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'The Boys' star Valorie Curry asks for 'boundaries' from fans (www.cinemablend.com)

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[-] Silverseren@fedia.io 176 points 10 months ago

The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

It's super weird that they're that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.

[-] Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.org 51 points 10 months ago

That's actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right... Kind of alarming if that wasn't picked up on by some

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 50 points 10 months ago

These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn't satire or get upset that wolfenstein's Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 41 points 10 months ago

"I loved Rage Against The Machine until they went woke"

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't understand? Why did ratm have to get political?, why couldn't they just stick to their music?

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago

If you really suck, the games are about Nazis killing this one guy

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 34 points 10 months ago

Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.

Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don't like rights being taken away.

[-] Silverseren@fedia.io 11 points 10 months ago

No, they really don't see it. And they instead idolize Homelander and think he's the one that's correct in the show and doing what's right and what they want to do.

[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I have literally never seen anyone idolize homelander. This is like Marilyn Manson getting his ribs removed so he could suck his own dick: often repeated, never substantiated

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Is it incredible? Poe's law hasn't gone anywhere.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It's how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago

One day we'll have a movie that starts with a warning like:

This movie is satire. If you actually relate to and agree with the ideas presented in this film, please seek professional help.

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately it would get paid as much attention as the FBI warnings about piracy being illegal.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Poe’s Law per Wikipedia

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago

Oh yes my ideal woman should breastfeed a fully grown lab experiment

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I feel like the only satire that works is full blown, overt caricature, like the WW2 propaganda cartoons

[-] StarlightDust 3 points 10 months ago

Its the same reason they like to play Born in the USA all the time.

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 25 points 10 months ago

Star Trek has a similar subset of fans that are all like "When did Star Trek get all woke? More pew pew!"

Try 1966

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's because telling people what NOT to do is pretty much never going to work. "Don't think of a bear." It's better to focus on what to do and real solutions instead of criticizing alone. The Boys doesn't offer anything in way of solutions except perhaps violence. It maligns fascists and antifascists and horseshoe theories them together.

What I'm most curious about is how much insider info related to celebrities is being released through these episodes and characters. Because THAT is actually accurate and interesting.

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

What do you mean, insider info being released?

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean that, reading between the lines, the character storylines are likely based on real life Hollywood rumors. I think that's the point and why there are so many references. That implies that there really is a celebrity that had sex with an Octopus or other animal. There's actually a (really unsubstantiated) rumor about Tom Cruise and a fish, and since the Deep is sort of made to be Tom Cruise in the Scientology cult... I think there are a lot of Easter eggs like this in the show. It's a warning.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

The reverse side of representation matters.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Mis...representation?

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 107 points 10 months ago

Without reading the article, they wanted her breast milk, didn't they.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 38 points 10 months ago

That seems to be it indeed

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

Holy fucking lol what

^i have never watched this show and have no context at all for this information^

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

the whole shows premise is to make you go "Holy fucking lol what" pretty much when they push new extremes every episods

but despite that its actually very good

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

The main antagonist has mommy issues and a brest milk fetish.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yea, there's a scene in the latest season that involves her character breast feeding a grown man (who's the show's parody of Superman, and also kinda alt-right leaders/politicians, no less).

What strikes me as particularly dumb, apart from not recognising that the show is satire, is that her character's motivation was to get ahead by pleasing the man in charge. Which means, even if she were in character, and ok with the ridiculous idea of providing or pretending to provide breast milk, she'd have no interest in providing any breast milk to anyone.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Something their mothers never gave them, from an organ they’ve never seen in person.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

I suggest we begin referring to Y'all Quesa as "soap flakes".

[-] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Well that's just weird

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Probably straight from the source.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 90 points 10 months ago

“I know people saw a character that I played do some really extreme things on The Boys and I don’t care if you’re in costume, I don’t care if you’re in character – it’s not OK and it’s not funny to demand those things from me in person at my booth. It’s not OK.”

“Frankly, to the person who did that repeatedly today, I made it pretty clear that it wasn’t OK and that only seemed to make this person and their friend angry. I didn’t think this needed to be explained but I was deeply uncomfortable – it was quite clear I was uncomfortable.”

Homelander cosplayers, huh? Who would've thought about that...

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Feels like this sort of behavior is the kind of thing that should get you instantly booted from the con, and have your badge revoked, and have you flagged to never be allowed to return to the con, and hell let's just go ahead and give your information to all the other cons that keep such records so they know not to issue you a badge ever again, either. Cons are supposed to be safe and joyful places. If you violate that compact, there should be no compromise.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Should have some Soldier Boys and Butchers ready to go for times like that.

"Oi! You wanna do some in-character reenactment?"

[-] StarlightDust 53 points 10 months ago

Quick note that I see the article is from PinkNews, who have recently had a large number of former staff come out against their leadership for transphobia, ableism, racism, misogyny, and an incredibly toxic workplace culture. This includes recordings of Cohen saying stuff that frankly promotes this sort of fan behaviour.