Disgusting.
Sadly as a transwoman I have heard "You should have left the kids alone!" From ex-friends who were Pro-Trans until it became "Support transpeople or support Trump", then suddenly every dirty lie they knew not to believe became truth.
I was disgusted, a former ally suddenly and without evidence starting seeing his many transfriends as paedos
This.
Plus it's self defeating. Too often when they find real predators, the evidence is tainted by the way it was collected by idiots who have no idea what they're doing.
Good idea
Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.
God I'm reminded of anytime I watch something from the 90's and then an asian character shows up....
It's not that I'm racist and go into "WOKE MOBS TOOK MY WHITES AWAY!!!11111" mode
It's that for the longest time in America, media was blatantly racist against basically everyone and in the 90's, the cold war was over, the best electronics came from Japan, so the media was trying (and failing) to learn how to be not so asiaphobic. This didn't mean "Don't do stereotypes!", this means "Do positive stereotypes"
So every show either had the one asian cast member or that one episode where the asian character showed up, and you could just HEAR the writers saying "Oh no, so he's very proud of his heritage and is very smart, so it's a positive thing. That makes up for his dialogue sounding like fortune cookies that have been put through google translate fifty times!"
And then you went into the 2000's and this also became how they wrote black characters.... Irwin from Billy and Mandy, Tucker from Danny Phantom, The Dino Thunder Blue Ranger, Richie from Static Sh.... wait.. Richie was the token white guy (In an amazing show I might add, god I should re-watch Static Shock)...... Well my point still stands, they're all the same fucking character "Oh no he's really dorky and super smart, so it's the exact opposite of the stereotype is the joke!"
Doing the exact opposite of the stereotype still calls attention to the stereotype, god damn it!
Miles Morales has shades of this too, but he's nowhere near as insufferable as these characters and is far more believable as a "Black Nerd" than any of them.
Sorry, I remembered "Benevolent Racism" when you mentioned benevolent sexism, and that awakened that.
It's really weird when the 90's show you're watching is based on an Asian Property and it does this nonsense, because I look at characters like "Kong Fu" from Donkey Kong Country, or the one episode of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog where Scratch and Grounder become "Ninja Robots" by draining the asianess from this Samurai Crane (I know samurai aren't ninjas, but tell the show that), and I'm like... "Wow, I wonder how Shigeru Miyamoto and Yuji Naka felt if they ever saw this shit... Except fuck Yuji Naka, he's a bit of a dick.... The AoStH Episode is still fucked up though."
The Reddit Atheists have entered the chat and are here to stay it seems
Not really I've been doing my shopping at either Food Lion or Steam, anything else hasn't been a priority
If you need an AR-15 to feel safe at Target, the problem is you....
Or you're a character in Fallout and there are Raiders in the Super Duper Mart
I'm reminded of when McDonalds did their Rick and Morty szechuan sauce promotion, and basically no place actually had it.
It was a big story that Rick and Morty fans harassed workers complaining that the franchise lied to them.
It got so bad that McDonalds released an app to show where and when stories had the sauce, and announced they'd be selling posters as well. Unfortunately, some locations lied or at least misused the app to say they had the sauce when they didn't.
So I went to one location with my brother, and we found a line forming outside. The store wasn't allowed to sell the posters till late in the afternoon for some reason, and wouldn't let anyone there for the sauce even enter the building with cashiers actively blocking any Rick and Morty fan from entering, even just looking college age was enough to be refused entry.
I thought this was ridiculous and just said "Wow, the only thing that'd make this worse is if they didn't have the sauce.", only for the lady guarding the door to tell me that they did indeed not have the sauce, despite the app saying they did.
There was this guy simping hard for her, mi'lady style, and a bunch of brodudes talking about how they're so Nihilistic and Smart "JUST LIEK RICK!", whole thing was a shit show. He said "Oh yeah, no they don't have the sauce, I asked."
He was eating cheeseburgers despite not being allowed in, apparently you could have the food brought out to you if you used the app.
It was fucking cold that day. Still feels like, even false advertising aside, something about this had to be illegal.
So I said "Fuck this, I'm leaving.", just got into my car, went to Wendy's, ordered chicken nuggets and the most asian sounding sauce they had. Posted one of the only food selfies I've ever done of what I ordered
"Was going to post me eating the sauce, but I went to Wendy's instead because this store actually has products they claim to offer."
A friend of mine asked the next day what was up with that post, because Food Selfies or even regular selfies are just THAT out of character for me, and I told him the story.
He looked at me geniunely impressed, and said "Wait, you valued your own self-respect over the 'cool corporate thing', voiced your dissatisfaction, and calmly left without making a scene or embarassing yourself? If anyone was Rick at this event, it was you"
I just said "Huh", as I didn't do that to be cool, I was just hungry, wanted to buy nuggets, and didn't get them from a store that lied about having them...
It was then that my brother, who had been with me when we went to McDonalds spoke up, admitting he didn't even think of what we actually did that day either, we just up and said "Screw you guys, I'm coming home." and said one of the wisest things I'll never forget
"If you think you're Rick, it means you're Jerry."
This, the whole media is complacent by calling Democrats a "Party struggling to be relevant", and claiming Trump is "So popular!"
When these town halls prove the exact opposite
The Media is worried about getting slapped with an "Anti-DEI" executive order if they mention anything Non-Trump
I feel like we'd exchange the Elon Musks of the world for the JK Rowlings of the world, the Ronald Reagans for the Margaret Thatchers, and the Donald Trumps for the Ayn Rands.
Fairer sex my ass
The only reason you don't think women can be evil is because you're too used to the idea of women as damsels to be rescued, too childish to be a threat to anyone. This is because the patriarchy hates the idea that a woman can be competent moreso than a man, even in acts of evil.
Sadly there are a lot of weirdos who think ANY AGE GAP AT ALL is basically the same as pedophilia