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I find it funny that this post thinks Austin Powers, a man shagging his way through clubs in 1969, doesn’t understand bisexuality.
Everyone knows bisexuality didn’t exist until 2017.
Bisexuality was invented by commercialism. It was originally about getting aroused while shopping. Like feeling the nether tingles while looking at a toaster - in other words, a sarousal (sale + arousal). It was branded Buy-sexual by the eggheads in charge. But what they didn’t expect was the growth of discount stores and coupons created nonstop sales, which cause a explosive sexual energy… The power of this energy went beyond just finding 20% discounts, and the sarousal transformed into just regular arousal, causing test subjects to release their sexual energy by humping everyone, male or female.
Somewhere down the line, because of good marketing, Buy-sexual became bisexual, and that’s how we got here today.
I legitimately thought this was going to be one of those Lemmy posts where you find a way to whine about capitalism.
Wtf did the potatoes do to you
Thank you père castor ! I love learning about history
Bisexuality was invented by big porn to sell more sex
Previously it was LGBT, for lesbian / gay / Bowie / trans. Not being bisexual, like David Bowie… just being attracted to David Bowie.
This was eventually dropped because that’s everyone.
that’s everyone.
Maybe so but Bowie was way better at it
Wasn’t there some scene about it in one of the movies? Or am I thinking of Zoolander…
Austin was fucking anything with a government ID and a pulse. Our concepts of sexuality mean nothing to him. He’s beyond us.
YEAH BABY!
Getting ‘Alucard from Hellsing Abridged’ vibes.
“Oh shit, is that Betty?”
As much as I’d like to see a good sequel to Austin Powers, I kinda feel like the posters are forgetting about The Love Guru in hoping for a progressive, non-tone deaf story. 😬
That movie is twenty years old, fam.
Based on the Pentaverate… No, he’s too old to pull it off.
Is it tone deaf to think that a character representing the classic womanizer would be accepting of trans people?
Austin Powers is spoofing the on screen spy characters of the 60s, which attempted to appeal to a very much cis heterosexual fantasy, which generally would not include trans people.
I saw Austin powers as a kid and i always thought he was gay, apparently no amount of him hitting on women made me question it, it just the way he appeared to me.
He is/was extremely camp. It’s now strongly associated with being gay, but wasn’t always. Austin Powers somehow managed to pull off macho-camp extremely well.
Could work in that while many things have continued to improve since the 90s, people also somehow seem more buttoned down and repressed than ever. Except that Mike Myers is a billion years old now and it’d be gross having him creep around younger people.
Must’ve been the other site where I faffed about this:
Austin Powers doesn’t understand sexual preferences… sober. He fondly recalls a shindig where he shagged dudes, and also drank a martini from a shoe because all the glasses were in the sink. That doesn’t mean he expects enlightened 90s types to keep footwear in the cupboard.
This retcon even fits his exasperation over Liberace - “but women loved him!” See chan-board bodybuilder culture, where dudes are free and women are an achievement. Especially for other women. He’s perfectly cool with dudes fucking dudes, but has put precisely zero thought into why either dude would prefer that.
Realistically this can never happen because as soon as there’s an announcement AP is going to have a trans scene, Its going to get dragged in every conservative group until the public opinion is that its gonna flop, regardless of content. Unfortunate cause it could be hilarious
Oh behave!
Isn’t he meant to be a British caricature too? “Lemme she them titties”?
Caricature? Don’t you mean inspiration and role model?
He is meant to be James Bond if Bond was a 69’er instead of an English Gentleman
