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Does anyone else find the “dad not approving of his daughter’s boyfriend trope” to be terrible and annoying most of the time?

okay, so, there are many tv tropes that i don’t like but this one is particularly annoying, it usually goes like this: girl introduces her boyfriend to her parents, the mom is happy but the dad doesn’t like him. the most common reasons to why the dad doesn’t like him are usually about the boy being a bit of a loser, being clumsy or having a humble job, sometimes the dad doesn’t like the boyfriend because he’s like some weird guy with tattoos and with a motorcycle which is less irritating even tho it’s still annoying. in the first three cases the dad is just a jerk, i’ve seen like once this movie that i’ll never watch again about this man meeting his girlfriend‘s dad and he would always make him nervous and treat him like a loser and be mean to him because he wasn’t some super chad guy (my point was proven when later in the movie the dad seemed to like his daughter’s ex because he was more “man-like”) i know that it was supposed to be funny but it just pissed me off because i had to witness this poor guy who is also really sweet getting bullied by this asshole of a man who “doesn’t approve” of him. another thing that i don’t like but like about this trope is the fact that it sounds sexist, i don’ want to be the type of person who calls everything that involves a man not approving of a girl’s choice sexist but in most of these situations the daughter is an adult and she is old and mature enough to make her own choices, so it sounds just slightly sexist to me but tell me what you think. another case where it was really annoying was in “The Big Bang Theory” with Howard’s interactions with his girlfriend’s dad who is super fricking mean to him because he’s physically weak and bad at “man-stuff” and he doesn’t give a shit about the fact that he’s actually a really smart guy. anyways this trope is annoying because it always ends up being “dad doesn’t like daughter’s boyfriend because he’s not a real man and he doesn’t make lots of money” and because it’s basically portraying bullying as “funny”, it sometimes makes me think how would the dad react if his daughter’s got a “manly“ boyfriend who actually turns out to be a jerk, tell me what you think.

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u/Complete-Quantity360 — 4 days ago

Okay, hear me out

What if there was the option to put any type of pattern on any type of clothes and accessories in any colors? It could be done with world flags and pride flags as well, tell me what you think (the drawing looks bad but i really wanted to make it fast to show the idea as soon as possible)

u/Complete-Quantity360 — 8 days ago

You know the song Adrien sings for Marinette in season 5? It almost made me cry from disappointment

ok, so, the song itself was cute and it was very romantic for Adrien to do it, but it disappointed me so fricking much that i almost cried. first of all, let me give you an advice, go listen to Miraculous’ Italian Dub, if you think Chat Noir is hot his Italian voice actor, Flavio Aquilone, will make you loose your mind. that’s what i’m going to talk about, Aquilone is a PERFECT voice actor, he has a hot voice and he’s expressive and he’s a perfect fit for Adrien, and MY GOD his singing voice is so good (please listen to the movie songs with Chat Noir in them in Italian, you won’t regret it). i am Italian so i value my country’s voice acting a lot so i couldn’t wait to hear Aquilone absolutely OWNING that song because i knew it existed, so you can imagine how disappointed i was when i found out that they gave Adrien a different voice actor for the song… yeah, i was sad and i almost cried… well, at least they didn’t change the voice actor for the movie… but seriousl, listen to Adrien’s voice in Italian, it’s great.

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u/Complete-Quantity360 — 28 days ago

Can we talk about Disney’s LGBT representation for a moment?

okay so, i noticed that Disney in movies like elemental, strange world and onward and some other movies was trying to be more LGBT friendly, and that’s great, but i’ve noticed that (if you don’t include the Owl House) Disney’s gay representation only goes as far as either having background characters be gay or having the gay love story not be on screen for long if it’s a major character being gay, keep in mind that i haven’t watched Lightyear so tell me if the gay couple gets more screen time there. i’ve noticed that in elemental the gay couple is just in the background and doesn’t really do anything, in onward the gay couple is just mentioned and in strange world except for that scene with Ethan’s friends and a few mentions Ethan’s homosexuality is not really onscreen and there is no real love story. there’s also the fact that Disney announced before Frozen 2 came out that Elsa was going to have a girlfriend but they changed their mind last second, while they were making inside out 2 they changed most of the movie to make sure that Riley didn’t had a crush on Val anymore but was instead just friends with her and with Elio they were also supposed to make him gay but then decided to not give him the male crush they were planning to give him (also, they were planning to give him a “queer personality“ by making him fruity which is kind of offensive, why are 90% of gay mens in cartoons fruity?), they also announced that in descendants 5 one of the two main characters was going to be gay but i don’t trust them to do that, i feel like they are either not going to explore the crush‘s personality or character, overshadow the love story with something else or simply change their mind and remove the love story. with all that said i feel like Disney’s gay representation is not really representation and is just there to show that “hey, we have gay, we have inclusive” and they don’t do anything with it, it’s just there to show that they have it, or they just change their mind last second and don’t do it, it would be great if they decided to put a very obvious gay romance in their next movie and explore it way more than they did in the past and make it a focal point of the movie, it would be great for kids to see that being gay is perfectly fine to be gay and there’s nothing wrong with it but they just don’t do it, they just show that it’s there and call it inclusion, what do you think?

