This is why I haaaate “today I learned” posts sourced from a cheesy interview. Some exaggerated or even sarcastic statement gets spun into absolute truth and it’s pervasive
A ton of times these high profile people will be giving a press conference or an impromptu interview to whoever and they take a ton of rapid fire questions. So many times someone will slip in a question like ‘do you think the end scene was symbolic of the protagonists suppressed desire to felate their grandma wearing a strapon?’ and they’re like ‘uh yeah sure I mean if you want to interpret it that way I guess’ then move on. Then the next day you see stories like ‘such and such actor said he wants to fuck his grandma’ and then it spirals from there. I just ignore pretty much everything I read these days tbh.
Robert Pattinson famously just makes random shit up in interviews.
This alone makes me want to look up his interviews. I only ever saw his batman and don’t care about him at all otherwise.
You should check out Good Times. I didn’t take him seriously as an actor until I saw that movie, and when I did, I immediately thought he was Oscar quality.
Here is one (more a feature around an interview) which is absolutely hilarious.
Pretty good, but tbh, I couldn’t get over the fact that they put a fugly jacket that costs more than 3 times what I make in a month on a guy who couldn’t give less of a shit and then voluntarily told their readers that 😂
Pearl Jam said they got their name from psychedelic jelly one of their grandmothers used to make. That seemed to stick for years. Later they clarified that it was just a joke but the grandmother’s name was in fact Pearl.
I always assumed it was a sexual reference
My theory is that it only needs be true once on a TIL and then the rest of the internet will believe it to be true.
Yea, but like, I still have my own opinion.
I did research!
I read it on Facebook!
Or in this case, X. The new hotness in incorrect information.
Will no one think of the clicks?!
You wrote the movie? Well, I wrote the comment saying you’re wrong.
Checkmate!
Well I’m convinced!
Source?
Source: go fuck yourself
Can’t wait for these screenshots not to be twitter tbh
Because they’re X haha
People still won’t believe her.
Her comment might even get deleted.
Media outlets trying to push a certain narrative?!? Like no way!1!!
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How rotten does your mind have to be to think this partisan culture war bullshit? The simplest and most obvious explanation is that media outlets like this pump out fake and misleading content for the sake of stoking controversy which gets them more clicks and views, and thus more money
can be romantic
It isn’t “CAN BE”.
… it is “THEY ARE whether they want to or not, and I even have fake proof to prove it, regardless of what the actual writer says.”
That’s… Very not true. Aside from the post here having verified their source (it’s just that the source is wrong) Decider is owned by the New York Post which is very much not liberal.
Companies like NYP care about money more than anything else. If all the money was being help by the LBG community, you better believe that they would be all over that.
That’s not the point you made that was refuted. You attempted to use the post as an example of liberal media pushing a narrative and you were wrong. I’m not here to argue anything else.
TBF, she did respond saying “Omg ok then u don’t need a source!! 😂”.
I’m really glad she didn’t somehow double down or get arsey about it!
I once got into what I would advise my younger self against was an argument about an aspect of Lord of the Rings and I quoted Tolkien himself to prove my point and the guy I was arguing with said, “what does he know? He only wrote it.”
A lot of people swear by this whole “death of the author” philosophy because it let’s them ignore the literal stated intent of the author in favor of whatever pet theory they have. Which is fine, but you can’t use it in a debate about theories about the work. There isn’t a right answer to what you want to believe, but there often IS a right answer to what the actual author actually intended, especially modern authors in the age of information.
Can I please have some more backstoy to this?
I don’t remember it very well. Something to do with whether or not LOTR was influenced by Christian mythology.
But what dose Tolkien actually know about what influenceed the LOTR, he was only the one being influenceed by it. /s
Is it just me, or do more and more women seem to have this obsession with lesbians in movies? More specifically lesbian romance.
Maybe I’m seeing things with different glasses. So help me out here. Something has just changed over the years.
It’s probably just because people can be more openly gay now than they used to and they want representation in the media they consume. You couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.
you couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.
Untrue. Millions of men clamored for it.
That makes sense actually.
I might get a lot of flack for this, but I do think there is a growing want to be somewhere in the rainbow spectrum because it is seen as “in” right now. If you belong somewhere on that group you are more interesting, more special. At least that’s the, subtle and sometimes not so subtle, sentiment I’m sentiment.
