Or that Spongebob image where Patrick as Tumblr asks "Is mayonnaise a gender?"
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Or that Spongebob image where Patrick as Tumblr asks "Is mayonnaise a gender?"
I think it was used specifically to mock otherkins, though. because for transgender, it doesn't make much sense.
Inferno313
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Cisgendered just means you identify as the gender that aligns with the biological sex you were born as.
The tweet is kinda shitty, but at the same time I think Brianna blowing it up like that is ridiculous. Transphobia and the trans suicide rates are a HUGE problem, but it's a little insulting for her to suggest that anyone is gonna kill themselves over a shitty Sonic the Hedgehog tweet. Especially considering she came under fire a few months back for using the word "tranny" and now acts like she's the trans community's watchful guardian.
Cisgender does not imply gender binary ... if you identify as agender or bigender or whatever you identify with something different you were assigned too, so you are in the trans* umbrella
Cis is the latin term opposite to trans. People usualy remember from chemistry, specialy isomerism
trans-diazene
cis-diazene
Cis is the latin term opposite to trans. People usualy remember from chemistry, specialy isomerism
trans-diazene
cis-diazene
Sonic fights an attack helicopter in Sonic Adventure 2
Brianna should demand Sonic Team earn their forgiveness by doing the thing they love least in this world.
Releasing a good Sonic game.
Scientist Supreme!
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Transphobic people usually don't.
Fights ... he never pilots or has atacks/moves related to it.
If was TAILS talking it would be a funny joke
Piston Hyundai
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there's no coming out of this with a funny joke
DreamedLint
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My bad, it was on know your meme.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter
So it was clearly just a joke. No big deal.
Scientist Supreme!
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Of Course it was a joke. It also a joke that can be taken as making fun of a marginalized group.
DiipuSurotu
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When you're a community manager nothing is not a big deal.
Thabass
Member
You're not lying there.
DreamedLint
Member
I don't think it's unfair to call out a company's twitter for saying something offensive. Brianna Wu's point was that jokes like this play into a larger system that is responsible for the alarming suicide rate. It does not mean people are committing suicide over poorly conceived jokes from Sonic's twitter. It doesn't mean the account is bad or even that it's not incredible. They just said something offensive, the professional thing to do would be apologize, otherwise the least they could do is be a little more careful in the future. So it isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, people make mistakes, but they should hold themselves accountable for those mistakes when they are an official sega twitter account, for example.
EDIT: To be clear, I don't think this is something anyone should be fired over. That isn't what I meant in those last couple statements.
EDIT: To be clear, I don't think this is something anyone should be fired over. That isn't what I meant in those last couple statements.
GetDigitized
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It's a meme. Holy shit some people have victim complexes.
It's a joke look at the intent. People can spin whatever they want into what fits their agenda. You're asking someone get fired for this?
It's a joke look at the intent. People can spin whatever they want into what fits their agenda. You're asking someone get fired for this?
Generalpsyduck
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Seems like people now a days don't have a sense of humor. Some People like playing the victim role to much.
Scientist Supreme!
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You explained it perfectly.
Starfish Hero
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Yea it's a joke, but it's a bad joke. What's the problem with saying it's a bad joke?
yes that old as fuck phrase that has been repeated ad nauseum for years by unfunny people is totally hilarious
Generalpsyduck
Banned
Its because Brianna wu just wants attention. And it looks like she succeeded
Hot Coldman
Banned
shit you stole my post
essentially, Ruby should and does know better, his sass meter just needs bleeding; a few dozen slap on the wrists should do that
Doctor Ironic
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Yeah should we also focus on the fact that "I identify as ___________" and "check your privilege" haven't been funny for at least two years now?
Yeah and blackface is "intended as a joke" too so what the hell is your point? That's never an acceptable defense.
Yeah and blackface is "intended as a joke" too so what the hell is your point? That's never an acceptable defense.
TBiddy
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Nothing. But when people start to get offended on someone elses behalf over something like this, it becomes a problem, in my mind.
I have played enough LoL to know there are parts of the pop who outright refuse to and love their outrage.
themagicalkitsune
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Twitterstorm? Ha ha. I've seen similar things happen to JonTron (like August 2014), but he ultimately deserved it because he followed up his tweets with more ignorant tweets. The backlash was a bit extreme but after about a week everything cooled down and nothing happened since. Presumably because it's twitter.
