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X Men Red if the writers weren’t cowards.

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disability and the more we allow it to become 'the silly little guy' disorder the more we abandon our siblings who cant hide behind the mask of socially acceptable quirkiness.

And like, i dont have an easy solution you know? I like the jokes and memes too. I have a tshirt with a skeleton on a motorcycle with 'autism' in flaming letters. I get it.

heya!

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Hoo boy, that response. Like I said in my post about Matt's answer to why Marcy was possessed for season three: it's his show, not mine, and I can at least sort of see his logic. But again I disagree with his storytelling decision here.

Like I said in my many posts picking apart what I thought didn't work about season 3, I thought it was a huge disservice to the story and characters to have Anne barely acknowledge Sasha and Marcy's existence after everything that transpired in True Colors. While I don't think we needed to bring them up every episode, I strongly feel that at the very least we should've gotten more moments like the end of Froggy Little Christmas sprinkled throughout season 3A. Have Anne react to evidence of her friends' existence like Sasha's graffiti tags in the city or hers' and Marcy's initials carved into Anne's bedpost. Little, subtle moments to show the audience that Anne still misses her friends and reinforces her desire to get back to Amphibia, rescue them and make things right between them.

Oh and by the way: "I also felt Sasha and Marcy had monopolized enough of Anne's emotions in s1 and 2 and that the Plantars and her deserved their own space"? Again, this is just my opinion, but I feel like after True Colors more than anything, Anne's emotions should have been on Sasha and Marcy now more than ever.

“But they’re not contributing to society!”

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”