I’m in full agreement. Human babies are vastly overrated and many just aren’t that cute. No matter how vehemently the parent insists otherwise.
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Wait… So I bought into “Big Veterinary Behavioral Medicine” 's lie?
What a fool I am. (I tear out my hair and beat my breast in anger and sadness!)
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One reason it upsets me is that I’ve spent ages extolling the virtues of boingboing to my friends and then the first thing I hear from them is this.
Yes, how dare those who run a blog that you’ve recommended comically express their outrage over animal abuse? How dare their particular mix of morality and humor differ from yours?
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“Should Cesar Millan be fed to pigs?” is comical and humorous only if you know the person making the joke or if the next thing they wrote was “Just kidding, but seriously […]”.
Would we be having this same conversation if the same headline was written on Fox News? If you wouldn’t accept certain behavior from your enemies, why on earth does your friend get a free pass? How is this headline any different from the thousands of messages twitter-trolls and hatemongers make, and I’m pretty darn sure they’ve gotten shouted at in here.
Context context context.
Do you write to The Onion too, complaining about the “lies” and such in their headlines?
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You really don’t see the irony of the situation, or even anything wrong, do you? Fuck it. Feel free to keep sitting on your communal moral high horse the next time you call for the crucifixion of f.ex. anyone insulting Sarkeesian on twitter or something. I’m done. And yes, I know “So long, you won’t be missed.”
I guess this don’t really answer the question for me. If I were asking why you found tapping ashes in the soup upsetting, the fact that your friends were there wouldn’t really explain it. Instead, it would be something about finding cigarette ash disgusting.
Obviously you find this headline extremely objectionable, and I just don’t see it. Reading the rest of the conversation, I guess you’ll assume that’s because I have some kind of confirmation bias blinders on. I obviously can’t argue with that - we could go over dozens of examples of what appears unacceptable or acceptable to me, but I don’t see how it would be illuminating.
In general I think you’d find that regardless of whether I liked or didn’t like someone, I would find a suggestion that maybe a person who brutalizes animals should in turn be brutalized by those animals to be relatively benign. It’s a strong comment about the anger felt towards animal abusers that doesn’t suggest real world action. By contrast I find, for example, the idea that someone would be subjected to rape threats for expressing a point of view on popular culture to be horrendous, and I would find it equally horrendous if it was Ann Coulter on the receiving end. So I don’t see the parallel between this and something attacks on Sarkeesian, and I don’t think that connects to a personal bias about the target of the headline, though it might connect to a personal bias against people who abuse animals for entertainment.
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He is also a terrible Rob (the author of this piece).
As for being a reader with human sized expectations, that’s what you seem to suck at. I, for one, am not on the editorial board here. How 'bout you? Oh, just saying, were you? Me too.
Oh you poor thing. It sucks when people fall off the pedestals you put them on.
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Speaking of crosses, Jesus needs his back now.
And yes, I know “So long, you won’t be missed.”
Speaking of nailing things.
I hope you do come back when you’re done with the tantrum.
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You are taking issue with a digression. Context was why I unsubscribed from the podcast a year ago, and where I recalled Cesar being lionised.
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Digressions do tend to come back, after tantrums, to have the last word, after being awful guests.
@Falcor, heads up. Possible incoming meal.
Mod note: Play nice.
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