Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• Women freeze eggs to wait for 'Mr Right'
  I don't even _like_ frozen eggs
  (tags: women fertility)
• 'Exceptional' oil find made in North Sea
  So, time to declare independence?
  (tags: oil scotland)
• Decoding Microsoft’s Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post
  (tags: microsoft google apple business statistics 2010 numbers yahoo)
• Angry M. Night Shyamalan denies Airbender racism
  (tags: race racism movies media)

Comments

[innerbrat]

Oh dear lord.

"I'm Asian so I can't be racist!"

"It's a cartoon and the ethnicities weren't obvious!"

"Who cares if the culture is based on Asia?"

"I fought for the correction pronunciation!" (And yet... failed. I thought directors had the ability to tell actors how their characters' names are pronounced)

"I made it the most culturally diverse movie serie of all time!" - by changing 'eskimo' to white, compressing all the cultures that inspired the cartoon into 'Asian' and adding 'mixed' and 'darker' (than mixed?) as races.

"It's a CARTOON! A FICTITIOUS CARTOON!"

"Aang looked white to me!"

"Just because it's made in Japan doesn't mean the characters are Japanese!" (It's an American cartoon)

At this point I'm claiming Bingo and going back to ignoring that movie with every fibre of my being.

[andrewducker]

I pretty much figured that :->

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I got a Bingo too! Want to split our prize winnings by buying the DVD set and re-watching the whole series?

[innerbrat]

"They made this movie in which my sister and I are both white and Scandinavian."

"That's rough, buddy."

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

And then I had to try to keep from laughing hard enough to wake up my wife.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I second your disgust and appreciate your rationally laid-out arguments. Here, here!