Week Links is a collection of some of my favourite links from around the web that I stumbled upon during the past week. You may already be familiar with some of them, but I think they’re worth checking out if you haven’t already.
Pretty much everything the Parent’s Television Council does is nothing more than screaming for attention. Though they claim to be working to help parents with their kids media choices, they don’t do anything of the sort. Their output is dominated by finger pointing and self praise, so it’s always entertaining to see them called out on the absurdity of their tactics. As an aside, while Bully received an R rating in the US, which the Weinstein Company petitioned, and failed, to have reduced to a PG-13 so the kids it is meant to help would be able to see it, in Canada it received a PG.
Patton Oswalt is a hilarious stand up comedian, quite a talented writer, and undeniably a geek. In this essay he dissects society’s current obsession with geeks and its effect on “true” geeks. Will fake geek girls lead to the end of an entire subculture?
Racist “Fans” of The Hunger Games
There are plenty of idiots in the world, and it seems to be the sole purpose of the internet to remind us of this fact each day. In this latest example, it seems a vocal minority (see what I did there? I’ll make sense in a second) are up in arms about the casting of a young black girl as a particularly sympathetic character from the novel, Rue. The reader/audience is meant to feel for this girl and become very emotionally invested in her. Apperently, though, the fact that the actress portraying her is black makes this impossible for some people. It then enters the level of irony when they complain that by making this character black the filmmakers are wrecking the story by straying from the book, despite the fact that the book clearly describes Rue as being black on more than one occasion! The outraged tweets at the end of the article are the highlight, but be aware that there are some moderate spoilers for those who are not already familiar with the plot.
Sleep well,
DTE
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