More examples, this time in actual prisons to keep in line with the topic.
Two inmates at all-women's New Jersey jail are PREGNANT after both had sex with transgender prisoners: ACLU won battle to house 27 trans inmates there.
Trans woman who got two inmates pregnant moved to all-male prison
NJ women’s prison inmates pregnant after sex with transgender prisoner
3 different reports on the same story all from a very quick search online.
Oh look, you're wrong. Again.
Trans woman jailed for sex with 14-year-old girl
The 25-year-old was jailed for nine-and-a-half years
A trans woman who groomed and had sex with a 14-year-old girl, making her pregnant, has been jailed.
The defendant - named by police as "David Orton, also known as Danielle Rose Gemini" - was found guilty of penetrative sexual activity with a child following a trial.
Because unlike many Disney productions it's about a broken family experiencing a shit hand dealt to them and how both the older and younger sister respond to that.
Lilo opens the film desperately trying to feed a peanut butter sandwich to a fish she thinks controls the weather. Why is this important to her? Because her parents died in a car crash caused by a storm and this is the only way her childish mind can cope. When she explains this in the start of the film she mentions how the sisters are out of peanut butter and only have tuna but Lilo can't accept giving tuna/fish to a fish so needs to get more peanut butter first causing her to be more delayed to a dance class. She gets into fights almost constantly because the only girls she knows at school are horrible cunts that taunt her repeatedly and even flatly state how much they hate Lilo. She's poor and has to make up her own fun most of the time due to being socially isolated which ends up taking the form of photography of fat tourists and listening to Elvis.
Meanwhile Nani is desperate to keep her sole remaining family member and unlike many fairy tales is failing hard because she's completely out of her depth. She lacks any form of social life while she tries and fails to raise Lilo alone despite her option of David who not only gets on great with Lilo but could significantly help both of them by providing much needed emotional stability to their lives.
But people fuck up IRL and make bad choices despite good options so the film resonates well with both children and adults for a number of reasons:
- Orphans.
Both Nani and Lilo have lost their only other family members through no fault of their own but don't always accept that, see the comment about Pudge the fish.
- Single parents.
While Nani is Lilo's sister rather than actual mother many siblings IRL have found themselves raising younger siblings either because of neglection or outright abandonment from parents. Coupled with the struggle of having to deal with their own life and problems at the same time it's an unfortunate situation many experience where they desperately try to hold onto what little good remains from their lives at the expense of their own future development. Nani's three main plots are raising Lilo, trying to keep a job to support both herself and Lilo, and dealing with the possible romance involving David. However dealing with Lilo repeatedly hinders her work and results in her turning David down in order to try and focus on Lilo.
- Bullying.
Lilo is tormented by the other girls in school because of both Lilo's behaviour and family/financial status. Lilo is a very young child, she has limited ways to interpret and respond to what happens in life regardless of what others will have told her. She's 6 years old and blames herself for the deaths of her parents. Nani is limited in terms of work having to juggle her own life while raising Lilo meaning the sisters are very poor, hence Lilo's doll looking like one of Frankenstein's monsters. Consequently Lilo is extremely eccentric because she frequently has to come up with her own entertainment while dealing with the deep seated trauma of losing her parents so young. And the other schoolgirls make her life hell because of it.
So unlike many fairy tales where the young protagonist gets isekai'd saved by a handsome prince or father figure riding in and saving the protag from a shit life, Lilo and Stitch instead doesn't do this.
Stitch is literally a weapon. He was made by a mad scientist to destroy and cause chaos. He isn't there to rescue Lilo. He isn't there to make Nani's life better. In fact he ends up making things worse for the sisters almost from the moment they meet.
However as the film goes on the three of them, albeit mostly Lilo and Stitch, learn how to change for the better.
Nani learns to ask for help rather than face her problems alone.
Lilo learns she isn't going to be abandoned again and that her family is more than just her sister.
Stitch learns he is more than he was made to be, that he has a choice in what he gets to do, rather than what he has been told to do.
David learns what it feels like to be crushed like a melon between Nani's thighs.
Is the animation weird? Sure, but it's mostly a cartoon for kids who don't care for that but will remember and understand more of the themes in the film as they grow up, learning the same lessons the characters do as they become relevant.
the Vong
Small note, they would kill you for calling them that :p it's like drawing Mohammed for them. 'Yuuzhan Vong' means "the children of Yun-Yuuzhan" so to call them otherwise suggests they have been disowned by their gods [and family], and as a society were described as "religious zealots" at the best of times.
Read a news story last week about a uni student's union that had tried to pass a vegan menu through and lost the student vote for it. The "concession" speech from the SU was pretty much nothing but gaslighting and direct criticism of the students and how democracy was failing, which tbh sounds precisely how I remember a SU behaving drunk on power.
Edit, went and found the story. Of fucking course it's Edinburgh.
If Edinburgh's students are so far unconvinced that animal farming and fishing is wrecking our planet and would rather take the words of those with a vested interest in concealing the truth, then we will continue to work to change that
I know people did not like KOTOR II. The villains are unfinished
The game is unfinished! Both the actual ending and things like the droid factory were never properly included so there's so much more KOTOR 2 could have done but didn't.
The Plot: Evil white man tells Rey she can't accomplish her goal.
Rey does a bunch of side quests before her goal is handed to her.
Or she will have a someone [and old woman] give her a random life lesson midway through the story which Rey will remember during the final confrontation and realise it solves everything then after pausing, closing her eyes, and taking a deep breath she will say she never needed the goal in the first place and her chasing it was only because the the bad guy told her to.
She's a stronk indypyndynt wamen who don't need no man to tell her how to live!
And then everyone claps 👏👏👏
"They're replacing our redheads" = "We hate Black people"
Couldn't help but capitalising there, could they?
"Ignore that we don't care if redheads are replaced by blondes and brunettes"
Ah yes, this old disingenuous chestnut. There are infographs showing legacy redhead characters and what modern casting choices for them have been and the number of times it's turned out to be a blonde or brunette amounts to little more than a rounding error.
Jimmy Olsen, Mary Jane Watson, Ariel, Iris West, Wally West, April O'Neil, Rudy and Rex from Invincible, Heimdall, Alicia Masters, Red from Shawshank Redemption, Hawkgirl, Starfire, Triss Merigold, and many, many more.
All redheads originally and most recently cast with black actors in productions often so subpar that actual fan made films end up looking better in terms of quality.