Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by bluefirebrand on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:05PM
(#31130313)
> People thought the Simpsons was vulgar, they thought Elvis dancing was vulgar, they thought girls dancing to jazz in the flapper era was vulgar, thought that women exposing any skin beyond their hands and face was vulgar
I think the difference here is that it's easy to imagine what is more vulgar than The Simpsons, or more vulgar than Elvis dancing.
I'm struggling to come up with what is more vulgar than some of the stuff that is produced for the mainstream today, without being just pornography.
Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by colechristensen on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:13PM
(#31130378)
Eh, if you were a pepper pot circa 1992, you very well might not be able to imagine anything worse than the Simpsons.
And the Simpsons stopped getting heat once Bevis and Butthead went on the air and became the new target.
I refer you to Jimmy Swaggart in 1986
>he views rock as “pornography and degenerative filth which denigrates all the values we hold sacred and is destructive to youth.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-03-ca-1235-s...
This is where The New Pornographers got their name
Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by smsm42 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:30AM
(#31131934)
It's not a leading edge. It's just an edge. Porn existed as long as humans existed, and it still exists. It's not leading anywhere, it's just is, for people that need it. It's not new, and it doesn't by itself spell doom to anything - it has always existed on the edges. But let's not pretend it is some fundamental cultural achievement. It's just a lowbrow entertainment it always has been. Sometimes it is socially acceptable to consume it publicly, sometimes it isn't - but it's not leading anybody anywhere.
Y'all are a bunch of prudes and artists and the leading edge of culture are using that shock people experience in their art and have been for a long damn time. There's this burned in mythos that sex is bad which was brought in by Christianity and despite the goalposts of what is vulgar and what is acceptable there continues to be the undercurrent of "this is awful because it's too explicitly sexual" even though what was too much has shifted from exposed ankles to whatever people are offended by today. Hopefully we're close to running out of things to be offended by and people will just be comfortable with people expressing their sexuality as normal... but I doubt it.