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Boinks posted:Neither of those things are extreme, try again. What the gently caress is this supposed to mean?
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Aug 3, 2019 09:58
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Haley Joel Osmont is really funny in the otherwise sort of forgettable The Spoils of Babylon.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:38
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Or intersexed because WHY NOT? Being an intersex person isn't on par with being a nazi. This is a weird thing to say. Edit: Revised terminology How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 04:29
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Zaphod42 posted:FYI that's an outdated term and not medically or scientifically used or accurate, and potentially harmful. Say "intersex" next time (or don't say anything). I'm surprised and embarrassed that I somehow didn't know this, I apologize for the terminology gently caress-up and thank you for mentioning it. I'm more used to seeing intersex these days anyway so I don't know what was going on in my head.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:43
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I think Aya Cash is really good and has a ton of screen presence so I'm ok watching her get a bunch of screentime as somebody odious. If you haven't seen it and want to see her not be a nazi, check out You're the Worst which is like a once in a lifetime incredible performance.
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Sep 10, 2020 00:34
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Maybe a silly question, but is there some kind of site that indexes peoples' outfits on shows? I loved the tech woman's bug shirt and I would wear it.
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Sep 12, 2020 03:35
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ZZZorcerer posted:"I love him squirm and throwing tantrums as Stormfront puts him in his place" is the cherry on top (of the turd) The second season just wrapped up a few weeks ago, it was really good!
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Sep 12, 2020 05:11
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Elephant Ambush posted:This happens sometimes. I remember my wife and I waiting desperately for Good Omens to go live and it ended up being available several hours early. Do they use midnight GMT or something? SIr, this is a Tony Cicero's
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Sep 12, 2020 06:54
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PostNouveau posted:*scribbles 20 paragraphs of nitpicks on the back of a child's menu before I forget them* No, please stick around for endless pasta!
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Sep 12, 2020 07:17
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Bust Rodd posted:Homelander’s performance on the talk show where he throws Maeve under the bus while highlighting that her GF is Latino is one of the more legitimately funny moments in the show, because of Starr’s delivery, while also being completely disgusting and hosed up in a strictly social way. He doesn’t murder anyone or say anything... wrong but it just makes your skin crawl when you realize what he is doing. That scene was excruciating, my wife was making horrified sounds that I only ever heard from her before during the DIY dentistry episode of The Americans. And that "Well, actually, Black Noir doesn't identify as any race" line. This show is so good at swinging from funny to gruesome.
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Sep 13, 2020 16:36
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It's oat milk, he's just really pleased with himself about his vegan choices and the vegan choices in other peoples' refrigerators.
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Sep 13, 2020 18:20
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Stormfront is still probably obfuscating or fabricating stuff when she talked about her Halloween costume because before the 50s there were just not that many Disney princesses for people to dress up as, and Pippi Longstocking would not have been a laughable or weird costume. I guess there's a lot of wiggle room right now for when her "real childhood" took place, though, so maybe I'm being too literal. I will say I think the Pippi Longstocking stuff is interesting because I actually also really liked those books as a kid-- I'm a few years younger than Aya Cash IRL but close enough that I totally bought that she might have grown up with the cartoon adaptation (which iirc aired pretty regularly on the... Disney Channel I want to say?) and the books front and center in the kids' section of the library. I'm curious to see how the season plays out because the character does have a bunch of overlap with her hero-- super-strong, a "speak truth to power" persona, and perhaps revealingly Pippi Longstocking also has that Peter Pan "I refuse to ever grow up" thing going on. Bioshuffle posted:sperglord Come on, don't be an rear end in a top hat. It's no fun to have everybody telling you you're wrong, I get that, but don't be a dick.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:11
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Paracaidas posted:The Pippa bit is a fantastic show of cultural literacy and something that gives me confidence writing the character with more depth than just Nordic Rune Barbie. Also I'm consistently impressed with Colby Minifie's ability to play someone barely suppressing the realization that her impostor syndrome is justified. I have a lot of sympathy for Ashley because I used to have the same haircut as her and I know how hard a cross it is to bear.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:41
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I don't think those are plot holes necessarily when one of the major themes of this show is how incompetent and unstable the people in power are. It's no wonder they'd kind of botch the finer points of their missions and let people escape or get away or whatever. Everything you mentioned is an example of someone acting impulsively, carelessly, or from strong, overwhelming emotion. It's like saying my life had a plot hole because I had a panic attack or got bored and daydreamed in the middle of the work-day instead of calmly completing my tasks.
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Sep 21, 2020 15:33
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Solice Kirsk posted:She's gay. 
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Sep 23, 2020 07:41
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text editor posted:I'd imagine wealthy people of the world would be willing to pay at least $100 to avoid death. He could probably make thousands of dollars off that. That seems like a very fair price to me!
