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The Breakfast Club (1985)

John Hughes anyone? There’s definitely more from him to come. Again, just more 80′s homophobia which seemed to be a theme of Hughes early in his films dealing with teenage angst.  

This begs the question, is this actual homophobia? or is it depicting the realism of how teenagers really act?  Both can be true. It’s the age-old adage, chicken & the egg/nature & nurture. Yes, it depicts how horrible children can really be to each other and at the same time reinforces to the viewer the social standard of how to speak, how to act, what to wear, and how to fit in. You can be a jock, a goth, a prom queen, a geek, or a punk. But know this, being gay will not be tolerated or endorsed. 

We won!!! Congrats to all for our generations civil rights issue. It is downright embarrassing to be apart of state that had to get the federal government to step in and give us the right. 

Shameful Georgia, damn shameful, and the rest of the grey states on this map that never actually voted for it themselves. I believe this is simply due to old people with old values spreading their shitty values to their kids like an inheritance. They stay in the same old town and do the same to their kids, without ever learning from anyone else outside their church/suburban bubble. Mainly Middle-America and the Bible-Belt South. 

I forget that not everyone lives in a diverse urban city such as Atlanta where everyone eventually learns from each-other. Even though we get outnumbered and outvoted by the rest of the deep-south state. To these people living in these grey states. It is as if they are a third-world county where they are a few generations behind discovering Jean Claude Van Damme for the first time. 

Thus, they still practice the same dogma left over from 80′s television and movies. Most likely because they still avoid anything at all to do with gays on television today that normally would be a way to get educated and updated on modern values and changing times despite their ignorance bubble. Not that gays on TV today are not a complete trope and still offensive. But at least it has brought a lot of other people over the finish line in terms of simple acceptance. 

This is why I am dedicating this week to Homophobia in the 80′s. Although many forget just how homophobic the 80′s really were. I will be posting a gif a day to help people remember just how bad it really was in the mainstream media. Just as well to acknowledge that many still speak this way behind closed doors of the anonymous internet and gaming. Specifically the use of a hate filled slur. The F-word. 

Rap News Episode 5: News World Order - the war on journalism.  From the amAzing Juice Media.

I switched on to this quite late, in fact not until about 4 months ago, but it really made my day when I saw it.  In their words, "what starts out as a conventional Rap News interview soon descends into mayhem as the live feed is hijacked by News World Order, eager to spin the record like a disc jockey on crack".

I work with a media sucking, sleb-obsessed, mis-educated and ignorant fuckwad, to whom I just showed this article.  We have a long running debate on the fact that he shouldn't swallow everything the media throws at him and, although he chuckled at the URL in the address bar (check it out yourself, it's what makes this funny*), he then scrolled to the bottom and expressed his actual amazement at the "other-very-believable" virgin mary cheese sandwich story.  Point-Not-Absorbed. Astounding.

...for a tabloid, here's an idea. Shoot yourself. In the face. Do the world a favour and let people's minds get filled up with human spirit, generousity, love, kindness and understanding instead of the tripe and bile you want to force down people's throats.