#pearl clutchers

[theexodvs]

Every member of Congress who bemoans the lack of consequences for Trump's criminal activities but regularly participates in insider trading is a finger-wagging pearl-clutcher.

As is every member of Congress who accuses Trump of treason but approves the US's continued involvement in NATO.

[sarcastic-salem]

I’m gonna post this, so that yall can see the birth of the puriteen movement. So in 2010 Nintendo released the Pokemon Black/White games for the 3DS/2DS consoles. The game was rated E, meaning to was meant to be enjoyed by audiences of ALL ages, but seems to have been aimed mostly at the older nostalgic fanbase who grew up with the franchise starting in the 1990s. And this caused major, major backlash in the stupidest ways.

A conservative hate group called One Million Moms that was founded, I believe, by the wife of Chick-Fil-A’s CEO went on a pearl clutching rampage arguing that the female main player character, Hilda (Touko in the Japanese version) was dressed inappropriately for a children’s video game. Why, because short-shorts that’s why.

I wish I was making this shit up, believe me.

The other thing that sparked ire was a scene that some felt to believe romantic that took place in a ferris wheel with the game’s antihero character N. Because there was no way for the male player character to opt out and avoid the scene, parents argued that the game encouraged homosexuality.

This backlash prompted Nintendo to remove Hilda from the Pokemon Black/White anime series and replace her with Iris, and led to the creation of the Pokemon Shuffle video game after further complaints that the mainstream Pokemon franchise was too difficult for younger players���

The purpose of Pokemon Shuffle was to help younger and newer players memorize type weaknesses and advantages that would aid them in Pokemon battles that took place in other games. And to add salt to the wound, Nintendo decided to dumb down the storylines in the newer Pokemon video games.

I beat Pokemon X/Y in less than six hours.

Prior to that, I’d be trying to beat Pokemon Emerald/Pearl — I think that was it anyway, it was a long time ago — and gave up after TWO MONTHS because I got stuck in some maze on Mt. Whatever on my way to the Ice Type gym. And I’ve been playing these games since the fucking Gameboy Advanced came out!!!!

Oh, and the really fun part is that the sanitization of Pokemon games effected not only other Nintendo franchises — anyone remember when the scary gyroids were taken out of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and replaced with new ones fit for a pre-K class?

How the hell these people ever made it through Luigi’s Mansion is beyond me🙄 You can find the full list of gyroids, old and new, here—

But getting back to the point, the sanitization of Pokemon also had a direct impact on ALL OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA.

All of the preachy YA books?

Book bans?

The Gods awful new Ninja Turtle cartoon?

They all go back to this moment.

Well, no it goes back even further—

This is history repeating itself.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I hate the misinformation scare the mainstream media gets in a tizzy about. They always talk about it in this whinging, pearl clutching manner. Misinformation has always existed and the government’s attempts to stop it will be used for censorship and authoritarianism. In fact, they’ve been doing this for years already in America and other countries as well. It’s all so disingenuous.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

Wait are they really South Park fans? If so that is extremely ironic.

I hate to sound chronically online but genuinely why do antis only go after eastern creators on the very rare occasion they go after a larger artist?? Like it's such a strange phenomenon where they'll say that Hetalia is racist or MHA promotes pedophilia or that Beastars is for zoophiles or how SpyXFamily is lolicon bait

But those SAME FUCKING PEOPLE are SouthPark fans, or Star Wars fans, or into FNaF, or they're slasher fans. Like genuinely.

Why is edgy content ONLY okay when a western artist does it?? Like I'm not trying to be rude or call people racist but I genuinely just do not understand.

