I find that comedy tends to age poorly. In the 1980s I loved Revenge of the Nerds (1984) but these days I’d have a hard time being amused by panty raids, setting up cameras to watch women undress, and of course disguising oneself in order to have sex with an unsuspecting woman. I have fond memories of The Monster Squad (1987) but I rewatched it a few years back and was floored by some of the homophobic comments made by the kids. I don’t imagine too many people would be happy with chubby little Horace wielding a shotgun to kill Gill-Man but I appreciated how Dracula was a serious threat to the kids. Dude dynamited their tree house. Dracula does not fuck around. Even when old comedies aren’t offensive to modern sensibilities it oftentimes isn’t funny.
So I won’t give this young lady a hard time. She grew up in a different era and the media she consumes is vastly different.
She has more essays that you can browse if you click on her name. Such as this one and this one. But I’m just impressed that she has the time to write these while working on her Rocket Science degree.
You know what, thanks. I had no idea what Medium was until now when you prompted me to look things up - but because of the urls and the logo atop Medium articles I’d read before I thought it was some sort of newspaper or broadcast corporation with paid staff and all.
But it’s just New Blogger. This is literally just someone’s online self-published diary. So yeah, I’m deffo joining you in the “Who cares if that poor girl is Wrong on the Internet ?!”
Yeah, it was up to around 50 comments the last time I saw it, all in the last couple of days and largely from incels (there were mentions of Staceys and Chads.)
I think us oldsters don’t really understand the perspective of youngsters today. My stepdaughter is 21. She appreciates her own variety of humor. (John Mulaney is a fave of hers.) I guarantee that if I popped that movie in, her eyes would bug out and she would turn it off.