Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:48:57 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: New Logo Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEKOFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051101221844.GJ56043@wantadilla.lemis.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 14:15:30 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> On Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:32 PM, Chad Leigh wrote: >>> On Nov 1, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Peter Matulis wrote: >>> >>> Even though I was in favor of a logo being made for FreeBSD (we can >>> keep beastie as a mascot), the winner is not what I would call a >>> good logo for the purposes for which logos are used... >> >> Of course not. You got what you deserved though so shut the hell up. >> >> This is a contest that never should have happened for a reason that >> has no real justification, it is no wonder it produced a big turd. > >I don't completely disagree with your opinions, but I find your >attitude and language offensive. I find the equating of Beastie to a religious symbol, which is what provoked this stupid logo contest thing, infinitely more offensive. And I suspect the majority of people are of the same mind. Quite obviously, the boot-lickers of the conservative right don't understand this - my choice of language was intended to knock some sense in to them. I hope, for their sake, that they are offended. Greatly. If so then they might possibly have an idea of how offensive this entire Beastie=the devil thing is to those of us with normally functioning brains. I am surprised you didn't grasp the meaning in my message immediately, you at least are a writer and should understand manipulation. We certainly have had enough of it from the conservative apologists that spawned this new FreeBSD sex-toy logo. Ted
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEKOFCAA.tedm>