I’ll admit that I’m a pretty ignorant guy on a lot of things and I’m bound to get stuff wrong. I hope I never reach a point in my life where I say something stupid, people call me out on it, and I double down because of dumb pride.
You’re never gonna get everyone completely on your side but for the most part? Always better to listen, apologize and take action to avoid repeating mistakes.
Okay, discussing the kill your gays trope has set media literacy back so fucking far.
The trope isn't bad because queer people die.
The trope is bad because the hays code forces you to punish characters just for being queer. As a result, queer characters met disproportionately bad fates, or became massively OOC in the third act to justify it.
You're allowed to kill of a gay character so long as it isn't a punishment (by the narrative) for them being gay.
If it's in a zombie movie, it could be a punishment for never carrying a weapon. It could be the end of a character arc.
the moment you frame any queer character dying like its homophobic, all queer narratives become bland af.
So, this certainly isn't a huge thing, but there are some old-school Superman fans who dislike the marriage dissolving the Clark-Lois-Superman love triangle. Thoughts?
I acknowledge that the love triangle has it's uses. Clark having trouble opening up and sharing his secret has historically been a hugely important character trait that enhances his relatability. Plenty of nerds, and of course others who aren't nerds, can relate to having some part of themselves they keep hidden for fear of not being accepted. Clark wants to know that Lois would love dorky Clark Kent as much as cool and confident Superman, that she would love the man and not just the Super.
My problem with trying to go back to the love triangle is that we've already crossed that narrative Rubicon. Lois found out his identity, she accepted him, and they've made it work. For nigh on 20 years they've been together, she knew his identity in the DCEU and in S&L she is married to him with kids. Like it or not we are no longer in the Chris Reeve days where Clark and Lois "can't" be together. I see no point in going back to Lois pursuing Superman while good ol' Clark sits sadly in the corner. For me the only reason to go back to a pre-marriage status quo is to
Going back to Superman dating Lois while secretly trying to push her to ask out Clark Kent? Nah no thanks, doesn't hold any appeal to me.
i am legit crying here
Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't
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#you can't reconcile the feminist idea that men and women are equals with acting like they're different species
#the feminist idea that women are more than their reproductive systems with the one that womanhood is defined by a reproductive system
#the feminist idea that women don't need to adhere to arbitrary standards of femininity with the one that they do or they aren't women
#the feminist idea that women are allowed to have body hair and be tall or muscular with the one that they're to be scrutinized if they are
#the feminist idea that women as equals to men should be allowed to compete with them with the one that both must always be separated
#i can not consider terfism to be feminism in any fucking way
#and don't say 'no true scotsman' that's not it
#i don't consider feminists for the same reason i don't consider the democratic people's republic of korea a democracy #or nazism socialism. having feminist in their name does not mean their ideas are automatically feminist
#i've yet to meet a terf that actually cares about women more than about hating on trans folk
#there is no feminist belief that can come from someone who views women as vaginas with legs that are too frail to do anything men do
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Based on my own observations, this belief makes a bizarre sort of sense if you’re already of the opinion that men and women are diametric opposites.
If men are selfish, if men are violent, if they are predators and monsters who serve the patriarchy, who seek to hurt and destroy whatever they touch, what does that make women? Well, women are innocent, women are selfless, women cannot harm, they healthily communicate with other women and never descend to barbarism the way men do. If you’re a women committing violence, you are participating patriarchal standards, rather than solve problems in a feminine way. If you’re a woman who doesn’t fit a feminine role, then you might as well be a traitor who doesn’t really count. It’s why trans-women in particular get a lot of focus in media discourse, because if a man is inherently a predator, why would they ever want be a woman aside from finding more ways to hurt women, or “appropriate” their suffering.
If anything that makes it all the worse, since these sorts of feminists are also participating in toxic gender norms by dehumanizing men and those who don’t fit into a traditional view of women. We must expand such definitions to reach further enlightenment.
reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.
Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.
of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do
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"It is therefore with great hope that I declare #COVID19 over as a global health emergency.
However, that does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat.
Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes - and that's just the deaths we know about"-@DrTedros
"As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fighting for their lives in intensive care units. And millions more continue to live with the debilitating effects of post-#COVID19 condition"-@DrTedros
"This virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and it is still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths"-@DrTedros #COVID19
"The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or ot send the message to its people that #COVID19 is nothing to worry about"-@DrTedros
"What this news means is that it is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing #COVID19 alongside other infectious diseases"-@DrTedros (Note: At the end of the tweet is a link to another tweet, but the link is cut off) /end]
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
Instagram and TikTok have successfully created the Torment Nexus from Jim Carrey's iconic work, "Don't put people in the Torment Nexus"
The reason "what if 1950s suburbia...wasn't all it was cracked up to be..." media feels hollow nowadays isn't just that they're beating a horse that's been dead for decades. It's that the 50s aren't even America's idea of Good Times, Before It All Went Wrong anymore. The kind of person likely to pontificate about simpler times doesn't picture Ike and postwar suburbia; they picture Reagan and the 1980s.
