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FUCKING BAWLING AT STEPHEN KING TALKING ABOUT HIS FURIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER TELLING GOD TO GET HIS OWN FUCKING CAT

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why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

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Isn't that why kids are so scornfully dismissive of "rainbow capitalism," to the point that some even argue it's really no better than being queer in Iran?

They don't know. They don't know that "gay panic" was used to excuse beating a kid to death just 27 years ago.

It’s actually bananas that gay rights has advanced so much that Tucker Carlson must resort to “Pete Buttigieg is such a good public speaker and I hate it, so he’s probably lying about being gay 😒”

Umm…the fact that he’s gay isn’t an instant disqualifier anymore, he has to be lying about it? Are you suggesting that gay people…can’t be good public speakers? That’s their only downside?

“Well obviously he’s faking being gay and a loving father just to get people to like him 🙄

Is that the worst you can come up with, that he’s fake-adopted two kids for his husband for brownie points. The part of me that remembers the national conversation about gay men when I was 12 refuses to believe you’re saying this out loud right now.

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The best version of Robin is a little sass ball in a cape. The best version of Batman asks a 10 year old for life advice.

This conversation could really be with any of the Batkids, but I drew Jason for his bitty hair curls.

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Jessica Rabbit

Art by Stephanie Pepper

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He will never admit it

These translations are not made by me

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We need to put sex back into children's entertainment

That got your attention. I welcome the pearl-clutching in the notes.

I'm serious, though. The movies we watched as kids had way more sex in them than you remember. Not explicitly, but they had no problem alluding to and implying sex. The Incredibles had a full-on sex montage and a suspected adultery subplot. The Road to El Dorado had a woman proposition a man for casual sex onscreen and fuck him just out of frame. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas directly referenced prostitution. So did The Hunchback of Notre Dame on top of having a creepy sexual predator for a villain who unambiguously sings about his lust for the leading lady. We all knew Simba and Nala fucked at the end of that one song in The Lion King. Batman: The Animated Series had Harley Quinn dress in lingerie and beg the Joker for sex.

This was mainstream children's media by major studios. None of this was controversial or seen as "grooming." Sex was just a normal thing to tastefully imply because it's a normal part of life. Having two characters discretely fuck offscreen was no different from having a villain fall to his death so you can't see the gore. They obviously wouldn't show it in a children's movie, but everyone who knows what sex or violence is can infer what happened.

I think the fact that this even shocks us is very telling of how insanely prudish and reactionary we have become regarding anything remotely sexual coming anywhere near kids. It used to be perfectly acceptable to do this in children's media, but the current groomer panic has really set us back decades.

I can only think of a handful of recent exceptions to this. The She-Ra remake elegantly pulled off a running gag where a character fucks robots, and Kpop Demon Hunters did not shy away from depicting sexual desire through exaggerated cartoony visuals. Hopefully, the breakout success of the latter sets a precedent for future projects.

We need to get more normal about sex and that means, among other things, letting Disney characters fuck again.

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this might just be THE funniest thing i’ve ever seen anyone say on this website

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hear me out…

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crazy how much your life can improve if you just Move Somewhere Else