Tag: culture
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Jack Skellington and Cultural Misappropriation
“When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
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Diane Freeleng, Feminist Horror Movie Icon
“The diminutive psychic is the final element of the film’s feminist trilogy – the cool mom, smart doctor and tough-as-nails medium seem to make up the life cycle of childhood.”
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Millennials Will Become Their Parents, Too
“Your dancing Groot, useless box, mine craft torch lamp and USB Portal turret just arrived.”
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Why Clowns Are Scary
“There’s something elementally unnerving about the sort of unrestrained jouissance that clowns represent.”
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Chinese Seniors and Life After Deng Xiaoping
“In two decades you go from being excited about your first Panasonic radio to cynically comparing the benefits of an Audi vs. a BMW.”
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Good Groups, Bad Groups and Gender Representation in Entertainment
“Imagine never seeing yourself in media. Imagine only seeing you as a sidekick or a hot reward.”
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Why Michael Sam Matters
“With every interview, every press conference, every sack and forced fumble, people will see a person excelling at his craft, not a stereotype that a lot of people use to substantiate hatred.”
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Juggalos Explained
“I was friends with a couple of hardcore juggalos and the word i’d best used to describe them is ‘lost.'”
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Peforming Ethnicity
“It’s just one of those things that you, as a person of color, have to do to survive in a culture that tends to be a little hostile to your existence.”
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Why The Cat is The New Monopoly Game Piece
“Everything is by morons, for morons, and fuck you if you don’t like it, I got mine.”