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@pottyprismpower
jowls are normal double chin is normal stretch marks are normal armpit fat is normal. none of the things that tiktok and instagram are telling you to change are things you need to even consider changing. you can have a normal body, it will be okay
I encountered Kidz Bop in the wild yesterday (volunteering with children, festive atmosphere) and I'm so fascinated with what they decide to bowdlerize. For example:
"Sex by the fire at night" from "That's What I Like" by Bruno Mars becomes "hang by the fire at night." This change is both understandable and (sex is explicitly mentioned) and competently executed.
"Strawberry champagne on ice" from the same song becomes "strawberry milkshake, so nice." This is a little clumsier, but the choice to element mentions of an alcoholic beverage is intuitive.
All instances of the singer (again, in the same song) calling the object of his affections "baby girl" are gone. I'm not sure if this is because the Kidz Bop vocalist on this song is possibly a girl (hard to tell at that age) and even parents without conscious homophobic views might unthinkingly process that as too sexual. Or if Kidz Bop is trying to sell "That's What I Like" as a song about showering one's platonic friend with expensive gifts and sometimes cold hard cash ("take my wallet if you want it" remains intact). Or if "baby girl" just sounds too sexual. Or if it's not too sexual general, but it gets into kind of a weird area when literal children are calling each other "baby girl." Lots of possibilities here.
For "Closer" (originally by the Chainsmokers), the singer asks his ex to "pull me closer as we stand against the Rover" instead of "in the backseat of your Rover." The backseat of a car is, of course, a classic place for people to have sex. This is rather prim but comprehensible.
The narrator of "Closer" and his ex merely "played" a Blink-182 song to death in Tucson; they didn't "beat" it to death. I don't know if Kidz Bop found the violent imagery distasteful for children, or if the phrasing just annoyed them.
For a second I thought there was KidzBop version of Closer by Nine Inch Nails and was trying to process that. I want to hug you like an animal. I want to go play in the outside.
Olruggio | Episode 6
my camel straight up told me "man i am not carrying another fucking straw" like wtf asshole its just one straw whats your fucking issue
I am deeply uncomfortable with this man's corner
The Spiral
Home decor hacks for if you hate yourself and want to die
Is my heart safe with you?
Audra McDonald as Sarah in the original Broadway production
i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny
DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN
As an American: Seriously, please don’t
ok well i don't
"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.
It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)
I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.
And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.
Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.
It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.
In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.
And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.
If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.
(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)
Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.
And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate
As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
Excuse me???
you are right and you should say it.
Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?
Absolutely not
You know who would try that shit?
Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?
You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?
The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:
Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) dir. Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans
