See How His Pieties Catch The Light
In case you missed it in the comments:
The Secret Life of Pets 2… effectively acts as an animated ode to heteronormativity, toxic masculinity and patriarchal worldviews
Woke reviewer Carlos Aguilar watches an animated film intended for children and gets terribly upset.
It occurs to me that when the reviewer of a children’s cartoon is whining at length about a lack of discernibly gay pet-owning couples and the oppressive “heteronormativity” of a character choosing to get married and have a child – an act that is “conservative” and therefore bad, apparently – then the problem isn’t the film.
In the comments, Liz adds,
Reproduction is ‘conservative’. Normality is a ‘trope’. Sounds like someone’s been severely educated…
Such that Mr Aguilar, a 30-year-old man, is seeking validation of his own niche sexual politics in a children’s cartoon about talking dogs.
Such that Mr Aguilar, a 30-year-old man, is seeking validation of his own niche sexual politics in a children’s cartoon about talking dogs.
What a way to live.
the oppressive “heteronormativity” of a character choosing to get married and have a child – an act that is “conservative” and therefore bad, apparently
Who does he think takes kids to the cinema?
Who does he think takes kids to the cinema?
Heh. Quite.
All I can say to the likes of Carlos Aguilar is “Shih Tzu, mate.”
Jordan Peterson talks about having a life filled with meaning and struggles.
The left have demonized everything normal.
This guy’s life is dedicated to the struggle of fighting against that which he views as wrong and evil.
Too bad that he is attacking everything normal.
What he is doing is logically sound; he is fighting against what his brainwashed brain has been programmed to see as evil.
“…a lack of discernibly gay pet-owning couples…”
A lack of gay couples, or a lack of couples with gay pets…?
The great irony is that it was a heternormative couple performing that conservative act of procreation that brought him into this world he rails at now.
What he is doing is logically sound; he is fighting against what his brainwashed brain has been programmed to see as evil.
Related, and also speaking of shiny pieties, rich guy gives $26 million to ‘Bama law school, proceeds to tell people to boycott said law school because of recent Alabama abortion law, said law school gives money back and tells rich guy to pound sand.
Rich guy plays victim.
Silenced with interviews by national media. Poor downtrodden thing.
Those canines speak volumes (q.v.).
The phrase “Woke reviewer … and gets terribly upset.” appears to be generally true for any and all values of “…”.
With that said, as a 30+ (heavy focus on the +) male myself, one who himself had a comic book hobby as a child that sees me still attending and enjoying many comic book based movies even today, I can somewhat sympathize with the disdain tossed at adults who do watch entertainment historically aimed at children. Of course, whether the Marvel movies are actually aimed at children or not is open to debate.
But even so, even I admit that they are intended as light hearted entertainment. I mean, Winter Soldier can be looked at as being a good cold war thriller, just with the leads dressed in spandex, but it’s not exactly Citizen Kane.
I don’t go into comic book movies expecting to see Citizen Kane. Our intrepid reviewer seems to have expected a child’s cartoon movie to be Shindler’s List, apparently.
What does it say about you when you’re so fragile that a child’s cartoon triggers an emotional breakdown? I know some war veterans with actual PTSD, and even they aren’t that that messed up.
Apparently, his sensitivity training seems to have been overly successful (ie. “severely educated”). He’s too sensitive for the world of children’s cartoons, let alone the real world.
Saying “it’s just for kids” or “it’s just a cartoon” seems to me to be an unprincipled exception to the official morality that no family arrangement is to be defined as “normal”, and no configuration in number or gender of parental units is to be defined as “natural”. If those are agreed to be “family values”, then surely the very place we should expect them to be modeled and reinforced is in children’s entertainment and play?
In other news, Carole writes for the Guardian.
Via Damian.
The more the ‘woke’ left hates us (normals), the more we are going to learn to hate them. Eventually it’s going to come to violence (already has to some extent)and that is when the woke left is going to find out how badass the normals can get.
What’s even better about the poor downtrodden rich guy in Alabama is that Daddy left him all the money in the first place.
