It’s nearly 1am and the dogs just started barking really loudly. I left my room to find my brother on the landing and we both proceeded downstairs with cricket bats to check for intruders.
The middle of the night is not a good time to fuck with the English.
Unashamed rape, misogyny and homophia-based humour, and general utter dickheadery.
I’ll actually hand you over to Vice for a more in-depth analysis of the twats.
Rule #1: Don’t refer to yourself as a LAD.
Rule #2: Don’t refer to your mates as LADS.
Rule #3: Nothing about the UniLAD outlook on life is funny.
Rule #4: Don’t try to passive-aggressively justify the UniLAD outlook on life.
Are we clear? Good.
Seasons 1 & 2 of Seinfeld.
The expanded edition of The Vertigo of Bliss .
GOOD DAY.
The fact that the phrase ‘Facebook rape’ exists and is in constant, unashamed use has always appalled me. Really, think about how wrong it is.
‘Facebook hack’ makes for a better acronym anyway.
Fack. FACKING. Seriously, how did that not catch on?
This is the horrible thing about metaphor mapping. Reflects pretty badly on people morally, but sadly not on their creative language use…
OBVIOUSLY everything I said after this DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE USE OF “FACEBOOK RAPE”. IT IS A HORRIBLE THING TO SAY. IT TRIVIALISES RAPE, WHICH IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE.
However, what I am about to do it try and explain how we got to using it.
For example, you can map “rape” to “changing someone’s Facebook status” through a few common attributes.
- You don’t want it/it can be unprovoked.
- It can take place while you’re going about your daily business.
- Afterwards you’re left feeling vulnerable/ashamed.
- There can be a physical struggle to prevent it. (this applies more to rape)
- The rapist feels entertained/empowered based on the other persons embarrassment?? (It’s hard to pick the right word)
‘ve tried to be a bit sensitive there, it’s really hard to pick the right words… Anyway, whereas though there are still parallels that can be made between status changing and hacking there is one point that differs, that explains a likelihood as to why “hacking” wouldn’t be chosen as a parallel.
- “Hacking” to most people has scientific connotations, whereas “fraping” is much cruder - like the action.
- “Hacking” is a specifically digital term and generally refers to finding out or generating someone’s password and then logging into their account.
So, here you can see that the parallel between hacking and status changing wouldn’t happen, just because generally it is a surprise action when someone’s account is left logged in, rather than a log in itself.
A science reason why the word “frape” was more likely to take off than the word “fack”.
(Admittedly this argument is weaker)
If we look at the content of both of these words:f - labiodental fricative (front of mouth)
r - alveolar approximant (front of mouth)
a - open mid/close front vowel (front of mouth, towards the top)
p - bilabial plosive. (front of mouth)
VS
f - labiodental fricative (front of mouth)
a - open front vowel (front of mouth, at the bottom)
c -velar plosive (back of mouth)
In the first one there is a lot of front of mouth at the top action, whereas in the second there is a lot of movement around the mouth. Articulation is lazy, so there’s one reason why “frape” was more likely to take off.
Obviously this isn’t a certainty and won’t work in EVERY SINGLE CASE, it’s just way of explaining why the word might take off. It works if you look at a lot of commonly used fa words - farm, false, fart, falling, fat, fan, family etc. they all seem to be at the front of the mouth.
So yeah, that’s why the word “frape” was likely to take off. :\
I’m just gonna reiterate, for everybody going ape over Leo’s post, that circumcision is the absolute bomb, and I firmly believe nobody should be anti-it.
The fact that the phrase ‘Facebook rape’ exists and is in constant, unashamed use has always appalled me. Really, think about how wrong it is.
‘Facebook hack’ makes for a better acronym anyway.
Fack. FACKING. Seriously, how did that not catch on?
Seriously, enough with the absolute demonisation of people who take interest in causes like feminism but are still on the learning curve. This stuff is not black and white.
Discussion and conversation are where education stems from, so take the high ground and understand that many of the people familiarising themselves with feminism are realising a new perspective to the one they were brought up to have, and that takes time and thought.
The majority of us are essentially on the same side, so if you see an opinion that you disagree with from a source you know to be a good person, don’t be an asshole; discuss it with them and help widen their knowledge.
