http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/41001097/Kermit+The+Frog+kermit.jpg
l-r: frogbs, ilx
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
eh, just a white gay dude using the name of a dead black vogue queen, for lols, is all. maybe not explicitly racist but still kinda dumb and gross imho xp
what if it's a white straight dude calling himself Princess TamTam?
― pplains, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
it's like "hey, you're not that guy!"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Kermit is a lot less confrontational than frogbs, also do not want to hear frogbs' version of the rainbow connection
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 6 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
"feeling like ILX poster frogbs handle is kinda uh questionable in itself, in ethologist terms" - a frog reading this thread
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
i cant pinpoint what exactly, but I do think there's something a little weird about my white friends who have like big afro'd black basketball players from the 70s as their twitter avatars or like https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1266476149/Picture_2.png
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
so you'd be more comfortable if they used Larry Bird or Dirk because they resemble them a little more?
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
luis suarez
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/angrycustomer.jpg
― the white plies (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, i'm not saying it makes me UNCOMFORTABLE, frogbullshit, but like elmo says, there is a little something curious about being privileged white male using a black person's picture to define your identity to the world?
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
what if it's a current black basketball player or rapper?
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, i do think there is some level of contextual difference between "i like dj quik" and "check out the way this harlem globetrotter used to look"
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
dude, Meadowlark Lemon was THE SHIT
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
whiney is my t-pain teddy bear avatar racist
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
your t-pain teddy bear avatar is classic
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
i cant pinpoint what exactly, but I do think there's something a little weird about my white friends who have like big afro'd black basketball players from the 70s as their twitter
I feel the same way but I can't decide whether I'm right on or whether the impulse that makes me feel weird about this is bullshit white liberal angst
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I will co-sign that 100%
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
idk, i guess privileged cis white gay dudes laying claim to a trans PoC culture as 'their own' is kinda bothersome to me?
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i blame madonna.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
besides just saying "it's a little curious" why don't you just point out what you think these people are trying to say? like almost all this is is either "I like this guy" or "I think this picture is cool". do you really have to point out "there's a 1% chance this is actually racist, so I'm going to call this out?"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i can't read seth abromavitch's name w/o hearing it in the voice of bobby moynihan saying "gary abromowitz"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
'laying claim' or 'i like this'?
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit i asked what frogbs asked
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
don't tell me that you understand/'til you suggest ban
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
dunno why its necessary to point out all the time "White guys are priviledged! Black guys are not!" but IMO this really seems like looking way too deep into something that is not that significant in the first place. do people really pick their twitter avatar because they want to say "This is me, this is my culture, this is how I grew up, and this is the level of priveledge I have"?
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 6, 2012 12:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
well, what's the difference between "I like rap music" and "I like 70s basketball style"
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
some people think that people in the 70's looked "funny"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
^
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
dunno why its necessary to point out all the time "White guys are priviledged! Black guys are not!"
I know that you don't know why, and won't know why, but it is necessary to point this out all the time. It will no longer be necessary when white ppl don't have all the privilege. You're welcome.
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.mumbrella.com.au/2010/01/Trading-Post-teaser-232x350.jpg
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I know that you don't know why, and won't know why
probably should have just stopped there before you said something stupid
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
xp omg haha
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
iconic
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Will I offend anyone using that picture as my twitter avatar?
full confession: I briefly had Dock Ellis's baseball card as a myspace band avatar for awhile way back when
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
well that certainly is a frog of priviledge
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
damn, almost had whiney calling out half the goon crew as being racist
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
it is necessary to point this out all the time. It will no longer be necessary when white ppl don't have all the privilege. You're welcome.
we're talking about twitter avatars (of people who are richer, more famous, and more talented than us). kinda strikes me as the kind of thing that ONLY white people would have a problem with.
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
no one is richer, more famous, or more talented than me frog b, I don't know what world you live in
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
dock ellis is totally more talented than you aero, sorry
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
I pitch no-hitters on acid all day it's just nobody reports it
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
i see we have a nice shitstorm brewing and i'll let you get on with it, but with the case of 'pepper lebeija' twit handle i guess for me it comes down to reducing trans people of color to objects of amusement? or more generally how paris is burning is largely seen as little more than a fun quotable 'gay' movie, rather than an enthographic documentary of an extremely marginal community?
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
so if my avatar is Kobe Bryant, does that say to you, "people like Kobe are just objects of amusement"?
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
yours personally? yes
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not removing my Eddie Hazel avatars for anyone.
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 6 January 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
hope you don't have a problem with my new DN
― frogbs after dark (frogbs), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's kinda blah
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
That goat looks sort of happy so I object to any use of it as an avatar.
― joygoat, Friday, 6 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, January 6, 2012 10:23 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lool
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Friday, 6 January 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
yo, what are the implications of having a varg vikernes avatar? that's cool rite?
― Mordy, Friday, 6 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link