Politically Incorrect
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tmaj48 — 10 years ago(April 03, 2015 03:24 PM)
Misogynistic and cruel to animals? Welcome to the 1960s, when most of the women depicted on TV were blissfully happy housewives, and a wife had to be a witch (
Bewitched
) or a genie (
I Dream of Jeannie
) to have any mind of her
own at all. As for animal cruelty, zoos back then were small enclosures, circuses
featured bears in muzzles riding bicycles, and a popular attraction on TV and children's school assemblies were chimpanzees who were dressed in little tuxedoes
who performed tricks for audiences of screaming children.
The Flintstones
was a product of its time; at least it was a cartoon that was allowed to be a caricature. A lot of live-action shows portrayed similar political incorrectness, too.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
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realitycomments — 10 years ago(June 06, 2015 08:48 AM)
lol. Interesting though how it struck a few chords.
If one were to dissect it intellectually, it can be looked at as a commentary of the times it was created in. Well, I don't know really how intellectual that is.
Yet, the cartoon definitely earned it's place, if there should ever be a pop time capsule depicting the norm of the current generation.
We have been learning since the days of silent films the power of filmed media. HA! Just look at the first response you got to this thread. What is it that keeps that poor bastard so perpetually angry that the mere mention of that liberal socialist dirty phrase "Politically Incorrect" sets him off into a political spout.
Your fault. The phrase "politically incorrect" contains the word "politically" which at the root is "politics". That is an opening for the media programmed perpetually politically peed-off to jump in. Even though perhaps that person was just innocently checking out the IMDB Flintstones thread because he loves the cartoon.
OR his radar for detecting a 60's show (which would be one in thousands) that he knew he could find an opening for his political peed-off personality would get an outlet. He was perhaps too tired to go to the imdb board for the rock opera "Tommy" or the movie "Easy Rider" and be far too outnumbered by those liberals.
What do you think, besides The Flintstones, does this person watch on his TV?
Wonder if Fred and Barney shared the same political beliefs. I always seen Barney as liberal, as well as Wilma and Betty. Fred, well, he'd go with who ever benefitted him the most. He'd like to be a conservative, but Wilma won't have it. So I'd say Fred is a closet conservative.
Media. It's this Brave New World's soma.
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Oddark123 — 10 years ago(July 23, 2015 12:48 PM)
The term "intellectual" there implies more elitist thinking. You should be using the term "critically". As in by looking at it, forming an opinion, and making a critical argument to back it up. Such things are not the mark of being intellectual or not. You shouldn't need to be that smart to make one, but the smarter one is the stronger an argument may very well be.
This is a vaster problem than anything politically really. Just the fault of years of faulty education systems and people too busy trying to the poison the well of certain things whether they know it or not.
Anything can be looked at formally or contextually. That's how that school of thought works. While some may have better uses, that somehow doesn't diminish the possibility you could try. And it shouldn't. That was kind of the point of ever having book reports in school, where you could pick whatever you want regardless of what the curriculum writers thought and give it a whirl. Why that's no longer important to a lot of education systems is beyond me.
Communities left for being out of touch: Gamefaqs, Home Theater Forum
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tyrexden — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 04:59 PM)
Whats misogynistic about Fred and Wilma's relationship? Do you think her character would've been better served working as a broker on Wall Street rather than making sandwiches for Fred? Or perhaps, they could've written her in as a fireman.
And not being cruel to animals is not because of political correctedness.