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		<title>Christian Wulff, Politik und Pressefreiheit: Deutschland und seine Traditionen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Es scheint, als gebe es unter Politikern einen argumentativen Trend bei der Rechtfertigung von Angriffen auf die Pressefreiheit, der sich linguistisch beschreiben und kodifizieren ließe.]]></description>
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<p>„Die Presse- und Rundfunkfreiheit ist für den Bundespräsidenten ein hohes Gut. Er hat deshalb zu den Krediten für sein Eigenheim und zu Urlaubsaufenthalten Transparenz hergestellt, Erklärungen abgegeben und mehrere Hundert Medienanfragen beantwortet. Über Vieraugengespräche und Telefonate gibt der Bundespräsident aber grundsätzlich keine Auskunft.“<br />
—Aus einer schriftlichen Erklärung Wulffs vom 2. Januar 2012</p>
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<p>Nachdem der <del datetime="2012-01-04T18:28:10+00:00">mittlerweile zurückgetretenene</del> deutsche Bundespräsident Christian Wulff namhaften Vertretern presseähnlicher Angebote telephonisch mit der Auflösung <del datetime="2012-01-04T18:28:10+00:00">der Verlobung</del> des guten Verhältnisses <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.fr-online.de/politik/wulff-droht-journalisten-kriegserklaerung-auf-dem-anrufbeantworter,1472596,11381202.html">gedroht hat</a>, um <del datetime="2012-01-04T18:28:10+00:00">die Schufa-Auskunft</del> eine Berichterstattung über seine Kredite zu verhindern, gab er nun ein Interview für ARD und ZDF, das „Sperrfristen“ unterliegt, aber von einem dieser presseähnlichen Angebote in Auszügen vorab veröffentlicht werden durfte. Schon nicht schlecht. (Das Interview als mp3 gibt es hier auf <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://netzpolitik.org/2012/preview-das-wulff-interview-als-audio/"><em>Netzpolitik</em></a>.)</p>
<p>Besonders aufgefallen ist mir dieses interessante Sätzchen:</p>
<blockquote><p>„Der Bundespräsident hat bestritten, er wollte Berichte über sich verhindern. Er habe sie nur aufhalten wollen.“ </p></blockquote>
<p>Diese Verteidigung erinnert mich an einen Satz von Franz Josef Strauß, dem ich vor langer Zeiten in einer Doku zur <a rel="external" class="wiki" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel-Affäre"><em>Spiegel</em>-Affäre</a> begegnete, und das mir seitdem nie wieder aus dem Kopf ging. In der <em>Spiegel</em>-Affäre, wir erinnern uns, wurde versucht, die Pressefreiheit über den Vorwurf des Landesverrats und das Erlassen von Haftbefehlen gegen Redakteure einzuschränken, und das alles unter nicht vollständig gesetzeskonformer „Zusammenarbeit“ zwischen Politik und Justiz. Im Rahmen dieser Affaire wurde der damalige Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Strauß <del datetime="2012-01-04T18:28:10+00:00">noch gründlicher als gewöhnlich</del> beim Lügen erwischt, was zu seinem Rücktritt führte. Und hier fiel in einem Interview dieses denkwürdige Zitat:</p>
<blockquote><p>„Ich habe nicht gelogen, ich habe nur bewußt die Unwahrheit gesagt.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Es scheint, als gebe es unter Politikern einen argumentativen Trend bei der Rechtfertigung von Angriffen auf die Pressefreiheit, der sich linguistisch beschreiben und kodifizieren ließe.</p>
<p>Zum Abschluß eine Stellungnahme vom bekannten deutschen Mundart- und Brauchtumsforscher Oliver Kalkofe.</p>
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<a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2T30O2NQs">Oliver Kalkofe — Die wahre Presseerklärung von Christian Wulff</a></p>
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		<title>The World After Advertising: Krise, welche Krise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auch das Berufsbild des Creative Directors wird zunehmend wertiger.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Short Strokes:</strong><br />
Spontane Einträge<br />
<em>social · mobile · real-time</em><br />
off the top of my head.</p>
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<p>Aus der Stellenanzeige für den Posten eines Creative Directors (m/w) für eine Hamburger Agentur, deren hochmotiviertes Expertenteam langjährige Online-Erfahrung, Kreativität, Flexibilität und die Integration modernster Webtechnologie zu seinen Stärken zählt, die mit ihrem neuen Geschäftsmodell im Bereich „datengetriebene Online-Werbung“ eine Vorreiterrolle in Deutschland und Europa anstrebt und dafür engagierte Mitarbeiter sucht, die in einem jungen Team Teil ihrer Erfolgsgeschichte werden wollen:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ihre Aufgaben:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fachliche und disziplinarische Leitung eines Teams</li>
<li>Konzeption und Gestaltung von anspruchsvollen Werbemitteln</li>
<li>Entwicklung von neuen Banner-Formaten und Weiterentwicklung von neuen, innovativen, Banner-Templates</li>
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<p>Alles klar, innovative Zeichensetzung inbegriffen. Und als Bonus aus der erheblich umfangreicheren Profilanforderung, nach dem Motto: „So lange ich Online-Banner mache, kommt mir keine TexterIn ins Haus“:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mehrjährige Erfahrung in namenhaften oder internationalen Agenturen</p></blockquote>
