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[caddyman]

Unlike the last picture I posted up because I thought it was funny, and got torpedoed by political correctness, I do not anticipate similar problems with this one.

That said, if there are any PC overtones, for once I am willing to kick back and listen. The reasoning will enthrall me, if not the logic.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... one person challenging you is 'torpedoed by political correctness'?

You've been living with colonel_maxim too long.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Ok I don't know where to begin to point out all the things that are wrong, wrong , WRONG, with this picture.

It's an absolute disgrace.

1.)First the Helmet - is an awful Kids voice changer thing available for like £29.99 NOT a Replica Prop or Licensed Lucasfilm Prop. Its a horrible likeness of Lord Darth Vader.

2.) The Chest box is way too big the scale is all wrong !

3.) The Cape is wrong - nothing like the screen used cape.

4.) The same goes for the gloves

5.) Daft Aider (e's certainly not Darth Vader) - or what ever he is called is using DARTH MAULs lightsabre hilt ! and again it is a ghastly Hasbro Kids Lightsabre costing about £9.99 rather than a screen used replica costing upwards of £400. Outrageous!

In closing I would like to say that SERIOUS Star Wars fans like myself take great exception to the flagrant MISSuse of STAR WARS icons for advertising purposes.

On a health and safety issue I would like to point out that you are acting very irresponsibly by encouraging folk to use fluorescent lighting as light sabres - people could be seriously hurt if they actually duelled with these.

So all in all a most ill conceived and offensive post.

May the Farce be with you……

;)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It's true that we do not tolerate disent for long....

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose this could be seen as encouraging dangerous behaviour (although in Darwinistic terms I'd be all for it *g*)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4575291.stm

Definitely UN-PC

[barrettyman.livejournal.com]

Why must you always portray the Sith are Terrorists. They are a perfectly legitamate religion founded on the principles of Individual Empowerment. There is always one bad apple, but that shouldn't be used to categorise the Sith community as a whole.

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

No star wars comments.
But am very intrigued that you saw my attack as motivated by political correctness. In my opinion it wasn't.

Cultural tolerance is scarce at present, and as we move to more and more terror alerts, it is going to get scarcer. So I am disappointed when my friends show a lack of it, not because I want to be politically correct, but because I fear for the effect on society of polarising opinion further and further. Its not that the joke was "offensive" in a pc sense. It is that in order for the joke to be funny(I had to look at the picture for ages to figure out what it meant, let along laugh), one had to believe that the people in the picture all looked the same and believing that is yet another way of stigmatising an aspect of the islamic faith.

It might seem like an over reaction to a simple joke image. But I believe there is a broad trend towards anti-islamiscism of a subtle nature in the media. Manipulations are being employed frequency to minimise cultural tolerance of islamic culture across pretty much all forms of media every day (examples range from news programmes repeatedly interviewing 1 radical and 1 moderate muslim, suggesting a 50/50 balance in the faith, to rather more coverage of problems in Sudan, Chad than usual focusing on the "oh thats right they're islamic janjaweed (probably not the correct spelling). I accept that this has conspiracy theory written all over it - but hey when does that make a theory a bad theory.

Apologies for journal hi-jack - but needed to explain myself

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Your points are valid, BUT, I think that there is also a worrying trend to take jokes too seriously, to be far far too PC and of sense of humour failure.
Making fun of one another if part of what makes being human worth it. The day we can't poke fun at any group or 'culture' is a very sad one. I don't think any of our friends lack political awareness.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I thought the picture was funny, and,

I reserve the right to not have tolerence for this aspect of Islam (i.e. covering women up). I generally refer to women dressed like this as ninjas. That is my humourous way of dealing with something I actually find abhorent. The rise of fundamentalism is an unpleasant thing. When I was a kid growing up in Bradford you just didn't see women covered up like this, in a city full of Moslems, now you do everywhere. It's shit.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

But isn't the point that they did all look the same? I'm not entirely sure that if four of my best friends were dressed like that I'd be able to identify them.

Two points here: (a) The picture was funny because it made a mockery of a sexist practice; (b) making a mockery of institutionalised sexism isn't necessarily racist.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

*puts rumfuddle back in his cupboard with a biscuit*





*gets a head start*

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

Ah well you see I think those four people, ones I didn't know at all, all look very different - so that was my starting point!

I also see where I am coming away from other people in viewpoint.

I am not entirely sure I have a problem with the practice of wearing a burka so long as it is chosen rather than compulsory - I saw women choosing to pose in the photo, not being forced into it and so I saw the picture as an attack on a faith practice (not a racist attack) rather than an attack on a sexist practice - which I suppose is what it was meant to be.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

*applause*

Was thinking similar to be honest

[romney.livejournal.com]

Yes, but presumably the kids dressing in ghost-sheets would have BEEN the occasion and the photo would have NOT made the same point.

Even if the photo of the women in burkas is NOT posed or photoshopped (and these circulated photos often are) the point is the occasion is NOT that they are "dressed up". The occasion is that they are at a particular place and wearing their street clothes.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Blah, blah, blah! Bloody hell, what a pile of namby-pamby PC piffle. It was FUNNY. Feel free to LAUGH and move on.