Organised religion left a big old vacuum and now millenials are looking around for something to give them that guidance. In advertising world, the product needs to “be for something”.
Hilarious that a generation who laughed at a theological institution underpinned by 2000+ years of endlessly debated ideas threw it all away so that Unilever could give them the moral pat on the head instead.
Instead of grug looking up to his tribe's leader or the magical man in the sky for guidance and comfort, the modern ape has replaced them with celebrities and brands
My fiancé had us do a Harry Potter themed Christmas Eve this year. Little weird but it was actually a blast. She’s just tying to rebrand Christmas in her own way because she was physically and mentally abused by her parents as a child.
So to answer your question, varying degrees of trauma probably
But wait, she told me it happened by her dad's friend, not the parents. I think she is lying to you man, because he still visits and she doesn't want you to be intimidated
If you are emotionally devastated by the leftward lean of science fiction to the point of launching a campaign to “take back” the genre; if the moral struggle that gets you out of bed each morning is purging racism from young adult fantasy novels; if you feel besieged by the political predilections of self-declared gamers (or betrayed by the politics of game reviewers); if you use films about comic-book characters to form your worldview; if you cast about for a metaphor to describe your deepest beliefs and find only Harry Potter . . . you are still a child. You need to step back and work out why your identity is so invested in escapist fancies designed to appeal to confused children halfway through puberty.
It's actually not that bad, the title was ironic. I liked it. I think this sub is full of illiterate retards who are just looking for things to seethe at.
It has taken two decades, but I am finally ready to admit that I was the world’s most annoying teenager. My parents are Catholic, and I used to delight in peppering them with trollish questions, preferably several hours into a long car journey.
Ah, I just realized that the super woke people are just the "grown up" version of the smug edgy atheists from my childhood. This makes so many things make more sense.
You know what’s funny is I used to be that kid. In high school I would say shit like “anyone who’s religious can’t be a real friend to me because they’re too deluded.” And guess what? I had no friends. After a year or so of that I chilled out and had my hallmark movie realization that who people are is more important than what they are.
Then three years later almost all my new friends got woke and started hating people for what they were. Oops.
I never discuss religion with religious people. It's a subjective thing arising from experiences rather than logic or reason, neither side can convert the other.
You don't value trying to tear down people's deeply held beliefs? Congrats you are a sane person. The edge lord atheists didn't dunk on Christians because they cared for the Christian and wanted to help them free themselves from falsehoods, they did it to improve their social status.
But you can’t live by doctrine at the expense of humanity. Adulting is hard because the world isn’t Dumbledore’s Army versus the Death Eaters, and Rowling hasn’t morphed into Voldemort overnight. You may disagree with what she writes about sex and gender, but she is still a rare multimillionaire who pays the same tax rate as you and me, a tireless campaigner for single parents, the founder of a charity to spare children from living in orphanages, and the woman whose response to the pandemic was to give away £1 million.
This is actually a decent article, it's using the Potter shit to call out the emotional retardation of millennial activists. Read past the headlines smoothbrains.
Imagine being glad that someone you like is dead because you're too scared of disagreement. I'm glad I progressed beyond the mental maturity of a journo.
I haven't read anything of his since i was a preteen but if they think Tolkien was racist despite being a literal anti fascist then there's no reason why Pratchett isn't for the same reasons
On the one hand, this article gets surprisingly based towards the end;
But you can’t live by doctrine at the expense of humanity. Adulting is hard because the world isn’t Dumbledore’s Army versus the Death Eaters, and Rowling hasn’t morphed into Voldemort overnight. You may disagree with what she writes about sex and gender, but she is still a rare multimillionaire who pays the same tax rate as you and me, a tireless campaigner for single parents, the founder of a charity to spare children from living in orphanages, and the woman whose response to the pandemic was to give away £1 million.
On the other hand, jesus fucking christ it's Harry Potter get the fuck over it. This is somehow worse than Star Wars fans. How has this become a cultural turning point of current year? How do we have the fucking TERF WARS starting on Twitter because a series of children's books were written by someone with one particular view that doesn't mesh with the views of her fans?
I can't even imagine what historians are going to say about us a few hundred years from now.
It is understandable that transgender people feel weary and harassed; their identities and their bodies have been conscripted into a culture war.
Yeah judging from all the biching about the cotton ceiling and "IT'S MA'AM" they aren't unwilling conscripts at all
we get Watson, who played Hermione Granger, offering empty pieties: “I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.”
What do you expect her to do, chop JKR's head off like ISIS?
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47 TellMeToStudyPls 2020-07-12
Can someone tell me why people tie their fucking identity to commercial products?
I don't understand how someone can live and breath either Harry Potter, Star Wars, Capeshit or Disney in general?
Like why? Wtf has to have gone wrong in your life to identify yourself with some brand?
"Teehee, I LOVE Disney and spent my money at least once every few months to visit Disney World"
This world is rotten to it's core, uncle Teddy was right yet again.
51 tranquillement 2020-07-12
Organised religion left a big old vacuum and now millenials are looking around for something to give them that guidance. In advertising world, the product needs to “be for something”.