Good on the university for telling him to shove it; better would be just to drop the ‘Jr’ off of the buildings and honor his late father instead. That’d get Dr. Oedipus called to the white courtesy phone stat!
…the poor downtrodden rich guy in Alabama…
Even sillier, the guy is not even an Alabamian, he is a Florida Man™…
“his brainwashed brain has been programmed”
Again the old question: does leftism cause mental health issues or do people with mental health issues gravitate towards leftism?
Again the old question: does leftism cause mental health issues or do people with mental health issues gravitate towards leftism?
Yes.
Is homosexuality at all genetic?
In previous generations, even many homosexuals had wives and kids due to overbearing social pressure to appear straight, and perhaps due to personal revulsion of one’s own sexual desires. But with such social strictures mostly gone, homosexuals are free not to reproduce, which suggests that modern societies are now strongly selecting for heterosexuality.
Is homosexuality at all genetic?
I recently read an article on the internet saying that boys raised by gay men to whom they are not genetically related are more likely to become homosexual.
I think it might be, although first you’d have to define what you’re going to consider “homosexuality” as human behavior runs on a continuum. On one end you’ve got guys like David & Mr. Half, on the other end you’ve got guys like my dad who was baffled as to why anyone would be interested in engaging in homosexual behavior of any sort, and then there’s a whole bunch of guys in the middle. ‘Twas ever thus; our 20/21st century strict gay/straight dichotomy was historically unusual and seems to be going away already.
In other news, Carole writes for the Guardian.
The tweet Kate quotes has been deleted.
Our intrepid reviewer seems to have expected a child’s cartoon movie to be Shindler’s List, apparently.
Not quite, Bill. The reviewer wants the kids’ movie to contain agitprop that reflects his personal political/cultural outlook. There are a lot of reviewers who take the view that if a movie does reflect their particular outlook, then the movie is automatically great. Look at a lot of IMDb reviews for Douglas Sirk’s films.
I also remember many years ago hearing a feature on a radio program discussing Christmas movies, and the critic absolutely hated It’s a Wonderful Life. One of her main beefs was that the movie in focusing on George Bailey’s importance, was selfish and egotistical, which completely misses the point of the story. The other was that Lionel Barrymore’s evil capitalist character doesn’t get his comeuppance at the end, which also misses that the investigation that would have happened after the events of the movie was going to find out his dishonesty.
The tweet Kate quotes has been deleted.
Bugger. It was a fine example of the standards we’ve come to expect from Ms Cadwalladr, and from Guardian columnists generally, in that it was factually wrong on every count.
…then there’s a whole bunch of guys in the middle. ‘Twas ever thus; our 20/21st century strict gay/straight dichotomy was historically unusual and seems to be going away already.
If by “whole bunch” you mean “tiny few”, and by “going away” you mean “unbelievably hyped”, OK, otherwise it doesn’t pay to listen to the gender fluid nitwits.
Meanwhile, because of course it is, summer is sexist, “… said Abigail Saguy, a cultural sociologist of gender and a professor at UCLA.”
The great irony is that it was a heternormative couple performing that conservative act of procreation that brought him into this world he rails at now.
Posted by: Joseph | June 08, 2019 at 12:26,
I bet they regret that.
“Honey, Carlos is a … maricon.” /sobs
I think it might be, although first you’d have to define what you’re going to consider “homosexuality” as human behavior runs on a continuum.
But unfortunately, HIV infection does not operate on a continuum. It is binary.
The great irony is that it was a heternormative couple performing that conservative act of procreation that brought him into this world he rails at now.
I have heard of lesbians getting sperm donations from gay men.
But unfortunately, HIV infection does not operate on a continuum. It is binary.
And the infection rate for all other STD’s is much higher among gays too. (But don’t suggest that changes in behavior and culture might be advisable, because that would be “hate.”)
Yes, my late cousin donated in that scenario.
The tweet Kate quotes has been deleted
I like saying “tweet Kate quotes”.
Is homosexuality at all genetic?
