Gone With The Wind Temporally Removed From HBO MAX (Or How To Look Back On Controversial Media) (1 Viewer)

Interesting point was made on CNN about how Fox was covering the Dr. Seuss news

In all of their outrage and indignation in all their coverage about the 6 Seuss books being pulled - they never showed the offending illustrations when talking about it. They didn't show the pictures while saying "what's wrong with this?"
 
knew we'd be talking Pepe today
we'll see if we have any posters willing to take a pro-rape stance
A lot of people will be mad, but they'll say stuff like "thats just the way it used to be".. So i'm like rape is funny? maybe then, but its not so cool now.....
 
A lot of people will be mad, but they'll say stuff like "thats just the way it used to be".. So i'm like rape is funny? maybe then, but its not so cool now.....
the ostensible change is that it used to be just fine (even preferred) to view work through one lens
thankfully now we acknowledge that context and perspective are important for any story
that if you have a joke where you club another to take them back to your house, the club is not the problematic part of the story
 
Even as a kid I always thought Pepe le Pew was a creep. His cartoons were never funny or entertaining, either. Just him being all rapey towards a painted cat for 6 minutes or whatever.
 
Even as a kid I always thought Pepe le Pew was a creep. His cartoons were never funny or entertaining, either. Just him being all rapey towards a painted cat for 6 minutes or whatever.
Me, too. Though, while watching a lot of old movies lately, well, sexual assault just came naturally to good old principled Hollywood.
 
Even as a kid I always thought Pepe le Pew was a creep. His cartoons were never funny or entertaining, either. Just him being all rapey towards a painted cat for 6 minutes or whatever.

Yeah, I watched when I was a kid and what I took from it was I thought it was funny he couldn't tell the difference between a cat and a skunk. I had no concept of rape at the time and just thought he was trying to mate with the wrong animal and even then, went about it in the wrong way.

Looking at it now, makes me wonder what's going on in the head of presumably an adult writing this.
 
Yeah, I watched when I was a kid and what I took from it was I thought it was funny he couldn't tell the difference between a cat and a skunk. I had no concept of rape at the time and just thought he was trying to mate with the wrong animal and even then, went about it in the wrong way.

Looking at it now, makes me wonder what's going on in the head of presumably an adult writing this.
I think it was written during a time where WB took accepted or percieved cultural stereotypes from certain countries, like France's supposed Bohemian, avant-garde hammy, perhaps little forceful hopeless romantic types that were wildly exaggerated and turned into ridiculous, cartoon characters.

Pepe Le Pew was written from the mindset of being this slightly devious, pathetic, hopeless romantic who's horny and engages in behavior that due to conversations like these, haven't aged well.

Its the same formula Warner Brothers used to create wildly exaggerated stereotypical characters based on general cultural perceptions like Foghorn Leghorn being a stereotypical archetype for down-home, repetitive rhetoric talking dimwitted Southerners, or Yosemite Sam lampooning wannabe old Western bad arse gun fighters like Billy the Kid or the James Gang but most times, Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck outsmarted him to show how stupid or idiotic he was.

Speedy Gonzales is actually seen by some Latino advocacy groups and Mexican-Americans as kind of an cultural icon.
 
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This could probably go in the meaningless factoids thread. Charles Boyer -- whose mannerisms, accent, and portrayal of Pepe le Moko in "Algiers" are clearly the inspiration for Pepe le Pew -- was married to his wife for 44 years. He committed suicide 2 days after she died from cancer. They had lost their only child, a 22 year old son, to suicide 13 years before their deaths.
 
Renovations have reportedly begun on the classic "Jungle Cruise" ride at Disney World.

WDW News Today reported on Monday that the Trader Sam character had been removed from the boat ride in Magic Kingdom. The character - a salesman of shrunken heads who stands shirtless with an umbrella at the end of the ride - has long been criticized by Disney fans as a negative representation of native people.

According to WDWNT, the Disney employee leading the ride, also known as a Jungle Cruise Skipper, did not acknowledge Trader Sam's absence.

The Trader Sam character is also well known for its namesake bars at Disney World and Disneyland. At the time of writing, Disney does not have plans to re-theme either location.................

Disney World has started to remove racially insensitive characters from its popular Jungle Cruise ride (msn.com)
 
This goes to the thread topic of how to look back at content from a different time in history. Also, it's pretty funny:

 

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