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u/Complete-Quantity360 — 1 month ago

i really need to talk about this somewhere because this is the worst gender stereotypes episode i’ve ever seen in a kids show, it’s so stupid and offensive towards what women had to go through for CENTURIES.

so, i bet you all know Doraemon, this was an episode that was made around the 80’s and remade in the 2000, it’s about Nobita wanting to become a girl, first of all, the old episode:

the old version:

Nobita is at school and as always Gian and Suneo are bullying him and the teacher is scolding him for arriving late and the whole class laughs at him when he messes up in gym class and this idiot thinks that it’s because he’s a boy and that if he was a girl everything would be better. now, if you’re a woman who grew up in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s you know that it’s not true, i’m not but i know that times were hard for women back then. so Doraemon tells Nobita that there is no difference between being a boy and being a girl, alo not true because even tho society is more evolved women are still considered inferior, a woman would still make less money than a man for the same amount of work. in the end Doraemon turns Nobita into a girl so he’s now named Nobiko, i like the design but i’m not here to talk about that. the first thing that changes is that Nobita’s mom gets more concerned when he/she falls down the stairs since he/she’s a girl now and the next day at school is where the infuriating part starts, the teacher doesn’t scold him/her because he/she’s late and everyone is nice to him/her, even Gian and Suneo, oh and they let him/her play sports with them which would’ve never happened back then, since you know “girls life is easier”, THIS WAS MADE IN THE 80’S, it’s horrible to say even at a time like that, ESPECIALLY in a time like that where nobody would blink if a man forced his wife to not work and instead cook and clean. Nobita is happy at first but then he wants to become a boy again first because Shizuka won’t marry a girl and second because Gian is now in love with him/her, and the episode ends. so, this is the old version so you might say that the authors got more mature and the new version is better… it’s not, it’s much worse because it was made more recently.

the “new” version:

the episode opens with Nobita and Gian playing sumo and Nobita looses, so when he doesn’t want to play anymore Gian and Suneo call him “Nobiko”. at home Nobita asks a valid question “who decided that mens have to be strong?” and Doraemon’s answer is really stupid, he talks about how the Japanese symbols for “man” and “woman” represent a specific thing like praying for women and working for mens, that’s wrong, sexism has been a thing for way longer that writing, cavemen technically decided it since biologically women have more fat cells to protect the fetus in case they get pregnant and mens have more muscles since cavemen would always go hunting and it’s still there because of evolution (correct me if i’m wrong). Nobita says that if he was a girl nobody would touch him even with a flower even tho as you know violence against women is unfortunately very common, so Doraemon turns him into a girls with a “headband”, i hate Nobiko’s new design, that’s not Nobita in girls form, that’s just a girl who looks like him. when Nobita/Nobiko’s mom entered and scolded her for sitting the wrong way i thought that this episode would’ve worked on the fact that women were limited in almost everything they could do (and they still are in some countries, let’s hope things will change) but it didn’t, Nobita arrives at school and all the boys treat him like he’s made of soap bubbles, Gian falls in love with him/her, Gian finds out that Nobiko is actually Nobita and the episode ends.

so yeah, the reason why these two episodes are terrible is because they are treating women’s problems like they didn’t exist and acting as if us girls have a perfect life and are always treated with care and respect, it’s not true, women are still treated like objects and in some countries they have no rights and the fact that this kids cartoon is underestimating the issue is disgusting and toxic.

tell me what you think and thank you for reading.

u/Complete-Quantity360 — 2 months ago