How is that not obvious?
I am getting dangerously close to unfollowing everybody posting about Tom Hiddleston and the Avengers fandom - or actually, any of your ridiculously over-the-top fandoms - and have finally embarked on another round of booting off everybody who even mentions shipping, or engages in posts with ‘funny’ tags or lame internetisms.
Most of you are nearly - and some of you actually are - adults. Adults.
How are you going to possibly going to hold down jobs or learn to do your own laundry?
I really am very fond of all these American emo revival bands, but they don’t half all sound like colossal douchebags nearly all the time.
SEX! SEX EVERYWHERE! ALL OF YOU, HAVE SEX! GO ON! ULTIMATELY IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS! HA! WHY AREN’T YOU OBSESSED WITH HAVING SEX? EVERYONE ELSE IS! WHAT A FUCKING LOSER! A-HA-HA.
Frankly I am very sick of nudity. Do you remember being younger, when there was something truly exciting and special to seeing a naked body? It’s gotten to the point where I almost grimace when I see someone I don’t know with their clothes off, as it now feels utterly unremarkable in the online culture we’re part of. I’m tired of seeing full-on sex images thrown around everywhere with intense regularity, like there’s no longer anything personal or significant about the act.
It actually really weirds me out how intensely sex-obsessed everybody on here is. It should be a bigger deal to post an image of a hardcore sex act amongst pictures of your favourite movies and snaps of you and your friends, and it should be a bigger deal to anonymously interrogate women about their sex lives over and over again, but it isn’t, and it really just doesn’t feel right.
“my parents worked hard” is no excuse fucking hell my parents work hard too but i still go to a state school? i’m always going to know that when i apply for uni i’ll be up against people who attended the best schools in the country and learnt latin and played LACROSSE and it is ridiculously unfair because everyone should have the same opportunities regardless of what your parents earn or where you’re from.
it’s funny because i leave school next week and i can bet you now a large percentage of my year will be unemployed until they die, a large percentage of them will be single mothers or heroin addicts and it’s not because they’re bad people, it’s because they’ve got nothing to strive for. i don’t think you can empathise with people like that if you’ve never been in their position, which is exactly the reason the current government are so out of fucking touch.
if you’re telling me it’s not going to make a difference being told at a private school “oh you could go to oxford!” compared to “oh do a plumbing nvq at the local college” (which is one of the many exciting things offered to a lot of people) then you’re mistaken.
it makes me feel physically sick to see the barrier between the classes in Britain in this day and ages, it’s ridiculous that it’s even still there. your background makes a huge difference and everyone knows it, that’s the worst part
You clearly have a very warped idea of what private school actually offers, and a very exaggerated idea of the state of modern comprehensives. I’ve spent a substantial amount of time at both and I can promise you that the private school is not always the better school, that the state comp I was at encouraged us to attend university as vehemently as the private school did, and that sate education can be exceptional. Heroin addiction and lifelong unemployment? I hate to burst your class-obsessed bubble but a spell at a private school wouldn’t fix that.
Wherever you are, if you want to work hard and do so then you will invariably succeed, especially as universities nationwide are now more inclined to accept state-educated applicants than private, although admittedly this has not always been the case. If private education is the right thing to do for my future children and I am financially stable enough to accommodate the fees, then that’s what I plan on doing. If not, I have bonafide confidence in state education from personal experience.
And most importantly of all, you are the one perpetuating the class barrier with your utterly horrendous stereotypes.
You do realise that endlessly affirming your support for gay marriage is completely unnecessary and ineffectual in an online community in which everybody shares exactly the same opinion as you?
I know you’re not prejudiced, believe it or not; it’s not a big deal. Or maybe you’d like some recognition for it? Kindly give the pseudo-intellectual rants at American politicians a rest and do something useful.
We all support gay marriage, and believe it or not, the politicians can’t hear or see your Tumblr posts.
This lovely huge old shirt I’ve been wearing looks ridiculous when it’s tucked in and I’m out and about but I’ve been wandering around in just the shirt and my boxers for an hour or so and I’ve grown to rather like it. Feels like I’m dressed to be in Trainspotting or something.
I have interesting legs.