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Sep 25, 2020 05:46
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Breakfast Burrito posted:presuming he means trans women, being attracted to them is not evidence of him being bi, that would still make him straight. Yeah, it really took me out of it. Ennis is consistently grimy about trans characters and I was hoping that the show would do better.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:24
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Breakfast Burrito posted:well i am bi and trans, and i'm telling you that this is terribly handled, and completely took me out of the episode. it is exactly the type of transphobic bullshit that's been on tv and film for years and years and i expect better in the year 2020. This is basically what I was putting my thoughts together to say. "<x> is bi because they're attracted to trans people" is a garbage stereotype, and believe it or not reducing a trans person their genitals is not at all flattering. It's sideshow poo poo and by now writers should know better.
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Sep 27, 2020 04:23
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:maybe look at it in the perspective that it was supposed to be 8 years ago, and people weren't as woke back then? The scene wasn't written eight years ago, it was written, I guess, several months ago, by professional writers who, again, should know better. Do I believe that guys like the Boys would make that joke in real life? Sure, I know they would, because I've heard them all. That doesn't mean I want to hear them in a show I'm enjoying, especially from the mouths of characters that the show has gone to great lengths to successfully paint as likeable and relatively more "good" than many of the other characters, and who I genuinely want to like. Particularly when the exchange and the episode and the series in general seems to have no interest in trans lives outside of that goofy lazy punchline and casting a non-binary performer, Ess Hödlmoser, in what will hopefully be a recurring role (unless I'm forgetting other things). Like, I don't want to attribute malice or anything to anyone who enjoyed the joke because I really truly don't think that's the case. I just think that it's one of those things that unless you're keeping an eye out for it you might not notice. I have the utmost respect for sex workers, but I'm tired of the vast majority of references to trans characters in TV and pop culture being about sexual novelties. Of course this has changed for the better tremendously in the past few years but rewatching, say, Arrested Development or The Venture Bros, two shows I like immensely, sucks because it reminds me of how small an allotment the popular imagination had for trans people and how small, for so many people, that allotment remains. Anyway, I'm explicitly whining and ranting at this point so I'll back off, I just wanted to articulate a bit about how what is, honestly, a not especially egregious scene fits within the context of a much larger and more pernicious pattern in the media. To segue onto something more positive, I do remember that in the Highland Laddie mini-series in the comics, Ennis introduces Hughie's childhood best friend, a trans woman.. As you might imagine, Ennis does not handle this especially gracefully, but I've been curious to see what the show might be able to do with her. This one dumb little five second blip of dialogue aside I've enjoyed and been impressed by so many elements of this adaptation.
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Sep 27, 2020 06:31
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I agree, I think, and in my opinion one of the few really strong throughlines of the comic was that the real force behind all the monstrosity and carnage was just corporate incompetence, greediness, and selfishness. Comics Stilwell was a great character, and for all the shortcomings of the final arc and the series in general, I loved his final scene, in which he finally confronts the futility and error of what he's built his life into-- "bad product." Nazis have an immense cultural gravity, and they succeeded in rooting their stupid tacky aesthetics and garish imagery into the popular consciousness as something bigger than it really was. Ennis' version of Vought, on the other hand, is never anything more than venality and corner-cutting. Every attempt it makes to dress itself or its products up in anything more is almost instantly deflated. It felt very honest and as crummy as I think the series is in many many ways I admire that element of it.
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Oct 6, 2020 23:56
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scary ghost dog posted:the show was better Yeah it's really good.
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Oct 8, 2020 00:50
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radmonger posted:Trace the history where that word and concept came from, and it will be the 1930s. And that’s not a good time period to be sourcing your ideas from. I'm sorry, are you claiming that the concept of race was invented in the 1930s? What on earth? Edit: I think I read your post ungenerously, if you're talking about "race" in the context of different kinds of fantasy people I apologize for jumping the gun. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Oct 8, 2020 |
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Oct 8, 2020 04:26
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I'd argue that the concept of fantasy "races" draws heavily on 19th century pseudoscientific and esoteric sources like Theosophy, some of the cruder taxonomizing of American and British Spiritualists, things lifted from novels like The Coming Race, etc.. Especially the Theosophy. I liked Helen Young's Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness for a broad overview. As a matter of fact in a lot of scientific communities the 1930s saw a sharp if in some ways superficial reaction against "race science" compared to the first few decades of the century (see Julian Sorell Huxley's shockingly racist lecture tour of the US in 1924) if on a somewhat superficial level. This is certainly not to say that the 1930s were a period of astonishingly violent racism, just that academic anthropology and ethnology pumped the brakes a bit. Even then however you had texts like We Europeans which I would describe as an early example of "liberal" race science and Carelton Coon's The Races of Europe, very very dated books which, especially in light of the ways in which Coon expanded his arguments later in his career, look very starkly problematic. But still-- they were simply picking up the ball handed to them by their predecessors and running with it, just as the nazis scrounged up several decades of cast off junk science to cobble together.
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Oct 8, 2020 05:37
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cosmin posted:don't want to derail this thread but I'm cautious about going into the Comics subforum (is there one?) BSS is very good and friendly and has a pretty active recommendations thread!
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Oct 20, 2020 23:51
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