a clear difference of the parties are being treated. -
I would like to know how in your world of equality any person can get beat the crap out of and have people cheer for someone else doing it that is in a confrontation where one party is not fighting back, how that, can even exist. Your world is either populated with prejudiced people or idiots.
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Quote:Smersh,Originally Posted by Smersh
Mod5 has pretty much told me that I'm not allowed to post in threads like this, but I'm doing it anyway.
Durakken, you're wrong.
Sexism is heavily entrenched in western culture. What you describe is male gender expectations, which are a part of it, but it's not used to discriminate against men. It's used to discriminate against women and men who do not fulfill those gender expectations
Sexism against men is only used for those who choose not to meet the male ideal. Those who do? They basically get a free pass to discriminate against men who show anything determined to be 'feminine' traits. They get to discriminate against women who do not fulfill their vision of 'feminine' traits. Often, this male privilege is used to deny women bodily autonomy - your view that **** only occurs in dark alleys at knifepoint, which is the case only in a tiny fraction of such assaults. Most are committed by someone the victim knows. And that's not even touching on any other hot-button political issues.
What you are describing is male privilege, the ability for those who conform to societal norms to attack those who do not without fear of repercussion.
Your anecdotes fail - your hypothetical list does not exist. You're making that up and trying to use it as a valid argument. Likewise, data on domestic abuse (an extremely underreported crime) does not support your contentions.
What you are doing is attempting to use your male privilege to minimize the impact on those who do not benefit from it. It's wrong, and you should stop.
Sexism against men is *not* worse. No one advocates that men should not have total control of their own bodies. The glass ceiling simply does not exist for men. No one argues that men should not serve in combat. If there's a question of whether women should be allowed to do something, ask yourself why there isn't a question about men doing it.
So, Durakken, you are completely wrong. There is no "Why will no one think of the poor men?" It doesn't work that way in our society.
And don't try to refute me with anecdotes... there are as many anecdotes as there are people. Use data and facts, or don't respond at all.
#1. The list i mentioned does exist in some form and it's in a prominent magazine that I can't remember where came from.
#2. Things being ingrained into culture does not make something right or not sexist. It just means you don't recognize it as wrong and for some reason can't see the double standard.
#3. I don't take being told to go try to kill people i don't know for a reason I don't support while getting shot at as a privilege. In fact its' not and has never been seen as such until recently because of the idiotic discrimination due to other topics we can't talk about. Until very recently it was seen as a duty, as a form of taxes. Stop glorifying war, which is what saying its a privilege does.
#4. If you don't see "male privilege" as sexism, that to me is disturbing... -
Yeah, did you see the plans for "clean" Nuclear Power plants in a TED video...basically we have the ability to Use a nuclear reactor and burn through our nuclear power, then take the "Waste" and use it in a tier 2 reactor... then take that waste and use it in a tier 3 reactor and so on, but instead of getting this thing set up and fixing up our power grids... we can't because nuclear is too dangerous...
And the wind mills are too ugly >.>
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Quote:Wha?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Where to hang your six-shooters when you mosey on back to the outhouse?
Keep in mind... I'm not saying sexism isn't bad I'm just saying that it's worse for men than women for a very simple reason.Quote:Yes, sexism prescribes and proscribes for men as well as women. A Proper Man should be athletic, courageous, stoic, and confident. He should dress in man-appropriate clothing only. He should work hard in his chosen field, attract a wife, and support a family. He should be ready and willing to respond to threats and insults to himself or his family with violence, on both a personal (fights) and societal (war) level. All of these are unfair expectations to level against men, and violating those expectations leads to anything from lesser respect to physical attack. Sexism hurts everybody.
Men are usually not being sexist against women and any that are are often put down immediately. Women are generally the ones who push sexist ideas on other women.
On the other hand Women and Men often are sexist against men and when this happens not only is it ignored, a lot of times it is supported and cheered on by others. And then further both men and women generally push sexist ideas on men.
It's a matter of how much pushing is happening and the understanding they can get from others that makes sexism against men so much worse in my opinion.
Seriously, how many times have you seen a women go nuts and beat the crap out of a guy and they get cheered on? While a guy who simply stops a woman from hitting him is often looked at as some evil person?
