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
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.
Robert Pattinson famously just makes random shit up in interviews.
This alone makes me want to look up his interviews. I only ever saw his batman and don’t care about him at all otherwise.
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.
Yea, but like, I still have my own opinion.
Will no one think of the clicks?!
I did research!
I read it on Facebook!
You wrote the movie? Well, I wrote the comment saying you’re wrong.
Checkmate!
Well I’m convinced!
Source?
Source: go fuck yourself
Media outlets trying to push a certain narrative?!? Like no way!1!!
Libel media narrative: people of the same sex can be romantic
Republican media narrative: racism is cool
can be romantic
It isn’t “CAN BE”.
… it is “THEY ARE whether they want to or not, and I even have fake proof to prove it, regardless of what the actual writer says.”
That’s… Very not true. Aside from the post here having verified their source (it’s just that the source is wrong) Decider is owned by the New York Post which is very much not liberal.
Companies like NYP care about money more than anything else. If all the money was being help by the LBG community, you better believe that they would be all over that.
That’s not the point you made that was refuted. You attempted to use the post as an example of liberal media pushing a narrative and you were wrong. I’m not here to argue anything else.
TBF, she did respond saying “Omg ok then u don’t need a source!! 😂”.
I’m really glad she didn’t somehow double down or get arsey about it!
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.
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.
you couldn’t demand lesbian media without outing yourself before.
Untrue. Millions of men clamored for it.
That makes sense actually.
It is being pushed more and more in the media… this is a perfect example. Simply making up shit all to hook a certain demographic.
Back in the 80s, we had tons of tacked-on romantic interests added to movies for no good reason. Some action movie where the world is nearly obliterated, everyone you know is dead and a whole space army is chasing you - sure find a hiding spot and bang the girl you saved 2 hours earlier. Totally makes a ton of sense. These days certain people in the media are trying to push another narrative but it is just as tacked-on and cringy.
It is especially ridiculous when the characters and the movie have nothing to do with romance.
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.
we should tell them about pornhub
Yeah. More acceptance of people as they are versus how bigots want them to be.
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.”
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.
Can I please have some more backstoy to this?
I don’t remember it very well. Something to do with whether or not LOTR was influenced by Christian mythology.
But what dose Tolkien actually know about what influenceed the LOTR, he was only the one being influenceed by it. /s
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!
Well thats like your opinion, man…
/s
Here are the tweets (or is it ‘X posts’ now 😅): https://twitter.com/KarenMcCullah1/status/1413245476409733120?t=cViSCagbawAHKgRtZAkTAg&s=19
I think they refer to them as “exes”. Lol.
