AmrikeeAkbar
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AmrikeeAkbar
9d ago
Assuming they're actually Yemeni, its probably less virtue signaling than sincerely held belief. I feel like this is the right wing version of not patronizing chick fil a because of their stance on gay rights, or refusing to go to the best burger place in town because the owner has a MAGA sticker in the window.
AmrikeeAkbar
16d ago
It's true that the reaction of the average npr listener to the average infantry squaddies banter is hilarious. But plattner is just hilariously over the top about it too. He's like a pmc lefties idea of what a dirty infantryman is like, the same way that Michael moore acts almost as his own parody of an ugly American
AmrikeeAkbar
16d ago
Not necessarily. I mean presumably no one in the Sacred Band was considered an effiminate wuss
AmrikeeAkbar
16d ago
There's still societies that look at things that way today. As a GWOT veteran, Platner presumably has been to those places
AmrikeeAkbar
16d ago
I feel like your depiction of historical prostitution is a little exaggerated. Obviously there's a whole category of high ranking courtesans who could do pretty well even without being actual wives of their clients. But even regular prostitutes were sometimes able to retire into respectability.
AmrikeeAkbar
28d ago
Im not sure what we should call the phenomenon you're describing but its basically the male equivalent of the Madonna-whore complex. Definitely a thing.
AmrikeeAkbar
28d ago
Speaking as someone who used to watch Stargate with his parents and siblings every week as a teenager, I think it's probably there now. You just need clever enough writers who can work some references in without it feeling too forced. It is about a secret government program after all, albeit a benevolent one.
AmrikeeAkbar
29d ago
Honestly Stargate still has a lot of fans. It's just not a critical darling and there's not a whole company built around endlessly reiterated spinoffs like some other franchises I could name.
But yeah, old enough to remember dial-up has become a generational marker
AmrikeeAkbar
29d ago
Vampire was huge. I was too young for it but the fact I knew about is probably a good indicator of how popular it was. Vampire media in general were really popular up until I think the mid 2000s, about the time Underworld and the Twilight movies started coming out.
Funnily enough, I have seen multiple pen-and-paper RPGs which say something like "you can set your campaign in the modern world, but probably no later than the nineties or so" precisely because the premise becomes unworkable once everyone has smartphone.
AmrikeeAkbar
29d ago
Your second paragraph raises a good point. Appearing right at the threshold of digitization has allowed a lot of 90s culture to persist as though trapped in amber. I would place the end of a common culture more in the 2010s but yeah, there's no doubt that media is much more fragmented and balkanized now than it used to be. Presumably that's why we keep rebooting stuff from the era; they're the only things with big enough draw for these huge corporations to perceive as a worthwhile investment.
AmrikeeAkbar
29d ago
Babylon 5 is a core memory for me, X-Files and Buffy were both super popular, arguably some of the first SF media to hit mainstream recognition. I actually only watched Wallace and Gromit as an adult with my kids, and was shocked to realize how little of it there actually was, cuz you're right, it was everywhere for a while.
If I were a dissident rightie, I would totally create a White Fu Manchu. It would be hilarious and make white people look cool. "Picture all the enterprise and ingenuity which allowed the White Race to bring nine-tenths of the globe under their heel, incarnate in one man!" They can be opposed by a biracial lesbian secret agent. I just cant think what the white equivalent name would be. Given the roots of "Manchu", I guess it would be something like '"John Wasp", which admittedly is less evocative.
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