“Son, I hate to say this — because, if you've been reading a lot of English, I see how you reached that opinion — but you are one hundred percent wrong.”
English lets you get away with saying things you don't exactly mean. A lot of the efforts from groups that might be disparaged as 'woke' over preferred terminology exist because it allows for so much ambiguity.
To use a common example: there's a difference between "Group X struggle to get bank loans" and "Banks have consistently not loaned to Group X" in terms of where the fault lies, but because English allows us to use the former to mean the latter, it seems like an imposition to be reminded.
Other languages - e.g. German - don't allow for this: your intended emphasis changes the word order, so you have to think about what you really mean.
Just seen it, had earlier dismissed as a kids film, but really enjoyed it.
There's a straightforward trans allegory, but it could also be applied to other situations where societies "make their own monsters". After all, the proverb "A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" is as old as humanity itself.
Episodes 1&2 got 3*, but he's given episode 3 only 2*, so he thinks the exact opposite of me. I didn't like 1 (I would've preferred if the doctor and the nurse had found a non-violent solution), was bored by 2 (not a real Trekkie, obviously), and 3 was my favourite.
Been hearing about this from Alien Theory on YouTube. It's a good channel, I really liked his video for the idea of Newt being cloned instead of Ripley for Alien 3
No idea. There's less stories of these sort of shenanigans nowadays, simply because the studios found it increasingly harder to predict what the censors would allow at any given moment.
Ah, I wondered if that's what it was - I found a Star Wars community through a web search and it said there were 2.5k subscribers, but it only shows 1 subscriber (me) when I view from an app.
In Skyfall, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, scenes depicting James Bond defeating men of Chinese origin have been cut - any suggestion that the Chinese people are weak or easily defeated, even by a world class assassin, mean that the government won't approve it.
That book seems stacked for quotes.
“Son, I hate to say this — because, if you've been reading a lot of English, I see how you reached that opinion — but you are one hundred percent wrong.”