What makes it worse still is that the guy that gets beat the crap out of and the one who stops the woman...both are looked at as less than manly. So in the end the male, in general society, is devalued and the female always gets an increase in value.
This doesn't happen in every case, but it happens a lot.... and happily it is decreasing, but that doesn't mean it still isn't there.
What makes this whole thing worse is that this whole double standard allows a lot of abuse to go unpunished because boys/men should stand up for themselves and can't get sexually abused and if they do they are looked down on for letting it happen so a lot of it goes unreported and when it is reported it is almost never looked into as much as if it were a woman reporting these thing or they are simply over looked even when they are being considered a victim.... as I pointed out, even if you had a list of the top 10 most victimized people in the world and a majority of them were men and the lowest positions on the list were 2 women... then the women would be the cover and the men would be largely forgotten.
This makes it all so much more insidious and why I say sexism against men is worse... but in the end both are bad and should be fixed... -
Quote:Where do you get that information. I've never seen Damian as Terri's Mentor... in fact the in cannon mentor shown is Bruce, not Damian, and he is sayng "they're starting to get it" and it's implied tha Bruce is talking about not only Terri, but Damian and Dick.Originally Posted by LunarKnight
The current Batman Beyond comic that's running still takes place in the DCAU (Earth-12 I think?). The Earth-1 Terry is fairly different, as Damien acts as his mentor instead of Bruce.
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Green energy if its actually there and we can collect it... and new weapons too... we can nuke people with no fall out if we can harness it wooo.
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Here's a question
How many stay at home dads are there in fiction? Outside of the few TV series that has that happening as its premise there is pretty much only 2 questionable ones that i know of off the top of my head, Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire and Micheal Keaton is Multiplicity.
How bout an easier one. How many single men that can be considered respectable and aren't employed are there in fiction? I can't think of any.
This is pretty much stating if your a man and don't have a job you are worthless.
And we're not even talking about the music industry with such stars as Beyonce Knowles singing sexist crap all day every day, but gets no flack for it ever.
Why are these things never brought up?
Why is it sexist for comics to have women with large breasts when we know that those figures are impossible, but it's not sexist to never show a male in a good light if they don't have a job?
There is a massive double standard that is sexist, but it is more on the male side than it is on the female side. The female side is more apparent, yes, but i would say the male side is far more insidious, wide ranged, and ingrained to our culture to such an extent that we don't even view it as wrong. And there is one insanely disturbing example of this which I'm not going to state, but it's there and every western male has to deal with it in some fashion. -
Quote:Oh, you mean like illegal imigant (Superman & Supergirl), Atheist (Batman & Lex Luthor), LGBT (Batwoman & The Question), Racism (Static Shock & Beast Boy), Muslim (Night Runner & The 99)...Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
Comparing it to something like the WWF professional wrestling, it just was what it was. Perhaps the only semi-insulting thing about it--and this isn't a comics thing exclusively--is that these books frequently preach about diversity and overcoming personal trauma, while presenting heroes who dodge the social categories that would put them in that exact situation.
I could keep going.
Or are you talking about being orphaned, having their planet...universe destroyed, social problems, handicapped,child abuse, or drugs?
These also are all talked dealt with by quite a number of characters. I could come up with several for each of those off the top of my head. -
ST:XI is half great... half needs to be removed from memory... Generally the story part needs to be burned and forgotten.
That other thing we were talking about... the enviro suit thing... within the first few hours of doing that thing we're not allowed to talk about here everyone elses' argument gets far weaker... the story subverts it's own background...it's kinda funny. -
Quote:Durakken, being ignored by people that you are agreeing wit since some time in the later 20th century...according to Star Trek those records are lost to history by now!Originally Posted by Knight_Errant
Isn't that more a matter of poor choice of pose from the reference material than sexism?
I'm not trying to be deliberately obtuse, I just find it easier to understand by asking questions.
Ironically it can be argued that some of the models are closer to the classical female figure ideal. Ofcourse in that case the ideal is diverted for a less wholesome purpose. However the same could be said for ideal male figure in Playgirl centerfold.
@Durakken: Welcome to my ignore place. -
Personally i like digital media and don't care for a physical copy so even if i want to buy it and do... I'm still going to pirate it. Make it available for digital distribution.
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I'll be reading a number of the issues probably friday... >.>