What are you watching? (TV & Movies)

Enemy at the gates. Awesome movie…

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I wanted to like this but I just didn’t. The whole thing was like try to be as weird as possible and then have people under react to it because that can be funny sometimes.

Hell yes!

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Extremely underrated show.

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Loved the whole show.

Season 1 will eventually do a minor “jump the shark” from the initial 4 episodes but then finds itself.
Season 2 jumps RIGHT INTO IT and is a solid arc from ep 1-10.
Very much looking forward to Season 3 when it gets made.

Also, I’m obsessed with the opening credits but then again I’m a sucker for global death sequences :rofl:

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(Slides over gun)
Russian Mario: “Let’s avoid the red tape”.

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REIGN

The treachery is outstanding

Sooo much cocain must have been used making this movie :rofl:

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@Heliosphear

COME ON POOKIE LET’S BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN!

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After all these years Jane Seymour is still hott…

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock live onstage at the Oscars for a totally inoffensive joke about Jada. This is the only uncensored version I could find. Worth a lulz.

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Here’s one…

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Wow something exciting about the Oscars in my lifetime!

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I’m with Will.

You make fun of my partner’s appearance as a result of a genetic loss of hair which is historically stigmatic for her race and gender… and you’ll be lucky that I just slap you.

It’s been a LONG TIME that Jada Smith has been dealing with alopecia and that she is open about it to empower those fellow African women (who have a rich cultural history revolving around their hair) due to their own hair loss.

This joke wasn’t a good one, nor appropriate if just intended as a poke. But in the context made it’s a global slap in the face from yet another person in privilege.

When GI Jane came out, there was stigma too but all in all Demi Moore’s hair would grow back and she was a paid actress to shave her head… so… I personally don’t see the joke being funny from the very start and I love tasteless humour.

:man_shrugging: :sob: :angry:

I believe Chris Rock is also African American. For some of the comedy he has done I very much hope he is. Ask Michael Scott what I mean :laughing:

Yes. But it’s layered.

He’s an African American male that is globally known and successful. His brand of in-your-face offensive-comedy IS something I love; but the time and place is a biggie here for me and many.

His experience would be as different to a White American Male vs a Black American Female.

I work with so many BIPOC groups that the “experience” point is a biggie that many don’t fully get as it takes A LOT of work to understand someone from their own experience versus your interpretation of their experience (which is ultimately influenced by your own personal experience.)

This was the WHOLE POINT of the “Point of View Gun” from Hitchhikers’s Guide

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As an example; as an International Male Technician I have to remember that the “Male” part is a key wall in some interactions. Sometimes I end up trying my BEST to help a woman at the counter and I feel a “wall”. I’ve done NOTHING differently, or wrong; but the info won’t penetrate because of something from THEIR experience that is preventing me from reaching them. So, reading the room I then mention I’m going to go “ask” my female collegue to add her input into the conversation IF she (person asking the Question) is okay with me getting her second opinion. They always say yes and I go.

When I get her from whatever she’s currently working on, I give the background of the question and then we go back and I then stand quietly while I hear the exact same conversation I just had happen all over again; but this time the woman asking the question is 100% able to interact.

Yes. This breaks my heart but NOT because I wasn’t being listened too; but because this woman has clearly had enough bad experiences with Males when asking questions at a counter that she’s traumatized and there’s NOTHING I’ve done nor can do but be as supportive as I can be.

I’m grateful to be in this situation considering watching all the women in my family struggle in their successes with this very thing.

I’m not gonna be a part of the problem anymore and I hope there’s more :banana: 's out there that both agree and stand with me.

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Unless all the women in the world start acting very differently with me to overcompensate for my mommy issues, I see no reason to start acting differently to overcompensate for their issues with men. If that’s too politically incorrect, feel free to shun me. Just because so much sexism is reversed and against men now, doesn’t make it any more appropriate than sexism against women. So no, sorry; I disagree with you and stand against you, if there’s actually the need for a fight to change society. I don’t think there is. People suck, whatever they have between their legs, and some people have issues with one gender or another sucking more in their particular experiences.

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I’m disheartened you feel this way but as part of my point I’m not going to be arguing with you as that’s part of the carry over I/we are trying to address.

I’m all in for people in general and would call out any injustice (as this was) regardless of gender, race or creed. Wrong is wrong and life is hard enough as is.

I’m generally the same. I try to treat people all the same, regardless of gender, race or creed. I don’t go around refusing to interact with women because my childhood gave me a warped view of women that I sometimes have trouble overcoming; I acknowledge that it’s my own issue, and I treat them as equals. My issue is with being told that I should overcompensate for other people’s issues with men. That’s injustice, imo. I’m not going to overcompensate for someone being a woman, or a BIPOC, or whatever cool abbreviation they come up with to describe their particular culture. They shouldn’t overcompensate for me being a white cisgender male by automatically considering me the enemy.