Pornography restrictions being codified into law, adult art being restricted from most Lemmy instances, Tarot readers blotting out the nudity on their cards on Reddit.
I’m watching the Magicians, on Amazon, and I use subtitles. All the curse words are purposefully filled in with random letters, so as not to offend the reader.
What’s up with all the prudishness? Can people knock it off, please?
People have vaginas. And titties. And dicks. And asses. They swear. They drink. They fuck. Why is this generation afraid of that? Acknowledging these things isn’t going to increase your chances of being sexually violated. So, what’s the deal?
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It all just feels incredibly forced. Reddit posts are still 30% women in skimpy outfits just for the coomers. You’re not entitled to see a womens tits all day. Stop objectifying them already.
And swearing in every sentence makes swear words lose value. Swearing is supposed to be a very fucking impactful use of language instead of a generic fucking filler word which is inserted into every fucking sentence at a random fucking places and could just as well be left out.
In short: both things you mention add nothing to discourse or ideas. It’s just filler stuff. I’m glad Lemmy is much more nature.
It’s the major social platforms pushing people to self-censor, mostly. It’s a well-known phenomenon called “algospeak”, where modifications to the language intended to bypass social network censorship end up seeping into in-person interactions, such as the verb “to unalive”
We’re doom!
porn
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Have you completely forgotten the war on drugs? We never stopped letting the Puritans run things in this country.
As a child from the seventies. YES.
The oligarchs are using porn, and specifically child abuse, to get total control of everything said and done, to create secret social scores to be used against us.
This is organized purity insanity. Well funded.
It was spelled out in project 2025: end recreational sex.
I’m watching the Magicians, on Amazon, and I use subtitles. All the curse words are purposefully filled in with random letters, so as not to offend the reader.
IANAL, but in my opinion this violates the “functionally equivalent services” test of the Americans with Disabilities Act Title IV, and in a just world they would get hit with a massive lawsuit.
I feel like half the captions are AI now and are pretty shit. In a few more years it’ll be illegal to have a disability.
Both someone hard of hearing and a fan of that show (which incidentally was some of the best deaf rep I’ve seen) it’s such an offensive thing to do. We deserve word for word captions at a minimum (and none of that “speaking Spanish” bs), we should also have access to captions that include speakers, non verbal sounds, tone indicators, etc.
But also that show uses sexual content and profanity as crucial artistic elements. The long term trauma of rape is a major theme of early seasons. Multiple characters use sex as a means of distracting themselves from their life and thoughts, some use it as the only vulnerable connection they can have.
It’s not people, it’s corporations. And it’s more US specifically rather than global
That’s not true. The big group responsible for this is Australian and that’s where they started. Why do you people blame America for everything?
Because it’s the US corporations that implement this shit
Why do you think it’s Australia doing this?
You’re wrong, but I’m curious as to where you came up with this crap
Because they’re not wrong. A lot of the push against anything remotely adult is powered by an Australian group called Collective Shout that cloaks their conservative Christian prudishness in a feminist guise.
My guess is people are tired of it. When you go through life and pretty much everything is sexualized, it starts to get boring and annoying. I hate how most movies used to have a romance or sex scene. Just imply it, is it really necessary to completely ruin the mood of a movie for it? We know people have sex and it doesn’t really contribute to the story.
The same should apply for violence. Just implied it…
Cool, now we’re back to Shakespearean plays where it’s just a bunch of people talking about what happened offstage 😂
And pretending to ride horses?
Can we go back to pretending to ride horses too?
You’re right. Action movies are kinda boring now. You gotta keep those scenes pretty short
I get the sarcasm but I would guess action scenes do cost the most. The whole lets make a set and blow it up sounds expensive even if CGI is involved.
Only kinda sarcastic. Marvel action scenes are soooo long it’s boring. Or like, John wick is boring too
I can’t be bothered to watch marvel movies in general anymore, any super hero movies really. I would say I like the parodies more. I liked the first John Wick movie mainly on the premises that Reeves actually learned how to operate firearms but what is it now on a fifth one? But still, realistically, the movie would be over in a few minutes.
I mean you could just go watch porn? I’m by no means prude. If I’d like to watch an action movie, why does there need to be a sex/romance scene in it? Granted at this point I only watch foreign movies; especially when it comes to horror movies. I would say the classic tropes of horror movies got boring after watching hundreds of them; then I watched a Turkish horror movie called Baskin, and I’ll be honest, I covered my eyes a few times, had to rewatch it actually completely watch the movie. That went from zero to I feel like I’m watching a horror movie for the first time and it’s time for bed.
Yet the violence we see on our screens (real and fictional) is non stop. I grew up watching 70’s and 80’s broadcast television. Rarely did anyone swear or say God damn. Nude images were rare. Things change the change again
There’s a push to the right going on, led by a conglomerate of Russia, China and USA. Russia and china, because it aligns with their foreign interests. USA (and EU) its mostly Russia sock puppets and doomerism scions.
At least it looks like that to me, from the past years headlines.
I’ve been thinking it’s a combination of the opinion solidifying nature of social media, going through the “me too” movement, and exposure to a US administration completely bereft of morality, ethics, or intelligence that highlights the worst of our society.
I noticed this too. Looking back on how things were in the’80s and '90s. Seems like a lot of those things are not OK today. Seems weird in a society that so routinely treats people like trash. You can kill them but you damn well better say on YouTube that you “unalived them.” Stupid.
It’s forced on us by rich Christians
