Pixar is afraid of girlhood
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Patriarchy crushes girls, and cages boys.
'Divide and conquer' along the penis divide.
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«Kids deserve better than the Super Mario Galaxy movie which doesn’t teach even basic emotional literacy.»
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Everything I've wanted to say about the Mario movies and more. Children's media should not be a dumping ground for slop, nor for cynical cash grabs with nothing meaningful to say. Vid care of: @popdetective.bsky.social
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Fam if you’re not on the Pop Culture Detective train yet, he’s been making these blazing hot shorts & daaaamn do I love them: youtube.com/shorts/msR4-... @popdetective.bsky.social
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Totally worth the wait. Amaze!
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Got tickets for the biggest screen in my city. Gotta wait 'till mid week though because every other showing was already sold out
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Even if you read it that way, which isn't really very evident in the first book alone IMO, but in order make Paul the clear bad guy in the squeals Herbert turns the Fremen into even worse genocidal "jihadists" who are basically using Paul. So yes very orientalist.
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You see, in the third book Paul has been used by the evil Fremen who are religious extremists and are using him to perpetrate a genocidal "jihad" on the galaxy that kills billions...yes it's as bad a orientalist at it seems.
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I will die on the hill that the Dune books are overtly orientalist and downright racist. I know folks don't what to hear it but it's basically Lawrence of Arabia in space which really really does not age well.
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I'm collecting pieces that are rightly very critical of One Battle After Another (primarily written by Black women critics). I've found a bunch of illuminating reviews already but please drop your favorites...
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Good take on Hoppers imo. A funny movie, but it feels afraid to actually say anything substantial about environmentalism. Dr Seuss' The Lorax is a short picture book, but pulls no punches even though it's for kids. And that was 50 years ago! @popdetective.bsky.social
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Super glad to see someone like @popdetective.bsky.social eloquently put why Hoppers really didn't work for me. Media for kids can and should be better! youtube.com/shorts/YeYgk...
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Short form content has its drawbacks but @popdetective.bsky.social has been absolutely on fire with YouTube shorts this week. Check them out!
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From the great @popdetective.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Edhr2...
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The film "Sorry, Baby" was one of my favorite films of 2025 and this short from @popdetective.bsky.social is very on point. It's a master class in balancing tone to let serious topics be serious but also let in some levity.
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Excelente como todos los vídeos de Pop Detective
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It’s in instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DVH0W2G...
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PSA: Reminder to avoid Scream 7 because the production company fired Melissa Barrera for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xMedqE/
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Yes, all these AI slop posts with captions like "Hollywood is cooked" do indeed look objectively awful, but that's not the reason we should reject AI. Even if AI scenes did look good, it'd still be a disaster for artists, creativity, the environment, and humanity writ large.
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Star Wars under the leadership of Dave Filoni
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Fine, I’ll try out this whole short form video trend all the kids are doing. This is me testing the format. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89KxLF4/
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This is because market research told them that an entire generation won’t watch anything in black & white isn’t it? Cowards.
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Or just let the past die. Especially the proudly misogynistic past.
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Horrified by the Epstein files?
This started when colonizers arrived in 1492. Columbus & his men trafficked Taino girls as young as 9, yet he has a federal holiday & statues. Slave "owners" like Jefferson routinely raped Black children. This horror is not new to the rulers in the Americas.
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"Then just don't watch/play/buy it"
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Other thought-terminating clichés:
"Let people enjoy things"
"You care about this too much"
"It is what it is"
"Here we go again"
"It's fine, bro"
"It's not that big of a deal"
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How often have you seen someone say "it's not that deep" or "it's just a game/movie" on social media? Those sad phrases are examples of what are called thought-terminating clichés and they're deployed to shut down intellectual inquiry and kill curiosity.
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Love Chappell but have we truly considered the cultural implications of turning absolutely everyone and everything in pop culture (regardless of their values or messages) into a machine gun-toting avatar who's dropped into a kill-or-be-killed scenario?
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“A riot is the language of the unheard. America has failed to hear...that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” - MLK Jr.
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"Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873" is one of many books documenting the horrific atrocities of the California "gold rush."
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