Eeesh, found the terf right away.

If anything, SNL lost its edge way way before this. I remember back in 2002 when they were doing bits about how dumb the UN was for *not* supporting the US invasion of Iraq. After that bullshit I have no absolutely no faith in the show’s ability to make any kind of cogent social commentary through comedy.

I’d be on board with that as allegory except for the fact that the US was pretty well racist before Obama too.

On the one hand I agree with the soft/twee tendency burnout, but on the other hand its heyday kind of ended a solid 5-7 years ago (sometime when the bands that wore newsboy caps and clapped and sang “hey-ho” lyrics went out of vogue) and the culture has gotten pretty (understandably) bitter and performatively cynical…

You might need to work on some intimacy issues.

Honestly though this has the equal but opposing energy to when someone has a fetish but they assume everyone shares it and it’s a normal part of everyone’s sexuality.

I think you’re thinking of The Wire

“It’s simply his views” — You realize that’s worse right? It makes his callow bullying into outright bigotry and propaganda.

Yeah, there seems to have been a minor tendency of post-war novelty jazz numbers being covered by New-Wave-ish geek bands. Pretty sure Oingo Boingo also covered Pico and Sepulveda way earlier in 1982.

Yeah, I’m willing to give them another try. I respect them, but maybe I should try to like them. I honestly can’t get into the singles that their biggest (loudest?) fans love though. “Black Parade” sounds like it belongs in a musical I wouldn’t enjoy.

Oh, I get that TMBG have never been mainstream per se, but “Constantinople” does get featured or namedropped in plenty of mainstream stuff. Hell, it was used in Tiny Toons.

Descent is kind of the key term here I think, as the word only really works in any capacity in English. It’s a very 2nd/3rd generation term, so it mostly resonates with the Latin American diaspora living in Anglo American cultural contexts and using English as their primary language. As such, it highlights schisms…

Latine works better in Spanish too, tbh (no idea how the Portuguese speakers handle it).

I should maybe give this show another chance. It totally lost me with the scene in S1 in which the old child killed people in the diner was scored to They Might Be Giants (and not even a deep cut). At the time it struck me as just more of that egregious brand of post-Invader Zim/Hot Topic wacky “random” emo/goth/scene…

Yeah turns out humanity’s real weakness is learning to deal with itty bitty tiny organisms as an existential threat.

Yeah. Maybe its existence just reminded people that art deco was a thing

The headline here suggests a level of possibly compelling body horror I knew wouldn’t come to pass in the video itself.

Every so often I forget why I now have a visceral negative reaction to Ellen, and yeah, the Bush selfie was absolutely the inflection point. Honestly it’s the same reason I can’t enjoy SNL anymore, with all the pro-war shit they pulled in the lead-up to the invasion. The coexistence of 9/11 and the Bush presidency…

Yuppp. It was never about protecting cis women at all.

Transphobia doesn’t operate the same way as racism or homophobia though. The *primary* basis of transphobia is in the denial of the existence of trans identities. It’s not “[group X] is inferior” it’s “[group X] doesn’t exist” with the fallout being to ascribe all sorts of patronizing and/or predatory motivations to…

I was thinking the exact same thing. This obsession we have with paying attention to people in their teens and early 20s is such a social illness. Kids deserve to have a voice and space in society, but honestly it feels like way too much of the visible mediascape is catering to them (and/or to people forever stuck in…