Thursday, February 27, 2014

My Orifices Cannot Take Any More Sexbang

I got very upset yesterday when I bore witness to garbage billowing out of a human's face at the end of the 15th episode of Game Grumps' Pokémon FireRed series, and so I wanted to share the following on here because evidently I feel quite strongly about it.


Here's the text of my YouTube comment:
Danny... what the fuck? What the fuck even are you saying with these words? "Some people are, some people aren't." Wow. So, hey, any lovelies out there who might be going through some body image issues at the moment, you're probably just unattractive. So sayeth our dearest Sexbang. Thank you, Danny. Also, all babies are adorable. Like, literally, the qualities that humans find cute are the qualities found in our young. I have no idea why you are specifying Asians at all. Did you just, like, take leave of all rationality for a few minutes there? I also like "There are lots of beautiful Asian people." as if that makes it okay that you just said some of them apparently turn out gross. Because what could possibly be more important than being physically beautiful?

Now, Danny would never, for example, single out an overweight woman in the street and tell her she's ugly. I know he would never do that. But apparently it's okay to offhandedly declare that some segment of people aren't attractive. I just don't see a difference between those two actions. Because when you say something like that in a public forum like Game Grumps, viewers with pre-existing insecurities will connect the dots, and it hurts just as bad.

I realise Danny's not out to hurt anyone, and I don't hate him as a person or anything. But this isn't the first straw. It would be cruel and extremely entitled to expect him to be a "replacement Jon" or something like that. He's just himself and that's fine, but I don't like it very much at all. So I guess I'm done now.