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Friday, May 11, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
if you look at Peters face, you know he was a meth smoker.
In
Chimera by John Barthes, there is this Arabian prince who demanded a
fresh virgin pre-teen girl each day, and he would rape her and then kill
her, everyday. One time, a girl found a genie and rubbed his lamp, and
he would help her, by giving her the gift of telling stories, to keep
the Prince entertained, so that he won't kill her, each night, so she
was kept alive, by telling him strange stories each night.
Let me tell you this:
If you met this Prince, who is demonically evil, and didn't know his background, and he's wearing the most opulent of luxury in clothes and jewelry, would you be swayed? Deceived in believing you met a charming person?
Girls, if you are a girl, let me ask you this: If you didn't know this Prince's background, his personal history of killing thousands of virgin girls that his men would take from screaming and crying families for his depraved pleasure, and didn't know this, but you would be fooled by his riches, his charm, his good looks? Would you be attracted?
Lets say that you pick up 'sexual vibes' from this Prince and you feel sexually attracted to him because he is good looking, rich, charming, and has sexual energy. You feel his sexual energy and sexual chemistry, that he gets, from raping preteen girls after having them beheaded each night. So he has sexual prowess. You feel his sexual prowess and sexual chemistry.
What does this mean?
It means that you are like an animal without a mind, reliant on sexual chemistry and sexuality rather than intellectual and spiritual stimulation. It means that some of you girls hate on good incel guys (not the bad ones) because, you feel that men must hate women if they are celibate one way or another. But this means, that if you met this murderous, raping Prince, who has sexual prowess, the 'sexual vibes' then it means that you, like other sluts, have sex with sluts. That in the slut world, the key to slutting is to be a slut. Sluts go with sluts.
But see, you have to know someone to love them. Everything about them. You have to see what is going on past the slutting. Sexual objectification, is when a man rapes a woman. There is no such thing as sexual objectification outside of rape.
Let me tell you this:
If you met this Prince, who is demonically evil, and didn't know his background, and he's wearing the most opulent of luxury in clothes and jewelry, would you be swayed? Deceived in believing you met a charming person?
Girls, if you are a girl, let me ask you this: If you didn't know this Prince's background, his personal history of killing thousands of virgin girls that his men would take from screaming and crying families for his depraved pleasure, and didn't know this, but you would be fooled by his riches, his charm, his good looks? Would you be attracted?
Lets say that you pick up 'sexual vibes' from this Prince and you feel sexually attracted to him because he is good looking, rich, charming, and has sexual energy. You feel his sexual energy and sexual chemistry, that he gets, from raping preteen girls after having them beheaded each night. So he has sexual prowess. You feel his sexual prowess and sexual chemistry.
What does this mean?
It means that you are like an animal without a mind, reliant on sexual chemistry and sexuality rather than intellectual and spiritual stimulation. It means that some of you girls hate on good incel guys (not the bad ones) because, you feel that men must hate women if they are celibate one way or another. But this means, that if you met this murderous, raping Prince, who has sexual prowess, the 'sexual vibes' then it means that you, like other sluts, have sex with sluts. That in the slut world, the key to slutting is to be a slut. Sluts go with sluts.
But see, you have to know someone to love them. Everything about them. You have to see what is going on past the slutting. Sexual objectification, is when a man rapes a woman. There is no such thing as sexual objectification outside of rape.
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David Alexander Cardamone It
seems to me that most girls, want a man who is a 'sexual being' and
'has been having sex' in contrast to an incel. Which means, and I would
bet, that most women would have sex with the demonic prince because he
is a sexual being rather than an incel.
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Peter Tomshany i
respectfully disagree with most of this. people are objectified in so
many ways, and your dependence on stereotyping undermines much of your
assertion. here are a few points to help you on your path, should you
choose to be open to them:
1) no one deserves sex.
2) masturbation is sex (arguably the safest). true celibacy does not include this.
3) sex is overrated
Manage1) no one deserves sex.
2) masturbation is sex (arguably the safest). true celibacy does not include this.
3) sex is overrated
David Alexander Cardamone Do
you think millions of love songs and poems, sonnets were written for
masturbation? Seems contrary to the driving force that propels humanity
forward.