Hilarious that a generation who laughed at a theological institution underpinned by 2000+ years of endlessly debated ideas threw it all away so that Unilever could give them the moral pat on the head instead.
32 Copeshit 2020-07-12
Hence why many are turning to Witchcraft/LARPaganism, they need a guide to fill in all the emptiness.
26 Thereal14words 2020-07-12
which still makes more sense than worshipping a brand
12 wow___justwow 2020-07-12
???
8 Thereal14words 2020-07-12
more than worshipping disney
10 wow___justwow 2020-07-12
DISNEY IS REAL LMAO
2 CRYSTAL_HYPOTHESIS 2020-07-12
Disney has just as much power to help others as Odin
6 gprime312 2020-07-12
The fuck? The Mouse has way more power than Odin.
Equally as apathetic though.
1 Gold_Morning 2020-07-12
true. that's why my room is filled with United Fruit merchandise, they're cooler
1 totalrandomperson 2020-07-12
Disney exists to part them from their wallets.
At least their retarded period blood magic is sincere in some way.
1 GaysianSupremacist 2020-07-12
The best take by conservatives are always the cultural issues. Most of the left wing politics has no insightful solution to such problems.
1 Shubard75 2020-07-12
r/drama is my religion and Lawl is my god
0 HodorLePortePorte 2020-07-12
What do you expect? Atheists are dumb.
9 godsrmay 2020-07-12
Instead of grug looking up to his tribe's leader or the magical man in the sky for guidance and comfort, the modern ape has replaced them with celebrities and brands
Ted did nothing wrong.
1495
3 totalrandomperson 2020-07-12
14 words, but what's the 95?
6 godsrmay 2020-07-12
The year uncle ted released them
2 totalrandomperson 2020-07-12
oh cool
5 nocioniisgod 2020-07-12
My fiancé had us do a Harry Potter themed Christmas Eve this year. Little weird but it was actually a blast. She’s just tying to rebrand Christmas in her own way because she was physically and mentally abused by her parents as a child.
So to answer your question, varying degrees of trauma probably
1 GourmetImp 2020-07-12
But wait, she told me it happened by her dad's friend, not the parents. I think she is lying to you man, because he still visits and she doesn't want you to be intimidated
4 runmeupmate 2020-07-12
return to Monke
1 Wewraw 2020-07-12
Their idol wasn’t rewarded at all for killing magic-Nazi-bin-laden (peace be with him) and was forced to become a glorified security guard.
1 gurkmcdirt 2020-07-12
what else are you going to get a tattoo of
43 Corporal-Hicks 2020-07-12
I just read the title and laughed
16 Gfuel_Sam 2020-07-12
The actual article is not as abhorrent as the title suggests but it's still pretty bad.
20 waffen_waffle 2020-07-12
Nah bro you were on the money, it's terrible
10 2cimarafa 2020-07-12
It’s literally mocking pottercels
9 waffen_waffle 2020-07-12
You think I bothered to read the article bro lmao
3 caffeine_g0d 2020-07-12
based illiterate
2 waffen_waffle 2020-07-12
The shit my aütistic friend scribbled in his notebook in 1st grade qualifies as literature more than anything modern "journalist" shit out.
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15 gfour 2020-07-12
I thought the article was pretty good actually. Essentially calls the worldview of the potter fans childish.
16 ironicshitpostr 2020-07-12
Enjoy this then: https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/april-2019/why-being-normal-is-the-new-normal/
The killshot
previous discussion by a bunch of retards
2 Bummunism 2020-07-12
There's comment with pinging in that thread. You've just triggered a minority and you should feel bad.
1 10z20Luka 2020-07-12
It's actually not that bad, the title was ironic. I liked it. I think this sub is full of illiterate retards who are just looking for things to seethe at.
5 Wewraw 2020-07-12
You either flip flop as an SJW or base long enough to be voldefoid.
2 D_Legare 2020-07-12
I didn’t make it past the title either lol.
1 Swagbag6969 2020-07-12
That's all you need
37 R0saParkinsons 2020-07-12
Ah, I just realized that the super woke people are just the "grown up" version of the smug edgy atheists from my childhood. This makes so many things make more sense.
13 IonicPaul 2020-07-12
You know what’s funny is I used to be that kid. In high school I would say shit like “anyone who’s religious can’t be a real friend to me because they’re too deluded.” And guess what? I had no friends. After a year or so of that I chilled out and had my hallmark movie realization that who people are is more important than what they are.
Then three years later almost all my new friends got woke and started hating people for what they were. Oops.
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11 languidhorse 2020-07-12
I never discuss religion with religious people. It's a subjective thing arising from experiences rather than logic or reason, neither side can convert the other.
14 R0saParkinsons 2020-07-12
You don't value trying to tear down people's deeply held beliefs? Congrats you are a sane person. The edge lord atheists didn't dunk on Christians because they cared for the Christian and wanted to help them free themselves from falsehoods, they did it to improve their social status.
