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LORD OF BOOTY posted:as someone who's not straight: it is a little bit of An Issue that yet another tough lady in fiction is being portrayed as LGBT, continuing the stereotype that all LGBT women are tough or butch in some way issues of lgbt representation are complex and lead to a lot of circular firing squads tbh
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If you cast somebody out they'll end up in a situation where the only company or audience they'll ever have again is racists which will make it way more difficult to convince them that what they did was wrong and they should endeavor to be less of a poo poo. "b-b-b-but if we're mean to racists they'll only have racist friends and continue to be racist!!! you are morally obligated to be friends with and fans of racists because otherwise iss you're fault they're racist" lol just lol
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Oct 3, 2018 21:41
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ToxicSlurpee posted:So nobody should ever be given an opportunity to change and be a better person if they do something lovely. Got it. You're saying that if you cast someone out they will become more racist. That is what you said. And since casting people out forces them to become more racist then you can't cast people out, you have to keep them in your circle, you can never ever be angry with them because being angry with them would be casting them out and therefore driving them further into the welcoming arms of people more racist than they already are. Now, my view is that if you actually get better and stop being a poo poo person, then maybe we can think about welcoming you back into the fold, but you are saying that we cannot cast them out of the fold ever at any point because casting them out means that they can only hang out with racist people, so you're not even actually considering or debating the concept of forgiving someone after the fact, you're saying that we have to forgive them the instant they do it and never cast them out or punish them for their views because casting them out is morally wrong because it will force them to be more racist. For fucksake
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Oct 3, 2018 22:10
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Sir Lemming posted:Maybe it's the privilege talking, but the above is the way I usually prefer to look at it. Nearly everyone joked about that stuff back in the day because the culture encouraged it, and if you weren't specifically an activist or whatever, you just joined in that shared notion of what the acceptable targets are. But if they currently still do that stuff and/or complain about the PC Police holding them down, then it's time to get the knives out. otoh all the homophobic and transphobic poo poo that was normal in the 80s and 90s made me hate myself for being a disgusting monster that everyone hates back then when i was a child and i don't like revisiting it now either
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May 1, 2019 17:20
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other consumer products in the 90s included Will & Grace and Ellen
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Jun 30, 2019 16:18
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I guess I just have a knee-jerk reaction to attempt to excuse homophobia... I mean like yeah I guess you're right that if they had had gay characters in Star Trek the Next Generation people would have complained but it's 2019 and if you have gay characters people still complain and I'm just not really into attempts to absolve showrunners Etc from blame for being part of the same culture and reinforcing that culture in the name of capitalism. Like other shows managed to have gays on even in the past so yeah I'm going to continue to personally judge and hold accountable the vast majority who chose not to do so because they were scared? I don't think Rick Berman deserves death or whatever but I do think that it needs to be acknowledged that he was part of why Star Trek did not have gay characters and not just be like "well you can't blame Rick Berman at all because other people were also homophobic in addition to him"
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Jul 1, 2019 23:00
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I'm not claiming that my decision to be tired of making excuses for the past is particularly productive or that anyone else should agree with me, just that I am really loving tired of making excuses for people being lovely when I was a child when those same people are still being lovely when I am an adult and the only thing that seems to have worked to improve things over my lifetime is ignoring the shity people and carrying on with being homo in spite of them, you know? e: i am gay and trans and 36 years old, for context
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i've always had a soft spot for the aristocats (hoo boy that asian cat though...) and 101 dalmatians. i love that old, gritty, kinda scratchy animation. it still looks great it was made with lovely photocopies, that's the secret to that style ftr
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Aug 24, 2019 17:22
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yeah people gave it a lot of poo poo because they didn't spend the extra time and money to clean up the lines but gently caress it, that's a cool aesthetic
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Aug 24, 2019 18:41
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FilthyImp posted:By Kevin Smith's account, Willis harbors no illusions about the kind of films he works on. Meanwhile if you work minimum wage at a retail job you have to give 110% effort every single shift and make sure that all of your valued guests know how much you're thrilled to have the chance to serve them today lol gently caress any actor who will do that when they're making more for that job then some kid at McDonald's makes in 3 years and that kid at McDonald's has to put on acting every single time they go to work
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Sep 14, 2019 16:33
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it's not like it's completely foreign to white north american culture either.... anne of green gables series is FULL of it
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That also takes place in 19th century though doesn't it?
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Alaois posted:lmao at the idea of "the girl next door" is some alien, inscrutable trope of the far nippon god im glad i'm not the only one fuckin sozzed by this discussion tbh it's such a thing i don't know how to explain a pond to a fish? i just thought of anne of green gables, a relatively obscure example, first bc netflix is trying real real hard to get me to watch it every time i go look at the witcher
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BioEnchanted posted:Also didn't "Dumb" used to be used to refer to mute, rather than deaf (hence the phrase "Struck Dumb" to mean speechless)? That's weird if it's to describe a deaf guy.
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Apr 7, 2020 17:49
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I feel like the assumption in the show is that deafness entails being mute, but it's a plot point that he can't communicate with the guy from COACH because he's illiterate and Rob Lowe can only communicate by writing things down and apparently not even by sign language, which doesn't seem to exist in the world of the movie.
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Apr 7, 2020 18:04
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Push El Burrito posted:Yeah it wasn't until like late 2000s, early 2010s that the r word became a mainstream slur.
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Apr 7, 2020 18:50
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Stand was written in 1978 and originally took place in 1980, then recon'd to 1985 with the paperback version, and then changed again to 1990 in the expanded edition. But most of the language is still stuck in 1978. But its Stephen King's 1978, so really 1958.