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Peter Tomshany Since
i did include masturbation as a form of sex (an act of self love), i
would recommend asking yourself permission, otherwise you’re just raping
yourself, which i do not recommend.
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David Alexander Cardamone I doubt that masturbation is self love. It isn't pleasurable at all.
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David Alexander Cardamone I
wholeheartedly DISAGREE with everything you have said. First off all my
philosophy is founded on Counter-Culture which was formed in
California, to counter the conformist, conservative culture of which was
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Peter Tomshany Yikes, David. Sounds like you’ve experienced some terrible treatment.
I hope for your sake that you are able to sever the thread of abuse that threatens to bisect us all, and i hope you realize the only way to do that is to find kindness to share, ev...See More
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David Alexander Cardamone no kidding.
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David Alexander Cardamone Complacency
in sex, in the individual, does it just effect the individual? What
about complacency in society? If all of America was complacent in sex
and masturbating, what will happen to the workforce, the production, the
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Peter Tomshany My view is divergent to yours in almost every way, David. I’m not sorry to say so.
I do pity the women you threaten by your banal refusal to allow them a voice and a choice.
ManageI do pity the women you threaten by your banal refusal to allow them a voice and a choice.
David Alexander Cardamone Peter,
it seems that your views in this matter is making me feel that when you
say, "I pity the women you threaten by your banal refusal to allow them
a voice and a choice". Where does it say where I say that. I do allow
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David Alexander Cardamone in
relation to orgone theory, sex creates orgone energy while masturbation
depletes orgone energy. My far-fetched metaphysical theory that
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Conversations about Political Correctness in film hinders art and creativity
I'd
like to gauge people's feelings about political correctness in modern
cinema. Personally, I get slightly exasperated when the way a person
reads a film is based solely around notions of political correctness. I
feel that the desire to sanitize cinema to the extent that no one at all
gets offended is doomed to leave us with the worst kind of bland, empty
cinema that is devoid of any kind of reality. Sadly, we don't live in a
shiny Utopia where everyone holds hands and skips down the street in
perfect harmony and portraying that on the silver screen wouldn't
magically make it so. Films shouldn't be specifically designed to cater
for people with fragile sensibilities. They should in part, hold up a
mirror to the world we live in and get us to examine our own flaws and
ponder our own prejudices. What does everyone else think?
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Max Calder Exactly, how?
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Andrew Hanson Zootopia
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Max Calder What point?
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Bill Sweet Wait, people are offended by Zootopia?
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James P Lucarelli Best non pc movie--PCU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhno9sBWI88Manage
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Max Calder Reactionary of the people paying the script and story writers?
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Connor Ripley I
don't think that political correctness equals sanitisation. I think
that it adds depth, because it expands the number of directions from
which you can approach the same subject. It doesn't make a subject
taboo, it encourages directors to be MORE broad minded, if anything.
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Michael Rovin That’s
charming, but political correctness leads to the insipid insertion of
its ideas for the sake of it, rather than to serve the story.
For instance, not all places on earth have a perfect balance of different races. Sometimes it’s just one race.
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Timothy Dorian Every
piece of art (novels, films, songs) has a perspective, and politics are
braided in that perspective, whether the creator of the art intended
this or not -- usually as assumptions as to how the world works. These
assumptions can be challenged. And an
artist's explicit points can be challenged, too. If one viewer is fairly
conservative, and the art piece's assumptions or explicit statements
fit with that world-view, and another viewer challenges those, then the
first viewer may complain that the second viewer is "just being PC."
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Vincent McCarthy I
see this more in telly over the years than film. Especially when they
sneak modern beliefs into older historical bits that were not the sign
of the times.
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Rob Rooney Eeyup. I reckon...
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Buck TurgidsonGen Well,
tell that to Hollywood? And what do you think countries other than the
USA think of American Sniper (2014), The 15:17 to Paris (2018) but then
Clint makes Sully (2016)? Have you read the criteria for which a movie
gets approval to show in mainland China?
