My view is that Cartooniverse has fucking weird views.
Never saw the movie but just watched the scene. I wasn’t as offended when Steve Martin asks his 8 year old son/grandson “what do you do when you see a pretty 8 year old walk by?” I mean, I still would criticize it on it’s own, because it’s continuing the whole idea that males should gawk at females, and make sexist comments. It’s stupid and not funny. However, it’s made to look like it’s bad behavior the father is teaching his son. “Don’t tell your mother I taught you that.”
Now I’m re-watching the scene from Black-ish. I remembered it wrong. I thought he was saying “scrunching up the face when a woman with a big butt walks by” is part of the struggle, part of being black. But he actually says it’s on the same primal level as a baby waving hi, or “a man scrunching up his face when a woman with a big butt walks by.” So he’s comparing it to, what he considers natural reactions, not saying it’s part of being black.
However, I would still find a problem with a family sitcom where the father AND the grandfather, in front of the son’s mother, make it seem acceptable to focus on a woman’s body parts when they walk by. I would have had even more of a problem with the Parenthood scene, not for racial or cultural reasons, if Steve Martin told his son/grandson “what do you do when you see a girl walk by with a big butt/big boobs.” I would have found it insulting because it’s reducing women further, not just to their overall attractiveness, but to their body parts. “Don’t look them in the eyes, stare at their tits/ass” is the message.
This middle aged white man was offended by the preview, before the show even started, when the black husband told his mixed-race wife that she had no business talking to him about being black. Nope. Not gonna watch.
Well then you utterly missed how that was shot down and resolved.
Well, this thread convinces me every black comedian that incorporates aspects of their life into their act is a racist.
For shame.
For.
Shame.
Please, give us a break. It’s unfair to expect anyone to watch Parenthood.
Isn’t Cartooniverse the poster who thought actors should be charged with statutory rape for on screen actions with underage actors? And that random graffiti swastikas meant the entire country of Germany was antisemitic?
Needs serious therapy.
Years and years and years of therapy.
To be fair, it was the movie not the TV show. Marginally better.
Too funny.
It’s even worse than that. I went to youtube to get an idea about this show and there’s racism all over the place. Here is a clip where an older man calls a younger black person “boy”.
Link broken because of how disgusting it is. Definitely NSFW.
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Zn4NCsP9Q
My opinion of the show is that it is really funny. I think if done right it can be this generations Cosby Show.
You mean the lead actor is out ruffie-ing and raping women as we type?? :eek:
I saw my first episode last night, and loved it. I was laughing throughout.
And I can’t tell you how much I appreciated the Magritte/Matisse thing. How many mainstream American sitcoms assume their audience knows anything about impressionism and surrealism? I’m sure the joke worked fine if you didn’t actually know the difference betweent the two of them–at least after the dad made it clear that she had the wrong artist–but given that I’m pretty familiar with both of them…well, I was just about crawling under the couch while I was watching it. Hilarious.
This- I had to bury my hands in my face when she made that error. I was laughing so hard throughout the whole thing- “the race card” “I don’t understand the rules” Diane and the whipped cream. The midnight interrogations.
It was all so funny.