You know... it may seem to the casual viewer that we condone such things as assaults, attacks on women, domestic violence, animal abuse... Maybe this is not such a good thing?
I would hope that any visitors would know better - but then people are idiots, so your concerns are valid.
If you'd like to write a sincere-yet-entertaining disclaimer to add to the website, by all means do so. I would welcome it.
Tricky thing to do, though... Personally, if I had to justify laughing at this stuff in the movies while being appalled by it in real life, I couldn't do it. It's just that the movies are funny...
You have a point there.
Maybe I'll work on a disclaimer. In these days of Littleton, people are a bit more touchy.
Subject: Miscellaneous
1. [blah blah ad nauseam]
2. The issue of the meaner material on the website was raised this morning - by someone who wrote a lot of it. Who is now having a guilt attack over the whole thing. So we discussed it for a while. The worry is not in having written or even shared it, but in putting it out on the web where unsuspecting persons may come to the conclusion that we are condoning, nay, encouraging, horrible activities that none of us approve of, especially violence toward women.
I'd hoped it would be obvious to even the dimmest that all we are doing is making fun of the movies; however, I can't prevent the dimmer-than-dim from accessing the website.
I have not had any feedback whatsoever on the matter. As far as I'm aware, no one unknown to me personally has looked at it except whoever that fellow was that Diantha recommended it to. The truth is that every single one of those nasty bits was written by women. Not only women, but women I consider (and I am sure I am right) to be feminists. Taking the whole crew into account, writers and readers, it's been gone over pretty well now by a whole slew of feminists. Including civilian, military, ex-military, and southern feminists... and you don't get nuthin' past a southern feminist. And being as how they ARE feminists, and outspoken, and know me personally, I feel confident that if anyone considered the humor reprehensible, they'd have let me know in the most colorful possible language. So far all the feedback I've gotten says that it's great stuff.
I don't mean to say that the men's opinions don't count, of course. But none of them ever jumped into that while it was going on. As far as I know the ones who were in the loop at the time just sat back and laughed at what the rest of us were doing.
Be that as it may, the whole issue brings to my mind the days of In Living Color, which divided the anti-bigotry folks into two factions - those who thought that making fun of racial and sexual-preference prejudice was hysterically funny, and those who thought the show set civil rights back by about 130 years.
I, of course, was in the former group. The other was deemed by the members of the In Living Color gang themselves to be people who just didn't get it at best, and at worst, very uncool. I agreed.
I also point out in a truly pathetic defense that there are things we don't make fun of, such as the racially motivated hate crimes portrayed in A Dry White Season and (oh, god) that really contemptible sick violent-male-fantasy rape scene in Guns of Honor... a scene which Jürgen Prochnow did not even stick his nose into, fortunately. (However I confess that for a couple of days after seeing that, I was a bit sore at him for being in a movie that had a scene like that in the script, whether he was around for it or not.)
It never occurred to anybody to joke about those things. If they HAD done it, I'd have fired back a flame-o-gram that would have lit up the entire worldwide net. Believe me.
We don't make fun of things we don't think it's funny to make fun of. And I'm sorry, but I can't help it... Jürgen pushing a ho out of an airborne helicopter is hilarious. (Not as hilarious as it would have been if Joachim had tackled Sarah and smacked her around for half a minute screaming "SLUT!"... but there's always Body of Evidence.)
In any case, you will shortly see a disclaimer of sorts on the website, aimed at morons, saying that no, we don't really think abuse is a good thing or that poodles should be kicked (not Marv's, anyway) or that Uma Thurman should be executed. Or even Sarah.
IT'S A JOKE, PEOPLE.
Thank you.
Heck, your whole misc message about the "violent" content of the website is a perfect disclaimer, IMHO.
It works for me!!
Fine, you slacker.
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