ISIS sued by 70s superheroine!

[Centurion]

You guys are going to love this...

http://www.theantinews.com/anti-news141.html

[Disciple]

Not quite as good as an Onion article, but still worth a snigger.

[athenaartemis]

Maybe my next Isis video should have the true Isis beating down and punching Abu Bakr Al Bahgdati in the nose! Or least zapping his compute networks. http://www.clips4sale.com/studio/67405/

"To stop Daesh's evil as it mounts, I know blast Daesh's twitter and facebook accounts." Zap! Who needs lawyers!

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[Ezekiel]

As broad as I believe my humor spectrum to be, sitting back an ocean away and cracking jokes at a fanatical organization that's going rampant, ruining millions of lives and erasing cultural heritage dating back to the dawn of humanity from the face of the Earth feels kind of wrong. The only thing these boys really need is lead. Between the eyes. If you can't contribute with that, maybe it's best to just shut up.

[tallyho]

Come on now chaps let's play nice...

[Heroine Addict]

As broad as I believe my humor spectrum to be, sitting back an ocean away and cracking jokes at a fanatical organization that's going rampant, ruining millions of lives and erasing cultural heritage dating back to the dawn of humanity from the face of the Earth feels kind of wrong. The only thing these boys really need is lead. Between the eyes. If you can't contribute with that, maybe it's best to just shut up.

To be fair, every tyrannical regime and every terrorist group over the last couple of centuries has been satirized in the Western media. If we refrain from ever lampooning such people and make them objects of pure terror, then we're effectively telling them that terrorism works.



WARNING: If you play this video, the song will keep playing in your head all day.

[Ezekiel]

Well, the problem is that terrorism actually does work. Pretty effectively actually. Half of Syria's population has left the country (either due directly to isis or the other terrorist groups that form the so-called syrian opposition). Historical monuments and artifacts of invaluable importance have been lost forever. And also a lot of people have been enslaved, mutilated or murdered by these primitives, due to belonging to different religious groups or refusal to join them.

Any effective action taken against isis all these years by the civilized world that started the problems there to begin with? Pretty much no.

That's why I find it bad taste to be cracking jokes and satires on the topic, but hey, it's (still) a free world over here.

[Heroine Addict]

You'll find there was contemporary satire of every such event in recent history, regardless of the death toll. The idea that Napoleon Bonaparte was short comes from satirical cartoons in which he depicted as diminutive. (He was average height for the time.)

Satire is a major part of Western culture. Should Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator have been buried due to concerns about taste? What about George Orwell's Animal Farm? Or Parker and Stone's Team America: World Police?

[Ezekiel]

I can't see how comparing this topic to George Orwell's works or anything else that you have mentioned is in any way reasonable or making sense. If anything, I find this on the same level with 9/11 jokes or puns about how many jews fit in a Volkswagen.

It's hard for me to make a laughing matter out of such a serious problem when so little is done to fix it, but again, that's just my opinion.

[Heroine Addict]

I can't see how comparing this topic to George Orwell's works or anything else that you have mentioned is in any way reasonable or making sense. If anything, I find this on the same level with 9/11 jokes or puns about how many jews fit in a Volkswagen.

Well, that would be true if the butt of the joke was the victims, rather than the perpetrators of the atrocities. But it's not. This article is all about making the Boogeyman look ridiculous, which is a great tradition with a wealth of contemporaneous satire about ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Communists and Nazis.

ISIS would actually be terrified in a world where superheroines exist. They would be denied access to Paradise and their 72 virgins if killed by a woman.

[tallyho]

Isis isn't a terrorist organization in Syria it's a militia army that is physically holding ground and it's aim is a caliphate that doesn't currenly exist, that's why the population is displacing, so it's not right to say terrorism works. It's a civil war in Syria, not a terrorism campaign, that ISIS has jumped into. (And they have lost control of 40% of the territory they supposedly held a year ago so to say the west isn't doing anything is also untrue). But I don't care. Re the original disquiet about the first posts-

Let's not forget that whilst Hitler had over run all of Europe and was systematically killing millions Britains were singing 'Hitler has only got one ball'
It's what people do, making fun of your adversaries lessens their hold/fear over you.


But here is the really important bit... NONE OF THIS DEBATE AFTER THE ORIGINAL FEW POSTS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SH FETISH.

It's political, let's keep it out of here people.

And if you think I'm wrong, fine I could be , just don't post it here.

SH forum for SH stuff

[Centurion]

I apologize to Ezekiel. It never occurred to me that anyone would think I was making light of the atrocities that ISIS is committing on a daily basis. For many of us, superheroine fiction is just a harmless, semi-erotic fantasy. But in the process we often write about all manner of crime -- theft, murder, rape, kidnapping, subversion, ruling the world -- which would be truly horrifying in real life. Does that mean we should stop writing about them? In the fantasy worlds we like to imagine, there are superheroes and superheroines who could have (and would have) stopped all this. In the real world, things aren't that cut and dried. There is only so much that governments can do. But that's no reason to stop believing in heroes.

[Ezekiel]

I can understand fantasizing about peril or violence, developing a fetish for it. I do that just like probably any other user of this board. But, personally, I draw the line when the evil is no longer one born in fantasy (even though the basic concept is naturally taken from reality) but something that is quite real and, as it stands in this case, unchallenged.

[flirty_but_nice]

I thought the article was hilarious and I take no offense to such humor. Yes, ISIS is perpetrating atrocities in the Middle East, but I see nothing out of line with the humor as posted in the OP. They're evil and we could and should bash their barbarism every chance we get, imho.