oh lord. I hadnt though about that movie in decades. yes it wouldnt had aged well.

That scene in a decent country would have had the writers arrested

Everyone realized South Park’s messaging was horrible even back then, but ”that’s the joke bro, they’re being misanthropic edgelords for the lulz!”, which in itself led to some even worse stuff from South Park poisoned people.

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my mother will not stop loving south park

You how people talk about Rick and Morty? South Park is actually the show they say R&M is. They don’t actually have a problem with edgy nihilism.

Aladdin’s first instinct upon gaining access to incredible cosmic power was to catfish a sheltered underaged girl.

Do NOT rewatch Pocahontas

I may be missrememberig but shouldnt aladdin be from china? Isnt the only middle eastern guy the wizard, because in the tropes the evil wizard is persian, maybe the djin is also middle eastern?

Yeah, I enjoyed the books as a kid but there was always something about this that bothered me.

I still have a couple books I got Brian Jacques to sign when I was a kid. Haven’t read any of them as an adult though

Yeah this is something fantasy suffers from in general but it just feels worse in Redwall. I remember finding it odd even as a kid (partially because I liked the Ferrets and wanted them to be good)

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Good one

this definitely had no implications from the author whatsoever

I think I was 12 or 13 when book 5 came out and it clicked for me that it wasn’t setting up for anything, it was just creating obvious commentaries and then hand waving them. Nothing was coming about Potter’s wealth and the Weasley’s near poverty. “SPEW is a silly acronym” was everything we were getting about the house slaves. I hadn’t even made the Semitic connections to goblins and was uncomfortable with the implications of them being exclusively bankers. The bad people were bad because they were bad, and the good people were good because they were good.

At least by that time I’d discovered PTerry, so i already had better stuff to get on reading.

has anyone rewatched Ranma 1/2 ? Its problematic right?

I once pledged allegiance to my neighbor’s flag on a saturday when I was in kindergarten

I still remember being like 12 and somehow thinking that Americans were especially self-critical compared to most other nations. I really don’t know how I even came to that. I have no idea

damn and I was thinking of rewatching this one

That one scene hit me right as I was questioning my gender. I’ve floated the idea of playing the VN with someone else, but I really don’t know.

Oh boy, I started playing through the visual novel 2 years ago and I was kinda intrigued by the plot at the start, but as it went on the misogyny got so freaking bad that I quit and wrote an entire hexbear rant post about it. The people who made Steins;Gate absolutely do not see women as real people. I remember there is a scene where Kurisu is at the main character’s place, they argue about something (I forgot the details) but the conclusion is that in order to get Kurisu to do something, the protagonist and his buddy basically threaten her with sexual harrassment (“You’re alone in here with the 2 of us wink wink”) and it’s played so casually, and Kurisu’s reaction is basically just “ugh, fine” instead of being fucking horrified and never stepping in a room with these people ever again.

Anime frequently objectifies and infantitilizes women, but Steins;Gate shows outright contempt for its female characters. It hurts them, degrades them and “puts them in their place” at every opportunity and then pats itself on the back as those same female characters come crawling back to their women-hating protagonist because the authors are red pill creeps who believe those stupid females secretly love it when men treat them like dirt.

Fuck Steins;Gate.

There’s also Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft engaging in plunder of other nation’s indigenous artifacts and outright killing delicate, endangered wildlife.

She also murders native people in Tomb Raider III.

I thought you meant like…people in your life for a moment

it’d be funny to have a flight sim like that where the plane just spontaneously explodes if you open the throttle too much or exceed a certain wind speed or fly for too long.

Glorifying FAILED Nazi super weapons that never saw the light of day. Ones that took an American video game studio to bring them to life, 40 years after the war?

Meh. I try not to take such things too seriously. Like all those B movies that feature secret Nazi zombies under the ice of Antarctica. It’s for the lulz.

As a kid I played a game called Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, a flight sim by LucasArts designed by the guy who would later do X-Wing and TIE Fighter (I guess the latter was also bad because you fought with the space fascists). You could fly all kinds of Nazi planes that never saw action in real life like jet fighters, and it wasn’t until much later whenI realized that glorifying cool Nazi superweapons was bad, actually.

It’s kind of the same way I feel about anyone who’s hobby is WWII related. There’s such a fine line between historical realism and doing history justice and glorifying fascism.

as a i dunno, 6-7 year old, i hero-worshipped america for its role in ww2 (and probably for ending the cold war. we were very deep in the propaganda in the mid 90s in former-warsaw-pactia back then)

i got over it.

you liked clan wolf because their mechs were cooler

i liked clan wolf because i’m a furry (and their mechs were cooler)

we are (kinda) the same

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