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Jonathan Shoesmith Imagine
pitching Holy Mountain or something now 'so yeah we want to like smash
loads of figures of Jesus up and blow up a load of toads'
"you mean to say there isn't a bong smoking montage or any autotune music in it??'
"theres a guy sitting inside a dead cow"
Manage"you mean to say there isn't a bong smoking montage or any autotune music in it??'
"theres a guy sitting inside a dead cow"
Siân Macfarlane I’m
interested to know what sorts of cinema this political correctness is
supposedly influencing? I just don’t see it. If it’s mainstream, like in
the Star Wars example cited numerous times above. Well yawn. Not
relevant to the interests of this group.
Also. Why do people get so upset when a mainstream film starts to
redress some of the massive historical imbalance by giving a bit of the
story to (shock) people who aren’t white men? If it’s more
arthouse/independent. Then I don’t agree at all. Films aren’t getting
made because of money, not some pc agenda. John Waters can’t get a film
financed. And he’s John Waters. We’ve got great examples of films
pushing the envelope from the last few years; tangerine, greasy
strangler. Yes a new Buffalo 66 hasn’t come out. Or a new last tango in
Paris. But they exist already! Bring on non-white/trans/queer/women’s
voices in cinema!
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Philip Bale 'Not relevant to the interests of this group.' What a fascistic statement.
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Siân Macfarlane You are completely right Philip Bale I hear fascists saying that all the time! 😂
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Philip Bale No one can be the final arbiter of aesthetic taste. If you think you are, you are only fooling yourself :)
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Stephen Wilkinson Philip Bale , stop being "a whiny lil bitch"
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Philip Bale You obviously don't understand what has been said Steve me old china.
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Stephen Wilkinson Philip Bale , its ok, I GET YOU.
<3 you have a SAFE SPACE HERE! <3
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Philip Bale No,
it is unfortunately just the same, except people are upset about the
wrong things. No one seems to care about war and atrocities carried out
by their governments, only ensuring a work of art meets with it's quota
of over privileged, middle class actors who may (or may not have) had
disadvantaged ancestors.
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Richard Pickering Siân Macfarlane
It's most noticeable (to me at least) in mainstream Hollywood cinema,
not that I actually watch much of that, and maybe it's because of that
very fact that it jumps out at me when I do... I don't think that you
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Siân Macfarlane Richard Pickering
Star Wars is relevant here???? That’s what I’m picking up on, more from
the above comments than your original post, as that is what is being
cited. I just find that the discussion of mainstream in this context a
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Siân Macfarlane I’d
recommend the Bret Easton Ellis podcast for an insiders perspective on
the state of play and funding in Hollywood, he talks to lots of
filmmakers about it (though he a hasn’t done a new one for a while). I
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Siân Macfarlane And
finally, to be clear; I wasn’t saying that your original post wasn’t
relevant to this group, but that a discussion of these themes in the
context of Star Wars wasn’t relevant, in relation to above posts. Enjoy
your evening. I’m currently watching Hard to be a God. Which I should
get back to.
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Richard Pickering No
worries, thanks for clarifying. I haven't followed 'Star Wars' since
'Return of the Jedi', so I really can't comment on the latest ones. I
did refer to 'Dallas Buyers Club' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road' in other
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Siân Macfarlane Yeah I actually think he probably aligns with your perspective more than me! He talks about ‘snowflake’ culture a lot.
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Siân Macfarlane Not that you used that phrase...
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Richard Pickering Yeah, I'm not particularly keen on that term...
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Jurgen Boel `Bring
on non-white/trans/queer/women’s voices in cinema!` That cinema has
always existed, maybe not in mainstream Hollywood movies but no-one
forces you to watch those. And off course big budget movies will go for
the most common denominator but those will change when they notice there
is money to made by catering to "minority" groups.
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Siân Macfarlane Jurgen Boel I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. The rest of my comments make that quite clear
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Jurgen Boel I
stand corrected but i don`t quite get what you are trying to say. Do
you want to bring on non-white/trans/queer/women’s voices in MAINSTREAM
cinema? If the story is well written and the actors can play the part,
I`d say bring it on.
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Dennis Zonn I think you expressed it very well Mr. Pickering.
