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What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen? (lemmy.ml)

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I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.

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[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 41 points 5 days ago

That's so disappointing. To me, Sailor Moon is the OG all inclusive series. (It was my very favorite show ever as a kid and probably still is.) I kinda love how they didn't make a big deal out of it. The star sailors change sex when they transform and it's not even talked about. It just is how it is and nobody wonders about it. Neptune and Uranus having the hots for each other is portrayed as any other romance is and iirc no character ever addresses the "taboo" of it. Even the alien incest is somehow fine (I mean they are aliens and extinct so they do them).

I understand the LGBTQ+'s struggle for representation and acceptance, so probably they do need somewhat of an over accentuated representation on screen to eventually reach full acceptance. But Sailor Moon seems to be what comes "after" this, just normalization without it ever being a question. All the while sparking an interest in astronomy in kids who then know all the names of the dwarf planets in our solar system before they know the multiplication table.

Man I can't wait till my kid reaches Sailor Moon watching age.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

I hope your kids like it.

It has always seemed to me that my kids have gone out of their way to avoid liking anything I like. That’s fine, but I never could relate to them.

I adopted my son so it was different with him. We did everything together and he was happy to look into my interests sometimes. He and I played world of Warcraft together for a decade and I’d cut off a couple toes to go back and have that with him again.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I hope so too. For now she's very much into girls as main characters so maybe I'll get lucky with the series.

I once heard that a teenager will act very similarly to how they acted at 3 years old. Extrapolating from that (my child is 3.5) it's very likely that she will also not like anything I like or listen to anything I say. When she has the choice between A and B she suggests C. Her answer to the Sally-Anne test is wild. I'm pretty sure she'll keep destroying metaphorical boxes or playing Schrödinger's cat instead of just thinking inside or outside the box.

I also always dreamt of having music playing in the background and dancing to it. She hates recorded music. She likes singing and me/others singing (sometimes) but God beware I turn on a CD.

Also, time to call your son and invite him over for a WoW weekend I guess.

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