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Lamp Cat
shatterdrose says...3 easy payments of $19.99 and you can have your very own Lamp Cat®!
Key & Peele: Office Homophobe
shatterdrose says...As as fellow trans person, I think you're taking this too personally. I transitioned at 30 and can related to the feeling that everyone is staring and judging you.
However, the message in this video applies to much more than gays. For instance, the same could be said for Christians who push their views on everyone else. They're not oppressed, they're just assholes. So is anybody who intentionally ignores social cues such as not showing anus pictures at work. I don't care who you are, I don't want to see it. It's a professional setting. Now, if I was at a fetish event about that, then I'd expect it. At work, I expect work stuff.
Not to mention, the asshole in this video illustrates as well that sometimes the people that feel oppressed are actually oppressing the people who are most likely to support them because they are similar.
The fact that one looks "normal" is a simple foil to be used to accentuate the punchline. Nothing more.
And how exactly does it dismiss it? I no where said that gay men must be flamboyant. I said that suggesting that gay men must look and act straight or face the consequences is deeply problematic. I have no problem with gay men who feel they only differ from straight men with respect to who they like to date. I do have a problem with someone suggesting that ALL gay men need to look and act that way. To me that seems like trying to manage difference so it's palatable to mainstream norms.
Full disclosure: I'm a transsexual, and unless you were extremely lucky or started transitioning before the onset of puberty, that means spending part of your transition, or in the worst case the rest of your life, looking visibly "not normal" to everyone else. I was not flamboyant, I was polite, unassuming, and did my best to fit in, but for a few years my mere existence was, to many people, as obnoxious and offensive as the flamboyant man in this video. Does that mean I deserved the hate and discrimination I got? I sure hope not. The fact that this video seems to say don't look different or you'll get what's coming to you, hits a nerve for me because for several years I COULDN'T look "normal" however much I wanted to. I'm just thankful I'm past that phase and people now see me as I see myself, treat me how I want to be treated, and I can live a "normal" life, because if this video is anything to go by then that's the hurdle you have to clear before you've earned the right not to be hated or discriminated against.
Australian Breakdancer’s Insane Workout
shatterdrose says...And here I thought my crunches were hard . . .
Microsoft's Hyperlapse Technical Summary
shatterdrose says...The solution for the influx of terrible GoPro videos!
Pinky and the Brain Swearing
shatterdrose says...This has to probably be the best thing I've seen all year!
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Teaser Trailer
shatterdrose says...Anyone else notice that Middle Earth doesn't seem to believe in railings?
Hot Water - Simon's Cat
shatterdrose jokingly says...Or he could stop starving his cat.
That dude really needs to get rid of that cat...
Unbelievably Bad Beat at $1 Million Buy-in Poker Tournament
shatterdrose says...I'm still shocked this is a "sport". Furthermore, A MILLION DOLLARS!!!!?????
Damn I wish I had that kind of money to blow on a card game.
Two women caught stealing a canopy on the beach
shatterdrose says...Fuck. Of course it was Florida. Dammit.
Urban Pallet Surfing
shatterdrose says...Wouldn't a skate board be more practical?
Very cool movie magic - How did they do that?
shatterdrose says...Well, looks like compositing. Leto's actions don't synchronize perfectly as they would in a real mirror. From my experience working in film:
Looks to me like the shot the beginning part as a composite shot, basically on green screen, or even on the real set and rotoscoped. The shot through the mirror was the actual long take. There was no mirror, of course, and after the camera approached the wall, either the matte or set was pulled away from camera to allow the camera to go through. Possible reason for the camera pause being technical rather than story driven.
If you look at his arm, the foreground Leto reaches out before the mirror Leto does. Also, given the style of lighting on foreground Leto, which doesn't match mirror Leto, to me suggest they were lighting for a green screen. That's a typical light setup for ideal keying.
Big Jump Small Cat
shatterdrose says...How is that not CG?? The ladder must have acted as a spring or something.
BBC Anchor omits a Somewhat Crucial pause in his opener
shatterdrose says...Hopefully you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself and misspelled commas. lol
Damn you beat me to it
BBC Anchor omits a Somewhat Crucial pause in his opener
shatterdrose says...lmao. Buuuurrrnn. I blame autocorrect . . . . . *looks around*
commas, even.
Things you're doing wrong every day: everything
shatterdrose says...I dip my hamburger in my ketchup . . . then again, I also put my ketchup on a plate or something.