[themuskrater]

Seen some people criticizing Ncuti Gatwa for swearing behind scenes on Doctor Who...so here's a clip I found on tiktok of Tom Baker for the pearl clutchers

[april]

man i hate apple i feel like 99.9% of the misunderstanding around community labels could be solved by just having the default setting for mature-labelled content be "blur" instead of "hide" but the fucking app store policy on mature UGC is literally:

If your app includes user-generated content from a web-based service, it may display incidental mature “NSFW” content, provided that the content is hidden by default and only displayed when the user turns it on via your website.

and i'm certain they know, they know that the majority of people don't change settings for things. but they're apple and it's their app store, and the number of people using iOS is too high to ignore, and the only browser (currently) available on iOS is quite frankly the worst one still in common usage, so your options are:

shoot yourself in the foot financially by not having an iOS app (after having already shot yourself in the other foot by starting a social network in the first place)

comply with apple's decree and make your entire platform behave the way they want it to

sucks man.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

actually one more thing kristen was so clutch this ep with that mass cure wound while not a single one of the rat grinders has gotten a heal from their own team that's so dire . like you know essays can be written abt that right

[griem]

and u know what? while im still on the topic... 🤷🏾‍♀️

putting the issues (valid or otherwise) people may have with rose's opinions aside, there's also the extravagant reaction to the words they used in regarding GBLady herself. like people are now making negative assumptions about rose's character based on the old and non-contextual screenshots taken from their private discord server with friends...?

to ME, honestly... it just sounds like an employee (not even an employee yet, because the messages clearly reveal that they hadn't even been hired yet) talking 'shit' (n i use that very loosely) about their boss, which is... lmao... not uncommon?? not shocking?? IJBOL!! also, during their private time? as in, not when their 'on the clock,' so to speak?

mind u GBLady herself accepted the apology that rose provided, both publicly and privately (i assume) ... so why is there outrage there? she, herself has also stated that she doesn't wanna tone police an employee venting about their boss!! why are people taking offense for GBLady when it couldn't be any clearer that she doesn't give a shit lol??

if you don't want to be talked to a certain way in your personal relationships thats your prerogative and your right. U, however, are up in arms over a private message an employee used (BEFORE they were hired) about their potential boss.

calling it 'bullying behavior' is such an incredible reach—and going so far as to say that GBLady doesn't 'care about her fans (??)' bc she isn't losing her shit over it is even FARTHER of a reach.

it reads like a bunch of people who think that their puritanical echo-chamber of a fandom where nobody is allowed to disagree with anybody are astonished and angry that the creator of the game that the fandom surrounds doesn't operate in the same hypersensitive and fanatical way that they do.

yall don't know that lady lol... she's not your friend idk where people get off acting like they know her to be getting offended on her behalf.

[can-i-get-a-yippee]

I guess my whole beef with the whole buckt*mmy convo is that they could’ve easily built up their relationship in that moment and made it a scene where Buck leaned on T*mmy emotionally and grown more emotionally intimate.

Bc Bobby is one of the most important people in Buck’s life, and he mentions that Bobby is like a father to him.

And like instead of adding emotionally depth to their relationship with the convo, it just became joking convo about daddy issues that ended in asex joke one liner that just really didn’t fit the tone of the episode overall :/

[stellaluna33]

Since you are so good at analyzing characters, what do you think was the point of Dean telling Rory he's engaged? What reaction did he expect? Was he trying to make her jealous? I saw people theorize that he wanted her to talk him out of it but when she tried that he got offended, so what did he want?

Well, first of all, thanks! 🥺 And that's an interesting question. I think the most charitable explanation would be that he thought it would be better if she heard it from him, rather than hearing it from someone else (and news gets around fast in Stars Hollow). I'm not a big fan of Dean, but he DOES try to be a considerate person in general... he just doesn't react well when other people don't respond the way he expects them to... This incident being a case in point. He gets very upset generally when Rory's emotions don't align perfectly with his, so in this case, since he was expressing happiness (I am refraining from saying that he WAS happy, haha. Maybe he was... At the very least, he had convinced himself he was happy and was acting accordingly), he expected Rory to just echo that back. A politely excited, "Wow! That's great!" was probably what he told himself he wanted. Rory, however, was not living in his little fantasy world, where proposing to your girlfriend of 4 months right after fighting with your ex-girlfriend's boyfriend when none of you have yet graduated from highschool seems like a reasonable idea, so she gave him a reality check instead. He did not want a reality check, he wanted blind agreement.

And I really hate to do this, but once again I'm reminded of the things Dean and Rory DO have in common, because this is exactly the way Rory responded to Lorelai after Lorelai questioned her decision to sleep with Dean. In both cases, the questioner was in the right, but the person being questioned didn't want to hear it.

