I’d imagine that one might have a little trouble trying to back that up when discussing, say, Katamari Damashi, but I’m very sure that it’d be enormously entertaining to read someone try.

I’m not a big fan of the patriarchy either, but this sort of cartoonishly reflexive attacks by someone clearly arguing from a position of outraged ignorance does nobody any favors. Least of all those trying to actually unravel the patriarchal elements of modern society.

…Warhammer minatures?

I know I’m ducking the prevailing wind, here, but this wasn’t what it could be. Some aspects of that old entry were great, T, but others were just, well, goofy, and threw out unexamined and highly dubious assertions willy-nilly in (what would appear to be) the hope that if there were enough of them, nobody would say “wait a second…” A few here had a similar effect on me, feeling like it was trying to boil down complex issues to implied arguments of childlike simplicity.

While I’m a great fan of the power of images, one has to demonstrate at least a little perspective and avoid stretching the truth beyond all recognition. Otherwise, you’re risking throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

(Horrors! Images of child abuse!)

2) But note that the Underground notice *is* a spoof, satire on the police cock-up

Also, I was in London when the latest tranche of terrorist bombs went off there, and the ‘or if you look a bit foreign’ photo/notice made the email rounds shortly after the events. I am 95% sure it was photoshopped and sent round as a disgusted reaction to the heavy-handed police tactics which resulted in the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. I would be very, very surprised if it were a genuine notice.