I was watching a Simpsons episode from the 90s called Homer Badman where he takes the babysitter home and there is a gummy candy stuck to her butt and he grabs it off her without touching her butt as she is leaving the car. Long story short there is sensational reporting that mocks shows from that era like Hard Copy or A Current Affair. One of the greatest lines is on a parody of Sally Jesse Raphael where the panel consists of mothers and daughters united in their hatred for Homer Simpson and one lady talks about Homer and breaks down in tears and the host says "there there, your tears say more than any real evidence ever could"
That pretty much sums up the metoo movement. I remember being downvoted in reddit for saying that you can't just take an accusation as the gospel truth especially when they haven't filed any police report and just tweet about something.
I honestly think that the Simpsons could have had at least a mild resurgence if they had mocked that stupid comedian that made the documentary about Apu. What was funny was that a lot of people from India or whose parents were from there had no problem with Apu but they didn't matter, and one guy said when he was little they teased him and called him Apu, but if Apu hadn't existed they would've just called him something else.
Umm, ya, that's when we ban ”something else”. And then some other something else. It's called PROGRESS. Eventually they'll run out of names to call him and everyone will be friends and we'll have a perfect society.
We used to call the retard dumb because that was the term for retards. Then that word was deemed bad so the medical term changed to idiot. So people started calling retards idiots. That term too was deemed problematic so they changed it to retard. Now that word is problematic so people use smoothbrain or brainlet which mean the same damn thing but those words haven't been cancelled yet. And most of the people that proclaimed dumb and idiot to be problematic so those words are fair game again.
Stop trying to police speech and just realize some people really are dumb, idiotic, and retarded.
I didn’t see it that way. Good point.