psycotica0

Definitely men bad gross, for sure for sure.

Buuuuut... I think the real villains are the other men, not the ones getting angry and entitled, but the network execs and ad companies, most of whom are men, that tease here and there, and promote scantily clad photos on billboards or magazines, or write articles or press releases to tempt people.

Sex sells, they say, but sex only sells if you have a market of sex-starved marks who have enough pressure built up over the years of campaigns that when they hear Actress A that's been all over the place nearly slips a nip in this one, they're like "well shit, I've gotta see that"

I don't blame the actresses. Their industry has told them they only get to do their art if it attracts an audience of Men, the only market worth pursuing somehow even in the far flung future of 2026, so the women that want to be allowed to act have to give the men at the ad companies and film studios what they want. And what they want is a career timeline from demure to saucy to scandalous to breasts to nude so each film release can play on pushing the envelope just slightly further than the last one, capitalizing on the demand built up by the previous release, and they can ride that rollercoaster for as long as possible before having to pick another girl.

And the sexually frustrated target men are victims of a different kind. Not of the women, as the incels would have you believe, but of the other men. Because by and large, the women don't want to be in sex scenes, they don't want to flash tatas, or have yet another shower scene for no damn reason. They want to tell stories that are meaningful and emotional and resonant. But so often they're tools for Powerful Men to steal money from Powerless Men, used up and cast aside. And then the frustrated jackasses get mad at the women for it. It's a win-win...

And to be clear, I'm not saying women should be ashamed of their bodies and stay covered up at all times. Quite the opposite! The "pressure" comes from repression. We can walk through a store full of magazines with half-naked people on them, and it would be easy to say "look how liberated this all is, there's skin everywhere", but it's not liberation, it's sexualization. Because it isn't casual skin, it's not relaxed, it's created specifically to titilate, to produce demand, to build pressure.

I have no data on this, but I presume actresses aren't being accosted by naturalists/nudists. They're probably not getting hate mail by people embedded within a kink community. The people with, in my biased view, outlets and balance, with respect for sex and bodies, aren't as susceptible to the machine.

Well, I should have gone to bed an hour ago, because apparently I'm in a mood. 😅

You know, like a conversationalist! I converse, I'm social, what else would you call it? 😛

For sure, but when we total up the list of top contributors, they're nowhere near the top. So let them, because they're not "the cause".

Maybe you're making assumptions, and it was intended to read like a cry to the heavens!

"Why does it smell like a girl? Oh Might! Because it's mine!!!"

Ran outta there like a bandit with a big sack of pixels!

We didn't invent pixels until Steve Jobs single-handedly started cranking out iPhones in 2007.

As soon as The Muppets and Lucasfilm were both owned by Disney, my friends and I spent a lot of time taking about how a Muppet Star Wars just makes sense.

Now, it's a bit of a crowded space, with Blue Harvest and Space Balls already doing a lot of parody work in this area, but I think there's still room. The only problem is that I think the normal formula would have Luke be played by a human and everyone else be Muppets, but Kermit feels like he'd be a great Luke. So you'd need one of the other key roles to be human to balance it out.

Just tell people it's a Beyblade! Easy!

I've been saying something similar for years with regards to cops. People are always like "he was suspected of robbing a store and he was fleeing" or "maybe he was on drugs" or "I heard he abused his kids" and its like, okay yeah, but if the cops caught that guy and brought him before a judge, even the judge wouldn't sentence them to death by firing squad! So no matter what we feel about if there should be police, or what their role is, we should at least definitely agree that they shouldn't be able to shoot someone fleeing a petty crime or whatever.

Even the cop apologists ought to agree that if a police officer can't catch a person without damaging them beyond what a sentence would carry, then that person should go free. Better luck next time, but opening fire on a person just because you can't run fast is unfathomable.

Ought to... but they don't care. Because they already don't see the victim as human, so they actually wish the sentence was firing squad, and so they're glad the boys in blue are out there carrying out proper justice, saving a bunch of time and headaches for the courts that were too afraid to do the right thing anyway...

So... whatever I guess. Hopefully their kids will hate them and be better...

I don't know, I haven't seen the scene or heard the vocal delivery, I'm not sure what kind of anime it is, or what kind of tone it's trying to strike. If the mood is "she has discovered a dark secret and is scared" then yeah, "I didn't realize you were a pedophile" would work great.

But if instead she's found some porn that isn't necessarily naked children, and it's played off as deadpan funny or awkward or misunderstanding, then I think "I didn't realize you were a pedophile" might not come across light heartedly in the way "I didn't realize you were a creep" or something similar would. Even if it's an accurate "word for word" translation, it might not sound right in the scene or match the character's delivery.

But I don't know this anime or what it's about, so I don't know what the tone should be. It just sounds like there's disagreement with the line as chosen.

If the term isn't meant to be so "heavy" in the original usage, and there isn't an equivalent "light" term here, I wonder if it would've been better to just translate it as "I didn't realize you were a creep" or something else that misses the nuance, but gets the intended feeling and tone across.

Even tab completion will either quote the thing for you or put in the excape characters. Why would one type anything? 😛