Honestly I do agree.
I’m not dismissing the fact that there are legitimate homosexuals and whatnot. But it does kind of feel like being in that spectrum is seen as the “hit” right now. Like this special group. Especially in teens.
Of course I could be terribly wrong but maybe…nowadays it feels like being straight or not in that group is seen as a bad thing. Like if you’re straight, you’re actually bi and just in the closet.
Maybe as time goes on and being LGBT becomes seen as a normal part of society (which it will) it won’t be so frowned upon whether or not you’re straight, or in that spectrum. I just think we should be accepting of either orientation or gender instead of pushing a specific agenda.
on the other hand, I self ID’d as straight for 35 years until I felt safe not to do so. So it looked like I just appeared in the early 2020s
You teleported out of the closet. I like it. Live your true life funkless!
The vast majority of the LGBTAH3DIAH$AHEISHW++™ shit is nothing more than a fad. You can see this in the polls. Every poll that comes out says that this community doubles every year, but when you actually look at the figures, the percentage of people who are genuinely LGBT is pretty low and it been relatively stable for decades. The new increases are in bullshit labels like “queer”, “questioning”, or some other shit like that. There’s no meaning to them and there’s no other point besides straight young people making up or misusing terms to seems cool, special, and unique to fit in.
I think it’s a bit ridiculous how the pride flag was meant to show that humanity is on a spectrum of all kinds of sexualities in different amounts. But then the attention people wanted to start adding extra widgets, shapes, and colors to the flag that was supposed to represent basically everyone (or at least the non 100% straight people, depends on interpretation).
Go to the hood and tell a black dude walking around at two am that he has his own representation on the pride rev. d flag, right between the stripes for asexual and native Americans or whatever, and see what happens.
It is being pushed more and more in the media… this is a perfect example. Simply making up shit all to hook a certain demographic.
Back in the 80s, we had tons of tacked-on romantic interests added to movies for no good reason. Some action movie where the world is nearly obliterated, everyone you know is dead and a whole space army is chasing you - sure find a hiding spot and bang the girl you saved 2 hours earlier. Totally makes a ton of sense. These days certain people in the media are trying to push another narrative but it is just as tacked-on and cringy.
It is especially ridiculous when the characters and the movie have nothing to do with romance.
Not in my experience
The fediverse skews much more queer than real life does, so that may be coloring your perception
I have only been on the federverse for like two or three weeks. I meant in popular media and actually even in my real life interactions.
I have heard things like I tried to be gay, or I wish I was a lesbian, etc. I do think that it’s influenced by media having this archetype of the
cool/suave/fun/wise/good-crazyinteresting side-character friend. Oftentimes these characters aren’t fully developed and their whole personality is that they are not straight, but they have this cool friend group thing going on and everyone likes them.Don’t get me wrong, there are fantastic examples of gay characters in media where they aren’t just the token diversity character, it too often we have quirky-dirky (but flat) interesting person whose only defining quality is that they’re not boring ol’ heterosexual
People love behind the scene movie facts. People also love subversive movie facts (see wizard of oz dark facts and rumors). People also love lesbians, so that’s where these rumors come from.
we should tell them about pornhub
That’s lesbians for men, not women.
Pretty much
Lesbian romances in games like Life is strange true colours and shows like The Owl House make me go awwww like no other media does, and lesbian porn is just gross. I cant stand watching it (I am lesbian for reference)
Edit: sorry for necroposting
Yeah. More acceptance of people as they are versus how bigots want them to be.
Maybe the actress who said that made it up as a offhand joke to mess with the NYT but the NYT took it seriously for some reason.
murderedbywords
It’s a real shame that’s (yet another) community that has been created by someone with no intention of posting anything. That was one of my favourites and I’m tempted to create an active community… but I’m already the mod of 3 decent sized communities and 3 tiny ones. Lemmy really really needs content posters to thrive - even if they’re just stealing content from Reddit like I am!
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Well thats like your opinion, man…
/s
Here are the tweets (or is it ‘X posts’ now 😅): https://twitter.com/KarenMcCullah1/status/1413245476409733120?t=cViSCagbawAHKgRtZAkTAg&s=19
I think they refer to them as “exes”. Lol.
Debate lords are a disease
