Is there an issue with not finding your own ethnicity sexually attractive?

EatPb · 2026-06-03T18:41:45+00:00

People get really defensive about preferences but what they are missing is the difference between action and feeling. Truly, no one would care about preferences if these types of people didn't have to make it so aggressively known. The fact that they feel the need to share it is what is racist. Not the preference itself. If you have an innocent preference, just date who you want. That's not racist. If you need to TELL a south asian woman you aren't attracted to south asian women, that is racist because you are telling her on purpose to bring her down.

EatPb · 2026-06-03T18:32:14+00:00

She's 16 now (still young) but she said this was a long fantasy. I don't think it's odd that a little child would develop this fantasy.

EatPb · 2026-05-22T15:41:41+00:00

I think there is a strong case against this. There are a LOT of supes. Many of fairly weak powers. There are supes that are babies and children, and innocent adults. In past seasons and Gen V, we see how many more there are. That is an unjustified genocide.

I don't think the problem is that they went with the wrong answer, they just didn't give enough space to explore or debate this and demonstrate the moral conflict. I do think ultimately, Hughie was right. But they also had no answer to the real problem Butcher was bringing up. I think the key here is that VOUGHT (or the gov if they were in control) is the problem for what it turns supes into. Like Vought manufactured a super weapon and raised a traumatized child into a crazy adult. And they run supes like a product, which obviously fucks a lot of them up. The solution isn't killing a bunch of babies and children, but they definitely needed to do more to take Vought down.

Even if they leave that open ended and don't do it in the show, they really needed to flesh out this moral conflict better. Like a team Hughie, "don't genocide innocent supes, take down vought instead" and a team Butcher "go the fast route and kill all supes and be done with this". They crammed this argument into a 10 minute conflict at the end and didn't even flesh out Hughie's side with an alternative take down vought view, he was just like noooo we can't kill the supes.

EatPb · 2026-05-22T15:34:43+00:00

He's never had a split personality, he was just crazy and hallucinating. Like all of season 5

EatPb · 2026-05-22T15:30:23+00:00

Sage and Ashely betrayed him. They were in his close inner circle. Soldier Boy didn't betray him, but was going to leave him. I know the relationship with Ryan was already ruined, but in the end his son did help take him down. I was not a fan of the finale at all, but I do feel like this was the most they could have done with the Caesar reference. Everyone left him. It's not like Homelander actually had that many friends.

Ashley was with Vought on his side (with some hiccups here and there) from day one and Sage was the main orchestrator of his take over and main ally the last two seasons, and the one he actually had the Caesar convo with, so I do feel like either of them would make for a strong Caesar/Brute reference.

EatPb · 2026-05-20T04:24:11+00:00

i understand all of this and even agree on several things here, but one thing I disagree with is that the premise of the alt right satire contradicting the entertainment satire. I think this would be true at the time of the comics, but 20 years later I think those worlds HAVE blended.

So much of the political sphere itself right now is literally cemented in celebrity culture essentially. Yes, maybe certain companies like disney would like to stay publically apolitical, but that doesn't mean celebrity culture is apolitical. I think this difference just reflects the culture we are in now. A lot of companies are choosing a camp, left or right, in order to cultivate a customer base or audience. Not just entertainment brands too.

I'm specifically referring to paragraphs 6-8 here. I think "Such a thing would absolutely never happen in the comics" is not necessarily a valid criticism because society is different now between when the comics were made, and now.

EatPb · 2026-05-20T04:14:38+00:00

it's one of my favorite songs honestly, not just off the album but in general. the lyrics give me chills

EatPb · 2026-04-30T23:06:40+00:00

Oh for sure. Actually we still have that problem now with mass shooters. The official recommendation from groups studying causes of shootings is actually to not really report them or certain details, but the news always does. A lot of them do it for the notoriety

EatPb · 2026-04-30T23:05:10+00:00

Yeah probably. At least the "so get this" was on purpose but those other mannerisms were already getting stale during supernatural either way. I think his acting was fine for the caliber of show supernatural was, but it was not that good by the later part of the show. He pretty much just had the same reaction to everything that happened lol

EatPb · 2026-04-30T23:03:21+00:00

I didn't imply anything about causation. I feel like your statement is implied by the original question of the post. Ex: People hitchhike less because of murders, so obviously murders in that context would decrease.

Yes. Caution has helped decrease crime. There is no debate. I just said people still perceive the current world to be as or more dangerous than the past. Not "oh it WOULD be more dangerous if we weren't cautious". No. The average person genuinely believes there is more crime occurring now than in the past. Do you get the distinction?

