• GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So they walk around a lot while talking and being really sexist (for real, I was shocked at how on-the-nose some of the dialogue was when I listened to stuff like West Wing Thing).

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean Rowling is sexist af, so that would still be on brand.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        funny how her "feminist" friends don't mind that she's such a vile piece of shit full of internalized mysoginy and lookism

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      So they walk around a lot while talking and being really sexist

      How is this different from normal Harry Potter? Half their dialogue takes place in between classes as they traverse the hallways. And anything with Ron in it is incessantly horny.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The West Wing is about smart competent people disagreeing, then finding compromise solutions that neither like, but both can live with.

      For some reason it's set in the White House.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        Well if it wasn't set in the White House, how else would the main characters Grand Bargain their way into privatizing social security for literally 0 gain?

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        The West Wing is just Epic Clintonianism, where everybody except the President is getting blowjobs.

        • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          in all seriousness it's a late 90s early 00s TV drama about white house staff written by Andy Sorkin. And like everything ever touched by Andy Sorkin it reeks of liberal smugness, bizarre misogyny, and shoehorned sarcastic witty dialogue that nobody would actually ever say in real life

          here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh9SgyGgBW0

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Harry Potter is liberal eugenics magic school

      It's liberal reformed magic school, with a faction that believes there's not enough eugenics and another faction that believes the decision to end eugenics thirty years ago after a brutal bloody civil war shouldn't be revoked without the headmaster's permission.

  • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    "Headmaster Bartlett, We must not allow a Horcrux gap!!" - Josh

    "Mein Führer, I can Patronus again! Es ist ein Wunder!" - GOP Senator and Senate Minority Leader Voldemort

    "Finally, we can unite in bipartisan, anti-Koldovstoretz and anti-Durmstrang sentiment. The Anglophone West will show responsible, magic means testing to the rest of the world." - Headmaster Bartlett