Why not use the opportunity presented by the SpaceJam reboot to educate Pepe (and thereby the children watching the film) instead of just cancelling him?
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I don’t think lecturing a skunk about consent would be the light-hearted funny vibe they’re after.
Were people watching him though? I'm probably talking through my backside but while I agree with the negative sentiments around Pepe, I suspect that it was an easy PR move because who watches him in 2021?
These kinds of films/plots always have a journey of discovery angle. I'd enjoy seeing M. LePew reflect on his past behaviour while lamenting how it seems he no longer has an outlet for his amorouesness and then discover that approaching
That might still leave the interspecies sex angle to talk about but that's for another time.
See, the easy move to me seems more like 'pretend it never happened/let's not talk about that' crap that doesn't solve anything and just buries it under the pile of other shit that was treated the same way. If there's no learning, we don't improve as a society.
I agree with you and your suggestion about self reflection from Pepe would be an interesting move.
Please join the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom?
feck off
i do love the irony of that name
It's all about character development, JP. Makes for a better viewing experience.
Yep, I hated it when I was a kid.
Not a bad idea, actually
Tom & Jerry style feminist smackdown perhaps?
Not a bad idea, actually
Tom & Jerry style feminist smackdown perhaps?
Itchy and Scratchy style smackdown maybe.
Yeah but the journey of discovery angle in Space Jam was that Michael Jordan realised he's a better basketballer than he is base baller. Doesn't tie in
That was minor league baseball, not Space Jam.
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It is really ? Or it is a marketing choice made by the film studio to win over this bizarre new adult audience who embrace at lot of entertainment which is aimed at children. Getting rid of the skunk is decision made for the
The article is correct that like most art forms cartoons reflected the era they were in but I also can't see it as anything more than an attempt to defend the current cultural train wreck we are living through. This progressive ''politics'' thats gets layered onto these children films(Which is always never progressive enough as the author also mentions the film still includes the problematic Mexican stereotype Speedy Gonzales
)is really a way for these liberal types to convince themselves more than anyone else as to why they should still care about this culturally void and why it's actually really important thing to write and talk about it. This all started because some liberal goon said the cartoon skunk promoted rape culture(Which seems an insult to victims of sexual assault) but also here's another dumb example from 2018 - Who Said It: Pepé Le Pew or Donald Trump ? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/opinion/pep-le-pew-trump.htmlIt can't help but see this as media websites looking for clickbait and dullard liberals trying to justify their own shite cultural taste(The conservative right do the same thing but bizarrely now see tradition as bringing back the bunny with the giant tits).
As long as they don't cancel Johnny Bravo
As I remember, Pepe was the same to me as any other kind of cartoon entertainment. I also don't think it influenced my attitude or behaviour towards girls. Similar to the video games/violence issue, I'm sure most kids can distinguish between real life and cartoons. If kids imitate shitty behaviour seen on media, something else has probably gone wrong in the first place.
On the overall topic again, I think the same distinction must be made regarding social progress and media codes. Progress obviously happens outside of the media realm, and the latter just opportunistically follows suit after a while. Which is more or less how I understand this little incident. (While being fully aware how hollow and calculated corporate image makeovers are.)
@Sweet Square
I've read your post and will reply some time later as well
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Pretty much
The same thing happens with a lot of older music.
That being said there was a song in the charts recently that had the line "can't make a wife out of a hoe".
Pretty much
The same thing happens with a lot of older music.
That being said there was a song in the charts recently that had the line "can't make a wife out of a hoe".
There are some incredibly creepy old songs out there. But they were always creepy.
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I just got into the Rolling Stones in the last couple of months - I know I'm late...my Mum played exclusively African gospel music growing up.
Stray Cat Blues holds up really well as a song, still sounds fresh, but the lyrics would never fly nowadays.
Apparently they even changed the lyric from '15' to '13' at live performances because Jagger didn't feel it was provocative enough.
Stray Cat Blues holds up really well as a song, still sounds fresh, but the lyrics would never fly nowadays.
Apparently they even changed the lyric from '15' to '13' at live performances because Jagger didn't feel it was provocative enough.
#BoycottRollingStone - (magazine) - is trending on Twitter. Apparently they’re Saudi funded and support Trump
100% agreed - so many old rock songs extol the wonders of underaged girls and it was very hard for me to process growing up, my mom's a big Rolling Stones fan and I still remember how awkward I felt listening to Stray Cat Blues in the car when I was younger, also remember her trying to somehow explain Brown Sugar to me without going into the detailsI just got into the Rolling Stones in the last couple of months - I know I'm late...my Mum played exclusively African gospel music growing up.
Stray Cat Blues holds up really well as a song, still sounds fresh, but the lyrics would never fly nowadays.
Apparently they even changed the lyric from '15' to '13' at live performances because Jagger didn't feel it was provocative enough.
My Sharona is hella creepy too, I feel kinda uncomfortable listening to it today even if it is so damn catchy.
Any guesses on how long it would take for The Beatles to be cancelled today after lyrics like this? "I'd rather see you dead, little girl / Than to be with another man" (such a shit way to end a great album)
Also, Rolling Stone the magazine always struck me as kind of leftist boomer propaganda in recent times, weird that they're now being boycotted for apparently supporting Trump! Not exactly a news org that seems very relevant today.
I’m visiting family for Easter and the kids wanted to watch white chicks for some reason
Never seen it before but fecking hell how is this not cancelled into oblivion?
it’s racist as feck, homophobic, sexist, and they even through in a bit of date rape for good measure
also it’s just a terrible terrible film
Never seen it before but fecking hell how is this not cancelled into oblivion?
it’s racist as feck, homophobic, sexist, and they even through in a bit of date rape for good measure
also it’s just a terrible terrible film
How do you cancel a 17yr old movie ?
If they can cancel dead people they can cancel shit comedies
to be clear I don’t think they should it’s just a comedy, but it’s the sort of thing people go after these days
illuminating thoughts from a professor of politics affiliated with the manhattan institute
Number 3 tickles me for two reasons:
1. How do you prove/disprove neutrality?
2. I thought that Americans generally found the idea of political neutrality to be impossible? That's why Fox News etc is given so much slack.
The Woke Semantics Project
Tracking the ever expanding meaning of a political weasel-word.
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/the-woke-semantics-project
Tracking the ever expanding meaning of a political weasel-word.
https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/the-woke-semantics-project
Ok, it's definitely gone too far. First they went for ContraPoints, now they're going for Lindsay Ellis... What the feck is wrong with the left in the US? Why can't you be more like the left here in Scandinavia(for instance)? :/
If cancel culture abolishes all youtube creators except redlettermedia I will support it.
On this specific one, it looks like she is being canceled over almost nothing, but she was part of that call-out crowd too, so, whatever. Also I think if she had just said nothing for a day when they were attacking her she would have been fine and not felt the need to deactivate.
E-about the length of the videos from both her and contra regarding this
On this specific one, it looks like she is being canceled over almost nothing, but she was part of that call-out crowd too, so, whatever. Also I think if she had just said nothing for a day when they were attacking her she would have been fine and not felt the need to deactivate.
E-about the length of the videos from both her and contra regarding this
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2 hours on Youtube drama. Would ya be fecking well in the head watching that?
the threat of cancel culture is the end of free speech and the censorship of ideas it deems doubleplusungood