pzrite opened this issue on Mar 02, 2002 ยท 131 posts
Legume posted Mon, 04 March 2002 at 11:31 AM
"Network television is usually considered about 5 or 10 years behind the times when it comes to what is socially acceptable (in language and behavior) But I don't think I would ever see his work on TV even in the next 10 years" Well, let's just examine that. Mad TV did a skit a few years ago where the Terminator goes back in time to stop Jesus from being crucified. Jesus kept having to bring Judas back to life because the Terminator kept killing him. At the end, Jesus is crucified, as the Terminator sits in the crowd saying, "He'll be back". Comedy Central shows South Park, where Jesus, Hitler, and any other cultural icon gets blasted all the time. Monty Python's Life of Brian. Self-explanatory. Mel Brooks' Hitler on Ice, The Producers, and Blazing Saddles. I guess because Brooks didn't depict Hitler in the approved light of "bad man", he must be anti-semitic. I imagine, as an anti semitic Jew, his life must be quite complex. And the fact that he used the word "nigger" throughout Blazing Saddles must mean that he hates blacks as well. Seems to me that I'm in pretty good company. It's not that my work is outrageous at all, really. The problem is that many of YOU are SERIOUSLY UPTIGHT. And you know what? I don't give a damn. The fact is, I'm here, my work is enjoyed by many people, and if you don't like it, tough shit. Don't look at it. The fact that some (a very few)of you would be so very happy to run me off and stop (the many)people who enjoy my work from seeing it shows YOU to be the kind of person who Renderosity doesn't need; a small group of self-appointed Saviors of the Community whose loud and incessant bleating is really irritating to people like me who come here to enjoy ourselves. What's your motivation? You all know there's only one person here named Legume, and you know goddamned well who I am. So if you look at my artwork and get offended, knowing who I am and what I do, you have absolutely no right to BITCH, any more than if you keep sticking your hand in fire over and over and crying about getting burned. And yet you do. Because that's WHY you look at it. You ENJOY the burn. You WANT something to complain about. If that's your motivation, then I feel really sorry for you and the sad, miserable lives you must lead. Why the hell don't you people just drop this crusade already, and let people make their own decisions about what they want to see or not see? For Christ's sake, you sound like a pack of old puritan grandmothers waving their bibles and screaming about women showing their ankles. If you're so upset that I'm artist of the month, maybe you should consider the LARGE part you played in getting me there.