Rickrolling is sexist, racist and often transphobic in context

[KamaAina]

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/28/rickrolling-is-sexist-racist.html

The rickroll is a kind of postmodern "shared joke" that can be used to dissipate online social anxiety—at least inasfar as everyone "gets" it. But among whom is that implicit context shared, really? The truth, according to this insightful longread at Medium, is that rickrolling is highly problematic, especially in its dependence upon the semiotics of cisgendered discourse.

A must read!

[clarice]

1. Wow !!! THAT was a mouthful. nt

[NYC_SKP]

2. The semiotics of cisgendered discourse suggests the author is a tad disingenuous.

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At the time this video was made, the bartender, not a real bartender at the time, was renting a loft in Tribeca from the female lead, Astley rented a corner of that loft.

There was nothing sexual about it.

At least not until Barry Manilow released his cover of the same song.

And then this happened:

The original:

K/R

[Xyzse]

3. Huh?

I don't understand...
Any how, I've been Rickrolling friends with my ukulele lately.
I've been doing that to friends of various stripes, colors, creeds, genders and so forth.

I don't see myself stopping.

[Iggo]

4. What?

No.

[KamaAina]

5. C'mon, people. Click the link, then follow the next link.

I triple dog dare you!

[Iggo]

7. Yes!!!

[kentauros]

15. I clicked this link instead:

[font size="5"]The Rock to portray Jack Burton?[/font]
By Jason Weisberger at 8:38 pm Mon, Jun 1, 2015

Boing Boing BBS mainstay Miasm informs us the Rock is set to star as Jack Burton in a remake of one of my favorite movies of all time. I have immense respect for Dwayne Johnson, but I feel Big Trouble in Little China is sacred.

It'll take one heck of a performance for me to update the bot.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. I clicked the link ...

... there is no way I'm clicking that next one.

been there ... arrrrrgh!

[The Second Stone]

6. I refute you thusly!:

&list=RDotCpCn0l4Wo#t=26

[steve2470]

8. Gollee, I had no idea I liked such a reactionary anti-revolutionary bourgeoisie-loving video!

if I must.


I think I'll go waste my time on this screed.

[TuckerdogAVL]

9. That's all I can read

I don't see anything other than the above "to read." Where is the article?

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Click on the link...

[gopiscrap]

17. Welcome to DU

[seveneyes]

10. I'd just as soon roll this up and smoke it

[cwydro]

11. I have to admit that I only just learned

what "cisgendered" means.

And I do not DARE to click that link lol!

[clarice]

21. ok....gotta ask what is cisgendered? Be gentle. nt

[cwydro]

22. You should probably ask someone other than me lol.

I had to google it.

Basically, I think it means that you are the gender you were born with, happy and secure in that. So, I was born female, and I am comfortable with myself as a woman.

I hope I have not offended anyone.

[clarice]

25. Thanks cwdro. I looked it up also.......it's interesting...

that you felt like you had to add a phrase like "So, I was born female, and I am comfortable with myself as a woman.

I hope I have not offended anyone." I know that you were half kidding....but... has society really come to the
point that we have to offer an apology if we are happy, healthy, and proud to be who we really are?
I sure hope not. Have a great day!

[cwydro]

26. Well, there are some with hair trigger

sensitivities here, ya know.

Figured if my explanation was wrong, I'd be swarmed lol.

[clarice]

27. BELIEVE me !!! I KNOW. I call those people the "Chronically Offended" nt

[cwydro]

28. Certainly looking to be offended!

[madinmaryland]

13. I see that El Supremo has hijacked your account! Nice avatar change, El!!

"cisgendered discourse" - After trying to read that on Wikipedia, I have a headache.

[antiquie]

16. Could you please just help me with this one sentence?

A related adjective is gender-normative; Eli R. Green has written that "'cisgendered' is used [instead of the more popular 'gender normative'] to refer to people who do not identify with a gender diverse experience, without enforcing existence of a normative gender expression".

Thank you.

[noamnety]

18. I think I can translate that.

Cisgendered refers to a person that was born female and views themselves as 100% female - or a person who was born male and views themselves as 100% male.

Cisgendered is better than a phrase like "gender-normative" because it doesn't push the idea that other people are abnormal.

[antiquie]

19. Thank you.

Why can't Wiki be that clear?

[noamnety]

23. The sentence construction threw me at first.

I thought the last phrase went with the wrong part of the sentence until I read it a couple times.

[antiquie]

24. Once you explained what it says,

I was able to understand perfectly.

[progressoid]

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