http://news.yahoo.com/man-interned-homosexuality-nazis-dies-98-113303335.htmlFurther proof that camps can't make you straight. 98 Years old and right through hell, but hey, maybe it's a phase he's going through? Gee, don't stupid old people say "Back in my day there weren't any gays!" You know what else they didn't have in your day? Artificial hips, shut it....
For the record, that actual disutopia was caused by all the same negative attitudes against people who were "different." None of the wolf criers deriding birth control or any other thing have the slightest hint how close they are for all the wrong and opposite reasons to being right about the causes of disutopia.
This makes about as much sense as Playboy objectifying women while saying they are about "female empowerment." Look Hugh, if you run a smut publication, just cop to it. No one with more than two brain cells firing is buying this crap story. Then again, perhaps you aren't tailoring your explanation to that crowd...? The majority of your readers aren't in it for the articles....
As for the spiderman thing, the comment sections of websites exist largely for racists to hide in while making their slurs and this is no exception. Cartoons actually really matter to society and anyone who doesn't agree with me needs to see that Disney made a jive-talking character from the south called Jim Crow....
Pictured: racism, child edition.
Honestly, search youtube for the Dumbo Crow Scene and tell me that shit isn't racist? The character's actually name is Jim Crow. Not just Jim, not Jim the crow, straight up Jim Crow.... This wasn't a standard naming convention either for Disney. It wasn't "Dumbo Elephant," Abu Monkey, Iago Parrot, Simba Lion etc. There was no reason to call the character the type of animal it was in Disney's standard thinking because that was blatantly obvious.... Jim Crow....
Seriously, we JUST NOW got a black Disney Princess.... It doesn't take little girls long to figure out that none of the main characters look like they do. About damn time. The spiderman thing is probably roughly the same for boys. I can see a legit argument for keeping traditions and even for not repackaging standard cookie cutter heros. Why the hell does there have to be a "new" spiderman at all? It's just like everything in movies these days: a reboot, sequel or otherwise rehash of an old idea. We could really use some creativity and some new heroes for our generation at some point and they can't all be straight white males or the occasionally badly written token stereotypes.
I just don't know. Kids need someone to admire and look up to. That's sort of the real deal behind the whole "hero" stitck. Its a method for teaching kids values. Spiderman was "with great power comes great responsibility." I think we need heroes who also happen to be girls or non white or occasionally [gasp] non straight. It shouldn't necessarily be the main focus, but at some point it says something that all the iconic heroes we all know are the same demographic. The only semi exception was Wonder Woman, a sort of cheap knockoff 90% of the time.
God damn it, if you're a major publishing house you should really invest in some decent, creative writers. The new crop seem to only be able to rehash shit. Where are we going with this long term? What's next, the rehash of the rehash? And after that?
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Also Americans need to shut up and reopen mental facilities because this keeps happening:
http://news.yahoo.com/homeless-mans-death-arrest-outrages-father-081021492.html