<p>Schauderhafter Scherz beiseite — für das Geschäftsmodell im Bereich „datengetriebene Online-Werbung“ gilt sicherlich: <a rel="me related" class="external" href="http://www.werbeblogger.de/2011/05/10/yes-i-love-you-too-data-love-auf-der-next11/"><em>Wir sind nicht die Daten, die Sie suchen</em></a>. Des weiteren gab es die Tage einen interessanten Artikel zur Entwicklung von Werbeagenturen auf <em>Business Insider</em> von George Parker: <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-22/news/30545733_1_newer-agencies-agency-clients">“Advertising Firms Need To Be Downsized Before They Become Too Dumb For Their Own Good”</a>. Während ich Parkers Diagnose weitgehend teile, teile ich nicht vollständig seine Überlegungen zur Kur. Ich denke, es bedarf wesentlich radikalerer Ansätze, die noch weiter und bis hin zu den archaischen Anfängen von Werbung zurückreichen, um auf dieser Basis neue, <a rel="me related" class="external" href="http://www.werbeblogger.de/2010/11/29/twaa10-kongress-the-world-after-advertising/">vernetzungsfreundliche</a> und <a rel="me related" class="external" href="http://www.werbeblogger.de/2009/12/02/die-fuenfte-wand-kein-recht-auf-welt-und-weissraum/">weißraumfähige</a> Kommunikationsmodelle für unser Leben in der digitalen Zukunft zu entwerfen.
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		<title>“LOL Thanks for the Free PR I know the Editor N Chief of Kotaku, IGN, Engadget I’ll be meeting them at CES”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“They still haven’t shipped yet on the way here from china”]]></description>
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<p><strong>Short Strokes:</strong><br />
Spontane Einträge<br />
<em>social · mobile · real-time</em><br />
off the top of my head.</p>
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<p><a rel="external" class="external" href="http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html">Penny Arcade</a> just published the most incredible email conversation you will ever read—well, okay, at least the most incredible email conversation you will ever read about a long-placed order of gaming equipment—featuring Ocean Marketing, a customer, and a Xmas pre-order of two <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.avengercontroller.com/">Avenger Controllers</a>!</p>
<p>Things become <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html">really special</a> from December 26 on.</p>
<p>As <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/pr-man-to-find-out-if-what-the.html">Bob Beschizza</a> puts it, in a few sentences:</p>
<blockquote><p>After weeks of promises, a game controller company failed to deliver a long-placed order in time for Christmas. The customer complained, carbon-copying his email to industry bloggers and luminaries. The company’s representative not only threw abuse back at the customer, calling him a “bitch,” but boasted about his relationships with the CCd editors of Kotaku, IGN, Penny Arcade, and so on. Can you guess how that worked out for him?</p></blockquote>
<p>It worked out great, of course. PR worked its magic.</p>
<p><span class="important">But wait! There’s more!</span> Apparently, someone at Ocean Marketing has <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost">shut down the cooling system</a>.</p>
<p><span class="important">Amendment 2011-12-28</span> Now it’s become a meme. And it’s getting better by the minute!</p>
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<a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqV9kx40RG0">Ocean Marketing vs. Penny Arcade:</a> Just another day in the office at Ocean Marketing.</p>
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		<title>The Search for Our Beginning Could Lead to Our End: First Prometheus Teaser Poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wait—June 8, 2012? It must be a cruel joke!]]></description>
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<p><strong>Short Strokes:</strong><br />
Spontane Einträge<br />
<em>social · mobile · real-time</em><br />
off the top of my head.</p>
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<p>By now, I guess, everybody’s caught the first <em>Prometheus</em> trailer. But a couple days before that, the first official teaser poster had been released. And it’s awesome:</p>
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<p>But wait! <em>June 8?</em> They can’t be serious! Are we supposed to <em>wait that long</em>? It must be a cruel joke. Haha, very funny. We had a blast. Now tell me the <em>real</em> release date, please…</p>
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		<title>Book-Cut Storytelling: Carved Landscapes</title>
		<link>http://betweendrafts.com/2011/12/26/book-cut-storytelling-carved-landscapes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS.”]]></description>
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<p>Book-cut storytelling again! Also check out my previous posts on this topic:<br />
<a rel=internal" class="internal" href="http://betweendrafts.com/2010/03/08/textual-landscapes-book-cut-storytelling-evolved/">Book-Cut Storytelling: Evolved</a><br />
