YeahTubaMike posted:

For the love of god, do not post ANY quotes related to these events in this, the "Funny Forum Quotes" thread.

CHILDREN'S PLANE MOVIE posted:

The female planes are apparently designed by someone who has no idea what a female plane would look like. The idea of introducing gendered identities to normally non-gendered objects so often treats the familiar as inherently masculine. Female planes are painted hot pink and granted the enlarged, fluttery eyelashes so often used to distinguish women from men in lazily drawn cartoons. "Look at that propellor," declares Dusty and he gets a look at one of the ladyplanes' rear end. In one scene, the film even eroticises the tilting of wingflaps for a disturbingly long time. You could argue that it is a joke. I would argue that it enforces the idea of objectifying women to all the five-year-old boys in the audience by applying it to literal objects who have gender but no sex. Gotta start them off early, after all.

In a film so concerned with class division, racial stereotypes and gender-inequality, it seems odd that the heavy-handed "moral" of the story would be that Dusty's success is an inspiration to all the little guys who were designed to be less but who can learn to try to become more somehow. It's like the persistent right-wing (ha) argument that minorities already have equality and that by insisting that they do not, these groups are merely seeking to gain an upper hand. The belief is that these people are naturally unequal and can only be considered equal in legal terms, because the truth as they see it is that anyone who is not society's favourite is only in a marginalised position because they can never aspire to truly be more than they are allowed to be.

Aphrodite posted:

It's just that CD is the only forum we have for people who majored in one of the unemployable arts.

Like if we had an anthropology forum, or an art history forum, or a I guess anything else with either the words 'art' or 'history' in it forum, then they wouldn't stand out so much.

Aphrodite posted:

It's just that CD is the only forum we have for people who majored in one of the unemployable arts.

Like if we had an anthropology forum, or an art history forum, or a I guess anything else with either the words 'art' or 'history' in it forum, then they wouldn't stand out so much.

lenoon posted:

The anthropologists among us are busy using the forums as source material for ethnographies

Improbable Lobster posted:

Nah, there are a bunch of threads for that stuff in Ask/Tell and they aren't nearly as pretentious.

PenguinKnight posted:

The Lego Movie is about a kid who explicitly goes against his father's wishes and touches his stuff, and then when he's found out and told no he keeps doing it against his father's wishes and eventually the father cedes and "enjoys" it and then everyone is happy because the kid forced the issue and now his father is open-minded and not a prude. Basically, it's a rape metaphor where we're supposed to cheer for the rapist.

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See this is why outside people make fun of us.

Hogge Wild posted:

some of you may think that this is a joke, but it's not. there has been a few studies made of us

YeahTubaMike posted:

For the love of god, do not post ANY quotes related to these events in this, the "Funny Forum Quotes" thread.

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

why do you think i wordlessly posted cosby for so long

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

why do you think i wordlessly posted cosby for so long

lenoon posted:

The paper you feature in is doing well according to google scholar analytics

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Please link this paper.

lenoon posted:

Sorry, should have done that immediately

Acne Rain posted:

There's some stunned responses but no one directly calls him an idiot for making disobedience of your parents into rape. idgi.

E: I'm totally going to touch your dad's legos

Guy Mann posted:

CD is so dumb, those clowns should be doing more constructive things like making thousands of posts about hating Mt Everest and the Xbox One.

Saint Freak posted:

Guy Mann posted:

CD is so dumb, those clowns should be doing more constructive things like making thousands of posts about hating Mt Everest and the Xbox One.

The MSJ posted:

Karl Marx being mentioned a lot in that thread is not really weird, to be fair. Director Neil Blomkamp's previous movie was Elysium, where the communist stuff was not even subtle.

Also CD taking every movie seriously is no different from the literature classes I took in universities where Britney Spears songs and Twilight novels are discussed together with Shakespeare and 18th-century novels.

Trig Discipline posted:

Acne Rain reached down and gently but forcefully spread his father's legos.

"I wish you wouldn't, son", his father said. "Please".






hahahaha ew

Mak0rz posted:

Doesn't Johnny Knoxville or Steve-O or someone have a permanent catheter or whatever because their urethra collapsed from so much dick trauma?

Dick Trauma posted:

This post...! it was made for me!

Alaois posted:

good thing there's absolutely nothing in between those two extremes or you'd look like a fuckin moron

Palpek posted:

Why come up with wacky examples of retarded posting when you could have just linked your own post history?

Maksimus54 posted:

I know I'm not some poster anyone knows, but I just had the biggest life changing 12 hours of my life and I have to share somewhere. My fiance just had a baby at home at 5:15 august 1st. We did not know she was pregnant. She delivered it herself. The house looks like a scene from the Walking Dead. I'm a dad and I have had no notice and holy poo poo guys we don't even have a name picked out jesus christ

spog posted:

Wait, is this a thinly disguised 'I just had sex (9 months ago)' post?

Maksimus54 posted:

No.

Cakefool posted:

Boy have I got some news for you then.

lfield posted:

Did you know that the Star Wars prequels are actually the story of oppressed slave battle droids rising up against their masters?

CD is a special place.

Improbable Lobster posted:

On the other hand it's ridiculous for a thread about a pop sci-fi movie on an internet comedy website to have 48 mentions of Marx or Marxism on a single page

Solice Kirsk posted:

Didn't know she was pregnant? That must be one big girl.

Tiggum posted:

Is it? Why?

DudeGoofyGuy posted:

There's a fascinating documented phenomenon of women and their partners not noticing a pregnancy not even because of weight but just because they are literally in denial. Some women also go into a state of shock and don't process that they've just had a baby, which is where stories of babies being left in toilets tend to come from. It's also very taboo (at least in the US) to insinuate somebody is pregnant if they don't first mention it (just in case they are fat, I guess?) so there is a bizarre storm of circumstances that could make this true (I don't think it is, though).

Somfin posted:

Holy hell, I agree with Tiggum on a thing.

Close overexamination of pop cultural products is loving fun, you twats. And it occasionally produces some very interesting scholarship. I had an ex who's masters thesis was on the horrifying nature of "ownership" in fandom culture, and she used Vocaloid as her primary reference point. That rabbit hole is bug-gently caress nuts.

FCKGW posted:

a bloo bloo bloo my brain so goddamn big I sure don't like seeing bros busting their balls on swing sets it's so sad I like Hamilton the musical

Alaois posted:

raise your standards for what is considered fun

Somfin posted:

Look at this poopstain who's never gotten drunk and argued about why Andrew Ryan is is a less effective villain than Comstock

Somfin posted:

Look at this poopstain who's never gotten drunk and argued about why Andrew Ryan is is a less effective villain than Comstock

Alaois posted:

raise your standards for what is considered fun

Tiggum posted:

Some people find things fun that you don't enjoy (but which do not negatively affect you in any way). For some reason this bothers you. Is that about the size of it?

Solice Kirsk posted:

Didn't know she was pregnant? That must be one big girl.