*PM* Hello. I agree that no journalist/artist should be killed over work which offends others, but can you tell why Charlie Hebdo is a racist etc magazine? Most Tumblr people aren’t French so we wouldn’t know. Isn’t satire part of French culture?

pennywhistle:

social-justice-fire-mage:

I use your ask for providing more sources and context, on racism and other accusations (sexism, homophobia and transphobia and I also found antiziganism, antisemitism and fatphobia) as well. Please beware that lot of them can be triggering.

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This cover says on top “The sexual slaves of Boko Haram are angry” and on the bottom “don’t touch our welfare benefits”.

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This cover show two of the main leaders of anti-LGBT protestations in France. The title, “manif de vieilles gouines”, means “old dyke protestations”, because the best way to fight homophobia is to use lesbophobic slurs right ?

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This cover shows the French president with the caption “All powerful
 excepts against banks (denoucing his broken promises regarding the regulation of the banking system) and “bobonne” (a huge misogynistic slur, especially used against staying-at-home mums, an allusion to a tweet of ValĂ©rie Trierweiler, his former partner, which cause some political drama.

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Translation of this cover “The pope in Paris. French people as dumb as n***ger

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The imam or deeply Muslim guy is saying to the other one “Brother. Don’t pay 40€ for a trick with a prostitute when for this price you can have a spouse.

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I don’t know if it is clear but the couple are two guys. The caption says “Surrogacy : two parents and a slave”.

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So back on ValĂ©rie Trierweiler, now former French president’s partner. This drawing says “which man for ValĂ©rie Trierweiler ? “Charlie Hebdo” suggests Bertrand Cantat (famous French singer who killed his partner, the actress Marie Trintignant, in a domestic “argument”).

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This is DSK, which I think US and other people know because his rape of Nafissatou Diallo was all over the news. In this drawing, he is saying to the French president “I told you not to fuck a maid”.

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This shows clearly Muslim guys saying “life is not only about bearded men” (in French, “the bearded” is often a way to speak both of islamic terrorists and deeply Muslim people).

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This drawing starts with a pun, “decomposed family” (“recomposed family” meaning, for instance, a woman, her children from her previous marriage, and her new husband). The first “decomposed family” is “In Tchernobyl, a family is three mums and two dads”. The second one “In 93 (meaning Seine-Saint-Denis, a poor area of France with lot of Muslim and Black people) it is a mum and 36 dads (an allusion to gang bangs)” and the last one is “in Calcutta, a family is half a dad and a third of a mum”.

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This is a drawing of French minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, published after the far-right newspaper Minute insulted her of being a “monkey” in one of their covers.

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This is an about the wish of the actor GĂ©rard DĂ©partieu to move in Belgium to pay less taxes. The text says “Can Belgium welcome all the cholesterol of the world ?”, which is also an allusion to the phrase “France cannot welcomes all the misery of the world” which is used by anti-immigration politics.

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This is the French president. “ThĂ©orie du genre” is the way anti-LGBT people talk about LGBT rights. So if you meet a French personn believing in “thĂ©orie du genre”, it means they are against same-gender mariages and transgender rights and for very different gender roles for women and men. This cover was published around the supression of anti-homophobic and anti-sexism education at school, so by using “thĂ©orie du genre” to talk about the issue Charlie Hebdo clearly choosed their side. His talking about how to teach children how to read (another huuuge French education system debate), but with sexual puns with “anal” and “cock”.

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“At least, we can say it. Hitler. SUPER NICE !”. Hitler is using a very deeply antisemit slur and saying “ça gaze ?”, a slang way to say “How are you ?”, with a pun to gas chambers. (This cover is from 1978, while all the other ones are all from the 21st century).

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This cover is about Leonarda, a Rromani 13-years old girl who was taken by the police while she was at her school to be expelled from the French territory with her family. Leonarda was the only one of her family borned in France, and thus the French presidency proposed for her to come back in France, but not with her family. The text says “Leonarda : French First Lady” while the French presidents says “without her family”, at which she answers “shut up”.

And this is what Charlie Hebdo is.

Please keep in mind we are all in agreement that this garbage should not have led to their executions. But French people saying #jesuischarlie (I am Charlie) to try to support each other and come together as a country is pretty horrifying.

