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I don't for one minute believe the idea that some '80s style slasher movie directors have insisted that the "virgin survives" trope is unintentional (the same one mocked in Cabin in the Woods).
I think "muggle" is derogatory.
I think a lot of TV writers have a problem with women in authority.
I think the British version of the Office is funnier than the US one.
I think Dancing with Myself and I Touch Myself are songs about masturbating.
I think Blueblood is Luna's son.
I think the Great Pumpkin was intended to be an in joke about religious differences, even though Schulz said it wasn't.
I think Velma is probably straight because very few lesbians would let Fred order them around.

Oh man, so agree with you on tv writers and women in authority. Even when a woman is the boss, she always has to show deference to a man in some way or be shown to be weak in some way.

or act crazy and/or bitchy

Yup.

I don't for one minute believe the idea that some '80s style slasher movie directors have insisted that the "virgin survives" trope is unintentional (the same one mocked in Cabin in the Woods).

I think it was probably intentional for some, but not for all?

I think "muggle" is derogatory.

How?

it really comes off as "we are better than these people" to me. it's slightly more polite than "mudblood" but that's it.

All it says to me is that wizards and muggles are different. And they are different, I'm not sure how you can really get around that, no matter what term you use.

I might be more inclined to think that if I could remember any character calling themselves a muggle.

But we don't really see very many muggle characters, do we, especially not ones who know about magic. And people are obviously willing to call themselves "Muggle-born" or call their parents and loved ones Muggles...

IDK, I just kind of feel like I don't see what else they could have done instead. No matter what word you use for "non-wizard" the problem is still going to exist.

that's kind of my point. We don't see many of them because they are not considered important enough to the books' worldview to even be told what's going on. And magic is something one is born with in that world and can't be acquired, just harnessed by people who already have it.

Hmmm, I definitely get where you're coming from there, but that seems like a much deeper (and really interesting) problem with the series as a whole at that point!

Huh, really?
I think they're not in the books because the books are about wizards, particularly child wizards in a super-secret, very protected school, with a wizard government that's paranoid and hell-bent on no non-magical 'muggles' knowing about them.

I see it as similar to hippies calling people "squares" or SCA folks referring to "mundanes," which is to say, not derogatory but not entirely neutral.

I see what you're saying, but it seems to me like the distinction between muggles and wizards is way more real and fundamental than either of those things? Being able to do magic is kind of different from choosing to dress up on weekends and hit each other with foam swords.

I Touch Myself IS about masturbation.

And I never thought about Velma as a straight girl but now I think your opinion is the correct one.

I Touch Myself IS about masturbation.

Lol right? I'm confused about how that's controversial, haha. Had no idea there's any other way to interpret the song.

well, yeah, I thought it was kind of obvious but the woman who sang the song insisted that wasn't what it was about. That confused me too.

Does anyone claim I Touch Myself ISN’T about masturbation? What else could it be about?

as I said, the woman who sang it (I can't remember her name now) said it wasn't, which confused the hell out of me.

That doesn't make it a controversial opinion, though. Pretty much everyone over the age of maybe 10 who hears the song thinks it's about masturbation. And that the singer is straight up lying, if they've heard the denials.

Oh the Dyvinals (Yes, I know I probably fucked up the spelling of the band name) have long admitted I Touch Myself is about masturbation.

The Last Jedi is neither the best nor the worst Star Wars movie

I agree.

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