<a rel="internal" class="internal" href="http://betweendrafts.com/2010/05/10/book-cut-storytelling-environment/">Book-Cut Storytelling: Environment</a><br />
<a rel="internal" class="internal" href="http://betweendrafts.com/2010/09/13/book-cut-storytelling-three-stills-and-a-lemon/">Book-Cut Storytelling: Three Stills and a Lemon</a></p>
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<p>Meet <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php">Guy Laramee</a>, who carves out these phantastic landscapes from books. On his website, you&#8217;ll find his carved book-cuts in the menu on the left under <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/biblios/text-1/">“Biblios”</a> and <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/previous-projects/the-great-wall/">“The Great Wall.”</a> </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s two more samples, from “Biblios” and “The Great Wall,” respectively:</p>
<p><a href="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/landscapes-02.jpg"><img src="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/landscapes-02.jpg" alt="Carved Landscapes II" title="Carved Landscapes II" width="500" height="626" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13647" /></a></p>
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<p>On “Biblios,” Laramee wrote <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/biblios/biblios/">quite a bit of text</a>, but it’s in French, alas. “The Great Wall” series, however, has its own story (and it’s in English, too):</p>
<blockquote><p>Having recently overthrown the American Empire in the 23rd century, the Chinese Empire set out to chronicle the history of the Great Panics during the 21st and 22nd centuries. </p>
<p>This Herculean undertaking resulted in a historiographical masterwork entitled, <span class="straight">The Great Wall</span>. Comprising 100 volumes, this encyclopaedia derives its name from <span class="straight">The Great Wall of America</span>, a monumental project to build an impregnable wall around the United States of America so as to protect this land from barbarian invasions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read more <a http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/biblios/biblios/href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/previous-projects/the-great-wall/">here</a>!</p>
<p>Finally, from the <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/intro/">Artist Statement</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Stoffhäschen-Sonntag (25), Holiday Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Festgrüße von allen kleinen und ganz kleinen Stoffhäschen!]]></description>
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<p>Festgrüße von allen kleinen und ganz kleinen Stoffhäschen!</p>
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<p>Feiern möchten wir die Feiertage mit dem Bild, das den kleinen Stoffhäschen im ausklingenden Jahr am besten gefallen hat:</p>
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<p>(Image: <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://begemott.deviantart.com/#/dp4fv7">“sweet halloween dreams“</a> by begemott)</p>
<p><strong>Happy Hanukkah! Happy Christmas! Happy New Year!</strong><br />
wünschen euch alle kleinen und ganz kleinen Stoffhäschen.</p>
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		<title>Buchcovergestaltung: Zwei Welten, ein Gedanke?</title>
		<link>http://betweendrafts.com/2011/12/24/buchcovergestaltung-zwei-welten-ein-gedanke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gyokusai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Es gibt bestimmt eine einfache Erklärung — aber möglicherweise nicht die spontan naheliegende.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_13601" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 293px"><a href="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/griseri-schaetzing.jpg"><img src="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/griseri-schaetzing-small.jpg" alt="Griseri und Schätzing" title="Griseri und Schätzing" width="283" height="230" class="size-full wp-image-13601" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">brave new texts</p></div>
<p>Griseri, Paul. <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.amazon.com/Management-Knowledge-Paul-Griseri/dp/0333770943/"><em>Management Knowledge: A Critical View</em></a>. New York: Palgrave, 2001.</p>
<p>Schätzing, Frank. <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.amazon.de/Schwarm-Frank-Schätzing/dp/3462033743/r"><em>Der Schwarm</em></a>. Köln: Kiepenheuer &#038; Witsch, 2004.</p>
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<p>Es gibt bestimmt eine einfache Erklärung …</p>
<p><a href="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/griseri-schaetzing.jpg"><img src="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/griseri-schaetzing.jpg" alt="Griseri und Schätzing" title="Griseri und Schätzing" width="590" height="434" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13602" /></a></p>
<p>… aber möglicherweise nicht die spontan naheliegende. </p>
