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comment by kleinbl00

Yeah I had an observation in the back of my head about how he romanticized Generation X because he lived in abundance, whereas my take on Generation X was "welcome to Thunderdome, bitch" because I did not.

But realistically, the whole schtick is "we were promised abundance and instead we live in scarcity" which definitely sucks? But at some point you need to put on your problem-solving cap and I think there's a lot of people whose problems have always been solved by their parents. And your parents can't bring the malls back.

    What in the cis-hetero-patriarchal bullshit is this?

So... there's actually a point here.

It's not the point he wants to make so he didn't, but fundamentally, ratings in the '80s hinged largely on how much violence was in them, not how much nudity. Blade Runner is a PG with two boobs, Total Recall is a hard R with three. Andromeda Strain is rated G, fer chrissake, because nobody cusses and nobody shoots anyone else. What happened, fundamentally, is the 'boomers took over and started protecting everyone else's children from tits. Now? Now you can show someone blowing someone else's head off in close-up and get a PG-13 but the minute an aureola shows up it's an R.





Devac  ·  528 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    aureola

I'm sorry but, in context, it's an amazing typo.

kleinbl00  ·  528 days ago  ·  link  ·  

LOL no I'ma own that, I thought that's how you spell areola and I own a goddamn women's health clinic.

how has this visual pun avoided Google Images and are there any AI image generators that haven't blackballed the word 'areola'

Devac  ·  528 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I keep mistaking 'lekarz' (medical doctor) with 'lekaż' (obscure word leak/leaking) despite half my family being MDs. They're pronounced exactly the same, because it's Polish, so of course they are.

Rated R for explicit depictions of sainthood.

dublinben  ·  528 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Now you can show someone blowing someone else's head off in close-up and get a PG-13 but the minute an aureola shows up it's an R.

And people wonder why unprovoked violent attacks are on the rise.