Student again. @_@

@_@

Things the Fran learned today:

- Unexpected BS essay having to do still gives me mild panic attacks.
- My handwriting has gotten worse since my last big writing thingi.
- So has mu essay skills.
- I cannot write essays on paper and not have them be crap. I need a WP or NOTEPAD or SOMETHING. >< I need to beable to backspace and move my paragraphs around!
- Castelton people will listen to you blather on in a nervous wreck mannor and be sympathetic.


So.. yeah. Sign in and registration and all that accompished. I'll probally be spending a good part of the rest of the week back on campus taking care of things like finantial aid and all that. Must harass Heath Center to send my durn FORM over to the college....

I'm also gonna be spending mych time in the accidemic suport center. I asked about wither or not being M/D counted as a leaernign disorder and now I'm going to be having appointments with the learning specialist. She said she'll probally call sometime this week. Maybe I'll finaly get all the screwy things wrong with my brain figured so they can be handled. [Who knows, maybe I'll beable to read textbooks again. Haven't done that since middleschool. ^^ Huge chunks o text just send my eyes all @_@]

And there are two 'EVERYONE MUST TAKE THESE' courses that are goign to kill me that I'm taking this semester... Effective Speaking [Speaches infront of the class? I can't read aloud! I'm gonna have to memoize everything and just fake it! And the earliest open time is 3:30-4:45 when my brain is at it's most dead. Screeeeeewed.] and Touchstones of Wester Lit. [Kill me nooooow. @_@ Maybe I can get JUchan to read me everything aloud like a bedtime story... ^^; ]

And Soundings, which is another 'MUST TAKE' couse is going to just confuse the flying fuck outta me.

Thi sis a class that is not a class.

I shit you not.

It has no meeting time, it barely has a sylabus. You go to random events and... and I think you have to write something about them or SOMETHING, it's very much ont clear. I have no idea where you go to hand things in, or get the things you have to hand in or ANYTHING. And the one event they want everyone to go to [you get double credit for it] is a lecture on 'Terroizm and Militant Islam.' Ahahahahah NO. Make it 'Understanding Islam' and I'm there but I am so SICK of this post 9/11 culture. Do a lecture on Millitant Christiantiy or Millatant Judism, not this over done BS.

But anyway.

So much stuff to look at. @_@

'Blame Your Mother' - A rant on all the moaning about 'American Censorship'm [Incompleate]

'Blame Your Mother' - A rant on all the moaning about 'American Censorship'

[Work in Progress]

Everyone who's had any sort of encounter with the Yuugiou fandom has heard end less rantings about the 'Evils' of 4Kids or Shonen Jump or Upperdeck or some other company involved with Yuugiou - The American Version blaming them for the 'horrible censorship' of the Japanese anime. Most of these people seem to have it in their head that these companies are going out of their way to edit this show JUST to annoy them. They rant that the cards are censored, covering up flesh and obscuring any symbol that could be construded as religous. They rant that the dub is censored, taking out the violance, the cursing, covering up any hint at anything adult. They rant that the English translated manga in censored. The say the companies are evil and out to ruin everything, not realizing that the reason for all the changes is a lot closer to home.


Parents want what's best for their child. If they think seeing violance or symbols of violence is going to cause their child to be violent, they're going to do their best to keep their child from being exposed to that. This means if there's violence in a TV show, they won't let their child watch it. If there's symbols of violence in a card game, they're not going to let their child buy it. Similarly, if a parent is religous or is conserned that their kid will be swayed to the darker side, they will be doing their best to protect them from any influence that would go agaist what they want for their child. You say the words "Black Magic" in a church and you can bet there'll be a stir. You show a pentacle to a religous mother and there's a good chance you will be branded a devil worshiper and banned from the house.

The primary goal of any company is to make money. A company that's primary market is children that has parents refusing to buy it's products because they are deemed a bad influence on children is not going to make money, so the company will take steps to make their product 'Child Safe.' This means anything that could possibly upset a parent will be removed or obscured.

American society is one that likes to find something to blame for it's personal problems. "It's my bosses fault I haven't gotten a raise." "I got a bad grade because my teacher hates me." "Oh it's not his fault, he has ADHD." "He's not a bad kid, he just has fits when other people do things he doesn't like." "Look what you made me do." Video games are blamed for school shootings, TV is blamed for any sort of bizzare behavour, other people and other things are blamed for any thing unacceptable.

In order to be a 'good company' that gets the approval of parent's pocket books everywhere, a company has to be sure not to have any elements that could be used as blame. Especialy since America is a country with one of it's mantra's being 'Sue them!' Comercials advertise 'If you've done this and had this happen, you may be intitled to money.' America is a country where people will sue fastfood chains for making them fat and the cable company for makign them lazy.



[[ More to come when I ever get around to it]]