04:18 pm - God hates goths
I really don't know what to make of godhatesgoths.com. On one hand it's a brilliant parody of Fred Phelps' family of sites, but on the other hand it goes a bit too far, joking about the school shooting in Finland last month, and brazenly using images of Columbine and the World Trade Center attack to show the dangers of goth. But on the third hand, that whole vulture-taking-it-too-far thing is precisely why it's such a great parody. There's no point in a parody of something as fucked-up as Phelps if the parody is less fucked-up than its target. The great triumph of it is, of course, that you're not even sure it is a parody at first (and a quick google search for godhatesgoths turns up a whole load of goth forums the members of which still don't realise it, so I guess the joke's on goths...) which really does put into perspective how absurd the fundie sites are.
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