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34 bbshock21 2020-07-12
Read 👏 another 👏 book 👏
24 hyphenjack 2020-07-12
The Atlantic has gone way, way downhill recently
38 Krystalana 2020-07-12
They hated Fox so much that they all decided to fight fire with fire and become wild caricatures of their biggest seethe.
2 ironicshitpostr 2020-07-12
Craigslist killing classifieds cut out the cheap and easy money and now it's a click junky race to civil war
13 Redactor0 2020-07-12
It's been putting out a lot of braindead drivel for years. It's just that before it was braindead drivel about important topics.
1 10z20Luka 2020-07-12
You haven't even read the article.
3 hyphenjack 2020-07-12
Imma be real with you, you haven’t convinced me of anything by showing an excerpt with the phrase “adulting is hard”
1 10z20Luka 2020-07-12
imma be real with you, it's sarcastic and you can't read but that's okay
1 hyphenjack 2020-07-12
What do you think this is, r/Books?
2 GourmetImp 2020-07-12
What a fucken nerd
24 hackfraud199930 2020-07-12
Can white women talk about social issues without bringing out pop culture?
5 captainkurai 2020-07-12
Can white women talk without bringing out pop culture?
2 Wewraw 2020-07-12
🧙🏿♂️🔨🧙🏿♂️🗡🧙🏿♂️🔫🧙🏿♂️
1 GourmetImp 2020-07-12
Mfw black people are wizards
15 blobby14 2020-07-12
This is actually a decent article, it's using the Potter shit to call out the emotional retardation of millennial activists. Read past the headlines smoothbrains.
11 languidhorse 2020-07-12
I haven't even read the headline, I'm gleaning the content from comments. This is the next level in news consumption
3 10z20Luka 2020-07-12
Lmao I know it's ironic but this is the cancer of reddit.
Entire threads, filled with thousands of comments from people who never read the article.
8 godsrmay 2020-07-12
Who do you think I am 😂😂😂
13 Redactor0 2020-07-12
This but unironically.
17 Metatron58 2020-07-12
yeah imagine the horror of finding out he doesn't share your idiotic hot takes and opinions.
9 languidhorse 2020-07-12
Imagine being glad that someone you like is dead because you're too scared of disagreement. I'm glad I progressed beyond the mental maturity of a journo.
5 Redactor0 2020-07-12
I'm just glad he doesn't have to see the world as it is now and deal with twitter bullshit.
2 languidhorse 2020-07-12
Who knows, he might be a wokie. He might be tweeting silence is violence despite being British.
7 Redactor0 2020-07-12
He had a sense of humor, so I'm pretty sure he would have been canceled for one reason or another.
2 CRYSTAL_HYPOTHESIS 2020-07-12
I haven't read anything of his since i was a preteen but if they think Tolkien was racist despite being a literal anti fascist then there's no reason why Pratchett isn't for the same reasons
5 ironicshitpostr 2020-07-12
I'm glad he's dead because his brain was tapioca in his last years
11 GaysianSupremacist 2020-07-12
Where's Snappy? Is he sentinent enough to know this is beyond mental retärdation?
11 cfbWORKING 2020-07-12
Jesus Christ get to the fucking point. Who the fuck edits these things? We don’t three paragraphs on upbringing.
8 adhamrlf 2020-07-12
"It has taken two decades, but I am finally ready to admit that I was the world’s most annoying teenager."
Burger journalism is so cringey it hurt, but the fact that that line must unironically appeal to some readers hurts even more.
7 WayOfTheDingo 2020-07-12
The author is British, smoothbrain
4 adhamrlf 2020-07-12
Burger website made for burgers
4 Funkyduffy 2020-07-12
Author lives in Old Burgerstan aka Airstrip One aka 🤢🤢🤮🤮 England🤢🤢🤮🤮
1 Shubard75 2020-07-12
Every country is America
7 wow___justwow 2020-07-12
This j*urno's bio clock is ticking hard and she's really cranky about it.
1 ironicshitpostr 2020-07-12
Logan's Run but for the childless
6 S_338 2020-07-12
By Allah, if you call this journalism, I will shoot myself right here
6 Crook_and_Crank 2020-07-12
On the one hand, this article gets surprisingly based towards the end;
On the other hand, jesus fucking christ it's Harry Potter get the fuck over it. This is somehow worse than Star Wars fans. How has this become a cultural turning point of current year? How do we have the fucking TERF WARS starting on Twitter because a series of children's books were written by someone with one particular view that doesn't mesh with the views of her fans?
I can't even imagine what historians are going to say about us a few hundred years from now.
2 artemis_m_oswald 2020-07-12
Was?
2 YourBrainIsDumb 2020-07-12
Imagine how great the world would be if we had more than one book.
2 Death_Trolley 2020-07-12
This is full of absurditires
Yeah judging from all the biching about the cotton ceiling and "IT'S MA'AM" they aren't unwilling conscripts at all
What do you expect her to do, chop JKR's head off like ISIS?
1 GourmetImp 2020-07-12
Yes, that would be great
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