Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell

by tigtog on June 25, 2007

Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification.

Mingle² – Blog Rating

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

* bitch (8x) * rape (7x) * queer (2x) * crap (1x)

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{ 4 comments }

1 littoralmermaid June 25, 2007 at 9:17 am: Mine was rated R, but wordpress couldn’t handle the code :(
2 shannon June 25, 2007 at 12:23 pm: Mine was rated NC 17 and I only said gay 3 times!
3 tigtog June 25, 2007 at 3:06 pm: Well, the fundies keep on saying there’s a radical gay agenda – the high rating must be apre-emptive strike against Teh Gays.
4 Richie June 25, 2007 at 6:34 pm: Because it ignores anything after a “more” tag, my front page is R, but my individual entries are NC-17.

It reminds me of that Limp Bizkit clip where Thora Birch gets tied up in the middle of nowhere (cue sexualised shots of her squirming and terrified) and screamed at by the band. The “clean” version is identical, except they remove “fuck” from the lyrics, because that’s the only part which is inappropriate for children.