Pop culture continues to slate the glorified picture of the 50s from 70s/80s nostalgia bait, while endlessly hawking a glorified picture of the 80s to the present. "Isn't it weird that they made all these movies about happy housewives and diners like the civil rights movement wasn't happening?" asks a culture making endless movies about shopping malls and [insert blockbuster 80s movie here] where no one ever mentions AIDS
I would have done the same thing, honestly.
“Let people enjoy things” never sounded right to me.
If you mean “I don’t want to be harassed for liking a story” then yeah I agree with that. Harassment rarely accomplishes anything other than making the harasser feel good, over things probably not worth all the arguing and fighting in the long run.
But most of the time I see it, it’s used to mean “stop critizing my favorite story” and I can’t really get behind that. No one’s interests are the same, people shouldn’t have to bend over backwards to justify why they don’t like a thing you do, or hide their issues with a story to stay in people’s good graces. Nine times out of ten, the “critics” are not “attacking fans”, but giving their honest opinion on a work. If you really can’t stand it, take the high road, block the criticism, and leave them alone. Conversely, don’t attack others for being fans of a thing you hate, otherwise you’re the one who’s not “letting people enjoy things.”
Do you ever tell white lies so not to worry anyone, only to realize that you’re in a room full of people with lie-detecting sensors
You shouldn’t have tried to get past the Magatama, Edgeworth.
Replaying ace attorney is funny bc phoenix acts like getting picked on for an afternoon in elementary school was the worst part of his life as if his college girlfriend didn't try to fucking frame him for murder
TV Executives: “if the strike goes in, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”
Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.
Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.
It's just hilarious that they're trying to pull this whole "but your favorite shows!" nonsense.
Oh, you mean the shows you cancel after the third season no matter how good they're doing to avoid paying writers residuals? The shows that get produced and then never aired because you found a nice tax writeoff? The shows whose writing suffers because the writers' room got six weeks to write before getting booted and making the showrunner adapt all their scripts? The shows you straight up pulled from your streaming service to scam their crews out of rewatch money?
I will happily sacrifice my shows for the writers that gave them to me, no questions needed, but if anyone tries to say that the blatantly terrible way streaming treats its writers is somehow beneficial to shows, remind them of Infinity Train and Batgirl. That's the ideal they're pushing towards if someone doesn't say no, and we should be thankful that the writers are doing that for us.
Not even the third season. Inside Job got cut dow the second season, and that was perfect! Fuck this horseshit, the writers deserve compensation!
Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
Keep seeing posts in solidarity with the WGA strike that say things like “no one cares about your favorite shows” and “fuck your tv show. I hope it gets canceled” and while I understand and agree with the underlying sentiment, which is clearly “Real people are more important than fictional ones, you dipshit” I don’t like the framing because, well, it feels shitty to dismiss the importance of the work made by the workers we’re trying to defend.
No one cares about your favorite shows more than the writers do.
No one understands the power and importance of tv and film more than the writers who created them.
No one loves tv, movies, games, and stories more than the people who fought tooth and nail in an incredibly competitive and underpaid profession for the chance to be part of it.
They know it’s important. They know it changes lives. They know it can be more than just a story, more than just a bit of entertainment. They’ve loved and respected this medium, continue to love and respect this medium, more than you ever will.
The person who wants a show to get canceled the least is the writer who poured their everything into making it good.
TV and movies are great, actually, and you are not wrong to be invested and care about them. That’s what the writers gave you. That’s what the writers wanted when they wrote it. That’s why they wrote it.
Which is why we respect them when they make the call that this strike and its demands are worth risking it.
The people on that picket line do not want their shows canceled. They want to keep writing them. They can’t, not under the current conditions.
So we accept the risk with them and support them.
But I don’t want to berate the power and importance of their work, the value they put into it and the love they have for it, in the same breath that I am defending their strike. Worthy shows will likely get canceled or derailed and that will be a tragedy worth mourning. The writers know that better than anyone.
So when they say something else is even more important, we listen. And when your favorite show gets ruined, you make sure your fully justified anger and grief is pointed in the right direction - at the CEOs who killed it.
