Don't Bash Lesbians to Protest the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

[campylobacter]

My hatred of multinational corporations & monopolistic greed is no secret, and my F-List have endured my rants against AT&T, especially against the inevitable AT&T/T-Mobile merger. I subscribe to several consumer action newsletters, and am upset by the FreePress-sponsored SaveTheInternet.com's recent attempt to raise consumer awareness at the upcoming AT&T monopoly BY BASHING LESBIANS.

I realize that using the "Mean Girls" trope is supposed to be funny, but dammit, I don't want negative portrayals of women in power as much as I dread a single telecommunications company controlling its entire market.

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Comments

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

I don't see these as Lesbian bashing. Lesbians are not that annoying. I guess it could be seen as bashing women but to me it seems to be bsshing teenagers more than anything else. I object to that much of it. But I don't seee the Lesbian bashing?

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Your lesbian gaydar is broken. ;D

Imagine John & Rodney or Jack & Daniel saying these lines:
"We've decided to come together & join forces. You know, a merger."
"We can basically do whatever we want."

And Sam or Weir saying this to them:
"You know I have options other than you."

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Nope not broken. Just don't agree. I see it as them trying to do a "clic" idea which is not what my lesbian friends behave like at all. We're talking uber feminine women too with girly girl outfits. I just don't see them bashing lesbians: women, yes. But not specifically lesbians. The use of the PINK is a far more demeaning thing. It's like...girls suck. But I see no sexual overtones. Sorry. :)

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

And btw, not saying lesbians are feminine just that if they wanted to really bash lesbians rather than the "feminine energy" they would have had a sexual tone and I only see them as being mean and mocking. The whole BFF thing? No self-respecting lesbian would use that term. Least none that I know. They also don't use "feminine wiles" that way.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

The videos are definitely derogatory toward women & relationships between women. Female BFFs aren't a bad thing, and cliques aren't necessarily bad unless they're exclusionary.

Progressive thought should encompass social AND economic change.

But yeah, your gaydar does not agree with my gaydar.

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

If my gaydar doesn't agree with your gaydar then can we still be BFF? Even though you are so totally out of my league? LOL.

I do agree that female friendship has epic FAIL all over it in all media. Even in Stargate. And male friendship comes across slashy--not that I object but it irks me when it isn't slashy and people explain the friendhsip away in sexual terms. Like for example, Jack and Jacob. Or even Teal'c and Jack who I won't slash. Just my opinion. And I am an opinionated bitch--does that make me "masculine"?

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Oh dear gosh, do people pick BFFs based on their looks? D: That gives the "out of my league" notion an alarming twist.

Jack/Jacob is as squicky as Bra'tac/Teal'c to me, although not for the age difference, but for the father-mentor relationship. (I do 'ship Jack/Teal'c, though LOL.)

Amanda Tapping had to specifically request that the SG-1 writers make Sam & Janet's (also Sam & Vala's) relationship not antagonistic, which raises warning flags to me about what kind of character arc the Boys at the Bridge had originally planned for the characters. Farscape did a great job adding emotional tension & antagonism between all the characters without reducing the female relationships to catty bitch fights.

("Catty bitches" = Oxymoronic Metaphor of the Day)

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Absolutely I picked you based on your looks. You look at porn, I look a porn. You look at MS, Ilook at...youget the picture. Not to crack the already horrendous metaphor further. And hey, I'm chubby but I ain't ugly. My husband says I'm hot and he doesn't hardly need his glasses at all. :)

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Baby, you're beautiful.

I hate it when people say shit like, "She's got a pretty face, for a fat girl." One of my friends in high school had that said of her ALL THE TIME. So much nonsense, so much fail.

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, love that one. I got it all the time only it usually starts with, "It's too bad you're fat because..."

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

So illogical, the notion that a beautiful face is "wasted" on a large body. ::headdesk::

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not beautiful. To quote my mom, "Your sister is beaatiful honey, you are merely pretty."

Got baggage? I got me a train full.

[anna-sg1.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna agree with shakespherical here - I don't see the lesbian bashing - just demeaning women. Especially because all the custumers are men. And THEY talk sense while the women are ditzy and cruel. :/

The pink think has to do with T-Mobile's trademark color, tho. Yes?


Also, a question (maybe you'll know :D). This merger didn't happen yet? And if it will, what will it mean for us in Europe who don't have AT&T at all. JUST T-Mobile. Will it affect our priced as well?

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

The AT&T/T-mobile merger hasn't occurred yet, but when it does, Europe will fall into AT&T's clutches within 2 years.

If AT&T dumps Nokia Siemens Network as T-Mobile's vendor after the merger, it will weaken NSN enough to give Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent the biggest portion of the European market. There will be less choice, less competition.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/attt-mobile-merger-could-hurt-nokia-siemens/2011-03-25

PS: Ericsson & Alcatel-Lucent are business partners with AT&T.