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Stranger Things certainly became worse over time, but are those themes actually present or consciously developed in the first season?

One of the main heroes is a cop. The show valorizes free enterprise, consumerism and vulgar american patriotism. To the extent that it contains any radical politics it's because the show is a pastiche of shows and movies from the 80's made by directors who may genuinely have held radical political views *and themselves undergone a process of recuperation*.

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2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228

2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228

2. 'The full moon' or 'A full moon' are generally fixed phrases. I can't think of any examples in which you would use it without any article.

i.e. 'I saw the full moon last night.' or 'It's a full moon tomorrow.'

3. The correct construction I think would be 'I'm taking one more pill for the second day now.'

Also as an ELD teacher I'd point out that 'another' is always singular, so it should be 'Some other examples'.

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Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!

I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.

Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.

And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.

https://www.academia.edu/82363444/Witchcraft_Sodomy_and_the_Demonization_of_Crime

I also found this article about female sodomy in one witchcraft case: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/679742/pdf

Ouch lmao

Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!

I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.

Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.

And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.

https://www.academia.edu/82363444/Witchcraft_Sodomy_and_the_Demonization_of_Crime

Ouch lmao

Yeah you can tell it wasn't persecution of women because up to 15% of those executed were men!

I'm sure that at the time of the witch trials that was a proportional and gender-balanced persecution.

Ignore the fact that many of those men were persecuted on the basis of sodomy which of course could never be part of a wider misogynistic cultural backlash.

And that last line. It's impossible for women to participate in the patriarchy, which is why it's been so easy and uncontroversial to abolish.

I'm sorry but this isn't true. First of all, another character does suggest that he is literally a "lascar" or Indian colonial subject. Now, it is suggested he could also be Spanish or American, but the implication is that he is clearly racially distinct. And for God's sake, Bronte was writing in the mid 1800's! I'm not saying every word has the exact same meaning now, but it's not Beowulf and it's not Shakespeare.

Also, you're just flat misquoting the book. The quote isn't "dark-skinned like a gipsy" it's "he is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect." That's a pretty directly racialized description!

There's a suggestion in what you wrote that of course Bronte just meant a tanner white man because what reason would she have to write about non-white people in pasty-white Britain?

But this was the height, or very nearly the height, of the British empire, and Bronte would have been acutely aware of the debate which had within living memory been had over the abolition of the slave trade and the status of Britain's numerous non-white subjects! Many of whom travelled to, worked and eventually settled in British cities! Like Liverpool! Where Heathcliff is found as a child!

I think you can have a debate, in light of that, about whether Jacob Elordi is an appropriate casting. I think since the movie isn't even out it's not possible to make an absolute judgement on that, but his casting certainly isn't a reparative telling given the (white) history of the character's casting.