• s@piefed.worldEnglish
    451·
    2 days ago

    Playing Dungeons and Dragons will make your kid worship Satan.

    Being lefthanded will send you to Hell.

    Eating a hamburger on certain Fridays will damn you forever.

    Asbestos, fossil fuels, and smoking cigarettes are great and everyone should enjoy them.

    That type of discourse isn’t new, but it is tiring.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    12·
    2 days ago

    Last year I found a streaming app that had the 1980s Garfield cartoon running, and I ended up getting back into that for a while.

    I found it to be a fascinating glimpse into those times. Like all of the pop culture references were obviously quite dated, but 40 years later and a lot of them still stand on their own. The comedy style was a snapshot of the zeitgeist from the era, surely not novel at the time, but a reflection of the time. It’s interesting to see how much of that comedy style has carried forward and even evolved over the decades. Sarcasm, featured heavily. Self-deprecation. Almost surreal absurdity. Did Garfield shape the comedy world as much as the comedy world shaped it?

    Oh yeah, and I definitely turned out gay. But I guarantee you it wasn’t the 10/10 hotties that John Arbuckle was pulling or anything related to Garfield himself. It was entirely Nermal. Grew up living my entire life thinking Nermal was a girl, only to realize that in my recent re-watch that Nermal’s pronouns are he/him. These woke ass shows have been woking kids up since the dawn of time.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Read through the entirety of Bloom County (1981-1989) last year and it was exactly like that. Many political figures I barely remembered, but still, if anyone wants to experience the 80s, that comic is a perfect snapshot.

  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 days ago

    Morons. The internet has united morons that in past generations would have been ridiculed back into manual labor. Now? Influencers.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    What is this youtube conspiracy nonsense and why does it have almost 2 million views as of 6 years ago??

  • Naich@lemmings.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    I find the idea that you can turn straight people homosexual really weird. To me it’s obvious that it’s not a choice or something you can change - it’s who you are. I wonder why they can’t see that?

    Rhetorical question, btw.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 days ago

      I wonder why they can’t see that?

      My guess is that everyone who thinks being gay is a choice regularly feels homosexual attraction, that they have to choose to repress. They think that’s normal, they feel that way therefore everyone else must too.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think Garfield or anyone is going to change an adult’s well-established sexual orientation, but the idea that children growing up in a society that normalizes homosexual attraction will be more likely to develop inclinations that otherwise would have been suppressed seems reasonable to me. It’s supported both by the prevalence of what we would call bisexuality in certain cultures and by my own personal experience - I distinctly recall being young and trying to decide whether an attractive character in a picture was a flat-chested woman (and therefore OK) or a long-haired man (and therefore not OK). I had internalized social expectations before I even knew what the differences between men and women were and so from that point my sexuality developed to be strictly heterosexual, but I think that I might have become bisexual if those social expectations had not been taught to me before that formative time.

    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      What if people are naturally bi/pan and either learned or chosen aversion to one sex or another makes them either gay or straight? In a hypothetical world free of antigay bigotry couldn’t a person be dared to kiss or otherwise get close to someone of the same gender and realize it turned them on?

      I dont know but isn’t “born gay” or “born straight” kind of similar to gender essentialism?

      I’m all for a world where people have as much opportunity to choose as possible, but I also realize people put a lot of stock in what they’ve already chosen. Perhaps it’s like a long term relationship where someone feels their partner is the “only one” for them, following a breakup they often find there are other partners they’d be happy with too.

      Just my thoughts, no offense intended. Not really looking to share my own experiences here but they sort of make more sense in the theory I’m explaining here.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Always said the belief in sexual choice says everything about homophobia and transphobia. If you think those things are bad, and it’s a choice, then the chooser is evil. And if it’s a choice, then your kids can be influenced on the matter.

      Craziest thing to me is how easy the notion of choice is to disprove with a simple thought experiment. I turned my best friend around instantly.

      “OK, homosexuality is a choice. Remember when you were a horny teenager? Can you tell me how you choose which team to bat for? Could have gone either way, right? I choose hetero because it sure seems a lot easier.”

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    “It’s okay to erase the native population of the land we’ve invaded and it’s also okay to import others as chattel so they work the land for us… but if you suck ONE dick, you’re the devil!”

    The American moral compass was always broken, and most Americans don’t even notice it. 🤷

  • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 days ago

    I was straight but the garfield in this meme… I am gay now.

    I am looking forward to the christian efforts to save our souls by finding the counter-piece to garfield.