Promote feminism, hire a sexual predator – The hypocrisy of FUNimation

romagia said:
wouldnt a progressive company would give equal rights to everyone to be hired and work there ?

Clebardman said:
People actually care about american dub VA enough to meet them?

*shakes his head in disbelief*

Darek said:
And here we have more CE threads migrating to the lands of AD, bringing AIDS and cancer with them.

Darek said:
And here we have more CE threads migrating to the lands of AD, bringing AIDS and cancer with them.

Comic_Sans said:
There is no way that FUCKERYmation haven't heard about this, because rumors have been circulating for years and yet they still haven't done jack shit about it. Why is that? Could it be that they're hypocrites?

romagia said:
wouldnt a progressive company would give equal rights to everyone to be hired and work there ?

They also have a creep à la Virtanen employed, Vic Mignogna, who is not only well known for being homophobic and a Bible thumping diva, but also for his predatory behavior (e.g. he likes groping his female fans and kissing them).

Darek said:
And here we have more CE threads migrating to the lands of AD, bringing AIDS and cancer with them.

romagia said:
wouldnt a progressive company would give equal rights to everyone to be hired and work there ?

ReaperCreeper said:
So you're saying they're only rumours?

Yachty said:
Checkfuckingmate lmaoooo i am decease.

CatSoul said:
(citation needed)

I feel like if Mignogna were actually a predator, in light of the recent Weinstein scandal everyone would be coming out with stories.

ambrose7 said:
Well yeah it would be hypocritical though is there anything concrete against him?

Comic_Sans said:
I posted a link to a compilation of accusations made against him (where both videos and images are provided) in the OP and I can dig up even more dirt on him if needed. Some of the worst claims about him only boil down to witness accounts but there are more than just a few of them and one shouldn't underestimate the power of hearsay, in fact, it was precisely hearsay that eventually lead to the downfall of Fredrik Virtanen (and Martin Timell, another Swedish celebrity who's currently under fire for sexual harassment).

Comic_Sans said:
Currently one of the hottest news topics here in Sweden is this nigga Fredrik Virtanen. For many years, he was spouting radical feminist BS in Sweden's biggest leftist tabloid newspaper, Aftonbladet.

Why do I say "was", you may ask? I say "was" because last week, it was revealed that he had raped at least one woman and sexually assaulted/harassed multiple others – and all of this while profiling himself as a feminist. Who would've thought?

What's especially funny about this is that Aftonbladet have been trying to defend him ever since the news broke. They WILL have to fire him (hence my use of "was" because he's currently on a so called "time out" and there's no way he'll be able to come back after this), but currently, they're still defending him. And yet, all this time, Aftonbladet have also tried to profile themselves as a progressive and feminist newspaper. Who would've thought?

Tsukkimaru said:
Sadly, with big companies if the person accused is 'important' or 'popular' or making them enough money then they'll sweep those accusations under the rug because, hey, they're 'only accusations'.

One of the only companies I know to have recently dropped one of their most popular workers after he was accused of harassing women online is Polygon.

flannan said:

Well, that is "innocent until proven guilty" that is written into your law, isn't it?
I mean, if he is really guilty, court will prove it, and the person will go to jail. If he isn't guilty, there is no need to fire him.
I find the concept of firing a person before his guilt is proven to be un-moral. It's like that disgusting face-saving that Japanese companies do (where only one person gets fired, he usually isn't to blame and the real reasons for the problem and/or bad guys remain obscure and not fixed).
And it's not like VA's job gives them more than usual amount of opportunities to do bad things, so there is no need to hurry and minimize the amount of harm.

Comic_Sans said:
@Flannan He declared himself at least partially guilty in an interview today. So he's more or less fucked at this point

Darek said:
Short for Current Events, you can call it cancer ebola too.

Well, it is related to anime in some way so I doubt they would.

flannan said:
Well, this simplifies things. A lot.
You mean Fredrik Virtanen the Swedish journalist, right?

Comic_Sans said:


B) They also have a creep à la Virtanen employed, Vic Mignogna, who is not only well known for being homophobic and a Bible thumping diva, but also for his predatory behavior (e.g. he likes groping his female fans and kissing them).

Comic_Sans said:
Yes
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/GvO8m/virtanen-jag-har-betett-mig-tolpigt-och-skitstovligt

Darek said:
Well, it is related to anime in some way so I doubt they would.

le_halfhand_easy said:
Well, there's always the option of watching it dance into the toxic category and implode on itself. No mod can ignore that, surely.

Comic_Sans said:
Nice GIF, why don't you address what's written in the OP while you're at it?

Comic_Sans said:
@_Poochyena_ (and no, a fifty-five-year-old celebrity acting all intimate with female fans at cons is NOT normal, no matter how you look at it

le_halfhand_easy said:
What is there to address about?

