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@booboo I was a little surprised this didn't get a little more attention on the fern TBH. However, as a knee jerk reactionist, I am trying to contain my displeasure at this cartoon and the paper that published it.
We're all adults here and I like to think there aren't a terrible amount of snowflakes among our ranks and I do not consider myself one of them either. But this is some cold-blooded, ugly shit. They can hide behind "We meant the government, not the victims" bs and "we meant no harm" but its a nasty little comic that should not exist let alone be published. Thankfully my family in Samoa have not been affected but I know plenty of people with extended family members in the islands who have contracted measles and are shitting themselves.
You can look at it as Tremain lampooning uppity kiwis whose travel plans have been inconvenienced. But are there really enough readers out there that would get that and be like "oh what a cleaver take on rich NZers who enjoy traveling to Samoa"?
I don't think you could say it was a blatant sideswipe at the Samoan government either,
Here's what it is. It's an assault on people who will not read this paper and will not see the cartoon. Made from the safety of their far south offices where they do not have to deal with the sadness and tragedy this situation, a lack of education and resources, has brought about. And where perhaps a few like-minded(but surprisingly quiet) individuals may find some humour in others misfortune.
I know its not really on topic, my little rant, but fuck ODT and Tremain.
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@raznomore beautifully put.
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@Rembrandt said in Woo:
Its funny we live in a world where a limerick about trans identity, a movie review that goes against the grain or support of a US president can get you banned off of social media..yet this cretin is totally fine to pedal literal death.
I'm not judging but is Tay a fa'afafine?
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@raznomore apologies for my previous indifference. Admit I got that wrong.
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So this anti vaxxer was immunized as a child, and all his kids have been immunized too. What a farken hypocrite
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Firstly to be clear - I think that cartoon was naive, horrible, stupid and some seriously introverted thinking was applied in order to write, and subsequently publish, it.
But it seems quite a few are peddling the "racist" line. And that actually annoys me just as much. It's many many things, of which none are positive, but it ain't racist.
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@MajorRage I think for a lot of people throwing that around, racism, probably lack the understanding to differentiate between extreme arrogance and not racism.
I like your description that it was introverted. That’s exactly what it is. There was a thinking there that this wouldn’t get that far and it catered to a very small readership.
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In the article you can search for your suburb to check what the vaccine refusal rate for under-fives is.
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I don't know a lot about how papers are run but wouldn't there be someone who has final say what gets printed? Cartoonist made a bad joke but it isn't his job to determine if a joke is bad or not, his role is to be funny/edgy/entertaining. He missed the mark here but the responsibility should fall on the ODT and its disappointing to see that they seem to be blaming the cartoonist .
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In the article you can search for your suburb to check what the vaccine refusal rate for under-fives is.
Gees some if those refusal rates are scary 44%! That map is something for tourists to consider when planning n NZ trip
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@Rembrandt said in Woo:
I don't know a lot about how papers are run but wouldn't there be someone who has final say what gets printed? Cartoonist made a bad joke but it isn't his job to determine if a joke is bad or not, his role is to be funny/edgy/entertaining. He missed the mark here but the responsibility should fall on the ODT and its disappointing to see that they seem to be blaming the cartoonist .
The editor has apologised twice in the paper now , unfortunately various cucks and bullies have latched onto this to use it as an excuse to raise their own profile . The Spinoff as usual has the worst take and here’s their contribution to the pile on https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-12-2019/i-thought-nz-had-changed-then-i-saw-the-cartoon-making-fun-of-samoan-babies-deaths/
Whatever .I didn’t realise Tremain is almost 80 years old .
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I can't imagine what kind of weirdo would want this but @mariner4life has probably already emailled her asking when they are bringing out a Monica Belluci scented one .
Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop is selling a vagina-scented candle, and it's already sold out
Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again, folks.
Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again, folks.
The 47-year-old actress and serial lifestyle entrepreneur found another way to shock the world with the sale of a vagina-scented candle in her online Goop store.
The candle, provocatively named “This Smells Like My Vagina,” will run customers a cool $75 and boasts a fragrance packed with geranium, citrusy bergamot and cedar, according to the Daily Mail.
GWYNETH PALTROW ANNOUNCES PRICEY GOOP CRUISE THROUGH MEDITERRANEAN
Apparently the idea for the candle, made by Heretic, originally started out as a joke.
As the product description reads: “This candle started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and GP -- the two were working on a fragrance, and she blurted out, ‘Uhhh ... this smells like a vagina’ -- but evolved into a funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected scent.”