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Jed Smith People
who complain about political correctness are so oversensitive! I
remember the good old days when you could make fun of conservatives,
homophobes, racists, misogynists, Libertarians, greedy assholes, and gun
nuts without worrying about their feelings. What a bunch of snowflakes!
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Kyle Allen Willey I
don't watch many modern films. They are all watered down to me.
Occasionally a good documentary and shows get through but this era of
films for the most part is the worst garbage and the fear of having to
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Kyle Allen Willey Say
some guy has a line like "I don't care if you are a Tranny. Chop your
dick off, do what you want. What do I care. It's your body." Or "My
cousin's a tard but I love him." These lines are obviously bad by
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Kyle Allen Willey This
is all true, the one thing I would say is Taxi Driver I used to say you
can't make a gritty film that's honest about society as easily anymore.
Not that you need to make something just like it, we don't need that
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Kyle Allen Willey I wonder too and Do The Right Thing is a great film.
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Max Calder Mein Kamp was a political ideologist zeitgeist.
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Max Calder Thankfully, it won’t be written again.
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Jurgen Boel You should have gone for `Der Hersscher` or `Jud Suss` as examples.
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Matthew Busfield Jumanji remake, insidious sequel, maze runner sequel.....its hardly jodorowsky or kubrick is it??
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Louis Joon Want some boundries pushed. try this..
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Jonathan Shoesmith Maybe
films in general aren't politically correct. Influencing people to sit
down for hours on end eating popcorn and drinking fizzy drinks and
ordering takeaways and shit. Maybe lifeforms themselves aren't
politically correct and Mars' shitty desolate arse is far more PC than
this wet blue ball full of demonic creatures shagging and eating each
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Joseph Keenan I'd been going on since film started. In print it has been going on as long as written language.
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Jae Lynn Marino It all depends on context.
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Chris Jarmick Thread is very long with some very good on topic comments and some interesting asides and off topic ones too.
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Jonathan Shoesmith I like bread 🍞
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Chris Jarmick One
thing I thought was terrible was when there was a censorship of films
and cartoons that had racist scenes in them. I think its a good thing
to point this out... but to stop showing them? You can use them as
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Joe Whipple I agree with you 100%, Richard Pickering.
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Rick Lucey So true what you state!
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Stephen Wilkinson Eric Jenkins YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
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Eric Jenkins Stephen Wilkinson - Have you been playing in the litter-box again? 🙄🙄🙄
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Eric Jenkins Michael Rovin - It’s weaponized toxic-altruism directed at perceived heretical nonbelievers.
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Stephen Wilkinson Eric Jenkins and Michael Rovin : when did you two turn into penisless whiners?? GRAB YOUR BALLS MEN! ( or get some!)
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Eric Jenkins Samantha Verity
- Why,I’m surprised at you, young lady!!! If you were a good
Christian, you’d feed them a delicious treat of Cod liver!!! My word!!! 😱😱😱
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Michael Rovin Stephen Wilkinson Ban any professors from speaking at college campuses, lately?
You need to pay more attention, and use the caps lock less (unless you have a reasonable point to make; in which case you wouldn't need it).
ManageYou need to pay more attention, and use the caps lock less (unless you have a reasonable point to make; in which case you wouldn't need it).
Samantha Verity Stephen Wilkinson
I’ve reported you to admin a few times Stephen for the way you speak to
people. Very aggressive and confrontational and often out of the blue.
I’m not sure why you’re still on here old chap. 😐
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Eric Jenkins Samantha Verity - Cod liver and a pat on the head puts the troll to sleep. 😴😴😴
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Samantha Verity Eric Jenkins I fear not, the force is strong in this one. 😉
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Stephen Wilkinson *farce
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Joe Rymer If
you really feel that strongly about censorship perhaps the tone of this
feed should more strongly reflect that conviction.Perhaps this could be
a forum of not "Just," cinematic discovery,but the right to make
whatever kind of discovery you want w/o arbitrary societal norms or
governmental interference.
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Stephen Wilkinson if the show is for children then blur it.
They are either smart enough to look past the blurring or dumb enough to see it as an endorsement.