Now, could Dean have also had other motives? Possibly! I've never believed that people can only ever have one reason for doing the things they do! It's usually more complicated than that. So, it's POSSIBLE that he was subconsciously hoping that Rory would be upset that he was marrying someone else. But even in that case, acting hurt and offended would serve his purpose, because it implies that Rory is UNREASONABLE for not being happy for him. So, if she ISN'T happy for him, there must be some OTHER reason, right? Maybe that would push her to think about what other reasons there might be. And even if not, there's a kind of spiteful, poisonous pleasure in feeling wronged and outraged sometimes, isn't there? I think we in the social media age have to admit that that's something a lot of people seem to find addictive. And Rory, after their breakup, had been constantly groveling, trying to "make up" for hurting him, and I think he liked that too. So compliant and eager to please and appease, but now she's CRITICIZING him?! How dare she! She's forgetting her Place, which is that she owes him her meekness and niceness FOREVER now, because this entire situation is Her Fault, and he needs to REMIND her of that. But now I'm venturing into UN-charitable territory. 😂

ANYWAY, these are some Thoughts I've had about the situation.

[atimefordragons]

if it is true that Joost punched someone from the zionist's delegation, I will use all my votes for Netherlands.

[theexodvs]

If you put greater stock into “ending” the draft, even though no one too young to collect social security has ever been drafted, than you do to ending widespread pornography use in young men…congratulations, you’re a pearl-clutcher.

[sarcastic-salem]

I was just looking up this YuGiOh character, Merick Ishtar. I was low-key obsessed with YuGiOh in middle school. I still watched the anime in high school, but stopped playing the card game cause I got separated from all my nerd friends who had interest in it. My other friends were obsessed with InuYasha and CLAMP manga (they created Cardcaptor Sakura).

But like there’s method of tattooing that I think is done in parts of Africa and maybe Australia. I don’t know for sure. And like in the anime Merick had this weird rage boner for the pharaoh, Yami Yugi, and that’s the like the only thing I really remembered about his character. Aside from the fact that he was supposed to be Arab and the Winged Dragon Of Ra and blah blah blah. The tattoo method is a form of scarification where, basically, a hammer and needles are used to created intricate scars on a person’s body.

And I guess Merick was forced to undergo a form of this scarification that traumatized him so badly he created a second personality to process the pain and the rage he felt toward the pharaoh. Cause his family made him get these tattoos so that he could stand guardian over the pharaoh’s tomb.

And I am just astounded at the fact that something like this took place in a G-rated childrens’ show about a fucking card game.

Although in Japan, manga is usually marketed at teens and young adults. And I think the magazine that published the manga in America, Shounen Jump, was rated T+ (for older teens/young adults). But the anime was marketed towards children. I mean, this isn’t new to me — it just reminds me so of the whole

“Well, comic books/cartoons are for children.”

Bullshit that pearl clutchers keep spouting every time we see a drop of bloodshed in a CBM. There is a lot of equally fucked up anime and manga out there. I think I just kinda forgot that because I was like 13 the last time I watched YuGiOh and I haven’t read manga in a very long time and fyi, manga tends to be about 10x more graphic than the anime. Like the DBZ manga looks like a gorer movie🤣

[ashleyfableblack]

Again- this is why I label everything I post "LGBTQ". I'm not here to argue with anyone in the comments. My time is worth more to me than your sense of entitlement. I don't care if it's "just your opinion" or the popular consensus of your friend group or fandom or religion or superhero team or whatever. If you knowingly and willfully support the violation of others or just don't like my work you're free to zog off ANY time and I'll keep on doing what I do. ☺💜✌

[skunkes]

i only watched a short chunk of it so far but terrifier 3 seems to be the most "fun" out of all of them, it just took 2 unfun movies to get there

[crownedinmarigolds]

I hope I can get my Poisoned Peach comic drawn up for everyone soon... the first "romance" scene is Sree the sanguine blood dyscrasia/moonlight professional dominatrix (also Khloe's usual coffee barista)  and Khloe after meeting outside of Sree's day job at the local popular though very small gay bar and I just really want that to be out there.