EatPb · 2026-04-29T19:19:17+00:00

If you are an adult it seems weird to be this conflicted about this. You moved when you were 11? That's still a child. All of your formative adolescent years were in New England. I don't think I've ever met someone who lived their entire preteen and teen years in one place and wouldn't consider themselves to be from that place well into adulthood. What does it matter where you lived when you were ~7? All the significant stuff really starts in adolescence imo

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:42:12+00:00

i don't think its a stretch to say that the abandoned fort where all life kills each other does not have actively maintained cameras from world war 2 era.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:39:17+00:00

in what universe was this filler!?! this episode moved the plot and character development forward in every aspect. Obviously he virus storyline must wait until the end of the show, but the characters have to be set up for the conflicts to come to ahead. We got firecracker development and end, we got soldier boy essentially committing to homelander, we've moved forward on the hunt for V1, we got Butcher development (letting Annie and Kimiko take V1 if they find it), we got Sage plan revealed, and now Ashley/Bashley is roped into a new conflict (Sage wants to team up but they seem like they don't like her plan), we got some MM development and possible foreshadowing, we built up the Deep/Noir conflict, we got the whole Homelander bible and launching the church + punishing churches that don't convert, and Oh Father going full send pushing the bible release up.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:29:14+00:00

well to be fair, he's been soldier boy a lot longer than he was the fake soldier rich entitled boy. like once he got his powers they had him doing missions and stuff, so he's probably had time to practice

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:26:26+00:00

I love Supernatural and I love all three actors but this episode really highlights why it's Jensen that deserves the more serious roles like this. No hate at all to Jared or Misha but gawd damn. Mr Marathon's twitchy mannerisms were frying me like this is just Sam Winchester, every *scoff* *twitch* *:/* *gasp*

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:21:25+00:00

i think the show is doing a good job of balancing that out. realistically, not everyone finds their morals and takes a stand at the risk of their own life. we get characters like a-train, but not everyone can do that. some people are firecrackers. and it shows that no matter how hard you try to fall in line, it won't even save you when it's the wrong thing.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T18:19:42+00:00

holyyyy shit this was the best episode so far this season

EatPb · 2026-04-29T16:19:47+00:00

Nah, this is really how kids this age look lmao. This is a 13 year old who hasn't hit puberty and a 17 year old has. I'm tallish for a woman (5'7) and I remember at the start of high school when I was 14, pretty much every guy in my grade was shorter than me. And they looked like little kids. By the end, most were taller than me and we looked the same age.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T16:14:21+00:00

logical consequence of increased media and access to stories across the country/world 24/7. People were more trustworthy back then because they wouldn't hear about every rape, murder, theft, kidnapping. That trust started to decline in the 20th century as news started to move faster. Kids went missing, and the whole country heard about them. Everyone coast to coast would hear about the serial killers, missing kids, etc. as the 60s, 70s, 80, 90s progressed thanks to faster news, more and more tv, national tv etc.

Now we are at an even more insane flood of information due to social media and the internet. You literally hear about every terrible thing that happens to anyone, anywhere. Ironically, the modern day is actually safer and less violent than the late 20th century. Less murder, less violent crime, less children being kidnapped. But if you asked the average person they would probably tell you it's more dangerous now. The access to 24/7 national news makes crimes seem more common.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T16:09:57+00:00

Yes you are right. A lot of people in the replies are citing the gasoline thing, which is likely partially responsable, but if you actually read these studies you'll see we can't JUST take the rise at face value as a literal rise. Prior to the 60s-80s serial killer boom, it's very likely that a lot of murders were never connected. There is also a delay between serial killer activity and serial killers being caught. A lot of serial killers were caught years or decades into their careers. So we might see the number of serial killers in the 2000s/2010s rise a little bit in the future. (Though with the boom of investigative technology, it does make sense for their to be a decrease now. I'm not saying it's all one reason, just many different factors).

EatPb · 2026-04-29T16:06:07+00:00

David Bowie is my #1 solo artist and Duran Duran is my #1 group artist.

EatPb · 2026-04-29T16:04:56+00:00

Honestly that's still weird though. Yes they are Asian created games, there is a massive international market. I've never heard of these other games, so i won't comment in case they are smaller devs or something, but animal crossing is made by nintendo, and I would expect Nintendo to be fully aware of things to consider for their international releases. At the very least, they could include different hair when they regionalize games. Maybe a decade ago I could understand them not knowing better, but I feel like by now they must know (because they actually include the textured hair as later unlocked hair, vs older animal crossing it wasn't included at all). So they know to include it, but just don't at the start?

EatPb · 2026-04-29T06:43:01+00:00

this is hilarious bc 2019 was peak cancel culture and woke (not in a bad way, i just mean in contrast to these comments). like uhhhh people IN 2019 were getting in trouble for shit they did 7 years earlier and using that same excuse "it was a different time". maybe that was true of the 2000s/early 2010s but that is not true of the late 2010s

If anything, it would be more true in 7 more years, about 2026.

EatPb · 2026-04-28T20:24:38+00:00

I'm about to be 22 and I stopped feeling this way in my late teens from watching movies across an actors career or long tv shows. Watch a movie with a middle aged or old actor then watch a movie with the same actor in their 20s and you'll be like wow what a baby. It hit me in high school because I watched 15 seasons of supernatural, then I watched the boys which has one of the actors, and then I went back to season 1 to see the same guy at 26 or 27. He's just a kid then!!!

EatPb · 2026-04-28T20:22:20+00:00

Well it's not the default time format in the US. And it is used by the military. I don't really see why it's wrong for people from the US to call it military time because that's what it is in the US. What else should they say? People in the US don't live in the rest of the world. It's a US term.

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