"Friends was racist and sexist"

Ralf and Florian · 15-01-2018 07:06PM #1

So say Millenials and SJWs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/friends-netflix-sexist-racist-transphobic-problematic-millenials-watch-a8154626.html

https://twitter.com/samrboland/status/952957719757099008

pjohnson · 15-01-2018 07:08PM

Hey dont blame millenials.

I'm sure some of them have an IQ higher than single digits. Granted not this guy but some millenials must be fairly smart.

Assetbacked · 15-01-2018 07:09PM

Articles on how a minority of people get offended do not interest or bother me.

TV show in inaccurate portrayal of real life shocker.

15-01-2018 07:09PM

Oh f*ck off.

The Backwards Man · 15-01-2018 07:10PM

'People that trawl twitter for reasons to get themselves all worked up about nothing are sad and should go for a walk or something.'

So say me.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 15-01-2018 07:11PM

Well fook the millenials and SJW's, shower of fvckwits.

Let them go fvck themselves.

SteM · 15-01-2018 07:11PM

Who gives a **** what millenials think about a show that ended over a decade ago. No one's forcing people to watch it on Netflix ffs.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2018 07:11PM

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

So say Millenials and SJWs.

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No they don't . This guy does.

darkdubh · 15-01-2018 07:12PM

That Sam Boland guy is nuts. Something he tweeted popped up in the Louise O Neill thread too.

SNNUS · 15-01-2018 07:12PM

What a tool!

Trigger Happy · 15-01-2018 07:12PM

What next - Glenroe is sexist and racist too?

Where will it end...

Vex Willems · 15-01-2018 07:12PM

Where were these people that it took it going on Netflix to notice?

FTA69 · 15-01-2018 07:13PM

It’s realistic if anything; the type of people portrayed in Friends tend not to hang around with too many black people or have black mates.

Also, again with the identity politics. I’ve been on boards for 14 years and only recently I’ve started thinking of deleting my account because I’m sick to the back teeth of reading about Travellers, the dole and whatever transfeminist American culture war sh*te is raging on Twitter.

Assetbacked · 15-01-2018 07:14PM

What good is a joke that isn't sexist, racist or generally insulting?

wes · 15-01-2018 07:15PM

There really stretching who is and isn't a millennial with stuff like this.

Plenty of people who are millennials would have seen the show when it aired, so the whole "millennial" angle is bollox. Seriously the whole here is what the kids think thing is just silly. FFS, there are people in there 30s married with kids who count as millennials. Its a grouping of people born over a 20 year span.

Also, again trawling twitter, you will find kinds of **** said by various people. Its largely meaningless noise.

Alf Veedersane · 15-01-2018 07:16PM

Why the need to label idiots as 'millenials' or 'SJWs' or anything else other than idiots?

Trigger Happy · 15-01-2018 07:16PM

BBC have a story on it too.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42690207

wes · 15-01-2018 07:17PM

FTA69 wrote: »

Also, again with the identity politics.

Its the same few posters, obsessed with the American culture wars. I have just started putting most of them on ignore these days. The noise generated isn't worth listening too. I will say that boards seems to be having a particularly bad day, with people posting about "stuff on twitter" that made them angry.

15-01-2018 07:18PM

And yet it still managed to be unfunny...

I always thought it would have improved greatly if they shot Phoebe in the first episode.

the_pen_turner · 15-01-2018 07:18PM

I'm sure if you look back at all comedy and sit coms from 10 to 20 years ago you will find all kind of. Stuff that is unacceptable today.
We can't judge old stuff by today's standards

Pelvis · 15-01-2018 07:19PM

Who the **** is Sam Boland are why is his opinion worth starting a thread over?

jamesbere · 15-01-2018 07:20PM

Pelvis wrote: »

Who the **** is Sam Boland are why is his opinion worth starting a thread over?

I agreed, some idiots opinion should be ignored.

darkdubh · 15-01-2018 07:21PM

Jaysus. Hope they never get to see Till Death Us Do Part. On second thoughts I hope they do.

http://www.nme.com/news/tv/friends-criticised-sexist-homophobic-netflix-2219739

TheChizler · 15-01-2018 07:21PM

The guy in OP is actually Generation X, you bunch of millenialists.

Stop appropriating my generation.

Pac1Man · 15-01-2018 07:22PM

He definitely has skeletons in his closet.

Betcha he's done something. I might start a rumour.

Noveight · 15-01-2018 07:23PM

the_pen_turner wrote: »

We can't judge old stuff by today's standards

Exactly, like the folks who wanted to bleep f@ggot out of Fairytale of New York.

What next? Chip the willy off of Michelangelo’s David?!

15-01-2018 07:26PM

Three's Company was also sexist.

salmocab · 15-01-2018 07:26PM

All this nonsense about young people getting offended by everything is a load of sh1t I’ve worked recently with plenty of young lads in their early 20s and have mates with kids in their late teens and they don’t get offended by any of this crap, this is at best about a small minority of do gooders trying to protect people who don’t need it from something that doesn’t exist. The young lads I know are at best a bit more open minded and accepting of differences but aren’t offended by much.

15-01-2018 07:27PM

FTA69 wrote:

Also, again with the identity politics. Iâ€™ve been on boards for 14 years and only recently Iâ€™ve started thinking of deleting my account because Iâ€™m sick to the back teeth of reading about Travellers, the dole and whatever transfeminist American culture war sh*te is raging on Twitter.

Funny I've felt the same recently. I've seen many threads wondering why the numbers using boards.ie are falling.

Snake Plisken · 15-01-2018 07:28PM

Pelvis wrote: »

Who the **** is Sam Boland are why is his opinion worth starting a thread over?

He seems to be quite proud that the liberal.ie have blocked him another so called Male Feminist etc the usual crap! Another. Gimp who goes out of his way to find offence in everything!

King of Kings · 15-01-2018 07:28PM

SteM wrote: »

Who gives a **** what millenials think about a show that ended over a decade ago. No one's forcing people to watch it on Netflix ffs.

unfortunately that right-on stuff does travel accross the pond, where we may laugh at people like LON and her ilk. Those ideas have taken root in the UK where now the police are trawling the internet for what is deemed "hate speech" Many local councils are mad for this stuff now..

Case in point the fellow in scotland facing court for teaching the nazi salute to his dog.

So (sadly I know) it must be highlighted and resisted before it becomes the norm

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