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    This is why I haaaate “today I learned” posts sourced from a cheesy interview. Some exaggerated or even sarcastic statement gets spun into absolute truth and it’s pervasive

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      A ton of times these high profile people will be giving a press conference or an impromptu interview to whoever and they take a ton of rapid fire questions. So many times someone will slip in a question like ‘do you think the end scene was symbolic of the protagonists suppressed desire to felate their grandma wearing a strapon?’ and they’re like ‘uh yeah sure I mean if you want to interpret it that way I guess’ then move on. Then the next day you see stories like ‘such and such actor said he wants to fuck his grandma’ and then it spirals from there. I just ignore pretty much everything I read these days tbh.

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      Pearl Jam said they got their name from psychedelic jelly one of their grandmothers used to make. That seemed to stick for years. Later they clarified that it was just a joke but the grandmother’s name was in fact Pearl.

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      My theory is that it only needs be true once on a TIL and then the rest of the internet will believe it to be true.

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    Is it just me, or do more and more women seem to have this obsession with lesbians in movies? More specifically lesbian romance.

    Maybe I’m seeing things with different glasses. So help me out here. Something has just changed over the years.

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      It’s probably just because people can be more openly gay now than they used to and they want representation in the media they consume. You couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.

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      I might get a lot of flack for this, but I do think there is a growing want to be somewhere in the rainbow spectrum because it is seen as “in” right now. If you belong somewhere on that group you are more interesting, more special. At least that’s the, subtle and sometimes not so subtle, sentiment I’m sentiment.

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        Honestly I do agree.

        I’m not dismissing the fact that there are legitimate homosexuals and whatnot. But it does kind of feel like being in that spectrum is seen as the “hit” right now. Like this special group. Especially in teens.

        Of course I could be terribly wrong but maybe…nowadays it feels like being straight or not in that group is seen as a bad thing. Like if you’re straight, you’re actually bi and just in the closet.

        Maybe as time goes on and being LGBT becomes seen as a normal part of society (which it will) it won’t be so frowned upon whether or not you’re straight, or in that spectrum. I just think we should be accepting of either orientation or gender instead of pushing a specific agenda.

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          on the other hand, I self ID’d as straight for 35 years until I felt safe not to do so. So it looked like I just appeared in the early 2020s

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        I have only been on the federverse for like two or three weeks. I meant in popular media and actually even in my real life interactions.

        I have heard things like I tried to be gay, or I wish I was a lesbian, etc. I do think that it’s influenced by media having this archetype of the cool/suave/fun/wise/good-crazy interesting side-character friend. Oftentimes these characters aren’t fully developed and their whole personality is that they are not straight, but they have this cool friend group thing going on and everyone likes them.

        Don’t get me wrong, there are fantastic examples of gay characters in media where they aren’t just the token diversity character, it too often we have quirky-dirky (but flat) interesting person whose only defining quality is that they’re not boring ol’ heterosexual

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          Pretty much

          Lesbian romances in games like Life is strange true colours and shows like The Owl House make me go awwww like no other media does, and lesbian porn is just gross. I cant stand watching it (I am lesbian for reference)

          Edit: sorry for necroposting

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      People love behind the scene movie facts. People also love subversive movie facts (see wizard of oz dark facts and rumors). People also love lesbians, so that’s where these rumors come from.

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    I once got into what I would advise my younger self against was an argument about an aspect of Lord of the Rings and I quoted Tolkien himself to prove my point and the guy I was arguing with said, “what does he know? He only wrote it.”

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      A lot of people swear by this whole “death of the author” philosophy because it let’s them ignore the literal stated intent of the author in favor of whatever pet theory they have. Which is fine, but you can’t use it in a debate about theories about the work. There isn’t a right answer to what you want to believe, but there often IS a right answer to what the actual author actually intended, especially modern authors in the age of information.

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        I don’t remember it very well. Something to do with whether or not LOTR was influenced by Christian mythology.

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    Maybe the actress who said that made it up as a offhand joke to mess with the NYT but the NYT took it seriously for some reason.

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      It’s a real shame that’s (yet another) community that has been created by someone with no intention of posting anything. That was one of my favourites and I’m tempted to create an active community… but I’m already the mod of 3 decent sized communities and 3 tiny ones. Lemmy really really needs content posters to thrive - even if they’re just stealing content from Reddit like I am!