Do you think it is hypocritical of FUCKERYmation to promote progressivism but at the same time have a sexual predator employed?

Jaey-kun said:
I am very curious on why his age is a factor here? Why would it matter any more or any less on these sexual harassments accusations due to his age? The law does not discriminate based on age for sexual harassment, other than pedophilia, which, unlike the general sexual harassment claims, does not seem legitimate or substantial enough to be true.

Comic_Sans said:
Do you think it is hypocritical of FUNImation to promote progressivism but at the same time have a sexual predator employed?

le_halfhand_easy said:
I'm not vehemently opposed to the general idea

Comic_Sans said:
It's the antepenultimate sentence in the OP, I think it's pretty clear what you're supposed to address. Now discuss.So you think there's no difference whatsoever between a eighteen-year-old guy acting all intimate with a seventeen-year-old girl, AKA someone who's almost as old as him, and a fifty-five-year-old man acting all intimate with a seveenteen-year-old girl, AKA someone who could've been his daughter? Of course predatory behavior is predatory behavior regardless of age but it becomes especially creepy when there's a big age gap.

le_halfhand_easy said:
Who's not reading what now? If there is a wealth of credible evidence why not?

Comic_Sans said:
If you said there was nothing to address then why did you switch gears in the next sentence?

But I guess you tried

le_halfhand_easy said:

What is there to address about? I'm not vehemently opposed to the general idea although I'm laughing at the phrasing and how it sets up anyone opposing into a lose-lose situation that makes them look like a jackass. Nice try.

I just don't see why it has to be on AD aside from general Funi hate bleed. But you do you.

le_halfhand_easy said:
Because it's set up so that anyone who opposes your FUNI hate bleed is siding with a possible sex offender?



You tried. Me, I'm out.

Parkyou said:
The morally wrong things Vic has done, combined with his conservative outlook, just make for a convenient excuse to promote a political agenda and criticize another. Believe it or not, no one here is a better man than him. (Or woman, if any feminazies are gonna complain.)

_Poochyena_ said:


No. Just stop. Stop.

This bullshit has to end. This is a post full of baseless allegations and defamatory speech. The only evidence I saw was the one picture of the girl being awkwardly kissed by Vic but the description was written so poorly, I couldn't grasp what exactly happened leading to the kiss. And 20 years old is not underage.
In many states, the age of consent is 16 and you are legally an adult at 18. When you are 18, you can fuck around with anyone you want. Now I'm not saying the kiss was called for but if she were really that offended, why didn't she take the photo to convention security and report his ass? Sexual assault is sexual assault, and if you are really being sexually assaulted, you need to tell somebody and not just bitch about it on Tumblr.

Speaking of Tumblr, I went through most of these links and there was no evidence for any of these claims. It's just a bunch of whiny, SJW, homosexuals mad that Vic Mignogna is affectionate (I say this assuming the sexual assault allegations are exaggerated descriptions of his physical behavior with fans), religious, and doesn't like signing yaoi. Vic has come out in panels explicitly stating he DOES NOT HATE HOMOSEXUALS, BUT PREFERS NOT TO SIGN YAOI. HOW hard is that for you people to understand?

The world does not have to pander to homosexuals because you people think you are entitled to special treatment. NEWS FLASH: You're not! If you want to have EQUALITY, stop acting like you are privileged and deserve to be pandered to on every occasion. A man can prefer not to sign yaoi art just like another person can prefer not to sign heterosexual art. It's a preference and we all have rights to what we prefer. Isn't that what the LGBT movement was about? The right to live life the way you want? Then WHY are you people infringing upon his right to be religious and reject homosexual content???? You people are HYPOCRITES and you defame and slander ANYONE who opposes your LGBTQXYZ movement because you want the whole world to believe the same thing you do. That's not going to happen because freedom of thought exists. You can't control people and make them believe the same things you do. Hating Vic Mignogna because he is adamant about what he believes isn't going to further your warped agenda. It's only going to make people hate you more.

I'm going to see Vic Mignona one day, and when I do, I'll be sure to try and find validity in these claims and see for myself if he's really the treacherous and perverse monster Tumblr describes him as. Of course, that's ironic coming from one of the biggest cesspool's on the internet.

