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Post by gato on Apr 24, 2024 8:46:42 GMT -5
How fragile and/or easily offended must we be? I was musing over the content warning on a TV show the other night:
"smoking, coarse language, violence, etc...."
I wonder how far this could expand. For instance ....
"Fat mocking, sibling rivalry, farting, cruelty to msquitoes, lip smacking, pre-teen wedgies, cracking knuckles, animal nudity ....."
What you got?
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Post by reverendrob on Apr 24, 2024 8:55:16 GMT -5
How fragile and/or easily offended must we be? I was musing over the content warning on a TV show the other night: "smoking, coarse language, violence, etc...." I wonder how far this could expand. For instance .... "Fat mocking, sibling rivalry, farting, cruelty to msquitoes, lip smacking, pre-teen wedgies, cracking knuckles, animal nudity ....." What you got? "This movie exists. Be offended now." |
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 24, 2024 8:58:05 GMT -5
And, of course, there are the warnings in California that "contents of this programming may cause cancer"...
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 24, 2024 9:02:34 GMT -5
Russians, Chechens, priests, men with goatees...
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 24, 2024 9:06:07 GMT -5
Musical content that wasn't autotuned
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Apr 24, 2024 9:33:09 GMT -5
Nobody ever said we have a right to not be offended. Not sure when or why that became a thing. If we decide that people have a right to not be offended, what happens if I'm offended by people who are easily offended?
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Post by reverendrob on Apr 25, 2024 0:22:41 GMT -5
Nobody ever said we have a right to not be offended. Not sure when or why that became a thing. If we decide that people have a right to not be offended, what happens if I'm offended by people who are easily offended? That means you're a Wight Supremacist. |
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 25, 2024 9:09:37 GMT -5
Believing in rugged individualism, I'm self offending. Wouldn't think of putting such a burdensome responsibility on others...
You heard of those who are "self-effacing".
I'm "self-defacing".
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Post by LeftyMeister on Apr 25, 2024 17:20:45 GMT -5
Gratuitous toxic masculinity
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Post by Mfitz804 on Apr 28, 2024 8:14:41 GMT -5
The smoking one always gets me. Like, this movie is about 1960, there will literally be people smoking everywhere. Because people were literally smoking everywhere.
Everyone knows it exists, everyone sees people doing it if they venture out into the world…why do I need to be warned about seeing something that exists mundanely every day?
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Post by rickyguitar on Apr 28, 2024 8:40:07 GMT -5
Warning, this movie contains poor writing built on an unlikely premise, lame dialog, poor direction and acting and ineffective sets.
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Post by ninworks on Apr 28, 2024 8:44:21 GMT -5
Warning, this movie contains poor writing built on an unlikely premise, lame dialog, poor direction and acting and ineffective sets. I am offended!! |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 28, 2024 9:02:26 GMT -5
Warning, this movie contains poor writing built on an unlikely premise, lame dialog, poor direction and acting and ineffective sets. You forgot incredulous casting. |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 28, 2024 9:07:27 GMT -5
The smoking one always gets me. Like, this movie is about 1960, there will literally be people smoking everywhere. Because people were literally smoking everywhere. Everyone knows it exists, everyone sees people doing it if they venture out into the world…why do I need to be warned about seeing something that exists mundanely every day? I've seen warnings about smoking and substance abuse and swear I saw neither. Maybe it was a warning that the film "may evoke images of smoking and substance abuse". |
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Post by gato on Apr 28, 2024 9:12:38 GMT -5
The smoking one always gets me. Like, this movie is about 1960, there will literally be people smoking everywhere. Because people were literally smoking everywhere. Everyone knows it exists, everyone sees people doing it if they venture out into the world…why do I need to be warned about seeing something that exists mundanely every day? I've seen warnings about smoking and substance abuse and swear I saw neither. Maybe it was a warning that the film "may evoke images of smoking and substance abuse". Watched a WWII documentary last night ... hard to spot a US soldier who wasn't smoking! |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 28, 2024 9:40:26 GMT -5
Here ya go Taildragger 😃  |
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Apr 28, 2024 10:11:38 GMT -5
Never mind
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 28, 2024 10:12:37 GMT -5
And while we're at it, I've seen warnings that the programming has scenes of flashing lights, presumably to caution those who have some neurological disorder that may affect them. But they do seem to exclude muzzle flash and the 40 police cars in pursuit in the majority of their output.
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Post by K4 on Apr 28, 2024 11:05:39 GMT -5
In reality we should celebrate smokers, after all they pay $6.85 in tax per pack in NYC.
The things that tend to annoy me are never listed.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Apr 30, 2024 8:45:47 GMT -5
Warning, this movie contains poor writing built on an unlikely premise, lame dialog, poor direction and acting and ineffective sets. I am offended!! I'm offended that you're offended!!!!  |
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Post by gato on Apr 30, 2024 10:39:10 GMT -5
How about warnings about really offensive things:
"This film contains scenes of pan handling, people abandoning shopping carts, parking in red zones and using fistufls of coupons in the Express Lane"
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 30, 2024 12:24:38 GMT -5
Warning, this movie contains poor writing built on an unlikely premise, lame dialog, poor direction and acting and ineffective sets.
You forgot, "relentlessly pushes a socio-political agenda to the point of rendering its value as entertainment nil"...
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Post by LTB on May 1, 2024 22:14:54 GMT -5
I quit smoking in 1979 but today when you see pre- 1980’s movies and see people smoking at work and everywhere you look it seems weird now.
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