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Honestly if the zoomers get to a point where they're actively organizing and getting shit done, I'm happy. It's more than millennials were ever able to do
Not so sure... used to think the kids are alright, but have been seeing some disturbing trends from the tankies, who are just fascists that like red flags and yellow stars.
They know things aren't fair and know there's problems but are prone to the same fascist tricks the MAGAs fell for.
Hopefully they can pass beyond of this phase, things can go the wrong direction when people organize with violent intentions.
I've noticed a lot of them are "puritan pilled." For example, growing up, if there were sex scenes in a movie you would say "yeah, that makes sense. People like to fuck and fucking is a big part of relationships. Showing people being intimate isn't really a big deal." But now, I've heard younger people complain about sex scenes in movies. Like, as if it should be reserved exclusively for pornography. Which is a very....reactionary cultural take. It's sort of ghettoizing intimacy, and it's very similar to the perspective of prurient Baby Boomers in the 1990s or 00s who wanted every movie that showed a penis to be rated NC-17. I wonder if the Zoomers won't wind up having a lot more in common with their Baby Boomer grandparents than they realize.
I'm of two minds on this. Yeah sure showing people fucking is no problem. But I am also annoyed that in 90s movies always had to be a romantic subplot tacked on. Tombstone would be a perfect movie if it weren't for the tacked on romantic subplot. Story about revenge, and dudes putting their lives in danger to help a friend, all great stuff. But pause that for 10 minutes so we can put in some romance bullshit because it's a 90s movie. It's also the biggest historical inaccuracy of the movie as strange as that sounds.
Well the sensible approach would simply be to make NC-17 more mainstream. In fact that's why they changed it from being called X-rated to NC-17. They tried putting out a popular NC-17 movie, but this is how we got the movie Showgirls and they stopped trying to do that. That's just typical Hollywood bullshit where they have a good idea and fail at the execution and then abandon the good idea.
I don't see a problem with having nudity being given an NC-17, it's just more information. It's just that NC-17 is considered a death sentence for a movie's popularity because of its association with Showgirls. Which is just weird.
I think it's just that there are always going to be prudish people. Just in the past the prudes gravitated towards religious groups. But since religion has gotten so mixed up with some detestable politics, the prudes have to find some other groups to push their "ewww boobies, that's not right!" feelings onto. Ideology isn't really all that different from religion when you think about it, so that's where the prudes go now.