Reply to: Remember enjoying Friends?

[original PM]

And yet people watch Mrs Brown's Boys...?

Every single one of us has a level of prejudice inside us, even if we don't do the big ticket prejudices any more, like skin colour, gender or sexuality.

For too long, people were told what to be offended about, and now we have a generation of people offended about absolutely everything.

A local Girl's school has banned referring to females as girls or ladies, because it "reminds them of their gender". It is almost as if we are telling women to actually be ashamed of being women. It is their identity, and over 99.9% of females identify themselves as female.
Do not refer to female pupils as 'girls' or 'ladies' because it 'reminds them of their gender', headteachers told

Did I feel a little uneasy when SWMBO saw a male midwife during pregnancy? Yes. Does that really make me a bad person? In the immediate aftermath of the attack at Manchester Arena, did I view 'brown people' carrying rucksacks with a bit more suspicion? Yes.

People will always have some kind of prejudice. It is human nature.

But erm if they are not 'girls' should they be going to an all 'girls' school.

I mean lets say I am a 14 year old bloke - can I pretend to become transgender and go to an all girls boarding school?

But yes thing is it is trendy to jump on a bandwagon and 'identify' with a certain type of person and then use that as justification for condemning all those who disagree.

[chopper]

And yet people watch Mrs Brown's Boys...?

Every single one of us has a level of prejudice inside us, even if we don't do the big ticket prejudices any more, like skin colour, gender or sexuality.

For too long, people were told what to be offended about, and now we have a generation of people offended about absolutely everything.

A local Girl's school has banned referring to females as girls or ladies, because it "reminds them of their gender". It is almost as if we are telling women to actually be ashamed of being women. It is their identity, and over 99.9% of females identify themselves as female.
Do not refer to female pupils as 'girls' or 'ladies' because it 'reminds them of their gender', headteachers told

Did I feel a little uneasy when SWMBO saw a male midwife during pregnancy? Yes. Does that really make me a bad person? In the immediate aftermath of the attack at Manchester Arena, did I view 'brown people' carrying rucksacks with a bit more suspicion? Yes.

People will always have some kind of prejudice. It is human nature.

[BrilloPad]

I thought this thread was about something else, but you're talking about the TV show.

If you want a friend get a dog?

[WTFH]

I thought this thread was about something else, but you're talking about the TV show.

[d000hg]

Not even sure how it related to anything I said.

[NotAllThere]

Could d000hg handle himself in a row? If someone stood on your toes in the chippie, shouted in your face and took a handful of your chips while your girl watches- what would you do? Call the neighbourhood watch?

Why are you quoting yourself? What you have to say is fairly dull once. Must Tony wear his briefs back to front?

[Tonymustwearbriefs]

The ongoing liberal left destruction of male identity disgusts me.

Soon we will need underground parties where we can talk about big boobs and loose sexual morals.

This is fine until the tulip hits the fan and we need our men to do bad stuff. That's when we will see the cost of this identity theft.

Could d000hg handle himself in a row? If someone stood on your toes in the chippie, shouted in your face and took a handful of your chips while your girl watches- what would you do? Call the neighbourhood watch?

[Tonymustwearbriefs]

The ongoing liberal left destruction of male identity disgusts me.

Soon we will need underground parties where we can talk about big boobs and loose sexual morals.

This is fine until the tulip hits the fan and we need our men to do bad stuff. That's when we will see the cost of this identity theft.

[NotAllThere]

Then you are a racist homophobe according to snowflakes.

Millennials watching Friends on Netflix shocked at how problematic it is ​ | The Independent

My daughter watched them all last year. Some of them she found very funny, especially during seasons 3-7, some rather outdated and tiresome, But she didn't notice anything particularly racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic.

Looking that article, the people who are claiming this are people who are rewatching after watching it in their 20s. So not millenial snowflakes, just idiots.

"Chandler was paranoid about being perceived as a gay man or made mean-spirited jokes about his cross-dressing dad"
"Sexism seeps in when Rachel hires a nanny for her daughter Emma, but Emma’s father Ross can’t handle the fact that the nanny is a man. Ross takes it one step further to being homophobic by asking if he’s gay."

Right... and nowadays no one would be worried about being thought they might be gay. And no one makes jokes about cross dressers (who aren't necessarily transexuals anyway, but let's ignore that cross-dress-phobic point). And nobody's concerned about male child carers. And sitcom characters have to be all entirely non-sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic (I always disliked the Ross character anyway).

"New audiences claimed that Rachel would have been fired for sexual harassment because she hires an assistant who isn’t qualified for the position because she wants to date him.". It's a sitcom. It's not supposed to be real. Even though it does become soap-like.

"There’s also the controversial relationship between Monica and her father’s best friend who’s 20 years older than her, but it was perceived as even more uncomfortable in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and #MeToo stories." Well.. That just shows that ageism is alive and well in 2018.

In Big Bang Theory there's casual racism from all characters against Koothrapali, and Sheldon's mum is an out and out religious bigot. How I Met Your Mother had a hugely sexist character in the shape of Barney (and not many dark skinned people in that, even though it's set in New York).

What a load of codswallop. Click bait from the Indie, probably sponsored by Netflix.

I'm off to watch Blazing Saddles to cleanse my mind.

[BR14]

Remember enjoying Friends?

nope, yankee crap, i thought

[original PM]

Why do I get the feeling your old man called you a puff because you weren’t smoking 20 day and shagging birds at age 12, and you’ve harboured this resentment all your life?

Dunno why you get that feeling cos I was.

[scooterscot]

or indeed

[meridian]

Then you are a racist homophobe according to snowflakes.

Millennials watching Friends on Netflix shocked at how problematic it is ​ | The Independent

Why do I get the feeling your old man called you a puff because you weren’t smoking 20 day and shagging birds at age 12, and you’ve harboured this resentment all your life?

[greenlake]

Or, god forbid, The Black and White Minstrel Show...

I can't even begin to imagine what they'd think of the old Carry On films....

[unixman]

"The sensitivities of our age trump the sensitivities of all other ages and cultures. We must shriek and point, accuse, and judge. Then faint and call for smelling salts"

Just another form of self obsession.