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I am for hitting activists with fish.
@johnpodhoretz The most common steps and curbs are the most frequent sources of various injuries. I have always lived in suburbia, generally with individual garages, generally attached to the house. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve known who have become injured on the steps between the garage and the house. I was so happy that our new house has no steps between the garage and the house.
@roblong and John, We used to live on the Newport Beach / Costa Mesa border, and our children’s public elementary school drew mostly from the Newport Beach (i.e., wealthier) side of the border. When seeing family groups it was often not clear to us whether the 60+ year old man was the grandfather, or the father with the much younger trophy wife.
The incident JPod describes from “World According to Garp” would not be castration.
Musicians used “little girl” pretty much regardless of the actual age of the person.
Did the guys go through a time portal? I remember reading about Hank Azaria apologizing for Apu – and saying he wouldn’t do it any more – at least a couple years ago.
Jonah doesn’t realize that it’s just fine – even encouraged – to slander white males and religious people?
From Vanity Fair, Feb 25, 2020 (and I found earlier references too, from at least the previous January): (emphasis added)
Read the hed and the date of the story I posted and then think a little harder. It’s a different story than the ones you posted. 🙄
Yes but they were also talking about it differently “in the show,” as if it was something new. It’s not. And indeed, the Vanity Fair story from over a year ago, refers to “almost two years” earlier yet.
Of course, being a “millionaire” in the early 1700s would be a lot different than now.
imdb had “message boards” up until a few years ago, after Amazon bought them out they got rid of the message boards because they didn’t want regular people posting criticisms of movies/shows that the studios were paying Amazon to promote.
Unless there’s a lot of that song that didn’t get played, JPod seems to be making up things in his head about Willie Nelson’s song being about the guy getting ready to murder the woman who cheated on him. “What goes around, comes around” doesn’t require or even imply that “And I’m the one who’s going to bring it around to you!”
I too was wondering why this was a news item since I thought he’d already stopped doing the voice. Goes to show that it’s never good enough with that group. Another pound of flesh is always demanded.
He’s apologized before, too. Maybe he just forgot to apologize to all the people still in India, not just those here? Or t his is his version of Obama’s “Apology Tour.”
I second John Podhoretz’s enthusiasm for “The World of Henry Orient.” It may be that people who didn’t grow up on the Upper West Side in the late 1960’s will not find it as magical.
The New Yorker ran a piece nine years ago catching up with Tippy Walker.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-star-is-born-lost-and-found
It would be interesting to read those imdb posts, but imdb took all that stuff down a few years ago. Consequently, the links to them in that article are “broken.” I’ve read that all the imdb messages boards have been archived somewhere, but I don’t remember how to access them.
Speaking of culturally insensitive cartoons. I was gobsmacked some years ago watching an episode of Fairly Odd Parents where in one episode:
“Early airings featuring Wanda and Cosmo in Spanish class had the teacher saying in Spanish (and written on the chalkboard) “Where is The Government Cheese?”. Afterwards, Cosmo presents a wedge of cheese with a USA label on it. For reasons unknown (probably due to the joke being unintentionally politically incorrect), later airings featured this scene with the phrase (spoken and written on the chalkboard) “Where is the smelly cheese?” with Cosmo presenting a wedge of cheese with no USA label this time. This version still airs on TV today.”
https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/Timvisible/References
The old imdb message boards for “Henry Orient” can be found here:
https://filmboards.com/board/10058756/
And the comments from Tippy – or some of them, anyway – can still be found there.
The archive can also be searched for the message boards for Tippy Walker’s acting page too.
None of the lyrics of those quoted 60s songs say or imply anything about having sex with the songs’ subjects.
They also don’t state that the subjects are under-age. As mentioned before, lots of song-writers – and poets and others – use “little girl” just because it works better in writing lyrics etc.
(And that’s leaving aside that age of consent varies from country to country, and even decade to decade.)
Based on socioeconomic data, Indian Americans have more white privilege than whites.
I thought we were supposed to apologize only to downtrodden, oppressed groups.
Seems to me that for a popular culture centered podcast you guys kind of missed the primary defense of Apu… that he’s one of the most admirable characters on a show filled with less than admirable characters. Apu is hard working, brave, a good friend and a decent if sometimes reluctant father especially in comparison to practically every other father on the show. In episodes where Apu is featured, he very often serves as the town’s moral conscience, especially when Homer and/or a mob are considering doing something particularly stupid. Not sure why you guys didn’t point this out.
I must say I enjoyed this one quite a bit.
There was a brief aside to that effect, but it was basically laughed over.
Because you could not be that direct in the 60’s and not have your song banned. It was all implied.
Captain Pedantic reporting for duty.
“She was just 17, you know what I mean.”
Jonah said this almost word for word. And no, it was was not “laughed over.”
To start with the Beatles were 20, 21, 23, and 23 when they appeared on Ed Sullivan. So it wasn’t the 40- or 50- or 60-year old McCartney singing about 17. Hardly scandalous. And McCartney’s girlfriend at the time he wrote the song was… surprise, surprise!… 17.
Also, the Beatles weren’t directing their songs at 30-40-50-year-old men either. Beatles FANS are old NOW, but that doesn’t change how the songs were written, or what they meant at the time.
Maybe you should get your head out of the gutter? (“I can’t, it’s attached to my body!” – MASH reference…)
On the other hand, conservatives try to avoid imposing current standards on the past, and in the 1960s the common age of consent both in at least half of the US and in the UK, was 16. (That’s in addition to the Beatles being only in their early 20s AT THAT TIME.)
Plus as I’ve written before, it’s more about the right meter, and rhyming, anyway. Seventeen is 3 syllables, and the other teens are all two syllables. Just for one example. Just accept that “She was just sevenTEEN” and “You know what I MEAN” happen to RHYME, and that’s what really matters for a SONG.
But go ahead, Mr Blue Yeti McCartney, sing us “She Was Just Twenty-One…”
You have beautifully illustrated my point about being pedantic. 👍
Once more: the point of this discussion was to illustrate how the rules of what’s acceptable has changed from the recent past to the present day. If you think any popular band (or one that wanted to be popular) nowadays would release a song carrying on about an underage girl, I have some news for you.