Sure, it may hurt THAT SPECIFIC FILM where the cigarette in the left hand is central to the plot, but few are like that! :P
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Sure, it may hurt THAT SPECIFIC FILM where the cigarette in the left hand is central to the plot, but few are like that! :P
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Chris West Although
I feel some troma films are politically correct a black grandma killing
idiots for a racially motivated murder (surf nazis must die) how the
physically misformed can find love (guess which) and how big business
and nuclear power ends badly
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Andrew Laurence Though I love the portrayal of SJWs in Poultrygeist
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David Alexander Cardamone There's
been discussions on how new films today, being politically and socially
correct, as to not offend everyone, are being bland and boring as well.
With the 'I am offended" movement out there, it goes to show that this shift in social norms, is all about:
MONEY and not social justice.
The media conglomerates want to capitalize on social justice, so that their new films make money and that old films wont, because they are 'offensive'. By getting people to jump on the 'I am offended' bandwagon, the lemmings and conformists they are, herded like cattle, will spend their money and consume the new films that are watered down to 'not offend anyone".
That is my theory.
Seriously, it's like when the 60's Revolution of Counter-Culture were trying to fight for environmental awareness, social justice, civil rights, women's rights, questioning authority figures, theorists say the movement went down as many of their goals went mainstream, like environmental awareness, as well as the proliferation of the groups into parenthood and responsibilities.. They've been given the crumbs instead of the whole cake, fooled into believing they changed the world- we have pollution, we have corruption, we have greedy conglomerate corporations whose greed outweighs their humanitarian empathy.
All this "social justice' in film is simply a tool to make money, its not about appropriate political correctness, but to monopolize the film industry by getting people to think all old school classic films are "Offensive" and thus everything will get a crappy watered-down remake that is bland and terrible.
ManageWith the 'I am offended" movement out there, it goes to show that this shift in social norms, is all about:
MONEY and not social justice.
The media conglomerates want to capitalize on social justice, so that their new films make money and that old films wont, because they are 'offensive'. By getting people to jump on the 'I am offended' bandwagon, the lemmings and conformists they are, herded like cattle, will spend their money and consume the new films that are watered down to 'not offend anyone".
That is my theory.
Seriously, it's like when the 60's Revolution of Counter-Culture were trying to fight for environmental awareness, social justice, civil rights, women's rights, questioning authority figures, theorists say the movement went down as many of their goals went mainstream, like environmental awareness, as well as the proliferation of the groups into parenthood and responsibilities.. They've been given the crumbs instead of the whole cake, fooled into believing they changed the world- we have pollution, we have corruption, we have greedy conglomerate corporations whose greed outweighs their humanitarian empathy.
All this "social justice' in film is simply a tool to make money, its not about appropriate political correctness, but to monopolize the film industry by getting people to think all old school classic films are "Offensive" and thus everything will get a crappy watered-down remake that is bland and terrible.
James P Lucarelli Here is an older film that should be required viewing to understand "pc". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhno9sBWI88Manage
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David Alexander Cardamone Freedom
of speech plays a role in creativity. A lot of classics are considered
offensive by Millennials despite that they're not straightforward about
the offending quibs. Millennials make a mountain out of a molehill on
being offended by stuff that would go
over moat people's heads decades ago. Millennials think James Bond is
rapist, sexist, misogynist, as well as a slew of other films like
Revenge of the Nerds, screwball comedies like Porkys, Joysticks, etc. I
think people are missing the concept of freedom of speech and
expression, and the millennials want a cookie cutter aesthetics to films
that they can watch without being butthurt
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Samantha Verity Millennials = snowflakes. It was just added to the dictionary last week. 😀 so sad.
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Bonnie D'Heur I
think it would help to have a working definition of "politically
correct" that a good percentage of people here can agree on before
getting into it with each other or blaming the evil millennials (an ever
nebulous term thrown out freely).
Personally, I don't like censorship in films, but with this caveat:
If you're going to rely on vulgarity and hard subjects then do it right. Don't do it for the sake of gratuity and try to masquerade it as something revolutionary or substantial. And if you want to be gratuitous then be honest about your intentions.
