Shannon Nutt

Considering this website's long history of making George Lucas rape jokes, not to mention years of anti-Mel Gibson and Woody Allen threads, I'm upset that suddenly we care enough about Bryan Singer to be protective.

Weird.

Shannon Nutt

We had it coming.

Lt Ripley

Rape!

JumpCutz

Anal Rape!!

fumanstan

Agreed, while i hate a lot of the frat boy stuff myself it doesn't break any forum rules and there's tons of that sort of talk through out the entire forum. Heck the Scar Jo thread in movie talk seems far worse in that regard.

Just doesn't seem like a moderator needed to intervene unless there were complaints.

Norm de Plume

If you dress like that, what do you expect?

The Valeyard

I don't think it should have been closed at all let alone closed suddenly without a warning. Yes, it got very "frat-boy" but so do a lot of other threads that remain open. Why are Dick Wolves and George Lucas okay but Bryan Singer isn't?

At the very least, Giles should have gave a warning to keep to the topic at hand and to tone down the nonsense instead of slamming the doors when he felt uncomfortable with the discussion. It feels a bit overreaching.

Are there other subjects we should be weary of discussing to keep from upsetting the Mods?

Rex Power Colt-Robot Man

Never ask Groucho about the Twinkie incident.

Ringmaster

Watch out! Giles is going to close this thread with this kind of outburst.

Groucho

Biddi biddi biddi

Tarantino

So as long as you deem it news and constructive, the thread will be reopened...

Makes...sense?

Hokeyboy

Threads get derailed almost religiously around here. I don't see why that one particularly needed to be closed, as it wasn't devolving into a flamewar, pissing contest, or the like. Rape is nowhere NEAR the darkest we've ever gotten here. Remember the neo-vag?

The Valeyard

Looks like Singer is bowing out of promoting Days of Future Past because of this.

Bryan Singer Not A Rapist

story

Making a case that a mod warning or mod note should have happened before a thread was closed is one thing. That seems like a reasonable expectation / precedent to me.

Making a case that it's okay to joke about rape because there have already been plenty of rape jokes is something completely different. If rape jokes at the expense of anyone but the rapist is the precedent / norm / justification to continue to let them fly, that's a pretty selfish, heartless reason.

Draven

In a forum where there is plenty of offensive comments in plenty of threads, it is strange that THIS one needed to be closed.

If we can't say "George Lucas raped my childhood" anymore, then is life worth living?

davidh777

So this is now the thread for new news?

Shannon Nutt

Meanwhile, the IMDB forums are running wild with Singer accusations - and that site's owned by Amazon.

I wonder how long before Brian does an obligatory sit-down with either Diane Sawyer or Oprah?

BearFan

DVD Talk raped my adulthood of having my childhood being raped by George Lucas

VinVega

At this point Giles has given his reasoning as to why the original thread was closed. This thread is devolving in its own way, so I'm going to close it up.