Posts Tagged “Germany”
US-based toy retailer Toys"R"Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders about the store’s 2008 Christmas catalogue. According to the youngsters, the Toys"R"Us Christmas catalogue featured “outdated gender roles because boys and girls were shown playing with different types of toys, whereby the boys were portrayed as active and the girls as passive”. Thumbing through the catalogue, 13-year-old Hannes Psajd explained that he and his twin sister had always shared the same toys and that he was concerned about the message sent by the Toys"R"Us publication. “Small girls in princess stuff…and here are boys dressed as super heroes. It’s obvious that you get affected by this.” – Read the full article at The Local
Hey Koes, it’s a pony! ;) Photo made by Cheatara
I’m well aware of what kind of comments will be posted by some of our readers but I don’t really care. I’m so sick of these stupid gender clichés. You like boys to be “boyish”? Well, good for you but that doesn’t mean they want to be boyish just because you or the society expects them to be. We should get rid of the whole concept of acting masculine or feminine. The case above isn’t really special for Sweden but I’m glad to see that this Swedish attitude comes to Germany too (even if some Swedes might already be annoyed by all the political correctness ;p).
UPDATE: Boing Boing had a post about this too earlier today and the first 2 comments there made my day. Sorry America, you just got pwned ;o) On a more serious note: Stop thinking of teenagers as brainless mutants, kthx.
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It’s still Monday somewhere, right? Good, because this one was too good to be wasted ;) This week’s milkboy is not only especially cute but also blessed with some other talents. Juan José Amaro Fernández was one of the candidates at “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (a German version of shows like American Idol or Britain’s got Talent), was featured in Germany’s well-known youth magazine BRAVO and his band UNFAMOUS can be found in the German MySpace charts regularly. And he’s a milkboy. Thanks heaps for making that cute photo for us Juan! <3
Go and watch his videos!
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Posted by Josh~ in Fight, Other, tags: Germany
Text stolen from Karl over at the Destroyer Blog <3 ‘cause i couldn’t make it to the demo this year sadly.
Like last year, the Freedom not Fear (Freiheit statt Angst) demonstration in Berlin attracted thousands of people (25,000 according to a press release found at Netzpolitik). Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay was there, as well as Pirate Party supporter Oscar Swartz, and Claudia Roth of the German Green Party. [comment by Josh: The Left party was there also of course. The fact that the Green Party tries to act like they are the civil rights party is somewhat hypocritical seeing how they supported surveillance laws when they were in the German government.]
The Pirate Party at the demo. I just wish they would use the Swedish Purple as their colour, not that fugly Orange.
A few rainbow flags could be seen in the crowd. I think the gay movement in general has missed that the privacy issues that the Pirate Parties have put on the agenda are very relevant to gay people. For example, when the Berlin gay guide Siegessäule interviewed politicians about gay issues, the focus was mostly marriage and adoption – the traditional gay issues. But those fights are won; today politicians compete in offering gay people human rights. It’s time to look upon gay politics from another angle. If gay people knew their history, they would worry about excessive surveillance laws, since gays and just about anyone with a different lifestyle are common targets in a society that aims to control its citizens. Surveillance laws will be misused, period.
More photos (yes, also of cute boys)
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Posted by Josh~ in Controversy, Fight, Other, Video, tags: Austria, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Sweden, UK, USA
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Posted by Josh~ in Media, Movies, tags: Germany, UK
TV channel Fox started airing Skins on German TV recently. Skins, which was only available as download via BitTorrent or DVD import to Non-UK residents for a good while, became an insiders’ secret for gay teenagers all over the world but the German perversion of dubbing foreign series turns it into a disaster.
Tony and Maxxie from Skins, season 1 | Photo via The Bats Nest
The BAFTA-winning teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England as they grow up is one of the most popular TV series in the United Kingdom and fans, as well as critics, appreciate its authenticity, humour and the sentimentality of puberty it shows. But the German version cut out too much of that. Not only is it hard to stand the desperate attempt to translate English youth slang into German which is moreover presented by bored, 40 year old voice actors but even the carefully selected original soundtrack of the series was replaced with mainstream soap trash.
Worst of all: In the original version Skins uses a loose but correct way of referring to homosexuality. In the German version ‘tho, the Gay character Maxxie sounds like the worst cliché of a nancy boy; and right in the first scene of the first episode Maxxie’s father is insulting him as a “little faggot” – nothing like that happens in the Original series. German TV has managed to turn a show that has a respectful approach to homosexuality into an amplifier of homophobic language and behaviour.[via queer.de]
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Let’s just assume it’s still Thursday in some parts of the world, kthx :p
For some reason I think it’s a girl looking like a boy looking like a girl, however, I’d hit it | Found by Sid
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Definitely check out his channel, he has some amazing videos. And into boys ;o)
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