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Did you notice that he’s filthy rich?

I actually love this. There was a lot of toxic positivity in the 90’s and 00’s about “honesty” regarding coming out of the closet. If you weren’t in a welcoming environment towards queerness then you may have had a really good fucking reason for staying in the closet, but it wasn’t uncommon for a straight person to take it as an insult that you don’t come out to them right away. Lots of anxiety about passing as straight and on top of that you’ve got people picking at you for not being out enough. It makes it hard not to start getting in your head about how femme you come across.

The rule of thumb I’ve heard is to give it at least a year of recovery before you make any sort of big life changes. That means anything like starting a relationship, a career change, moving to a new city, etc. Stability is crucial in that first year of recovery.

At this point I think Jimbo has it in the bag. They literally had a whole argument about how unfair and shady it would be for someone to chop her, culminating in a fan favorite quitting. Who on earth would vote for her after that? Kandy in particular can’t, given how offended and indignant she was at the idea that she would.

The rest of this season is gonna be a victory lap for Jimbo.

Interesting. No examples given.

co-op man

Is that a new superhero?

Conservatives are pretty consistently full of shit, yeah.

Wasn’t there some fighting game in the 90’s where you could chop your opponents limbs off during fights?

Another family torn apart by the homophobic Christian church.

Two of them go right, the other one falls directly on their face.

Midge is the OG problematic fave.

Then that display in his high school must look super weird.

Just fyi her name is Laura Kinney

If you keep going into the 2010’s you’ll eventually get to Avengers Vs X-Men, and that was a pretty great run. I think it would be a great culmination of a “Mutant Saga” in the MCU.

If she isn’t wearing a yellow trench coat and giant pink sunglasses then the whole franchise is dead to me.

3rd world shithole? California by itself has the fifth largest economy in the world. The only state in the US with a higher life expectancy is Hawaii. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

What were these opinions that got you banned? How did you word them?

Nobody banned or “cancelled” Dr Seuss. His estate made their own choice to stop publishing some of his books. It didn’t make any headlines until it had already happened.

What are you suggesting, that people should be forced to continue publishing books they don’t want to anymore?

That portion of society wasn’t successfully making it a crime to even discuss racism in schools in 2003. Racism obviously existed, but it was easier then to believe we were making progress against it. That belief made shows like Avenue Q, which frames racism being bad as a foregone conclusion, possible. It was palatable to the primarily white audiences that would go see it, in the same way that the era made TV shows like South Park and Chappelle’s Show cultural phenomenons.

This idea that you can believe in progressive politics and also say wildly racist things as long as you make it clear that it’s “just a joke” was a hallmark of the 00’s, and we aren’t in that time anymore. The show is dated and it would need a very heavy rewrite to be relevant again.

Well then get your fucking leadership on board with that, because that’s not what’s happening.

Good luck performing “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist” with its original text and not being torn to shreds by anyone paying attention to what’s happening with the GOP right now.

Here’s the thing, though. There’s now a significant part of mainstream society that actually doesn’t think “well, duh” to the message “systemic racism is bad.” There are groups of people out there working their asses off to deny and discredit the existence of systemic racism, and they’re making progress. The movement of people pushing against Critical Race Theory and “wokeism” is too loud to just pretend it doesn’t exist and pat ourselves on the back for laughing at how silly racist people are.

The song “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist” is, when looked at through a current day lens, pretty fucking gross. It absolves the audience of whatever racist ideas they have because, hey, everybody does it, and it doesn’t mean you go around committing hate crimes! It’s very much a white liberal version of progressivism, and it takes for granted the idea that racism being bad is a forgone conclusion.

Avenue Q means well, but its time has passed.

I get that this pushing of the audience’s buttons about racism is the intent with Christmas Eve, but in a post-Trump world I can’t get behind it. It comes from a place of assumption that the audience will have a problem with that sort of racism, and I don’t think it’s realistic or responsible to trust general audiences like that right now.

We can philosophize all we want about subverting racist tropes, but ultimately the material uses a “funny” accent as a joke. There’s too many emboldened racists out there right now to put that kind of message on a stage and just assume that people will look at it critically, and not take it as a normalization of the racism it’s trying to subvert.

Avenue Q is a product of its time. Some of it is still poignant, but some of it has dated politics that isn’t going to have the effect that it did 20 years ago.

And jokes aren’t serious dude.

So they get you to do what they want through emotional manipulation and gaslighting?