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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
This was a great comment from the resdesigned posters article: "Sally Struthers should do Save the Blacks commercials: "For just $20 a month, you can sponsor a poor black, sending him a movie poster with him photoshopped into the starring role to buoy his self-esteem, plus mock college acceptance and Fortune 500 job hiring letters. A different package each month"
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Can you sponsor someone to replace Ron Jeremy on a porno poster? You know, to buoy his self-esteem and all that.
 
Non-Consensual Drugging and Romance: Star Wars Rebels Did Wrong by Hera Syndulla

Caroline Cao said:
Then, we get to the drugging scene that made some viewers queasy. During the interrogation, Imperial Governor Pryce inoculates Hera with a truth serum, disorienting her. And once Kanan rescues her, Hera spends time in a daze, making comedic quips as she is dragged around like a damsel. Ha ha? Romantic comedy by a non-consensually drugged woman! Funny, right?

Hera’s stupor is played for laughs, screwing up the levity and her agency. Rather than robbing Hera of her bodily volition, the production team should have maximized Kanan and Hera’s synchronized collaboration on the battlefield, which could have easily been done without sacrificing humor. Kanan and Hera’s interplay is always inherently rife with wit. C’mon, Hera wouldn’t have to be drugged to utter, “I hate your hair.”

While Hera does regain control of her faculties to participate in the escape with her piloting skills, it does not negate the fact that the show toyed with bodily violation as a comedic tool. Then, Hera professes her love for him. While the context assures the audience she has some agency in meaning it, unfortunately, showrunner Dave Filoni confirms that the serum was an attribute to her confession. Whether or not Hera loves Kanan, it’s gross that the writers thought it best to weed out a woman’s love declaration through drugging rather than let Hera do it on her own terms, which was arguably already did when she kissed him in “Kindred,” so it further insults Hera’s agency. TheWookiegunner review makes the same note: hire women.

And then, the pivotal heartbreak scene: Kanan Jarrus, after four seasons of surviving the Empire, dashes into the flames to sacrifice himself for his crew. When Hera runs toward him, he Force-sweeps her back, like a doll, which poorly frames Hera in a passive position. Despite having a cast of strong women, Rebels—and its predecessor, Clone Wars—has a way of gendering its violence in an uncritical, careless manner.
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The Valeyard said:
Non-Consensual Drugging and Romance: Star Wars Rebels Did Wrong by Hera Syndulla
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Oh for fuck's sake, aren't these the same people who go "NUH UHHH" whenever people being up phenomena like The Guybrush Effect when discussing the double standards surrounding female characters? "Comedic Drug-Related Behaviour" is a trope used all the time with male characters. Hell, male characters being under the influence of Wonder Woman's truth lasso have been played for laughs in pretty much every iteration, and you never say shit about "muh agency" then. That's not even getting into the nerve of claiming someone not wanting their loved one to die with them on their suicide mission is the same as relegating the woman into a "passive" role.

You can't insist female characters be given just as much weight in the story, and then cry when those female characters are treated like the male characters.
 
It's not like there's a precedent in the movies about the cruel interrogation techniques of the Empire, who are very much established as the bad guys, as well as comedic rescues. No, the writers don't prevent bad things happening to the female characters and therefore hate all women.
 
ChevroletBlackboard said:
From what I've heard the writers actually did their research when it comes to depicting what truth serum actually does to people- they lose all filters and basically become a walking stream of consciousness rant.
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That's sort of the point, to loosen their tongue. They're not really perfect, though. What you actually get is unpredictable and some people can still lie under it.
 
iafiv said:
Wonder Woman is Captain America the First Avenger but with a woman and in WW1 instead of WW2?
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The dumb thing about the whole WW being in the 1st World War rather tan the second is that Germany was portrayed as this big superpower with little difference to it’s Nazism future. While the Germans were a big power in WW1, they were not the powerhouse they were portrayed as.
But pre-modern Germans = Nazis in their minds I guess. As are everyone who disagrees with them.
 
Wait a second these people actually buy cartoon merchandise?Ok nothing wrong with maybe buying a Donald Duck mug once in a while but very rare like once every 7 years or so.But getting angry as a supposed adult that there isn't like a Lola Bunny coffe mug or whatever?Are these people adults or what?I mean its kind of embarrasing to get angry about this of all things.Just what kind of parents did these people have?
 
iafiv said:
But getting angry as a supposed adult that there isn't like a Lola Bunny coffe mug or whatever?Are
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Do they really have to have their fap material on a coffee mug? I'm sure there's porn online.
 
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