I think it has stuck in people’s craw not because it’s the worst, but because it would have been so easy to avoid and the research is so suggestive of its damaging effects on adolescents, it’s one of the most frustrating of the bad choices.

Every organization that you should consult for this agrees that you DON’T SHOW THE SUICIDE. I don’t give a shit what the creators think, they make entertainment, suicide shouldn’t be entertainment. They’re playing pretend with some very serious shit, and marketing it towards TEENAGERS. Showing a suicide playout makes…

A lot of suicide prevent specialists said the show itself, not just the death scene, was problematic. Apparently when young suicide is glammorized or discussed often on the news, there is an increase in the suicide rates of teens/young adults.

“This response was actually quite surprising to me.”

The police waste all their time on things like this, meanwhile the Tunnel Snakes are still running wild, terrorizing the public with their aggressive and provocative dance moves.

another bill he’s got in the works to require “abortionists” to tell their patients, falsely, that “the process can be reversed”

I will be turning 37 tomorrow and wanted to celebrate with my friends by going to watch a movie. While the movie theater had 8 devices available, it was not enough to accommodate all of us. Among us was a child whose head was too small to wear the eyeglasses. A friend of mine has neurological issues in an eye that…

According to this article and the original article on the AP, it was an issue of the manager refusing to enable subtitles/close captioning, not providing individual hearing devices, because it “wouldn’t be fair” the non-HOH folks.

It’s odd you missed that, possibly twice, and yet, still went full throttle into a…

Their argument that “activating the captions would be unfair to the other audience members” suggests that we’re talking about open captions here, not captioning on the personal devices. I’m sure a multiplex like this is screening from DCPs, not on reels of film, so turning on the captions would be pretty easy,…

Yea I’m extremely HoH. Mostly Deaf. Even with hearing aids I cannot follow a speaking conversation unless it’s family members that I’m use to lip reading. I always get a CC device at the theater and coincidentally, when I took my daughters to see Beauty and the Beast, the device didn’t work. My eldest daughter had to…

this almost feels like trolling - a large movie theater chain doesn’t comply with the American with Disabilities Act and you blame the deaf people who came to watch a film at a movie theater that was not in compliance with federal law.

But the WERE able to help them all at once. All they had to do was turn on the captions. It’s literally a single computer key stroke. And if the other patrons found it distracting, they could have offered them a later showing with free popcorn. And it’s not like this movie just opened this weekend. It’s been more…

How suspicious that a group of hard or hearing and deaf people, who are recognized as having their own language and Deaf culture, would want to get together to watch a new film based on a popular animated movie, from a world renowned studio, starring the hottest starlet?

I... what? Hard of hearing person here. I wear hearing aids... did you know insurance doesn’t cover hearing devices? I managed to eke out 2k of the 7k cost from my insurance... because I have a good plan (and am currently able to work and save, thank goddess), and could make a case that my loss is caused by a disease,…

Or they were from a group of Deaf people? Like the ones my friends belong to because they learn sign language and other skills necessary for deaf people together. Not everything is a conspiracy.