Well, at least the thread wasn't titled 'To me, my X-men!'. Given the number of mutants that have passed through the doors of Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning, we'd be here until, oooh, 2012 at least.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:01 / 17.10.07

Oh for fucks' sake guys, what do you think you're playing it?

Haus of Mystery

16:07 / 17.10.07

You're not Avengers! How did you get in the Mansion?

JARVIS! YOU REALLY DROPPED A BOLLOCK THIS TIME!

Glenn Close But No Cigar

16:10 / 17.10.07

Blimey, only just noticed the topic abstract.

Two questions:

A) If you're seeking to recruit a potential Ant-Man to Fathers for Justice, you should be aware that the character's history of domestic violence might hurt your cause. Then again, given some of the real-life members of FFJ, he'd probably fit right in.

B) If superheroes want to protest what they see to be political iniquities, should they dress up as agressive divorced men to draw attention to their cause? At the very least, this would have made Civil War a more entertaining read.

Haus Of Pain

16:12 / 17.10.07

I wanna know what IRON MAN has to say

Haus Of Pain

16:18 / 17.10.07

"Then again, given some of the real-life members of FFJ, he'd probably fit right in."

EXPLAIN YOURSELF GlENN MEDEIROS

Haus Of Pain

16:25 / 17.10.07

Hang on MODS what TROLL has added their own rather offensive topic abstract. Perhaps consulting the thraed starter (IRON MAN) might be an idea, before thrusting your opinion on what may or may not be occuring!

Haus of Mystery

16:25 / 17.10.07

Who the deuce are these 'Father's 4 Justice'. Are they something to do with Hydra?

Is this M.O.D.O.K's dread doing?

Dead Megatron

16:42 / 17.10.07

Transformers used to be published by Marvel, so can I volunteer to be a cameo villain?

Pleaaaase!

Janean Patience

17:00 / 17.10.07

Megatron would have been a totally bad father. Always using the kids against the ex, asking about mom's new Autobot boyfriend and how much he earned, occasionally taking them to an inappropriate film with his mate Starscream along who'd had a few. And not listening when they said they didn't want to be minded by Soundwave because he was creepy and asked them funny things about growing up. He's a Deadbeat Dadotron.

Dead Megatron

17:07 / 17.10.07

That's good parenting for my standards. In fact, I think I'll start the "Fathers for More Free Time" movement, in which we demand the judges give full custody with no visiting rights to our exs.

Let Optimus Prime raise the fraking brats.

Deadbeat Dadotron? I'd prefer Deadbeat Megadaddy, if you please, for I love my initials more than I love my children, baby!

Ticker

17:34 / 17.10.07

Folks, I come to ask WTF is this thread's purpose? Are you goofing off, being serious or what? I'm not quite sure how to react to it as it brings up some rather painful personal stuff for me.

I'm not a greyface cane shaking joykill, rather I'm just confused as to if you are making fun of a rather complex and highly charged social issue or floating some other agenda?

It's a bit like walking into a room with people making fun of a slice of childhood trauma and not being certain if they are making fun of you or not. Please unpack a bit?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:52 / 17.10.07

What I see going on is ths: Basically, the original topic starter seems to think that it would be a jolly lark to change his name to that of a superhero, and a few others have followed suit. Since there was no summary a waggish moderator inserted one, making reference to "Fathers 4 Justice" (a group of tossp--concerned fathers who protest iniquities in the area of child custody and support by dressing up as superheroes and making fools of themselves). Hence the "deadbeat dad" jokes.

Haus of Mystery

17:53 / 17.10.07

OK - In all honesty this was inteneded as a bit of a piss around.

then a moderator saw fit to add some bullshit about 'Fathers for Justice' onto the abstract, in order to presumably link us to a well-known, very aggravating and now banned 'Lither. Why I don't know. seems unnecessarily hostile and a bit inflammatory to me.

