I never said it made it ok use the lyrics as dragons names, I apologize if that's how I came across and didn't clarify that I don't agree with or condone use of inappropriate lyrics on a site that is 13+. The staff did the right thing, the user is 100% in the wrong and was knowingly violating TOS.
All the points I made were concerning the lyrical content of rappers and artists in the public eye, and that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And iirc Eminem has made statements that his earlier works, My Name Is came out in 99, were immature and he understands the negative effect they had on people. I also forget the younger generation may be unfamiliar with infinitely more disturbing works by artists that are now considered groundbreaking. Method Man and Redman's song Cereal Killer comes to mind, and Immortal Technique's song Dance With the Devil makes my stomach turn. Jay-z made a public and conscious decision to stop using the word bitch, and many other artists have said they regret past mistakes, lyrics, and comments made to the press and otherwise.
But I digress, I forgot that people are forever the sum of their past actions and even if they learn from them or grow as a person to understand that words carry weight even when done in satire, it will never be enough.
pro tip, coming in hot to a days-old thread and dumping five paragraphs of angry irrelevance on it is not how to sound "calm"
look, I don't give a single fuck about Eminem himself, or what he has or hasn't learned. if he's become a better person since he wrote the song then good for him, that's genuinely great. but it doesn't make the song itself any less misogynistic, it doesn't make me side eye people any less for devoting a lyrics dragon to it, and it doesn't make it okay to name a dragon something like "WomansClitoris" on Flight Rising. what Eminem or any other rapper has done or learned since writing misogynistic songs is totally irrelevant to the conversation. you could have just ended it at saying the person was wrong and violated TOS. hey, we agree! how great! the end.
Oh I'm sorry! I wasn't aware that replying to topics and having opinions was so frowned upon and that there was a time limit on what I could and couldn't express views on. You have my sincerest apologies. At least we agree the user was in violation of TOS and the names were inappropriate. Thank you for your 'pro-tip'. I'll keep it in mind and make sure I do a character count on future responses.
Btw. The view that learning from past mistakes is irrelevant, be it part of the main conversation topic or not, is extremely harmful and I side eye anyone who bases their opinions of people on things such as taste in music, clothing or tv shows.
Looks like I better work on my run on sentences:
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(Anonymous) 2016-03-03 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)I never said it made it ok use the lyrics as dragons names, I apologize if that's how I came across and didn't clarify that I don't agree with or condone use of inappropriate lyrics on a site that is 13+. The staff did the right thing, the user is 100% in the wrong and was knowingly violating TOS.
All the points I made were concerning the lyrical content of rappers and artists in the public eye, and that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And iirc Eminem has made statements that his earlier works, My Name Is came out in 99, were immature and he understands the negative effect they had on people. I also forget the younger generation may be unfamiliar with infinitely more disturbing works by artists that are now considered groundbreaking. Method Man and Redman's song Cereal Killer comes to mind, and Immortal Technique's song Dance With the Devil makes my stomach turn. Jay-z made a public and conscious decision to stop using the word bitch, and many other artists have said they regret past mistakes, lyrics, and comments made to the press and otherwise.
But I digress, I forgot that people are forever the sum of their past actions and even if they learn from them or grow as a person to understand that words carry weight even when done in satire, it will never be enough.
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(Anonymous) 2016-03-03 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)look, I don't give a single fuck about Eminem himself, or what he has or hasn't learned. if he's become a better person since he wrote the song then good for him, that's genuinely great. but it doesn't make the song itself any less misogynistic, it doesn't make me side eye people any less for devoting a lyrics dragon to it, and it doesn't make it okay to name a dragon something like "WomansClitoris" on Flight Rising. what Eminem or any other rapper has done or learned since writing misogynistic songs is totally irrelevant to the conversation. you could have just ended it at saying the person was wrong and violated TOS. hey, we agree! how great! the end.
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(Anonymous) 2016-03-03 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)Btw. The view that learning from past mistakes is irrelevant, be it part of the main conversation topic or not, is extremely harmful and I side eye anyone who bases their opinions of people on things such as taste in music, clothing or tv shows.
Looks like I better work on my run on sentences:
CHARACTERS 746. WORDS 138. SENTENCES 13. PARAGRAPHS 4.
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(Anonymous) 2016-03-03 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)hoooomg you two need to chill, you're talking about completely different topics
also nonny you do read agitated, gotta agree with ayrt there.