<p>Mehrere gute Gründe sprechen <em>gegen</em> ein Plagiat, und alle betreffen das erscheinungsmäßig frühere Griseri-Cover. Meine Hardcover-Ausgabe sieht völlig anders aus, das Motiv ist untypisch für Publikationen aus diesem Verlag, die Gestaltung insgesamt scheint für dieses Themenfeld nicht plausibel und die Typographie ist mehr als amateurhaft.</p>
<p>Was könnte passiert sein? Meine Hypothese: Irgendwann muß irgendwo irgendjemand dieses Griseri-Pseudo-Cover für den Online-Handel „zusammengehackt“ haben, weil das echte Cover nicht als Bilddatei vorlag (Bücher ohne Bild verkaufen sich nicht gut). Dieses Cover muß dann auf irgendeine Weise, möglicherweise bei Amazon, in eine der führenden Buchdatenbanken gerutscht und dort bis-daß-der-Tod-uns-scheidet mit der dazugehörigen ISBN verbunden worden sein. Und aus Amazons API wiederum bedienen sich dann alle Online-Dienste, Online-Bibliotheken und Online-Händler, um über die ISBN-Nummer automatisch das Cover einzubinden.</p>
<p>Ich gebe zu, diese Hypothese hat zu viele „wenns“ und mißachtet damit das Sparsamkeitsprinzip von <a rel="external" class="wiki" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_Rasiermesser">Occams Rasiermesser</a>. Aber trotz meiner allseits bekannten und mit einer Auswahl an Zitaten unterfütterten <a rel="internal" class="internal" href="http://betweendrafts.com/2010/04/28/der-schwarm-von-frank-schaetzing/">maximalen Aversion</a> gegen diverse Unter- und Obertöne und den generellen Stil von Schätzings <em>Schwarm</em> kann ich nicht plausibel annehmen, daß hinsichtlich der Buchcovergestaltung ein Plagiat vorliegt.</p>
<p>Wenn es tatsächlich so ist, wie ich denke, können wir daraus wieder eine Lehre ziehen über die (Quasi-)Monopolisierung digitaler Dienstleistungen: nicht nur sind alle Amazon-Seiten und sämtliche Partner und Affiliates davon betroffen, sondern auch alle anderen Buchhändler wie zum Beispiel <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/management-knowledge-paul-griseri/1004863530">Barnes &#038; Noble</a>, Social-Web-Bibliotheken wie <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.librarything.com/work/8799458">LibraryThing</a> und sogar der herausgebende Verlag <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=260470">Palgrave Macmillan</a> selbst. (Wenn es nicht so ist, wie ich denke, können wir natürlich eine andere Lehre ziehen.)</p>
<p>Und was unternähme ich als Autor in einem solchen Fall, wenn mein Buch überall auf der Welt mit einem amateurhaft gestalteten, pseudoplagiierten Cover feilgeboten würde? </p>
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		<title>When You Step on Their Privileges, Men Are Such Delicate Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chauvinist fun for the whole family.]]></description>
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<p>Several days ago, <em>Kotaku</em> had an article up on <a rel="external" class="external" href="http://kotaku.com/5868595/nerds-and-male-privilege">Nerds and Male Privilege</a>. Nothing fancy—just a piece about everyday sexism and regular male obtuseness. Originally, the only thing I’d wanted to add was this:</p>
<div id="attachment_13561" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 600px"><a href="http://mlkshk.com/p/64LV"><img src="http://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/posing.jpg" alt="If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman" title="If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman" width="590" height="331" class="size-full wp-image-13561" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman</p></div>
<p><a rel="external" class="external" href="http://jezebel.com/5829204/if-male-superheroes-posed-like-wonder-woman">Source</a> (there&#8217;s more!)</p>
<p>Which kinda illustrates nicely the point of the article’s introductory story:</p>
<blockquote><p>She was in there for less than 4 minutes before one mouth-breathing troglodyte began alternately staring at her boobs—evidently hoping that x-ray vision could develop spontaneously—berating her for daring to comment on the skimpy nature of the costumes—in this case, Lady Death and Witchblade. <span class="straight">[…]</span> When both the manager and I explained to him in no uncertain terms as to what he did wrong he shrugged his shoulders. “Hey, I was just trying to help you guys! She couldn’t understand that chicks can be tough and sexy! Not my fault she’s a chauvinist,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>But this attitude itself, however widespread and obnoxious it is, isn’t what the article is about: it’s about <em>acknowledging</em> that something’s wrong, nothing less, nothing more. This paragraph pretty much sums it up:</p>
<blockquote><p>Y’see, one of the issues of male privilege as it applies to fandom is the instinctive defensive reaction to any criticism that maybe, just maybe, shit’s a little fucked up, yo. Nobody wants to acknowledge that a one-sided (and one-dimensional) portrayal of women is the dominant paradigm in gaming; the vast majority of female characters are sexual objects.</p></blockquote>
<p>And this is where the story starts, as <em>Kotaku</em>’s comment section brings on the burning stupid in huge tanker trucks. </p>
