Things You Just Don't Care About

would you like a medal for self-righteousness, I think I have some lying around somewhere

trump voters and dunham defenders (dunfenders) are different people, motivated by different ideas, and shaped by different forces in the culture. imo.

xp No, I've just seen a lot of bad things in this world, and my interest is in seeing as little pain and suffering happen as possible. And it's depressing and frustrating just watching things get worse instead of better and otherwise intelligent and educated people going along with it.

I respect your motivations and question your judgment

Two whole options!

xp If you question my judgment then you must not keep up with what's going on in the world much. Just look at Trump, another example -- his rise is due in large part to a media system that values profit over the long-term well-being (and potentially, survival) of others, and they have the unchecked power to do it.

Extremely selfish behavior that can seriously harm others for personal profit, accepted as normal by society at large. I don't see much difference between that and giving a pass on Dunham's behavior. It's a belief system we have now that's pervaded our lives in the US in all aspects.

These things don't happen in a vacuum.

So it's incredibly worrying not just from the angle of exploiting children for sex, which is deplorable, it also connects to a whole mess of other serious issues, too, in a race to the bottom for human conduct with incredible amounts of wealth and power behind it and a whole train of people following it. That's what especially worries me.

I give up, feel free to continue alternating between handwringing and patting yourself on the back

i didn't read dunham's book but the excerpt strikes me as being more like a shared gross joke among siblings looking back on their childhood than it does a literal portrayal of what their childhood was really like. i have a hard time imagining a 7-year-old being self-aware enough to have the conscious motives dunham attributes to herself ("i took a perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her"). i don't find the excerpt funny or anything, but it seems like a real stretch to interpret something in a jokey bs memoir so literally. plus there are plenty of solid other reasons to be annoyed or disgusted by lena dunham.

she was trying to talk about her emotional dependency on her sister in an "edgy" way and she fucked up and produced a piece of text that was tasteless and disturbing because she isn't that good of a writer

^^^

i don't think people should be hanged for what they did when they were seven years old but i've clearly lived a different life than larry appleton

Wasn't she as old as 17 when she did some of the stuff though?

Larry otm. edgy shitty shit needs to die.

everyone patting themselves on the back for being self-righteously not self-righteous - good work!

I think Shakey and Tree are probably OTM. She did some weird stuff with her sister that was probably not tantamount to child molestation, and then wrote about it in hyperbolic and, to be sure, tasteless and insufficiently self-aware terms in a failed attempt to be funny and cool. It does seem gross, but it's not the equivalent of confessing to molestation. Similarly, with the Odell Beckham thing, I really don't think she was "oversexualizing black men" or whatever people are drawing from this, I think she was just making a failed joke and being narcissistic. And, as always, she was being narcissistic in that aware but not aware enough way, and it was kind of annoying, but god fucking damnit the whole point of this was supposed to be not caring!

to repeat, I have no idea what she did to her sister and neither does anyone else because the only evidence of the events in question is a narrative from a notoriously unreliable narrator, whose goal was not to divulge the truth of what happened, but to write a "funny" story that would get people's attention. and guess what mission accomplished, congratulations everybody!

congratulations

fabric closing

people on the internet talking about lena dunham.

So wait what didn't you guys care about?

the GDP of Moldavia

i don't care about this thread. what a waste of time.

headphone jacks

more like headphone jackoff amirite

music releases by ageing goths

I'm very interested in what they're doing now, provided I liked their music from the 80s and 90s.

I care quite a lot about headphone jacks.

I'd Rather Mac, Than Headphone Jack

checks back to see when this thread turned into "defending stuff other people don't care about", realises I was the first offender with an impassioned defence of giraffes

Aging goths: Just found out last night that comics writer Steve Niles married Monica Richards from Faith And The Muse, he even plays on her newer stuff (he used to be in punk bands)

(xp) There are disgusting savages who don't care about giraffes?

c'mon, what do they actually bring to Flamingoland?

joking obv.

I heard about a furore in Denmark concerning a giraffe but it hasn't affected my level of caring about them, which remains medium.

But why do I suddenly keep noticing people caring about giraffes?

And on this thread, of all places?

Giraffes are in the news right now due to some species classification arcana

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/science/a-quadruple-take-on-the-giraffe-its-four-species-not-one.html?_r=0

giraffes are disgusting savages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsrFDvz6ftw

German giraffes

#notallgiraffes

You're making it worse.

I just don't care about it tbh

Major giraffe gaffe, dude.

Is the Danish giraffe farrago another autopsy or another feeding to the lions?

(I might mean furore rather than farrago)

torn between caring about everything and thinking nothing matters

don't care about achieving precise electric blues vibrati

Just the same lion feeding, koogs, I hadn't heard about it until last week.

cats and dogs

your pets

i work in a profession in which it is totally acceptable to talk about goddman cats all the time, like if you are a librarian and you don't like cats you a weirdo