While a genetic component may be at work, research hasn’t identified it. Additionally, homosexuality in women seems to arise and express itself very differently than homosexuality in men. Lesbianism appears more emotion based than erotic orientation. Straight women suddenly in lesbian relationships after falling in love with a woman or lesbian women falling in love with men.
In males, if it were entirely genetic, than identical twins would either be both gay or straight. Doesn’t work that way.
And, of course, this still doesn’t mean that sexual orientation is an act of free will.
Balloon pangolin!
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/new-animals-by-masayoshi-matsumoto/?mc_cid=210cc56da4&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
Our intrepid reviewer seems to have expected a child’s cartoon movie to be Shindler’s List, apparently.
I rarely miss a Pixar movie, not because it’s “aimed at kids” but because they turn out to be some of the best written movies released. Indeed, the “animation/cartoon” genre label — which I consider old-fashioned family movies (something for everyone)– usually allows the writers/producers to relax as the Progressives obsessively police live-actor movies for Progressive transgressions.
Oh my … and to think this is a Democrat Presidential candidate. Even I’m embarrassed for her.
The great irony is that it was a heternormative couple performing that conservative act of procreation that brought him into this world he rails at now.
F***, no. /sarc
I’m lolling on this. Yes, absolutely. How anybody could think making children is not literally progressive. Right?!
No comment, just killing the italics.
Just where do these people think babies come from? Does this guy think that storks movie was a scientific documentary?
Now, that’s just silly, Lab Rat. Everybody knows babies come from under cabbage leaves. 🤪
I have heard of lesbians getting sperm donations from gay men.
I’ve occasionally entertained the gedankenexperiment in which homosexuals get their own nation (usually a Bishop Ring space habitat, because that’s how I roll), and I wonder how they’d maintain their population. The lesbians could certainly bear children, but would each one be willing to bear two to three kids? Would their significant others devote as much attention to the other’s children as to their own? Would the fathers play any role in the childrens’ lives? If the fathers didn’t want to be involved (or the mothers didn’t let them involve themselves) then would the gay men be taxed at higher rates to subsidize the lesbian mothers? Would the men tolerate that?
I don’t see a happy outcome for such a scenario. Perhaps such a society could maintain itself through immigration, but I don’t think its TFR would ever even approach replacement.
Wow, it’s amazing what assumptions I can make when UK police refuse to actually identify the perps.
“Wow, it’s amazing what assumptions I can make when UK police refuse to actually identify the perps.
Ah, those infamous MONA.
Men of no appearance.
See also – Coulter’s Law.
What bothers me is the arbitrary lack of logic. Somehow, all sexual identity is a socially-determined choice which is infintely mellable – EXCEPT homosexuality, which is inborn and unchangeable, ever.
Wow, it’s amazing what assumptions I can make when UK police refuse to actually identify the perps.
It’s a signature of our age that we’re now accustomed to the police “appealing for information from the public” while simultaneously, and quite studiously, avoiding any reference to the appearance of the people they seek.
No comment, just killing the italics.
[ Slides bowl of grey peanuts along bar. ]
Again the old question: does leftism cause mental health issues or do people with mental health issues gravitate towards leftism?
Yes.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/332849/
[ Slides bowl of grey peanuts along bar. ]
At least it’s a step up from the pickled eggs.
At least it’s a step up from the pickled eggs.
They’re from… er, Eastern Europe.
The “eggs” or the peanuts?
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/332849/
Always with The Handmaid’s Tale again.
As a Canadian d’un certain age, I’ve had Atwood shoved down my throat in an academic context for decades. This is part of a broader and separate problem with Canadian identity and CanLit generally, but it reaches its zenith with Atwood, who is probably the least self-aware Canadian writer I’ve ever encountered.
Somehow, all sexual identity is a socially-determined choice which is infinitely malleable – EXCEPT homosexuality, which is inborn and unchangeable
Except that whether homosexuality is socially- or biologically-determined depends entirely on which line is more politically convenient today. It has changed in the past and will change again: For the Left there is no objective truth, only Revolutionary Truth.