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I'm not a fan of Trump but it's at best problematic to compare him with Hitler. The only time it's valid to compare a politician or party with the Nazis is when they've actually committed mass murder, genocide and war crimes. Maybe we can compare the Interhamwe with the Nazis (because they committed the Rwanda Genocide) but definitely not Trump.
Maybe he's still in survival mode up to the very end when the sheriff tells them to never come back. Perhaps his frame of mind was that he still had to pull himself together and maybe hide his trauma.
Nowadays medical professionals are strictly prohibited from performing gender reassignment on minors (https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/05/viral-image/no-young-children-cannot-take-hormones-or-change-t/) Needless to say what John Money did was highly unethical and would be illegal nowadays.
Anyway, back to my point: gender dysphoria does exist as per consensus in current academic literature (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/#:~:text=Gender%20dysphoria%20is%20a%20term,harmful%20impact%20on%20daily%20life.)
To understand my point about blackface, I suggest you watch Bamboozled (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C45g3YP7JOk). Please note that you may find the scenes disturbing.
By the way, I hope you have a Happy New Year.
If I was, I wouldn't start foaming at the mouth and imply she and all her fans are potential rapists (see the link in one of my previous posts for details).
Drag queens and transgender people are not the same thing; there is a condition, gender dysphoria in which people honestly identify as trangender. Blackface on the other hand, is a genre of entertainment that dehumanises black people.
But nobody's saying cisgender people cannot identify with their gender. There was the same sort of moral panic 50-60 years ago saying that if we accept homosexuality, straight people will be brainwashed to become gay.
Hard to say. None of the main characters were admirable but Kurt was the worst secondary character, a real hanger on.
I find antiheroes much more intriguing than heroes. Of all the movies I've watched, Taxi Driver was one of the most thought-provoking.
But we don't hear her banging on about cisgender men all the time.
From a biological point of view, that's correct. However, gender dysphoria is a known phenomenon.
I don't think it's necessarily a problem to say that. But what I find it strange is this obsession she has with commeting on trans people all the time, such as conflating police policy to acknowledge transgender people with rape (https://junkee.com/jk-rowling-terf-transphobic-tweet-rape/317863). It's self-evident trans folk get picked on as badly as it is and for JK Rowling to imply that they are potential rapists doesn't help. Next thing we know, she might accuse transgender women of animal cruelty.
Interesting story. I guess with Grindr, etc. porn cinemas are probably different places nowadays.
I suspect that in Vietnam, he was in "fight or flight" mode. I haven't studied psychology before but I'm guessing that people with PTSD don't have breakdowns until they clearly have escaped danger and until then, the adrenaline and denial/dissociation keeps them going. But his entire unit looked like they were at breaking point at the end when they are all singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme song.
It's a good point that Jack's no better than Cammi. I think it says a lot about class relations in that there are people with low moral values found across all classes but the middle/upper classes try to put on a facade of respectability.
I think in the book, they both accuse each other of multiple past instances of infidelity while bonking.
Dark might be one way to describe the ending. While it's not mentioned by Joe, he starts panicking now that he realises for the first time in his life that he is all alone after losing Rico. Nonetheless Jon Voigt does a really good job conveying that expression non-verbally. Despite the upbeat opening credits of this film, in the book the catalyst for Joe to move to New York was being sexually assaulted and I think that his initial response is that he feels numb or in denial whereas leaving New York and losing Rico might have triggered his PTSD.
I don't know if the scene with Cammi and her husband is on YouTube but if it is, you'd probably need to log in as it would be age restricted!
Fair enough. I must have glossed over that line probably because it's so obscure (not to say pretentious now you've highlighted it). But I think the author had a point about what kind of people Cammi and her husband are. These are the sort of people who featured on Jerry Springer and make most people shudder.