I say we buy the movie rights. I can see it now. "Most surgeons are afraid of losing a patient. But if this patient goes, everyone dies. Coming to theaters this winter it's MIRACLE IN UKRAINE. Featuring a special introduction by Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy." Question: can we get away with casting all the doctors as LGBT BIPOC?
A personal anecdote (sorry for blogging) dating back to before "place of privilege" was a thing: A (gay) friend was beside himself (on Facebook) about the recent closure of a local LGBT publication. He insisted it was horrible and hurtful to the LGBT community to lose such an irreplaceable institution. I told him "no institution is irreplaceable" and made the mistake of hoping he could fill in the blanks. As a result I got scolded for being straight and not understanding the situation. Then a queer friend of his suggested they look into putting together a zine and working from there. He was open to the idea. Because, hey, I was an outsider, and so me insinuating he fix the problem himself was bigoted while someone in the same community doing the same (although being more direct) is helpful.
This actually does explain a lot. You know how teenagers, mindless, melodramatic pieces of shit that they are, tend to over exaggerate their problems and then suffer mental turmoil due to those exaggerations? Well "you're speaking from a place of privilege" is the formalized version of "GAWD, MOM! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE." Just a little less histrionic. Alternatively, while it's not a judgment of how difficult your life has been, it is an admission that the person doesn't value an outsider's perspective (which in almost any other occasion is a valuable thing, consultants make good money providing those) because it's not enforcing their worldview and will thus be dismissed.
This hand wringing over someone daring to use a reference they don't like is so pathetic. It reads like a bunch of catty moms talking behind some woman's back because her son had been seen eating paste. "Is that Barbara?" "Yes, poor dear. You've heard about her son?" "Terrible, terrible child. I'm sure she's partially to blame." "Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, y'know."
It’s like during the Trump years how people were the “resistance,” despite perfectly aligning with the media, corporations, and most politicians of prominence. But since it wasn’t ALL politicians of prominence (what did Trump do that was so anti-LGBT, anyway?) they considered themselves the downtrodden minority. So here, again, these festivals totally align with the world around them but they still think they’re “fringe.” Kind of like how everyone with a tattoo is totally a rebel.
This. It's starting to sound like they can choose euthenasia for you once they've put the option on the table. Maybe you're suffering from dementia and can't legally make the decision, maybe you've suffered an injury and are vegetative, or maybe you're a political dissident. Doesn't matter, the state can now choose suicide FOR you.
Not necessarily independence and revolution. Straight up America is redefined as slavery, since their angle is it didn't really come into being until the first slaves. Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492? Nah, fuck that. It's all about the slaves.
Oh god, don't even go there. "The Narn were ENSLAVED by the Centauri? We need to get all black actors (inexplicably, mostly British) to play them!" "These shadows represent chaos? So they're the good ones, right? ANARCHY RULES! Especially if it's socialist." "Yes, I get that they're fighting for the survival of their species ... but what about the LGBT people?"
Since I don't know anything beyond that one panel and the description I'd have to say there's nothing necessarily wrong with this. Joker self impregnating and giving birth to his own son (I wouldn't trust anyone ELSE with my baby; not even his mother!) to wreak havoc with is not entirely out of line for someone who has no limits. "So sorry for poisoning the reservoir. I'm murdering for two now, don't you know!" "With me around, you should be planning your funerals and not parenthood!" But it is current year, so in all likelihood it's the delivery (heh) that's being botched.
It was pretty bad. If Ghostbusters 2 killed the franchise by making it more family friendly, then Afterlife dug up the corpse defiled it by making it an actual children's movie. On top of that, it suffered from so many hack writing elements that made it seem like poorly written fan fiction rather than a proper continuation. Here's Gozer again! Endless callbacks! As a kid, I was a big fan of the Real Ghostbusters, so I knew these characters could have adventures involving things OTHER than Gozer, so it's disappointing that all these years later the most Hollywood could muster was rehashing the first movie. But you're right, at least it didn't shit on its audience like the 2016 reboot did. How sad that's enough for fans to gush all over it.
But they lived in harmony and peace. What were the warriors there for?