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Rudolph The Red Nose The Reindeer is disturbing
- Thread starter Tom Penny
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I mean, Rudolph has basically always been a story of "We only like you if you're useful."
But in any case, the people in that video are acting like bigots and assholes because you're specifically meant to dislike them, so I don't see how it's problematic. They're examples of what *not* to be.
But in any case, the people in that video are acting like bigots and assholes because you're specifically meant to dislike them, so I don't see how it's problematic. They're examples of what *not* to be.
3 threads later: "The Nativity is problematic because it's ground zero for The Crusades and alter boy rape."
Rudolph out of all things?
Rudolph out of all things?
It was written for a department store, so the fact that it boils down to a capitalist maxim shouldn't be all that surprising. But generations of kids have grown up taking a much better lesson from it, so this is just another permutation of the "cereal is a kind of soup" internet navel-gazing.
Well yea, bullying is a thing and it was accurately represented as extremely shitty. What's the issue?
Rudolf deserved to be bullied
besides, it made him into a real man!
#StopCryingYouRedNosedLittleShit
besides, it made him into a real man!
#StopCryingYouRedNosedLittleShit
You know when you see things being framed as "people are starting to notice..." that's never true. People notice these things when they're released.
I don't think anybody in reality got the wrong message from Rudolph. I mean the special is one thing and has it's age obviously, but the concept of Rudolph rising above hate is a good lesson to kids. Thinking about how that falls into the capitalist society is thinking more about it than 100% of kids do.
This is just more of that crap you see on facebook where people see this and are like, "Are dem liberals mad about freaking Rudolph too?!"
This is just more of that crap you see on facebook where people see this and are like, "Are dem liberals mad about freaking Rudolph too?!"
...but the bullies don't win at the end. The whole point is it teaches kids not to be like cunt elves and reindeer.
It isn't so much glorifying the way that people are mistreated over minor differences but trying, in a perhaps mistaken way, to demonstrate that people will treat you like shit, even Santa of all people will, until you speak up for yourself and prove them wrong.
...you really have to ask?
Damn, was hoping this wouldn't get discussed until a few pages in...
Look at the publisher and the intended audience and I think you have your answer.
sameI thought the disturbing factor was going to be about the bumble
When I see threads like these, I immediately assume the OP is someone on the opposite side of the sociopolitical spectrum, and needs to manufacture fake outrage to destroy opposing ideologies from within. A mole, if you will.
I'm probably wrong, but maybe not.
I'm probably wrong, but maybe not.
You joke, but I've seen too many Nativity stories that cast the innkeeper as a miserly, heartless Jew to think that that story can't be problematic.
This Rudolph shit is ridiculous, though, even as a lark. The only offensive thing about the stop motion cartoon is how much time is wasted with that Yeti and snow explorer horseshit nobody cares about.
My family hasn't been able to watch this film in well over 20 years without tearing it apart. Santa in particular is a big piece of shit. Still an endearing classic.
Also, that elf totally killed that misfit toy bird at the end. It couldn't fly, and he just threw it off the sleigh.
Also, that elf totally killed that misfit toy bird at the end. It couldn't fly, and he just threw it off the sleigh.
It's one of the most cringey buzz words for social issues. It means nothing.
