Star Trek: the Next Generation’s Admiral Brackett was named after, and clearly visually based on, 1930s space opera and detective author Leigh Brackett.
Some dude bro on the internet talking about the new She-Ra reboot: Ugh SJWs are taking over cartoons and making them all preachy. I hate it when shows try to push an agenda on kids. Why can’t they be like they used to be, you know?
Original He-Man, looking straight at the audience: We had a lot of fun here today, but you know what isn’t fun? Judging others based on how they look. Not liking a person because he or she is a different race or religion is wrong. Also, plant a tree, and don’t do drugs.
Lou Scheimer was born to a German Jewish family and believed that his cartoons had a responsibility to teach children kindness and respect for everybody.
Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.
Later he would help design a whole new sci-fi fantasy setting with the most creative control he ever had, Bravestarr, and was adamant that the hero be a Native American man, the first ever in a starring role on a kid’s action show. He also wanted Bravestarr to be a positive role model by being a patient, gentle, soft spoken man who abhors violence and avoids using guns at all costs.
These cartoons are remembered as schlocky toy commercials and they ARE entertaining that way but real love went into them by a really wonderful guy who sincerely hoped he’d make his fans at least a little more sensitive even as he reeled them in with barbarians and robots.
Also it’s this weird thing I’ve seen where people act like ancient cultures had like a mass extinction event like the dinosaurs and no one is related to them… the white psyche refuses to think that maybe the Egyptians that live in Egypt now have any connection to the people of Ancient Egypt… all of them packed their bags and then laid themselves down at the British Museum 😔
The “non-racist” justification for that approach in the case of Egypt was the idea that modern Egyptians are the descendants of both the original population and a bunch of Arab invaders who came in during the initial spread of Islam and that the subsequent centuries diluted the original Egyptian ancestry to the point that its culturally and genetically no longer truly linked to them.
Except that not only have Egyptians always been surrounded by 5000 years of ancient history, but modern genetic test have shown that the majority of modern Egyptians are directly related to lineages from North Africa, Arabia, and the Horn of Africa both patrilineally and matrilineally, and that they otherwise reflect the fact that Egypt has ALWAYS been a cultural and ethnic melting pot as the few genetic tests on ancient remains indicate the same patrilineal and matrilineal descent
I had a Assyrian co-worker once who was pretty sick of having to explain that no, the Empire fell, the civilization and people did not vanish.
while i’m ranting about Bad habits in horror games: hardass games where you are guaranteed to die a lot, and then the ending has your character die anyway for no real reason, really friggin’ annoy me. it doesn’t even count as a downer ending, bc there’s no emotional punch, since by this point it makes no sense that this death is special and the one that ends the adventure.
it’s especially stupid, and the cheap pointlessness of it emphasized, when the Plot Death is literally just an unavoidable version of how you frequently die in the game already (ie most indie horror games where you’re trapped in an area evading a malevolent entity, inevitably get jumpscared/killed by it a million times before you finally “succeed” in escaping, and then the ending just has it still pop up at the last second to Get You anyway)
They’re trying to erase the existence of the rape victims of Japanese soldiers in World War II because they think the reminder of their crimes might make Japan a little bit cross
Duterte, the absolute coward, is more worried about women criticizing him than actually honoring the women this country needs to remember
the line "I can’t go to hell. I’m all out of vacation days.“ from undertale (2015) has the exact same energy as the line “Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store.” from the song sixteen tons (1947)
A man from Inukjuak said the failure of a nurse stationed in the northern Quebec community to recognize the signs of botulism cost his wife her life, and it was only after she died that clinic staff took his adult daughter’s symptoms seriously.
Jobie Kasudluak and his daughter Janice travelled to Kuujjuarapik this week to share their family’s story with Commissioner Jacques Viens, who is leading an inquiry looking into how Indigenous people are treated by Quebec government services.
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