re: #417 Blind Frog Belly White

I think part of our moral development as a culture and as individuals within that culture is looking back on the things we thought were funny, or justified, or just ‘how things are’ when we were growing up, or even as young adults, and realizing that was NOT GOOD.

The discomfort I now feel around having enjoyed John Hughes films, or RotN, or Animal House back in the day, like the discomfort I feel about just how fall-on-the-floor-laughing funny Bill Cosby was in the early to mid-60s comedy routines, at least tells me I’ve grown.

It’s when you refuse to feel bad about it, because “that was then, it was okay back then” is refusal to acknowledge the need to grow..

There’s lots of movies and TV shows that have what we now consider to be gross depictions of racial and/or gender relations (among other things) and that are, at the very least, really cringey to watch today; however, I think it is possible to find and enjoy stuff that’s still good in some of those movies and TV shows and still be critical of the parts that aren’t good/that are cringey.