Funyarinpa
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I don't think it's offensive since I think the intent wasn't for it to be offensive (and yes intent does matter) but it'd be nice of them to apologize and redact the tweet anyways purely for the sake of their followers who were offended.
Shadow Hog
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The problem there is that the tweet's attracted the positive attention of a very vocal crowd, one that, when a company starts practicing some self-restraint, tends to start attacking third parties over this perceived slight. It's a bad look any way you slice it.
Intent dont matter
You messing up means you messed up regardless of intent. Thats, just the world dude. You still did the thing. Whether you choose to give a shit about that, depending on severity of offence, is up to you.
If you are a or person basically rping the mascot of a world known video game company and franchise, caring might be good
You messing up means you messed up regardless of intent. Thats, just the world dude. You still did the thing. Whether you choose to give a shit about that, depending on severity of offence, is up to you.
If you are a or person basically rping the mascot of a world known video game company and franchise, caring might be good
Doctor Ironic
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The funniest thing about Internet drama is that it's almost always caused not by the looming threat of CRAZY PEOPLE ON TUMBLR OH NO but by people being so adamant at standing up to this "threatening" group of teenagers that they reveal themselves to have had horrible beliefs all along.
People probably would've forgotten about Penny Arcade's "dickwolves" if they hadn't exacerbated it so extremely in the weeks following. Nobody would have cared about JonTron saying the word "retarded" if he hadn't held livestreams complaining that SJWs are a cult who don't care about Gaza or whatever the fuck.
The end result is that, unless he goes crazy in the next few days and reveals things I'm not aware of, RubyEclipse is one of a majority of Internet users who don't care about that shit and just tell jokes. Of course, everyone who tells jokes is bound to tell a bad one eventually, which is what this is, but it's up to him to decide whether or not this is actually going to be a big deal, which I doubt he will.
The greatest irony of the Internet is that its biggest threats aren't people getting offended, but rather people who get offended that people are offended.
Well it makes no sense for him to turn into a werewolf or have a talking sword either so I wouldn't focus on that :v
Isn't the homing attack in the newer games him hovering in air, then shooting towards an enemy? Sonic already is an attack helicopter.
Sonic the Hedgehog's new PR person is incredible, but as any person he has faults and should know that and apologyse when fucks up
InfiniteNine
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I'm trans and I didn't laugh at it or really care at all really.
The thing is if it used to be or is an active way to attack trans-folk I don't really see a problem with someone being offended by it since it was created for that purpose.
Ideally he'll just apologize to those offended, people will accept his apology, and things will continue to be hilarious for everyone.
No big. Those offended will have their feelings acknowledged, the Sonic Twitter will earn respect for owning up to the mistake, hell people who weren't following him before may do so now attracted by this thing. Win-win situation.
No big. Those offended will have their feelings acknowledged, the Sonic Twitter will earn respect for owning up to the mistake, hell people who weren't following him before may do so now attracted by this thing. Win-win situation.
Nah, it was more so because he eventually apologized and eventually decided to downtune his Twitter heavily.
I don't think mr Sonic Hedgehog said that in other sense that just to continue the strings of dumb memes he's been on for months. Sure he could be apologize and be cool with it but raising pitchforks like he just pulled a Manny Pacquiao is hilarious, but also overblown in thinking it's meant as a personal insult. Dumb joke sure, whatever. Chose your battles
GetDigitized
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Other than what others have said, you're using blackface which has obvious racial connatations to compare check your privelidge to. If you can't see that they're different concepts entirely you obviously can't have an unbiased argument. My "defense" was that people are misconstruing something which was meant as a meme, as has been evident throughout this thread and on the twitter feed. It was also pretty clear from my original message.
What classifies as humor is subjective, it's your opinion. Using absolute words to voice your opinion doesn't make you any more correct,when you're wrong.
Pristine_Condition
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It's a bad joke that has consequences when you're representing something.
Oh man the Stephen Fry quotes already, god damn gamers are so fucking predictable
Memes are awful
Oh man the Stephen Fry quotes already, god damn gamers are so fucking predictable
Memes are awful
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