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Apr 7, 2020 22:47
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Elissimpark posted:I could hear that coming out of Jon Spencer, but lol at the Blues Explosion hitting the top of the charts. i guess the black keys could do it
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Apr 8, 2020 04:57
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mind the walrus posted:
what are the pre-2002 superhero movies where the hero wasn't considered buff by the standards of the time in which it was made? although lol at anyone thinking the MCU originated the homoeroticism. batman & robin was so homoerotic it literally turned me queer irl
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Apr 15, 2020 09:02
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Keaton and Clooney (and to a lesser extent Kilmer) as Batman. ah yeah see i was thinking "they still made the suit buff" but the original post specified the actor being buff and having shirtless scenes, objection sustained
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Ugly In The Morning posted:In the Iliad, Achilles was killed by an arrow to the chest. The ankle thing is like the world’s best known fanfiction.
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Apr 15, 2020 18:20
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yeah the very idea of 'canon' in regards to "the classics" is fuckin dumb. poo poo was created collaboratively building upon other people's earlier writings over the course of years, just like the Omegaverse and with even more animal sex
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Apr 15, 2020 18:49
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah it also ended like five years ago so I don’t know why it’s coming back now three years ago, and it's on Disney Plus so teens stuck at home from Covid for months are now going through the dregs of streaming and revisiting it is my guess
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Aug 5, 2020 20:22
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At my school we had the "Creative Playground" which was a massive all-wooden structure with a castle tower and slides and ladders and climbing and a fireman's pole and a wood-and-rope bridge. I think there was a movement around those things in the late '70s and '80s, because there's quite a few results with that specific name on google. They took it down around the turn of the millennium and now there's just some plastic swingsets. Sucks. e: There was also a village playground in a town park which had a giant rocketship made out of metal bars to climb on. Very fun to climb all the way up and then get to the top which was painted a different color and find out the paint had absorbed a ton of sunlight and was burning hot so you lose your grip and fall down the middle of the missile and die lol. They didn't take that out until a couple of years ago, and that wasn't over safety concerns, it was to sell it for scrap metal because nobody used the park anymore
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Sep 4, 2020 02:30
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Torquemada posted:Luckily Hollywood has already made ‘Demolition Man’, so a template exists for cryogenically freezing Derek Chauvin in case future crime-free societies need someone experienced in killing minorities.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:01
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i feel like that joke was simply "lol this man is also fat" and you're being too generous tbh
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Jun 9, 2021 14:37
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:The below the line crew on Spider-Man took up a collection and offered Joe Mangienello $500 to accidentally knock him up
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Jul 28, 2021 07:11
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I googled around a bit, a transwoman is one of the lead writers and they've created an original character that's a transman and cast an actual transman in the role. So it seems like they recognize that understanding of gender has changed in the last 20 years and are approaching it with their heart in the right place. trans is an adjective. a woman can be a trans woman. a man can be a trans man. it is not an issue of there being women and transwomen, men and transmen: trans women are women, trans men are men, trans is an adjective, thank you for your time.
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hard counter posted:if the trans community heavily leans towards one form
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Aug 8, 2021 07:18
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And if you say it the way you suggest people argue that that is nonsensical and basically there is no way for a trans person to exist or speak without somebody questioning them like an rear end in a top hat, just like you just did and are currently continuing to do. shut the gently caress up and LISTEN.
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gonna write paragraph upon paragraph of rambling justification of calling gay people gayboy because english is germanic but I'm not a bigot y'all
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Aug 8, 2021 15:42
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Pastry of the Year posted:This whole "being mad for the sake of getting to take virtuous shots in" thing
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Aug 8, 2021 15:59
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Pastry of the Year posted:Okay, dude. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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yeah no i love jjba but i could not justify this nor could i in good faith ever recommend it to others. it really is just utterly bizarre. it is like metal gear solid in that straightforward explanations of the things that happen in it sound like fake or exaggerated meme versions, and also in that it is Quite Problematic. hell i say i "love" it but i don't love huge parts of it and major things about it, it is THAT kind of "i love that media." if you noped out due to the misogyny you spared yourself the goddamn loving Admirable Nazi character, for instance!
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May 11, 2022 02:20
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MadDogMike posted:(powerful men, at least; women are just things to be seduced not seduce themselves). on the contrary, the medieval European view was that women were the seducers because women are massively lustful, their wild horniness constantly corrupting innocent men who would totally have been celibate if women weren't constantly demanding sex
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disco was nonwhite and also gay and that's why it had to be publicly hated and destroyed as an American national pastime for decades after it was actually relevant
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"Crap" is probably the worst word Mormons are allowed to say
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Aug 29, 2022 15:10
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I don't think E.L. James is Mormon, that would be Stephenie Meyer (the one who actually wrote Twilight/was later used as a basis for Fifty Shades) lmao i was this many minutes old when i realized those are not the same person/not by the same author, my bad
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Torquemada posted:By all accounts he was hit hardest by Freddie’s death, and turned himself into the group’s accountant after he retired in the mid-90’s. something about this phrasing made me picture him turning himself into an accountant by tapping himself with his magic wand, like that duel between merlin and the witch in the disney sword in the stone
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SiKboy posted:Honestly though, I kind of feel like his friends and bandmates are in a better position to judge what Freddie would have wanted than I, a random fan of his who never met him, am. ok but like if freddie literally expressed what he wanted and then they did something else so that it would make them money, which is what it sounds like, i think that's lovely. just because "they knew him" doesn't mean they are going to do what's right when he's no longer around instead of doing what makes them more money, that's very rare in human beings actually
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