It's a little strange to me that people think recent films are sanitized. I think perhaps they just aren't watching a large enough variety of films if that's the case.
And for those that hate those of us that would be considered millennials or dare to ask you about your opinions on "PC Culture" and "snowflakes," I would suggest considering a few things.
1. We often hear those that complain the most even if they're a small minority. You may assume people in my generation are against all sorts of things without realizing that you're not hearing the countless number of us who do NOT care about those things. Same as you.
2. If something is being challenged as inappropriate, look specifically at who is saying it and why. Often enough, there are groups comprised of women, people of color, people of a particular religion, etc. who NEVER were okay with what was being released. But they were not able to amplify their voices collectively loud enough for anyone to hear, were too afraid, or people simply were not listening. It's a different time we live in. More people will be heard.
3. You don't have to put people down to disagree with them. It's not hard to voice your opinions with grace and respect. It's how my elders taught me, yet I see so many older than me that seem to have not listened to THEIR elders. Be excellent to each other, folks. We learn more that way, and we're heard more that way.
4. There are idiots in every age group. I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every idiotic thing I heard Gen X and Baby Boomers say. But I don't think any of you are stupid just because you're in that age group. There are so many intelligent, thoughtful people on here and in life that I count as good friends, and it'd be a shame to dismiss them outright just because they're in the same age group as a small minority of loud, silly people.
5. It's not a bad thing to reflect upon your words if those words often hurt others. I had a friend who told me a joke, "Why don't you see any Wal-Marts in Iraq? Because there's a Target on every corner."
My Muslim friend from Iraq didn't feel so great about hearing that, and my other friend realized she'd been wrong to say it because it genuinely hurt another person. If you're saying something that hurts other people, people who are included in the butt of the joke, then maybe those suggesting you watch your speech aren't the ones in the wrong. Just consider it.
You can attack me, you can talk to me like a respectable adult, or you can ignore this. I choose the latter two, but I damn well sure am not going to act like a child and choose the first. We're all better than that. This is a good group. Attacking each other attacks the integrity of the group.
ManagePersonally, I don't like censorship in films, but with this caveat:
If you're going to rely on vulgarity and hard subjects then do it right. Don't do it for the sake of gratuity and try to masquerade it as something revolutionary or substantial. And if you want to be gratuitous then be honest about your intentions.
It's a little strange to me that people think recent films are sanitized. I think perhaps they just aren't watching a large enough variety of films if that's the case.
And for those that hate those of us that would be considered millennials or dare to ask you about your opinions on "PC Culture" and "snowflakes," I would suggest considering a few things.
1. We often hear those that complain the most even if they're a small minority. You may assume people in my generation are against all sorts of things without realizing that you're not hearing the countless number of us who do NOT care about those things. Same as you.
2. If something is being challenged as inappropriate, look specifically at who is saying it and why. Often enough, there are groups comprised of women, people of color, people of a particular religion, etc. who NEVER were okay with what was being released. But they were not able to amplify their voices collectively loud enough for anyone to hear, were too afraid, or people simply were not listening. It's a different time we live in. More people will be heard.
3. You don't have to put people down to disagree with them. It's not hard to voice your opinions with grace and respect. It's how my elders taught me, yet I see so many older than me that seem to have not listened to THEIR elders. Be excellent to each other, folks. We learn more that way, and we're heard more that way.
4. There are idiots in every age group. I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every idiotic thing I heard Gen X and Baby Boomers say. But I don't think any of you are stupid just because you're in that age group. There are so many intelligent, thoughtful people on here and in life that I count as good friends, and it'd be a shame to dismiss them outright just because they're in the same age group as a small minority of loud, silly people.
5. It's not a bad thing to reflect upon your words if those words often hurt others. I had a friend who told me a joke, "Why don't you see any Wal-Marts in Iraq? Because there's a Target on every corner."
My Muslim friend from Iraq didn't feel so great about hearing that, and my other friend realized she'd been wrong to say it because it genuinely hurt another person. If you're saying something that hurts other people, people who are included in the butt of the joke, then maybe those suggesting you watch your speech aren't the ones in the wrong. Just consider it.
