Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

silverharp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119379830#Comment_119379830

I'd like to think the creatives are forced to make these films, know they will be a flop, so make it so woke they can blame the audience for being racist and sexist for not paying to see them. I know it's not the case but at least it would be rational

Cordell

At some point going woke getting broke will trigger investors anger and it looks like that's not that far away:

Quantum Erasure

American Exceptionalism

https://mobile.twitter.com/NYCHealthCommr/status/1552030247691894785

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119396855#Comment_119396855

What the monkey community?

Cordell

Black plague and yellow fever next.

AllForIt

Seems the WHO do not agree

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/27/monkeypox-who-chief-advises-at-risk-men-reduce-number-sexual-partners

The WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said 98% of the monkeypox cases detected since the outbreaks emerged in May had been among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. He called for those at risk to take steps to protect themselves.

You can't on the one hand have minorities platformed ad nauseam and on the other ignore they exist when it comes to a virus that affects them most.

edit: this is the first and probably last time I agree with Owen Jones.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/26/monkeypox-gay-communities-vaccines-health-messages

Strumms

Monkeypox is a viral disease that was discovered 50 years ago, it was firstly identified in captive monkeys. Hence .. monkeypox.

if we need to rename the monkeypox virus… by the rationale of people suggesting it, we should call monkeys something else.

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119380467#Comment_119380467

True. And look, it happened again:

We can't have navy SEALs as heroes, that is not woke and progressive!

BattleCorp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119397417#Comment_119397417

Rename it 'Menwhohavesexwithmenpox'. 😀

Potential-Monke

Now if only the Gray Man didn't have Ryan "acting range of a tree" Gosling, I may watch it.

BattleCorp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405738#Comment_119405738

It's ok. Leave your brain at the door and you might enjoy it. Some of the action is very over the top and there's also some dodgy CGI here and there. Especially when it comes to jumping off stuff.

Cordell

Man, this is an action flick, not Academy Awards material (thank fk) and he's a better actor than Stallone and Schwarzenegger combined. You will enjoy it if you know what to expect.

TomSweeney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119392203#Comment_119392203

Its a great channel, he was on the Triggernometry channel recently too.

TomSweeney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119405681#Comment_119405681

Oh goodie!! another series to watch!

Cordell

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/terminal-list-author-negative-reviews-amazon-series-1235177771/

So good to see that there is still hope.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119360114#Comment_119360114

Tolkien was fundamentally religious and Catholic and wouldn't have approved of sex of any kind outside of a marriage between one man and one woman.

Though he didn't have any racial prejudices afaik, Middle Earth just was based on medieval England and Italy. The Shire was based on the West Midlands of England, Gondor was based on Venice, and another part was based on Florence I forget where.

As with Norse mythology the people would have been all Europeans.

I agree no one is enslaved to the source material though, they can cast whoever they want.

However unless this series is high quality entertainment it will sink like a stone. I've already seen early reviews saying Tolkien fans won't like it.

I didn't like the Peter Jackson films or the LOTR cartoon film from 1978 so imo its a great book with no decent adaptations (so far).

Luxembourgo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119362300#Comment_119362300

Id watch that

BruteStock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119409888#Comment_119409888

I'm no expert but I believe it was other writers who drew the parallels to Italy.  Jackson himself based Minas Trinith on Mont Saint Michel. From Tolkien's perspective ME was all based on England.

I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own (bound up with its tongue and soil), not of the quality that I sought, and found (as an ingredient) in legends of other lands. There was Greek, and Celtic, and Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Finnish (which greatly affected me); but nothing English, save impoverished chap-book stuff. Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing. For one thing its ‘faerie’ is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive. For another and more important thing: it is involved in, and explicitly contains the Christian religion.

 I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story – the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths – which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. It should possess the tone and quality that I desired, somewhat cool and clear, be redolent of our ‘air’ (the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe: not Italy or the Aegean, still less the East), and, while possessing (if I could achieve it) the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic (though it is rarely found in genuine ancient Celtic things), it should be ‘high’, purged of the gross, and fit for the more adult mind of a land long now steeped in poetry.

BruteStock

Some people still argue CRT isn't being thought in schools.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1552397094593277953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1552397357945196544%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=

https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1553484784457981954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1553484784457981954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

growleaves

@BruteStock "I'm no expert but I believe it was other writers who drew the parallels to Italy."

Tolkien referred to Venice as "Gondor" in his personal correspondence. In an annotation to a map he drew of Middle Earth he wrote: "“The city of Ravenna is the inspiration behind Minas Tirith.”

I do think Middle Earth was mainly based on England and Northern Europe yes but it is certain that some parts (Gondor, at least) were part-inspired by Italy.

All I can think of is that he may have altered his conception of the book after the above quote you've posted. Or he may have felt that Middle Earth was overall English-inspired, which it does seem to me to be, with only one or two isolated parts inspired by Italian cities.

MisterAnarchy

Gary Lineker currently getting cancelled by the same social media mob outrage mindset he helped create.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11069065/Gary-Lineker-deletes-tweet-joking-Chloe-Kellys-bra-BBC-Euro-2022-sexism-storm.html

Saint Gary said in a now deleted tweet, 'the Lionesses have only gone and done it, and Kelly is England's heroine, bra none'

What a heinous crime ! Off with his head !

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119416217#Comment_119416217

What a softcock he is. Really is one of the biggest bellends you see on twitter, and smug too.

Going on about climate change while following a team who kick a ball around, around the world via planes.

Zardoz

Poor old Gary , he is far too smug for his own good.

walshb

Lineker is all over the place! He has no idea what causes he is and isn’t for. He just throws stuff everywhere.

anewme

in fairness, the people criticising him here are not a mob and their point is a valid one. The best he could do was a puerile sexist comment like something out of carry on from the 50”s.

Hes an awful empty vessel, that chap.

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119416278#Comment_119416278

Its just a terrible pun, nothing more.

He is forever making terrible puns.

In saying that I hope he gets cannibalised by his woke friends.

walshb

I relish the day when cancelling woke is all the rage. The day will come!!!!! Has to.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

A lot of people are suddenly very pro-cancelling now that they think it’s warranted. Such hypocrisy.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119416681#Comment_119416681

It’s woke, is it, to criticise someone who draws similarities between the LGBT community and Nazis?

growleaves

I'd be wary of Laurence Fox. His "response" to woke-ism is to provoke even more outrage coming in the other direction.