So fuck it lock the thread, burn it, I don't care.

Fucking hell, Avengers villains are really boring nowadays.

Ticker

17:57 / 17.10.07

Ok cool. So a bit of fun with ficsuit names got unhappily connected to paternity/custody stuff which was not the intent of the thread starter. Thank ye for explaining.

Haus Of Pain

18:02 / 17.10.07

Would the MOD in question perhaps like to explain their reasons for hijacking the thread and posting up this bullshit abrstract, that's basically just resulted in pissing a few people off?

Dead Megatron

18:02 / 17.10.07

Yeah, let's stick to Marvel comics references, shall we. I apologise for my part in the FFJ joke.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

18:05 / 17.10.07

In all honesty this was inteneded as a bit of a piss around.

In that case, apologies to the now Iron Man, Captain America and Hulk for the Ant Man gag. I'm fairly indifferent to the whole 'let's pretend we're the Avengers!' thing, although I'm happy enough for you to have your fun. I'm just glad that you're not advocating FFJ, an organisation that seems to think that Dad slapping Mum about has absolutely no bearing on his post-separation level of access to the kids. While I can certainly see the unnamed Mod's waggish intent in adding the abstract (and even find it fairly funny), I can also see that you three heroes and any other potential Avengers might feel that your bonfire has been pissed on from a great height.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:05 / 17.10.07

I'm not the mod in question but I did okay the request. Why? You started this crappy thread in the Comics forum when it's (barely) Convo material and you didn't bother to write your own summary. I felt a bit of ribbing was not uncalled-for.

Haus Of Pain

18:07 / 17.10.07

...and maybe the MOD in question could fess up, change the abstract and refrain from being a complete idiot and possibly behave like a Moderator.

Haus Of Pain

18:09 / 17.10.07

ok Aunt Beast perhaps you'd like to explain how on earth the association of this thread with FFJ is acceptable and indeed a responsible way for a MOD to behave?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:15 / 17.10.07

I figured it wasn't a very serious thread, and that if the people involved didn't want to be associated with FF4J they could just say "we're not associated with FF4J, can you change the abstract again."

Ticker

18:16 / 17.10.07

Not to get all Policy in Convo, but I think connecting a opt-in thread with a fairly charged social issue isn't really fair or funny or justified.

From my POV some posters wanted to have some fun and someone who did not entirely support their objective tied it in with something eyestabby. It made me personally feel like shit to have that particular issue bandied about in jest and I can think of many other charged social issues equally not funny to tie into something like this.

It wasn't cool to run with the joke but even more troublesome is that the connection was made by someone(s) who IMO really ought to have thought about the eyestabby impact and attaching it these posters.

I realize the list of what's fair game to joke about seems pretty tiny sometimes but this seems like kind of a crappy judgment to afix this tie in to a thread.

(I'm not pissed at anyone btw, I was just a bit shocked and then confused.)

Haus Of Pain

18:19 / 17.10.07

well I think associating with mysogyny is quite a serious thing & I for one would like some half decent explanation as to why that sort of behaviour is deemed acceptible from Moderators?

Dead Megatron

18:21 / 17.10.07

Oh, those evil, villainous, ruthless Mods!!!

[I say that in character, of course]

Haus of Mystery

18:25 / 17.10.07

Can't we all just get along?

Ticker

18:25 / 17.10.07

Has a request gone up to change it to something else?

Is the story that because some mods didn't agree with/support/like the thread they filled in a missing summary with an intentionally unpleasant one?

Ticker

18:26 / 17.10.07

Sorry, I am now the fuck out of here.

Haus Of Pain

18:35 / 17.10.07

yes XK that's basically it, an abuse of power. I can't believe they thought they'd slip it past THE AVENGERS!

Haus of Mystery

18:36 / 17.10.07

I think Ant Man and that are still at ASDA picking up dinner, so it might just be you and me this round Cap.

Just like the old days.

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