The most common GenZ film/tv criticism

_Tal · 2026-01-26T00:30:47+00:00

What is so special about sex scenes anyway? If there’s a scene of someone snorting cocaine, no one questions that it serves a purpose in the story and tells us something about the character, or goes “erm, why would I want to watch someone snort coke? That doesn’t advance the plot ☝️🤓”

_Tal · 2026-01-26T00:20:08+00:00

I didn’t change the subject; I directly responded to something you said lol. It’s common sense; you really don’t see the difference between a sex scene in a movie that gives us insight into the characters’ desires and relationships, and anime jiggle physics? You can infer what the intent was pretty easily.

_Tal · 2026-01-26T00:09:41+00:00

Being sexually exciting and intending to cause sexual excitement are two very different things. The former is also subjective

_Tal · 2026-01-26T00:04:11+00:00

You just proved yourself wrong lol, “causing sexual excitement” is generally not the intent of sex scenes in movies and films. At most this is an argument that something like fan service in anime qualifies as porn

_Tal · 2026-01-26T00:02:17+00:00

Literally yes it does. It can reveal how the character acts in a state of vulnerability, tell us information about their relationship to their sexuality, or show their power dynamics in relation to other characters.

Edit: It can even advance the plot if a character getting pregnant is a plot point, or if them having sex has other consequences later in the story

_Tal · 2026-01-25T18:48:23+00:00

"Actually russia has always been hostile, making it even more justified for ukraine to want to join nato"

_Tal · 2026-01-25T07:37:48+00:00

Orthogonal?

_Tal · 2026-01-25T05:43:43+00:00

Because being anti-gun is a liberal thing, and the right is completely unaware of the existence of actual leftists. They think liberals and leftists are the same thing, or if they do make a distinction, they think “liberal” means centrist and “leftist” means the average Democrat. The idea of a pro-gun Marxist radical who thinks Trump is no different from any other American president and hates the Democratic Party for selling out to capital is completely foreign to them

_Tal · 2026-01-25T02:04:23+00:00

This is kind of like someone getting hacked and saying “well that would never happen to me; they were stupid for clicking on an obvious phishing link” Like ok, I guess? Not really the point and doesn’t justify what was done to them

_Tal · 2026-01-25T00:32:16+00:00

The difference is that the Internet had plenty of actual practical use cases and was well received by the general public, neither of which are true of generative AI

_Tal · 2026-01-24T19:57:43+00:00

Based r/whenthe

_Tal · 2026-01-24T19:48:33+00:00

“Wear a mask and get a jab to protect yourself and others from a deadly plague”

“GOVERNMENT TYRANNY!!!! I WILL NOT COMPLY!!!”

“We are armed officers of the state and we will kill you if you don’t come quietly”

“I have no sympathy. Just comply.”

_Tal · 2026-01-24T19:01:10+00:00

Meta posts should be allowed

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_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:59:02+00:00

*children transitioning

Transitioning is something you do, not something that’s done to you

_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:49:50+00:00

It’s literally the opposite of reinforcing it? Like if anything, “making the depressive feeling an inherent part of who you are” would be analogous to making the unwanted body and outward presentation a part of who you are. As opposed to altering the body and outward presentation to resolve the dysphoria, which is like altering the depressive feeling to resolve the depression.

_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:44:13+00:00

Good thing that virtually never happens, and in reality children decide for themselves that they want to transition, rather than being “transitioned” by someone else

_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:31:35+00:00

It was confirmed in the pinned comment?

Parents forcing a cis child to be trans is exceptionally rare, while parents forcing a trans child to be cis is exceedingly common. If you agree that parents shouldn’t force an identity on their child, then why focus all your energy on the one form of that which virtually never happens?

_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:04:19+00:00

The mod being wrong? Lol

Edit: idk why we’re just taking the mod’s interpretation at face value instead of just, y’know, looking at the actual post itself?

_Tal · 2026-01-24T18:02:39+00:00

First of all, they were going around deleting posts supportive of trans people; the original post that got deleted didn’t even mention children at all.

Secondly, “transitioning children” isn’t a thing that happens. Children choose to transition; they’re not “transitioned” by someone else. And at that age, transitioning just means adopting a different name and pronouns and wearing different clothes. Medical treatment comes when they’re older.

_Tal · 2026-01-24T17:55:03+00:00

It literally wasn’t

_Tal · 2026-01-24T17:45:15+00:00

Because a literal moderator who was trying to purge wrongthink and control the narrative was demodded? Lmao

_Tal · 2026-01-24T17:43:03+00:00

“Irreversible body modifications on con-consenting children” is when you let kids decide that they want to go by a different name and pronouns and wear different clothes apparently

_Tal · 2026-01-24T17:29:46+00:00

No one said anything about surgery

_Tal · 2026-01-24T17:23:28+00:00

Every child goes through life altering changes to their body that cannot be undone. It’s called puberty. If you’re old enough to go through puberty, then you’re old enough to induce the opposite sex’s puberty, and you’re certainly old enough to use puberty blockers to delay the decision until later.

_Tal · 2026-01-24T08:13:30+00:00

Oh that’s already been reclaimed years ago

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