Possibly.
But then again, stuff like Pornographic BDSM Tintin was evidently in demand enough that it's basically its own sub-genre in 70s Euro indie comics.
IMO- the internet has removed the idea that people should keep some thoughts private. The perverts mingle way too much with the normies now.
Oh absolutely.
It's just that TV programming aimed at kids/families (hell, TV as a whole) was relatively rare, so it was mainly books, plays, radio, and comics that did the imprinting.
Just look at, like, Billy Budd or what have you.
Can't find it now, but I remember a skeet (or maybe tweet) you did about how liberals and leftists shouldn't overtly lie too much because the bill always comes due.
One of the oddest stereotypes (as a straight guy) is the idea that women are much more prone to bisexuality than men.
Even if you're using gender stereotype 101 logic, it doesn't add up.
A big part of being a guy is saying "of course that's not gay" when a guy confesses the gayest shit to you.
boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise
Don't know if this is my wokest or least woke opinion:
but it's always been very obvious that queer stuff in family animation was gonna hit a hard wall when it started dipping its toe into men.
Feel bad for the people who thought it wouldn't (and queer people in general, obv).
My friend and neighbor, the towering, genius artist Bernard Greenwald of Bard College, has died. He was an amazing man. Summer nights playing driveway basketball with friends were punctuated by the sound of his klezmer band, which practiced in his converted barn-studio. I will miss him tremendously.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
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Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
I feel so bad for the people, man.
Even ignoring Israel, every other neighboring nation fucking wants their guts.
Their leaders are insane murderous whackos. Their only government in exile is some shitty royals. And their only international allies are the ultimate backstabbers; China and Russia.
Having a gay Jewish guy as their leader is going to give the rank and file so much leeway for insane shit, too.
One of their new councillors is already being investigated for 'human slavery'.
My go-to example for how increased expectations for television's production values have hurt the medium.
The version of the show that could just shoot on a soundstage with painted backings would almost certainly be better.
If for no other reason than it wouldn't need tiny seasons and huge gaps.
I'm not the first person to suggest it, but a network procedural about heroic EPA agents stopping corporations polluting (it brings down property values!) would be a net social good.
I still think about Nathan Rabin's AV Club review of Bratz: The Movie, a decade+ on.
I can't find it now, but I remember reading about some Euro functionary in the 1800s talking about peasant anti-semitism like
"of course I don't personally like Jews, but we gotta make sure we don't turn into *these* freaks and start blaming crop failures on them".
Nothing new under the sun.
I feel like the big issue is that Trans Rights became a salient public topic around the same time as gay marriage became broadly acceptable.
And a lot of people (understandably) made the mistake of assuming that Trans Rights was also at 2015 Gay Rights popularity and not 1995 Gay Rights popularity.
Sure, I'll believe a college education has no real value anymore.
Just as soon as you stop paying hundreds of thousands to educate/bribe your children's way into the Ivy League.
The thing that gets me about AI is that rich people clearly aren't using it. But I'm expected to believe they are, so I should too.
The Hemsworths can do as many ALEXA ads as they want, but they're never gonna ditch their lawyers, or housekeepers, or trainers, or stylists, etc, so...
It's really a failure of Chibnall's vision.
It shouldn't be on Jodie Whitaker to try and articulate "make Doctor Who 2008 again".
And I imagine that if she had been pitched that (and somehow still said yes to such an insulting offer), she 100% would've researched that stuff.
IMO- it's a kinda weird case. Because, of course, she shouldn't have to research the role like that.
But also, she was given writing/directing that pushed her towards a very overtly Tennant-shaped performance. And she might've been better able to play against that if she had watched his stuff.
Like, I'm not happy the government had to shut down all those sex work sites and stuff. Invasion of privacy, right to anonymity, etc.
BUT, when they can credibly prove that you're allowing trafficking and shit... You kinda don't have a leg to stand on.
Nobody made you let it get to that point!
I hate the Hays Code (and honestly, even the MPAA), but with the passage of time, I do now understand why it was necessary for Hollywood to publicly self-police before the government had to step in.
Honestly true of most popular games.
The central gimmick 7/10 is straight up "X Movie/show, but now you can play around inside of it".
So it can't easily transfer to an actual movie/show, because you also have to do the legwork of making it nearly as good as the thing the game was riffing on.
lol check's going the other way this time, suckers
It's abundantly clear that a non-zero amount of political factions would prefer a permanent elite and a permanent underclass to one with an upwardly mobile middle class.
Unfortunately, this also bafflingly includes people who are not already in the upper/middle class.
Epstein files have brought this back, but I remember the Sony hacks as an incredibly revealing portrait of how ultra-wealthy people clearly can't think, write, or even spell a damn thing on their own.
It's hard to continually explain to people that you cannot replace everyone involved in running a system and then expect the system to continue running basically as-is.
And this applies across the political spectrum.
This is why I disagree when people say police unions aren’t real unions: they are often extraordinarily effective at securing gains for the workers who are members of them and advancing their interests. Those interests are just often not our interests! We sit on the management side of the table.
Oh, 100%.
