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Me when someone tells me I just HAVE to watch this classic movie/show that I already know will subject me to racism, sexism, homophobia, and/or transphobia
255 upvotes, 27 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in LGBTQIA+. "Me when someone tells me I just HAVE to watch this classic movie/show that I already know will subject me to racism, sexism, homophobia, and/or transphobia"
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Anonymous 5w

How I feel when people ask me to finally watch the avatar movies

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Anonymous 5w

Me whenever my parents try and make me watch their 80’s movies that I KNOW are going to be horribly sexist, almost certainly racist/homophobic/transphobic, and disgustingly nationalistic. Like NO I DONT WANT TO WATCH A MOVIE WHERE ANOTHER WHITE MAN ABUSES HIS GIRLFRIEND AND DEEPTHROATS AMERICA’S DICK HOLY SHIT

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Anonymous 5w

What was it this time?

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Anonymous 5w

i can get past it most of the time but sometimes i have periods where i just cant handle it its too real to my actual life

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Anonymous 5w

this is how I feel when people recommend anime to me😭 like no matter how good the story is I just know there's a torrent of misogyny in there

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Anonymous 5w

My mom convincing my family to watch 16 Candles, somehow forgetting a main plot point of the movie 😬

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

lowkey cause why tf is there so much goddamn orientalist and sexism in there with NO character development on that front. the toxic masculinity was insane and lowkey still is

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Full Metal Jacket

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Anonymous replying to -> lotion.motion 5w

Avatar is giving white savior complex 😬

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

OMG UR SO RIGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE AND I COULDNT REMEMBER THE DAMN WORD FOR IT

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

FUCKKKK

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Anonymous replying to -> lotion.motion 5w

I hate it because the whole plot is the white colonizers are bad but there are the good colonizers who sympathize with the natives (whatever their names are) and the whole avatars thing is giving ferishizing indigenous people because why did they make all the blue people sexy? Like I feel like if they didn’t make them sexy and naked then people wouldn’t sympathize with them (plus idc what anyone says I think James cameron movies suck ass)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

no ur based for this

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

and literally ALL the blue people are sexy… there’s no gah damn reason you had to give the kids those skimpy ahh outfits bro like EUGHHHH

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

like super fetishizing of indigenous folx cause again, all sexy like you said

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

like where’s my fat ass chud avatars at??? why’s everyone skinny, child baring hips, ripped 6-pack, body tea??? i want to see an avatar with fuckin acne dawg

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

not in attack on titan!! trust me on this one PLEASE mikasa and annie are amazing strong characters and i could gush about how aot was so ahead of its time for hours

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Anonymous replying to -> lotion.motion 5w

No Ong where are the silly round green people

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

did you watch this movie with your eyes closed

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

not saying #5 feels this way, but fyi: it comes off really weird to say that all anime must be misogynistic/racist. Japanese people are just as smart as us. just bc the culture in anime/manga creation is lax towards that behavior doesn’t mean it’s inevitable

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 5w

omg no I don't mean misogyny is inevitable in anime! I knows there's so many that are really great and meaningful. and ofc you find misogyny in a lot of American shows and animated series, but I don't recommended those as much lol but I find that a lot of the anime's I've personally experienced have women drawn as overtly sexually and constantly objectified again I do not believe this is inherent it's just something that seems common (also I never said anything about racism)

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

There are a lot of really great anime out there that don’t sexualize women or minors, however if you look at the catalogue of the most popular anime, 50% of the show is toxic masculinity, incel-oriented, and contains overly sexualized women (one piece, dragon ball, any isekai anime for crying out loud that genre is fucked up ands it’s so popular) no this isn’t particularly a dig specifically against anime, since many western shows have the same problems, but just that anime is the topic at hand

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 5w

Well you can watch the movie with your ears and all you hear is everyone being a shitty human. It doesn’t matter that the point of the film is to criticize war and discrimination, but queer people are discriminated against irl they don’t need to watch a movie to understand how fucked it is that’s for straight people to learn

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

unfortunately yeah, they get away with a lot more because of the culture in production and their general audience :/ there are some really really amazing anime though, so I’d even just Google search to see if there’s any misogyny. it’s what I do with reccs and it’s been awesome

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

agreed, it’s a huge issue in the industry unfortunately. it’s why I look into the stuff I watch, especially as a fantasy fan. avoiding the shoujo anime (shows for tween/teen male audiences) has been a rule of thumb for me

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 5w

isn’t shoujo for girls? shonen is for boys

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 5w

shounen ty

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