Je me suis pas Charlie

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It’s fine for men to watch shojo anime and read shojo manga like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura.
It’s fine for men to make pornographic doujinshi of these, buy figurines, and jack off to the characters.
It’s fine for men to completely invade a Pretty Cure forum created for young girls and scare said girls away. It’s fine for these men to twist the entire fandom around themselves, its fine for them to show up to Pretty Cure events in throngs and its fine for them to frantically grab all the free handouts before any of the girls can.
It’s also fine for men to take these magical girl anime made for girls that celebrate being a girl and make them all about their pornography and which girl they most want to put their dick in. It’s fine, because theres even a cute name for them, ‘Ooki Tomodachi’ (Big Friend).
It’s fine for them to do the same with My Little Pony, of course. It’s fine that they can make the voice actors of the show uncomfortable with personal questions, its fine that they can yell out rape jokes to them at conventions, its fine that they have basically made it impossible for any of the 8 year old girls the show was made for to ever google it in public. It’s fine for them to gather in the toy stores around the pony toys and intimidate young girls. It’s fine that the whole show, created to celebrate femininity and how ‘theres no wrong way to be a girl’ is now associated with their fetishes. And its so fine that these male fans get given a cute name (‘brony’), get documentaries made about them, have newspaper article after blog post after feature talking about how they are ‘challenging gender norms’ and ‘transforming pop culture’.

But if a girl ‘trespasses’ into a male space, what happens? (Even when it isnt ‘trespassing’, in the case of Free!, in which a space was actually made for us ) We can expect such timeless classics as: degradation, ‘you’re not even a REAL fan!’ ‘I bet you dont even know ______’, all kinds of threats, and, of course, the posts you see on this blog.

Male Otaku mad about Free! because its brilliant and accurate on so many levels (via shotalita)

This nailed my anger at the whole Brony phenomenon perfectly, yo.

(via joyfulldreams)

I only just heard about a teen girl being harassed with rape threats because she spoke up about the triggery “Princess Molestia” meme rampant in the fandom. I think this post is very relevant.

(via yamino)

I’ve been having a lot of feelings on this subject lately.

Cosplay Bingo!

atopfourthwall:

So, a fan brought This Comic to my attention today, it’s a year old, but it got me thinking.  I’ve known about Gutters for a while, but I’m not a regular reader. I find its humor to be hit or miss depending on who’s working on it and plenty of times it devolves into frat boy antics that don’t interest me in the slightest when it comes to the medium.

Now some could say there’s no need to be outraged about a comic strip from over a year ago, but it bugs me because this kind of attitude is still being displayed about cosplayers – need we remind you of the Tony Harris debacle or fake nerd girls or the various other problems that come up? Or hell, even just tumblr posts from people saying “FAT PPLE SUDNT COSPLAY SAYLOR MOON!!111”

Body-shaming, slut-shaming (hell, what exactly is so “slutty” about the girl in that bingo card?), and various other wonderfully hateful things are said in it and it pisses me the hell off, not only as someone who frequents conventions as a guest and gets to see all these amazing people wearing outfits, be they storebought or handmade, and just having fun like a convention SHOULD be.

At the same time, though, the more I thought about it
 the more a “Cosplay Bingo” sounds absolutely ingenious. Not in the way Gutters did it, of course, but when you go to a big convention with several thousand people walking around, you’re going to see a wide variety of costumes. Hell, at Youmacon last November there was a guy in a Megazord costume that actually had a little bridge set in the chest with the MMPR toys inside of it. It was ingenious and awesome. In fact, this is such an awesome idea I’d be shocked if no one had ever thought of it before.

As such, here’s what I’d love to see people start having at conventions – Customized Cosplay Bingo Cards. The idea is that you either have one printed out on cardboard/postersheet/etc. with drawings of various characters and their name/anime/TV show/movie/etc. written on them so you can mark them off at whatever convention you go to, with the drawings there to help identify it if it’s a franchise you’re not familiar with.

What’s more, I’d love a digital version that could be put on phones and tablets and etc. – the digital ones with the added bonus that you can take a picture of the cosplayer (if they’re willing) and put it over that space in the bingo card as the proof that you got it.

Mind you, I’m not saying there should be prizes for doing it (unless you were a convention and you were actually wanting to encourage your attendees to do it to win prizes – looking at you, Youmacon/Otakon/Various Comic Cons), but it seems like the kind of thing that would be simple to set up. Hell, I’d play it just as a convention guest and getting to see so many awesome cosplayers out there.

And the reason I’m bringing this up to more people is because I don’t think it should be just screenshots of the characters, but fanart done of them. After all, cosplaying is already a thing based on fandom (not to say you HAVE to be a fan of it to cosplay it, but you get what I mean), so why not encourage other aspects of the fandom to take on a challenge and draw headshots or full-body shots of those various characters, possibly with stuff they’re not necessarily familiar with.

And the customizeable idea is that the cards would be randomized or swapped out so that you would HAVE to get some that you aren’t necessarily familiar with. Does this sound like a cool idea or am I just talking out of my ass since someone’s already done it?