Saturday, May 31, 2014

Why Kpopalypse doesn't like netizens - the real reason

There's a dichotomy going on with my writing and Internet activity, that some of you have noticed:
  1. I'm not really someone who gives much of a shit what other people think of me, or what other people think of just about anything at all, for that matter.  Other people can say and do their thing, I'll say and do mine - as long as it's not severely impacting the quality of my life in some tangible way, people are entitled to their opinions and it's all good.
  2. Netizens (both Korean and international) and their constant thoughts (or lack thereof) about all sorts of things are something that I often think are ridiculous, and I enjoy holding some of these people up to contemptuous ridicule.  Since I've started blogging I have a love/hate relationship with netizens because although their opinions are generally worthless and provably wrong it gives me endless blogging material which I can honestly only be thankful for.
This has caused a few people to ask questions along the lines of...

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It's a good question.  This post has the answer, and it's not what you think... well, not exactly.

WYMBFOS 2: Slut-shaming

Find me news of a boy band being strongly publicly criticized (public outlets and/or netizens) for being "too sexy" as a moral issue.

NOT just lyrical content, or because some young girl was somehow getting her purity ruined by them, but judgement of them personally in and of themselves.

That they were doing something offensive by just being too damn sexy for reality, and it was some impure and horrible thing that will influence society for the worse, and they are bad people for it. That "real men" have better character, are more respectful and modest in how they present themselves to women, and care about what children are seeing and the roles they portray, and have higher expectations of themselves and should want to be seen as intelligent and complex beings rather than sex objects, and behave appropriately for all society. Then, as a bonus level of challenge to this, having to change costumes or choreography because of it.

I FUCKING DARE YOU TO FIND SUCH A THING.

Even if you can find such a unicorn/leprechaun of a story, then try and find such things pertaining to females and compare the numbers.

Yes, slut-shamers, you are fucking full of shit.

Busker Busker Disbands?


Dreams do come true.

Fiona Sit - Pheremone



Way back when I was still able to do livestreams (sorry to the livestream viewers, but I never get Fridays and Saturdays off anymore), one of the people in the stream linked me to Fiona Sit and I have liked her ever since. I don't remember exactly who linked the MV (it was a while ago now), but thanks.

On an unrelated note, I'll try to get some of the MV reviews done, but more hours at work were added and the second half of my accounting course has more work compared to the first half, on top of me starting to study for that damn GMAT exam.