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What the hell, ABC?
Oct. 15th, 2009 12:04 amOkay, look, I know what you're trying to do with HungryBeast. I do.
It's full of young, snarky, edgy, mostly-white hipsters who are bitching about various stuff. Problem is that they keep hamfistedly handling very delicate situations. Sometimes you hit the nail on the head and it's very powerful (the thing with the actors reading out racist comments from a website) but then you take another subject and just slip over and make a hugely offensive mess.
The "Fake Lesbian: Liberated or Lame?" Where the hell do I start? Lame is an ablist term. There are people (like myself) who aren't lesbian or straight, yet those are the two people you focus on. It goes without saying that I'm as irritated by Katy Perry as some queer folk, but come on.
The Industry of Outrage thingo (I forget the exact title) was joking about offending Coeliacs. And then made the gag that Coeliacs only really suffer from puffiness anyway.
... The fuck? I WISH. I FUCKING WISH, ASSHOLES. Do they even KNOW how hard it is to avoid wheat? And then to make us out to be withered nerds puffing 24/7 on an asthma puffer? I SIT ON A DUNNY SCREAMING MY TITS OFF IN AGONY. Fucking puffiness!
Then there was a nerd bitching and moaning about "Awareness Weeks". And he says, "Why can't we have a "Not worry about anything" Week?"
... The fuck? Can this little fucker even imagine having some kind of problem, be it mental, physical or bad luck in life, that they need help on? And all the time, all the fucking time, the world blithely goes on about its business and doesn't care? And you feel there's nobody to help you?
And for just one fucking week in the year, you might be lucky enough to have someone fundraise for your problem. And in that week, people won't roll their eyes at you if you talk about your condition. People might actually get off their fucking arses and LEARN about something other than themselves.
It's a blessing, you know? It's a HELP. It's called HELPING PEOPLE, motherfucker. And if that gets in the way of your cushy life of not worrying about anything? Boo fucking HOO.
So, big fail, ABC. You're better than this (or so I thought).
It's full of young, snarky, edgy, mostly-white hipsters who are bitching about various stuff. Problem is that they keep hamfistedly handling very delicate situations. Sometimes you hit the nail on the head and it's very powerful (the thing with the actors reading out racist comments from a website) but then you take another subject and just slip over and make a hugely offensive mess.
The "Fake Lesbian: Liberated or Lame?" Where the hell do I start? Lame is an ablist term. There are people (like myself) who aren't lesbian or straight, yet those are the two people you focus on. It goes without saying that I'm as irritated by Katy Perry as some queer folk, but come on.
The Industry of Outrage thingo (I forget the exact title) was joking about offending Coeliacs. And then made the gag that Coeliacs only really suffer from puffiness anyway.
... The fuck? I WISH. I FUCKING WISH, ASSHOLES. Do they even KNOW how hard it is to avoid wheat? And then to make us out to be withered nerds puffing 24/7 on an asthma puffer? I SIT ON A DUNNY SCREAMING MY TITS OFF IN AGONY. Fucking puffiness!
Then there was a nerd bitching and moaning about "Awareness Weeks". And he says, "Why can't we have a "Not worry about anything" Week?"
... The fuck? Can this little fucker even imagine having some kind of problem, be it mental, physical or bad luck in life, that they need help on? And all the time, all the fucking time, the world blithely goes on about its business and doesn't care? And you feel there's nobody to help you?
And for just one fucking week in the year, you might be lucky enough to have someone fundraise for your problem. And in that week, people won't roll their eyes at you if you talk about your condition. People might actually get off their fucking arses and LEARN about something other than themselves.
It's a blessing, you know? It's a HELP. It's called HELPING PEOPLE, motherfucker. And if that gets in the way of your cushy life of not worrying about anything? Boo fucking HOO.
So, big fail, ABC. You're better than this (or so I thought).
