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SheTheLost [2019-01-21 16:43:49 +0000 UTC]
Wait are you saying that Animaniacs is PC? Since you drew this at work and all. Because if you are there are a lot of people that would disagree with you.
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Timon-Berkowitz In reply to SheTheLost [2019-01-21 21:08:07 +0000 UTC]
Oh i mean to say PG not PC (as in politically correct)
And for the most part i think that the creators of Animaniacs didnt really dip too heavily in politics. But I have noticed they made a few jokes about Republicans over the series.
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SheTheLost In reply to Timon-Berkowitz [2019-02-17 15:07:57 +0000 UTC]
No I got that you meant PG but you said you wanted to draw more cute and meaningful stuff and Animaniacs has a lot of jokes that conservative groups would call offensive. And PC doesn't just refer to politics it means to not offend a person for religion, gender, race or sexuality.
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Timon-Berkowitz In reply to SheTheLost [2019-02-17 16:05:05 +0000 UTC]
PC to me means not to be bigoted to other about their minority identity. To me its design to help bring silenced voices into the conversation who are being forced out by the majority, especially when it comes to race and sexuality. Being queer myself and having grown up in the deep south under a zealous christian church I have only know all my life being an outsider that no one will tolerate. And ive actually had violent attacks on me before and been chased off jobs because I was gay. Not to mention threatened to be disowned by my family. And wake up everyday to see the local news constantly printing community letters from people who say that god will destroy america for tolerating homosexuals, or that homosexuals are out to destroy everything good about this nation in service to satan. If people had treated me with a modicum of decency like what PC asks of people, my life may have been a lot happier. And the only thing that prevented me from wanting to kill myself was in fact very PC oriented tv shows or afterschool specials on Nickelodeon that taught acceptance and inclusion, and most of all told me that being different was great, bullying was wrong, and that I was special. I didnt get that from my family or from my school, and definitely not my community and my church. That stuff armed me with the chance to accept myself and believe that somehow not everyone in the world was against who I was. And with that, though i never made any friends or made peace with my parents, I was able to survive with my self esteem and my hope for a better life in tact. There is a reason I am so obsessed with cartoon characters.
I would go so far as to say I owe my survival to socially conscious kids media from the 90's that tried to foster that all inclusive culture.
So if youre going to rant about how much you dont like political correctness, Im going to tell you that youre wrong.
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SheTheLost In reply to Timon-Berkowitz [2019-02-18 02:38:01 +0000 UTC]
I never said I didn't like Political correctness and I'm very sorry about your experience with homophobes. maybe PC wasn't the right term to use. What I'm trying to say is that the cartoon had a lot of adult jokes and a bit of cartoon violence that made some people want it to pulled from the air. That's where Yakko's catchphrase "Goodnight Everybody" came from. The joke was that Yakko expected the show to get cancelled because of it's risque behaviour.
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Timon-Berkowitz In reply to SheTheLost [2019-02-19 14:55:37 +0000 UTC]
oh ok i get that now. Yeah it did have some adult humor. it mixed it in with a lot of very cliche physical comedy gags like mallets and anvils though which kind of softened the impact.
As for violence, i really did not see too much of that in the cartoon. At least not like in the Secret of Nimh were the rats bled blood. Or in the Mickey Mouse short "Runaway Brain" where the monkey guy's skin gets pulled off and he dissolves into a pile of bones.
I think though content like that would have been really intense in Animaniacs. But if done well it might have been good. Seeing some of the Animaniacs fans out there who are often really angsty and depressed and even do a lot of violent fanart,
violence in Animaniacs might have helped make the cartoon darker but also touch fans more who have had difficult experiences in life.
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Star-The-Werewolf [2018-02-01 22:11:41 +0000 UTC]
This reminds me of a tweet made by Alex Hirshe XD
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Timon-Berkowitz In reply to Star-The-Werewolf [2018-02-02 17:05:24 +0000 UTC]
Here's a theory.
Imagine you met a lady who loved cartoons like you but was rather strange. If you were to hang out with her you find her computer is way old and she rarely gets on it only to maybe stay in touch a few times, doesnt have a twitter or facebook or watch blogs all the time.
However she has this crazy place, its full of vhs tapes of many obscure old cartoon or movies, also a bunch of books on fantasy and sci-fi stories, a beautiful collection of comic books. Even a stack of obscure vintage FURRY comic books! She also has this totally retro Walkman cassette player that she rocks when going out for a walk in order to listen to music. She spends most her time working on drawings while watching the old vhs and dvds or listening to tapes on a classic boombox. She may not be as interconnected as streaming stuff on the web is, but she has total control over her entertainment and a stack of tapes and books cannot be removed by having an account deleted or having a change in streaming service.
And youre left to wonder what it would be like to live as that person? :0
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Star-The-Werewolf In reply to Timon-Berkowitz [2018-02-02 17:32:50 +0000 UTC]
I DID live as that person because we didn't begin to get social media until the recent few years.
I watched everything on vhs and that's it! Plus, the only social media account I have in Deviantart.
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