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People being offended by fictional characters

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When I was a kid we’d often be told that what we watched on TV wasn’t real, not to be taken seriously. I think it was good advice and even before I was ten I could see the sense in it.

Nowadays it’s way different. Pepsi got slated for having an ad that was apparently offensive, people weren’t angry enough in it. Eoghan McDermott wants Fairytale of New York censored, fictional character makes inappropriate remark, Friends is offensive because Chandler was uncomfortable with his father coming out as gay and dressing in drag.

When did people stop having the sense to not be offended by fiction? Could there be a return to sense following the backlash against McDermott yesterday?

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nthclare

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

The Catholic church brought in the bronze fig leaf to give some modesty to David when they introduced censorship of the classical arts around 1580.

Just as the public turn their backs on Catholic doctrine they find ways to get triggered and morally offended by the very same objects, as the church they turned their backs on did 600 years ago. The irony really is funny.

There's a lot of irony these days.

Back when good old Ireland was supposedly backwards and run by the church, we could laugh at Eddie Murphy delerious, watch Monty python, slag people off.

Do people actually think everyone took the church seriously back in the 80's ?

No they didn't, my grandmother and her friend used to talk about the hypocrisy of the local priest, she loved the fancy fella down the road,he used to make her laugh.

The fancy fella was "gay" Dinjoe was his name, dad used to clip me around the ear when I said Dinjoe talked like a woman.

Michael Tierney in Ennis was a well respected transvestite, he used to sell paper's.
Anybody who laughed at him were considered dicks.

It's ironic that some of us find the easily offended offensive, but fortunately some of us don't get it.

I certainly don't get why femminists are angry, or people feel like victims over trivial things...

I am called all sorts here sometimes I am a martyr lol

I find people on board's running to the mods hilarious, I was banned from board's twice for a month.

It was great to get the break, I along with others don't take board's literally.

It's a forum with all sorts of different tastes and opinions, I'd love to be a moderator.

All hell would break loose.

Hail Satan

Sabre0001

I can't believe it's no longer legal or possible to listen to Fairytale of New York or watch Friends....oh wait.

In some cases, it's interesting to talk about the subject matter at hand. Frequently, it's a small number of people. In some cases, they're pretty vocal. In many cases, it's spurred on by media realising that people will talk about the controversy and possibly share a link to their segment.

branie2

pgj2015 wrote: »

I remember reading about the guy who played richard hillman in coronation street (he murdered people on the show)

he couldn't walk down the street because people were attacking him because of the character he played, its really funny when you think about it, how thick can some people be?

Same with the actor who played Alan Bradley

Ipso

Speaking of fictional characters.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/news/christians-protest-giant-statue-of-satan-at-arkansas-capitol-building2

M.T. Cranium

I am offended in equal measures by the offenders and those taking offense, would all parties just avoid costly litigation and mail me some cash. Thank you in advance.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

I am offended in equal measures by the offenders and those taking offense, would all parties just avoid costly litigation and mail me some cash. Thank you in advance.

I am offended by this weak claim for compensation. My counter claim is in the post.

Ipso

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I am offended by this weak claim for compensation. My counter claim is in the post.

It's not valid unless you tweet it and then clap back agin retractors.

Ray Palmer

I find the people who go on about "PC gone mad" are unable to actually talk about anything without being offended that they have to consider others.

They make up claims and are wilfully ignorant about subjects.

They are just as bad as those that are offended easily.

I think telling an English person not to call me a Mick or a Paddy and saying it is offensive is perfectly correct but my English cousin thought I was being a snowflake.

nthclare

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I find the people who go on about "PC gone mad" are unable to actually talk about anything without being offended that they have to consider others.

They make up claims and are wilfully ignorant about subjects.

They are just as bad as those that are offended easily.

I think telling an English person not to call me a Mick or a Paddy and saying it is offensive is perfectly correct but my English cousin thought I was being a snowflake.

I was working in Scotland with a load of Ranger's supporters, it was open season on me every day...
I was called Fenian, a giant leprechaun, a hoop and worse, I realised that I had to not take it personal.
I played a good game and we used to party together etc.
Sometimes I think back on those night's drinking Mc'eEwans and waking up wearing a Ranger's Jersey in some high-rise apartment in Glasgow and some leggy attractive looking Scottish lady asleep in my arms...

James Brown

Don't Forgot God, Jebus and Mohammad.

Whenever I hear people whinging about Millennials I think of 'kids today and their rock n' roll music!'

