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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and what I got back was, verbatim, "did anyone ever tell you... the curtains are fucking blue?"

Bruh

I want to chain this guy up and forcibly give him a basic literature class

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I want to chain this guy up and forcibly give him a basic literature class

If you did that, you'd have to somehow prevent him from chanting "DEATH OF THE AUTHOR!" all the way through it to justify whatever he already wanted to believe about anything he consumed. smuglord

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People who simultaneously believe Death of the Author and The Curtains Are Fucking Blue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lots of people bounce from one to the other like a metronome without the slightest hesitation or awareness of the contradiction because they want their treats to mean exactly and only what they want them to mean.