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Millennials find 90s sitcom Friends uncomfortable. What other 90s pop culture should we banish?

RT
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:10 UTC

As all 10 seasons of Friends were released on Netflix last week, young viewers found dozens of unexamined sexist, homophobic and abusive incidents in the sitcom. Is it time to banish other cultural milestones from the same decade?

Austin Powers - Historic sex abuser

Didn't just abuse women in the 1960s but actually traveled through time so that he could abuse some more. And we are meant to root for him?

Britney Spears - Internalized sexism, underage sex promotion

OK, 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' wasn't actually about domestic violence, but isn't that schoolgirl outfit a pedophile magnet? And don't even start with Born to Make You Happy.

Heroin chic - Body shaming

Don't talk about '90s icons being too thin - because a body shape is not a crime. But also ban them from the catwalk for being too thin - because they are setting a bad example.

Wonderbra ads - Sexual objectification

The iconic scantily-clad poses reduce women to sex objects for the male gaze. Lingerie ads should not be allowed to be seen by men, and should feature women in overalls working in a factory, or in burqas, looking after children.

Spice Girls - Racist, sexist clichés

A series of offensively reductive identities. It's not OK to call a fully-grown woman 'Baby.' And 'Scary Spice' just plays on insidious stereotypes about black women.

Pocahontas - With the best of intentions, everything

Whichever way you approach this, it is going to be cultural appropriation, noble savage mythmaking, and outright racist stereotyping. So, probably best just not make any movies about Native Americans at all, or wait until they build their own Disney.

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Artex · 2018-01-16T21:41:03Z

If I remember correctly, Spears took a lot of criticism at the time for performing dressed like that as a 16 year-old.

HashAttack2 · 2018-01-16T22:40:38Z

They wouldn't enjoy "Married with Children"

The main character is the dad, Al Bundy .. .described on Wiki as:

His favorite things in life are the local nudie bar, his collection of "BigUns" magazine, his television, his Dodge car with almost 1 million miles on the odometer, and a television show called "Psycho Dad."

prehistoric · 2018-01-16T23:13:11Z

HashAttack2 As someone who is old enough to remember the show, this clip will surely send any millennial to their local hospital with a panic attack [Link]

HashAttack2 · 2018-01-17T12:26:56Z

great link .. hadn't seen it for a long time

matrixme · 2018-01-17T03:07:47Z

In Living Color should really trigger a discomfort among the tender tots.

griffin · 2018-01-17T10:27:43Z

Spellcheck your headlines, SoTT! The word "millennials" has two "n"s. Sheesh, what a bunch of illiterates.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T10:36:18Z

No, don't spellcheck your headlines. If you've got someone on your team that can't spell, throw them off the team.

Also, who gives a shit about fricking '90's TV? It really comes to something when nineties TV is considered some kind of arbiter of sanity.

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T10:56:32Z

Huh... Does J Martin write for Russia Today?

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T11:00:13Z

BlackCartouche This was on the BBC Website the other day... Looks like the last bastion of the traditional 'working-class' Man is under threat too.. [Link]

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T11:05:42Z

No, because it's just propaganda. If people react to propaganda like it's r-e-a-l-l-y h-a-p-p-e-n-i-n-g, m-a-a-n, then all they've done is aided the propagandists in their aim to make self-fulfilling prophecies, as has the writer of this RT article.

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T11:17:49Z

Highland Fleet Lute Like making money from a stock market crash?

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T11:30:47Z

Maybe, but also in the sense of: Alien-reaction-machines-pointing-at-alien-reaction-machines, as per: 'fingers at the moon'.

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T11:49:16Z

Highland Fleet Lute I think i get the gist... I would ask you to clarify, but I wouldn't want you banging your head on my bandwidth. Lol.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T11:33:03Z

"If I remember correctly, Spears took a lot of criticism at the time for performing dressed like that as a 16 year-old."

Dressed like that as a 16 year old?

Ooh, suits you, Sir....[Link]

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T12:04:44Z

"I would ask you to clarify, but I wouldn't want you banging your head on my bandwidth."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence." - Oscar Wilde.

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T12:40:10Z

Highland Fleet Lute I would like to say: Thank you, HFL ... But I'm never quite sure...

nedlud · 2018-01-17T12:21:01Z

OSCAR WILDE

@HFL:

Oscar Wilde may have been like Henry David Thoreau. Or G.I. Gurdjieff. (Or Miles Mathis?)

Men who were actually men or coming reasonably close to being so.

Most men are not men at all.

Most smart people know less than the stupid do.

Quite a bit less.

Have a good one.

ned,

out

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T12:41:42Z

nedlud Miles Mathis?? Isn't he a charlatan?

nedlud · 2018-01-17T12:55:39Z

If you wish, read what he writes and decide for yourself.

Don't let anyone else influence you unduly, including me.

ned

nedlud · 2018-01-17T12:48:18Z

OSCAR WILDE, pt. 2

My understanding is, that Oscar Wilde was a homosexual. Homos are not my favorite sort of men.

Nonetheless, at times, I have read statements by Oscar Wilde that seemed sensible and true (to heart, not to 'facts')

I have not made a thorough study of these three men (Wilde, Gurdjieff and Thoreau) in the way that some might. I am surmising to a high degree and 'intuiting' a little bit.

Ultimately, I think you have go more on what a man (any man) actually does, as opposed to what he might say or be reported as saying.

Mathis has my admiration for 'sticking his neck out'. i

nedlud · 2018-01-17T12:51:57Z

continued, hit the wrong button....

Mathis seems to use his own mind, unregulated by others and goes on hunches, which is what I do, though not exactly like Mathis. I have a different 'way'...

When you stick your neck out, and stray from 'groupthink', it is dangerous. People hate you.

I know that for a fact.

ned, out

BlackCartouche · 2018-01-17T13:07:41Z

nedlud Homo shmomo = more women for me

Ok, fair do's Ned... I'll check this Mathis fellow out for myself...

BC, OUT

HashAttack2 · 2018-01-17T13:15:36Z

Yes, he liked being shafted up the derriere but this did not impair his critical thinking

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-01-17T14:18:44Z

"When you stick your neck out, and stray from 'groupthink', it is dangerous. People hate you."

Not necessarily. Depends on your driving skills, your vehicle, the road you're on, and so on and so forth.

"Miles Mathis?? Isn't he a charlatan?"

You could say that. On the other hand, I've always preferred the term 'arsehole'.

Nedlud can often be seen on these pages railing against all sorts of heroes, role-models and celebrities, whilst de-railing himself by having his own personal heroes, role-models and celebrities all rolled up into one arsehole called 'Miles Mathis'.

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