You can attack me, you can talk to me like a respectable adult, or you can ignore this. I choose the latter two, but I damn well sure am not going to act like a child and choose the first. We're all better than that. This is a good group. Attacking each other attacks the integrity of the group.
David Alexander Cardamone Millennial
doesnt really refer to a generalizing sweeping term of everyone born
after the turn of the Century, but refers to whiners who over-exaggerate
things they hear, read, and see. I can understand how your Muslim
friend is hurt by the joke, because
people are terrorized and live in terrifying fear in those situations.
But the point is that most films, like for example, James Bond, is
criticized by the Millennial as a rapist, because, he is seducing women
and bedding them. How is that rapist? Seriously. The American Freedom of
Expression also means Sexual Expression as well. A Snowflake will say,
"Oh, its creepy to hit on women". Thats not true at all. Its how you do
it. There are either a good way or a bad way to do things. There is
nothing wrong with 'hitting on women" or "picking up girls" thats
Freedom of Expression. How the girls react is their preogative, and how
the pickee react doesn't make the picker wrong unless of course the
picker did something a bit too extreme or too inappropriate, but if
acting like a respectable Gentleman and Lady, and ettiquitte is used,
then picking up girl is respectable if done respectably. James Bond
seduced his women and they complied to him and there is nothing wrong
with it. Freedom of Expression and the Pursuit of Happiness is an
American right and privelege and freedom. If a Man wishes to pursue
libertine happiness with a woman and if she wishes to share in that
happiness then it is respectable and not rape.
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Bonnie D'Heur Millennials refers to people within a specific age group.
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Bonnie D'Heur Also,
James Bond is an amazing character, but he was not always a gentleman.
He's referred to women and treated women in unsavory ways often enough.
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David Alexander Cardamone Gee, when a girl says "Ohhh Bond" I think he's doing it right
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Bonnie D'Heur Wouldn't you agree that this might complicate the conversation, though? There is a universal definition for that word.
Also, this is not how you bed a woman. If she says no or resists at any point then you need to take a step back, stop, and leave her alone and/or and court her the right way. It doesn't matter that she "gives in" at the end of this scene. The psychology behind why this happens is well researched--I have a friend who did just that because she was afraid of being hurt further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pUXH1Bye88Manage
Also, this is not how you bed a woman. If she says no or resists at any point then you need to take a step back, stop, and leave her alone and/or and court her the right way. It doesn't matter that she "gives in" at the end of this scene. The psychology behind why this happens is well researched--I have a friend who did just that because she was afraid of being hurt further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pUXH1Bye88Manage
David Alexander Cardamone This
is just a film. But he gets her to change her mind. If I for example,
was afraid of the water, and a surfer was trying to get me to learn how
to swim, then I wouldnt get over my fear of sharks and surf.. Now I
understand this isn't the same metaphor, but this is just a movie. But
as you may know, girls are pre-fabricated to have a 'defense' to defend
their sexuality. That wall of defense is always there, no matter WHO is
trying to break that wall down. So sometimes a man has to try more than
once.
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David Alexander Cardamone Given
that there are a right and wrong way to do things, I dont see it as a
real evil to have racism, bigotry, misogyny, sexism, etc in film,
because, film is subjective for us to examine and see these things, and
conjecture theories and constructive criticisms of the film. Just to
say, "That was sexist, I was offended" doesnt necessarily cut the cake.
To think, Oh, this is a gritty Italian Neorealist film and the character
is sexist and rapist, that is how the world is, I feel bad for the
character, this gives me a sober tone for the world I am viewing and
conjecturing why this situation is happening (For example, the Strongman
raping the Clown Girl in Fellini's La Strada). Now if a Snowflake saw
Fellni's "La Strada" they would be highly offended by the rapist,
sadist, sexist, misogynist scenes at how awful the Strongman treats the
clown girl. But hey man, its supposed to be a sad clown story. So if
films were to be cookie-cutter made for Snowflakes, we wouldnt get
masterpieces like La Strada. La Strada, helps us feel empathy for the
poor clown girl, and yet try to understand the Strongman, on what drives
him to be brutal and mean to the clown girl, as he weeps when he
discovers she died many years later after they break up.
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