scarlettblythe:

goldenheartedrose: lennydonttouchthat: goldenheartedrose: circustronic: goldenheartedrose: savepetesnudes: bubblestiel: goesdownwithship: supercalifraginatural: grandpacain: What you get when you watch this video: The catchiness of Blurred Lines while maintaining your self-respect

An education! I love this video because a) it takes the catchy tune of a disgrace of a song and turns it into something glorious b) includes the line “Get out of the gene pool” and any song with that line deserves everything we should make this more popular than blurred lines I just showed this to my whole family can we stop playing blurred lines on radio and at parties and play this instead? Yes, because making disabled people and poor people who can’t afford an Ivy League education massively uncomfortable is so much better! /sarcasm And because “get out of the gene pool” doesn’t scream eugenics or anything, right. Yuuup. I wanna do a rewrite of this and make it either less ableist or not ableist at all.



Like there’s all sorts of parodies of songs that do this like, “I’m gonna teach you how to do words” without ending in “get out of the gene pool.” :U I recall a really cool speech about language with cool graphics in a video. I can’t recall which British celebrity voiced it, but it was so fantastic and not very shamey iirc. It was Stephen Fry! And it is here: http://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY

Reblogging once again for a fantastic example of an educated person talking about language. There are some issues regarding a line “choosing to be offended” or something to that extent, and one instance of using the word “dolt”. But overall, the message is clear that there is no right or wrong language as long as one’s meaning is clear.

Besides, another thing that the Weird Al video did besides the eugenics, racism and ableism inclusions was that it assumed that all circumstances are the same. That you’re going to talk on your blog in the same way that you would speak to an employer. That is undeniably untrue, and I think most people know that.

The song had such potential. It did. Eliminating the message of rape culture for a grammar lesson could have been fantastic. But then it got pedantic and ableist and ugh.

And as an autistic and mentally ill parent of two children (also autistic), it’s really frightening to hear things that equate to “people like you shouldn’t breed”. It’s a horrible and sad thing to think about, that a good percentage of people think that we aren’t worthy of having children and cannot make good parents.

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