Ray Palmer

nthclare wrote: »

I was working in Scotland with a load of Ranger's supporters, it was open season on me every day...
I was called Fenian, a giant leprechaun, a hoop and worse, I realised that I had to not take it personal.

Reality is you didn't really have a choice and I also know what you mean. Sure some jibing is fine if you are in on it. The problem is you can get groups of these guys doing the same to a complete stranger and they don't take well if the person minds.

I take it you have been there too as most Irish people have, gotten people being overly familiar because we are all friendly all the time wanting to join a sing along.

vetinari

Honestly, 90% of the posts in these types of threads are from anti PC people.
It's pretty rare to see an actual PC post.
Anti PC people are being played like a violin by the media.
It's all for website clicks.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

harr wrote: »

Was watching Kevin Bridges on TV tonight , his new stand up show and he makes very good points on how the whole social media phenomena has ****ed up a generation of kids..
I agree completely...if one so called influencer says something is offensive then that snowballs and you have a lot of people agreeing without looking at the alleged offending material or person.. kids grow up in a huge bubble of misinformation and not experiencing the real world away from phones and the web.

An example would be , I was getting train up to city last week when I was speaking to an old school friend who was putting her 17 year old son on the train ...he never lifted his head from his phone once to say hello or engage in face to face conversation. The mother was very worried he was going to the city on his own at 17 and was giving a step by step guide of what to do.
The young lad just grunted.
I was traveling up to Dublin at 14 most Saturdays and without a phone or google maps and I just told parents what train I was getting home and I had no contact with home for the day.

Kids ( adults) need to understand that nasty people exist in the real world, racists , sexual predators and con men ( women) real people that the world can’t censor.
If all the badness is taken from books , movies and songs how are children going to learn and understand that the world isn’t a happy clappy place all the time . Not good for any generation to grown up in a sterile censored world.

Did he know you? You said it was an old friend so I’m going to take it that you don’t know her children. I have little time for the notion that public transport was a place where conversations started up all the time before the smartphone. I’ve been getting public transport for a long time and people have always for the most part ignored each other. Somehow having your head buried in a book or newspaper or listening to music inspires less judgement though. I sometimes see conversations being struck up on trains and buses. I also observed it happening in the pre-smartphone era. But it wasn’t commonplace then and isn’t now. Nothing has changed in that regard.

nthclare

vetinari wrote: »

Honestly, 90% of the posts in these types of threads are from anti PC people.
It's pretty rare to see an actual PC post.
Anti PC people are being played like a violin by the media.
It's all for website clicks.

Sounds like chemistry.

PC is dead, it's imploded into itself, I blame the vegans and militant femminazis.

Normal feminism is ok but these monsters that are like hybrids of some sort are ruining it for the lovely gentle femminists...

They started it, now you've women rebellious towards femminists and giving them the bird...

Proper order I say

Capt'n Midnight

pgj2015 wrote: »

he couldn't walk down the street because people were attacking him because of the character he played, its really funny when you think about it, how thick can some people be?

One of the Red-Tops in the UK did a campaign against kiddy fiddlers.

So a bunch of concerned readers held a protest outside a female paediatrician's place.

BTW
Dirty Den from Eastender's was a convicted murderer in real life.

Ray Palmer

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

BTW
Dirty Den from Eastender's was a convicted murderer in real life.

And Buzz Lightyear is a convicted drug trafficker

Mint Sauce

Basically people are running out of things to be offended by, so now they are finding things from 20/30/40....60+ plus years ago, that were perfectly acceptable then, and are getting offended by it, and demanding that you and me should be offended as well, fictional or not. Friends, Fairytale of New York, and Baby its Cold Outside are perfect examples.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

One of the Red-Tops in the UK did a campaign against kiddy fiddlers.

So a bunch of concerned readers held a protest outside a female paediatrician's place.

BTW
Dirty Den from Eastender's was a convicted murderer in real life.

"Held a protest"..?

The feckin covered the woman's house in grafitti and threw bricks threw her windows!

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'm offended by the Moomins.

I think they propagate degenerate behaviour.

I also have a serious issue with Babar the Elephant, which I won't disclose here for personal reasons.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

People were always offended by fictional characters and stories. That's hardly new.

Captain Chaos

Apu was fine in the Simpsons for 30 years but now he has to go. PC gone mad.

People just need to deal with it and STFU.

Rothko

Ray Palmer wrote: »

And Buzz Lightyear is a convicted drug trafficker

I took that literally for a second and was very confused.