Awesome.

[uisceros]

OMG awesome. Are those Hamburger Helper earrings I spy? This has made my day.
(sn0tcat had informed me they're probably Mickey Mouse earrings. I do not care. Seriously, you show me a glove with red pants, I'm going to automatically assume it's the Hamburger Helper "Helping Hand"... despite the fact that the Helping Hand doesn't actually wear pants - the red part on him is the glove band. I kinda want a pair of Hamburger Helper earrings now. I wonder if anyone makes them...)


I was going to write a big ol' post about the blackface controversy, but I'm tired, and have to wake up in 4 hours for work, so no. I will say that I'm irritated that a lot of sites are banning the discussion of it. Really? I can see how it'd be upsetting and all, but not allowing people to express their opinions? Not good.

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[airplanemusic.livejournal.com]

I think they're Mickey Mouse earrings?

Are there any sites allowing discussion of it? (Soompi?) It'd obviously cause a lot of wank, and I can understand why mods wouldn't want to deal with it, but jeez.. ignoring it won't make it go away.

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

Aw, now you've ruined it for me. Mickey Mouse would make more sense, but still... a glove with pants? That says Hamburger Helper to me.

I think soompi must be allowing it, but I haven't checked. Yes, a lot of wankage, but at the same time, it is a real issue, not just something out of nothing. To ban people for talking about it? Ridiculous.

[airplanemusic.livejournal.com]

Hamburger Helper doesn't HAVE pants though, he's just a glove.

ONTD has a thread on it and I read some of it, but...bleh. I worry that banning discussion of it will result in MBC never finding out that people are offended. I mean, they just tweeted a screen shot of it like 20 minutes ago.. And I don't know what the text said, but it seemed like a regular promo thing rather than, like, an apology..

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

He has a red area on the bottom - same thing.

I might talk about my opinions regarding it later, but not now - at work. I do think people are going at it wrong though. I wouldn't blame the people, or even the network. It's Korea. It's Asia. They're not hip to racial sensitivity, we all know that. They SHOULD be, but they're not, and it's a hell of a long way off.

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

The controversy's not from a drama. On the "Hot Brothers" variety show, Gi Kwang (AJ) from Beast put on blackface and filmed a watermelon commercial. You can see photos here.

I personally think it's being blown out of proportion - mostly because I think people have to realize, it's ASIA. They're not terribly racially sensitive. It's pretty well known. I don't think it was done to offend black people in any way, and I don't think they have malicious feelings towards black people. It's just cultural. That, of course, does not make it right, but like I said, we need to think about the culture instead of the specific person or the network.

[stringy-cow.livejournal.com]

LOL I think they could be mickey mouse most likely, BUT they could pass for hamburger helper too XD! I think they are what you want them to be haha. They are pretty cute though!

I probably shouldn't have read anything about that blackface thing. Now I just want to rant about it DX.