![]() The little kid watching this show would have no idea about any of this stuff it would all be new and exciting and interesting, and the moral messages would be very fresh because they haven’t *seen* them yet. Many of the criticisms your team brought up were things that kids simply wouldn’t bring to the show because they didn’t know about them.Īnd that bounces back to us on DAPDX one of the things I said was that the show’s morality message was pretty trite, something we’d seen dozens of times before. Same with the idea that portraying Africans or American Indians as separate races is an act of marginalization or “othering” it’s a context that grows from many years of learning, not something that’s innate. We don’t even need to be prompted to get that idea, because our life experiences just kick us right into that context. ![]() Like, *we* all get the idea that “short hair + rainbow = gay”. It’s the modern equivalent of the cheap ethnic joke, depending more on violation of social taboos than on actual humorous content.īut then…the fact that it *was* an easy joke kind of goes back to my central idea, which is that we’re all too old to be watching this show. So I listened to your podcast, and first up an admission: We did gay-bait Rainbow Dash, and it was a bit…well, I’m not really going to apologize for where we go on our podcast (that would be pretty stupid considering some of the antics Zuey gets up to) but I will say that it was low-hanging fruit, a joke that was maybe a little too easy.
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