spuukiebuugi said:
Funimation are big hypocrites in general
Forcing PC agenda into their dubbing, discrediting the original works, but housing sex offenders and evangelist whackjobs who feel they can impose upon people’s lifestyles. The primary reason I won’t support them is their lack of quality work from a technical standpoint, piss poor quality dubs since around 2011-2012, poorly typeset subtitles with incomprehensible and poor grammar, which is ironic considering funimation as a Texas company should have staffers with grasp of the goddamn English language. They seem like a minimal effort, cash cow, greedy company who only wants to make their buck back instead of putting forth actual effort since the age of simulcasting. I always thought their subs were badly typeset, but from a grammatical standpoint, they used to be at least consistent and understandable. Again, pre 2011. And while I never liked crunchyroll much either, I could at least say that they tried, and it infuriates me that even as a non legal consumer Fuckimation is dragging down what was once at least passable work from crunchy to their level of garbage. So the moral hypocrisy is just icing on the fucking cake. I won’t even buy shit from CR’s store when it comes to nendos anymore due to the fact that I adamantly refuse to support a bunch of fakes like Fuckimation. And I’m tired of people overzealously defending them. No. Dubfags. Your dubs are not good. When your goddamn VAs sound as half asleep and as deflated as their paychecks thatre being given to bitches who can’t even shit out understandable English subtitles… sounds like Funi is taking all the money and putting it into the pockets of the damn CEOs.

Also according to a couple posters on crymore.net (which usually reviews most Fuckimation releases negatively) - Fuckimation won’t hire former fansubbers who’ve had YEARS in the business because “they don’t have the correct qualifications”. They’re college elitists apparently, if you don’t have a specific degree these idiots won’t hire you. But they’ll hire weak Japanese majors who can’t speak the language as fluently as a fansubber and mistranslate half the script because “MUH DEGREE”. I feel bad for the voice actors under Fuckimation who are decent people, and I especially feel bad for the voice actors who used to voice act better in their old dubs. A lot of them clearly do not get paid a lot, and their paychecks have only lowered, so that’s indicative in the piss poor quality of their work, even the VAs who used to have life and variation back in the day. Although a lot of the decent ones left and got replaced by people who don’t have variation or personality worth jack shit. the dubbing industry has been a dead sham for like five to seven years lmao. It’s so pathetic.

Let me give some outlook from one of my ex boyfriends who had some minor roles in their dubs: Vic is a whiny prick and a total slime. Some of the other VAs were nice. They do not get paid a lot.

spuukiebuugi said:
Funimation are big hypocrites in general
Forcing PC agenda into their dubbing, discrediting the original works, but housing sex offenders and evangelist whackjobs who feel they can impose upon people’s lifestyles. The primary reason I won’t support them is their lack of quality work from a technical standpoint, piss poor quality dubs since around 2011-2012, poorly typeset subtitles with incomprehensible and poor grammar, which is ironic considering funimation as a Texas company should have staffers with grasp of the goddamn English language. They seem like a minimal effort, cash cow, greedy company who only wants to make their buck back instead of putting forth actual effort since the age of simulcasting. I always thought their subs were badly typeset, but from a grammatical standpoint, they used to be at least consistent and understandable. Again, pre 2011. And while I never liked crunchyroll much either, I could at least say that they tried, and it infuriates me that even as a non legal consumer Fuckimation is dragging down what was once at least passable work from crunchy to their level of garbage. So the moral hypocrisy is just icing on the fucking cake. I won’t even buy shit from CR’s store when it comes to nendos anymore due to the fact that I adamantly refuse to support a bunch of fakes like Fuckimation. And I’m tired of people overzealously defending them. No. Dubfags. Your dubs are not good. When your goddamn VAs sound as half asleep and as deflated as their paychecks thatre being given to bitches who can’t even shit out understandable English subtitles… sounds like Funi is taking all the money and putting it into the pockets of the damn CEOs.

Also according to a couple posters on crymore.net (which usually reviews most Fuckimation releases negatively) - Fuckimation won’t hire former fansubbers who’ve had YEARS in the business because “they don’t have the correct qualifications”. They’re college elitists apparently, if you don’t have a specific degree these idiots won’t hire you. But they’ll hire weak Japanese majors who can’t speak the language as fluently as a fansubber and mistranslate half the script because “MUH DEGREE”. I feel bad for the voice actors under Fuckimation who are decent people, and I especially feel bad for the voice actors who used to voice act better in their old dubs. A lot of them clearly do not get paid a lot, and their paychecks have only lowered, so that’s indicative in the piss poor quality of their work, even the VAs who used to have life and variation back in the day. Although a lot of the decent ones left and got replaced by people who don’t have variation or personality worth jack shit. the dubbing industry has been a dead sham for like five to seven years lmao. It’s so pathetic.

Let me give some outlook from one of my ex boyfriends who had some minor roles in their dubs: Vic is a whiny prick and a total slime. Some of the other VAs were nice. They do not get paid a lot.

SuperRed said:
How the is asking for a signature for yaoi art special treatment? They just want the treatment as people do when they ask for signatures of straight art. Newsflash: Not wanting to sign yaoi or yuri art because you don't like homosexual stuff is just as prejudiced as a gay man refusing to sign art because he is gay. Religion is no excuse for prejudice.