<p>Choice gems you’ll find there:</p>
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<p>“Why do all of these articles address the entire Kotaku audience like it is nothing but sexist white males?”</p>
<p>“If women are going to get into gaming, it’s not going to be because we all agree to stare at the floor when they walk in a comic shop.”</p>
<p>“If women enjoy gaming, then game developers will find ways to try to cater to that market, because they like money.”</p>
<p>“Here’s an idea. If women, or anyone out there doesn’t want to play certain games, then don&#8217;t play them.”</p>
<p>“[Women] won’t go to comic shops even if they like gaming, because they don’t have to and never would want to.”</p>
<p>“[C]hances are if they went and made their own games with diverse casts, it would become entirely about how diverse they are, defeating the point entirely.”</p>
<p>“And for every male character that isn’t dressed completely out of the situation, there’s a Goku whose shirt has been ripped off by energy blasts or what have you. Men are sexualized, too.”</p>
<p>“It is about the constant stream of pretty much identical articles on Kotaku, which solely focus on ‘normalos’ and how they behave to minority X. And this fact indeed makes the point of ‘reflect’ rather stupid. We already did that with the last article and the one before and the other one… I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t need to reflect each week how I treated other races, genders, sexual orientations or whatever.”</p>
<p>“Generalizing is one of the most maleficts In this generation. […] Thus, I’ve met girls that are way pervert than most of my male friends out there.“</p>
<p>“You must honestly think that we&#8217;re all complete idiots. I don’t think that a single person commenting in this entire article would deny that male privilege exists. The fact that you actually think they would explains why you’re so condescending, insulting and ill-informed. I told you, I have studied gender issues before.”</p>
<p>“Games are all about exaggeration, fantasy, adventure, excitement, and yes, even a little sex. It’s not meant to offend any one, but simply appeal to our imaginations.”</p>
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<p><strong>Bonus quotes, from the <em>Burning Stupid at One Million Degrees</em> Edition:</strong></p>
<p>The reason all that sexist white males crap don’t apply to <em>me</em> is because…</p>
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<p>“I&#8217;m an Arab-American male, and I have two liberal arts degrees!”</p>
<p>“[T]his is simply not good journalism. It feels myopic and un-researched. It insults half it’s audience and ignores the other. As loyal readers we deserve better.”</p>
<p>“I am a middle class white male and consider myself a feminist but, although I acknowledge that there may be circumstances that lead to these people feeling the way they do, I have little respect for so-called ‘militant’ or ‘man-hating’ feminists.”</p>
<p>“So apparently, its my fault I enjoy the female form and was born a white male in America. Alright then sorry for being born.”</p>
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<p>Defend, counter, argue, resist. Change the subject, move the goal posts, call the forces of the self-correcting market. Discredit, disclaim, deny.</p>
<p>Remember, it was about <em>acknowledging the problem</em>.</p>
<p>But, to end on a somewhat lighter note, some things <em>do</em> get better: pointless armor is now available in Dude!</p>
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<p>I find the shades particularly appealing.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Short Strokes:</strong><br />
Spontane Einträge<br />
<em>social · mobile · real-time</em><br />
off the top of my head.</p>
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<p>It’s in German, but you’ll get the gist. It’s all there: Suspense! Character Development! Buddy Dynamics! Topical References! Action! It’s so easy, everybody can do it! (Well in fact, sometimes it feels like indeed everybody does.)</p>
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<a rel="external" class="external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QENcN-srE0">Der typische Tatort in 123 Sekunden</a></p>
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		<title>Microrant: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Short Strokes:</strong><br />
Spontane Einträge<br />
<em>social · mobile · real-time</em><br />
off the top of my head.</p>
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<p>Die Zukunft des bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens und anderer gesellschaftlicher Visionen steht und fällt mit unserer Fähigkeit, für kommende Generationen strukturelle Anreize und Stimuli jenseits der klassischen Parameter „Existenzsicherung“, „Wachstum“ und „Wettbewerb“ zu schaffen. </p>
<p>Für diese Aufgabe ist unser Erziehungs- und Bildungssystem geradezu ideal … oh, Moment.</p>
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<p><em>Pressemitteilung der Piratenpartei Deutschland, 03.12.2011:</em><br />
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