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  • Yeah. Like, maybe I’m misinterpreting the ruling, but it sure seems like the mod thought the meme was sexist. For the life of me I just cannot understand that perspective. I was trying to explain my feelings towards the trope in a way that I hoped relatable or understandable to the common person. That’s what memes are for, lol.

    In the original R&M scene Rick is literally the villain. He abuses his power of creation to make a machine seemingly capable of independent thought and feelings, and then condemns it to a menial existence. The humor is derived from empathizing with the poor little guy. That feels like a perfect metaphor for the refrigerator trope to me.

    I could have instead posted a purely academic analysis of the trope, but that’s not exactly a meme is it?





  • The Modlog says

    lemmy.ml rules 1 and 2 (i think you intend to be criticising this trope, but you’re also using it as a punchline)

    Rules 1 and 2 are

    Rule 1: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

    Rule 2: Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

    I made a Rick and Morty butter robot meme. Rick was representing “Authors and Writers” while the robot represented “Strong Female Characters”. Rick told the robot to “get in the refrigerator” in reference to the Women in Refrigerators trope.

    You could maybe argue that the meme is an example of the trope, but you’d have to be bad at memes or arguing.




  • If you want to set off a poutine purist you gotta change the cheese. Trad poutine is exclusively made with cheese curds. Lots of places that sell “poutine”, however, use shredded cheese of some kind or other. Some people go nuts over it, lol.

    I can definitely understand the heritage part. You can’t just throw a bunch of stuff in a bowl and claim it’s a dish that it is not. Coffee is way more broad and varied than something like cacio e pepe though. I still think it’s pretty stuck-up to scorn someone over how they like to drink it. Coffee has been served many different ways in many different places all over the globe. We don’t have to shun one another over it.





  • Scorned? Lol, what a bunch of prudes. Some people just can’t let others enjoy things. Espresso used to be considered hoity toity here in Canada, but that was years ago. It’s pretty normalized now.

    I was under the impression that even if it was the norm, espressos were always referred to as espressos. Neat. I know a good chunk of the world also heavily uses French presses in their coffee making, but the end result is functionally similar to drip coffee.

    Edit: I believe I’ve been misunderstood. Not having drip coffee doesn’t make one a prude. Scorning others for their preferred beverage preparation makes one a prude.


  • This is really only a problem with the big publishers.

    Marvel is suffering the same fate as Hollywood movies. Predictable sells, so they stay the same more or less. Peter is always poor, always has bad luck with women, etc. They also have a huuuuuuuuge history that they’ll reference constantly. Authors note: we haven’t seen this character for 30 years!

    I don’t read a lot of DC, but they do seem to change it up too much. There’s always a new reboot or something going on.

    Are you married to super hero comics? If you branch out to other less hero focused publishers you can find stuff like you’re talking about. Shorter stories, smaller teams, more artistic passion. I love the stuff from Dark Horse and Boom. Image also has some great titles. Even those are semi-large publishers. You can go smaller like Magma, Blood Moon, DSTLRY, etc.

    My advice is to branch out. Your local library may have TPBs from smaller series if you don’t want to commit right away.





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    I don’t think the artist is saying only Boomers have this problem. It is possible to express one’s opinion on one issue without needing to address all similar issues.

    Also it would be rather weird to have a Boomer and a Zoomer together in this situation.