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Posted this on LWMA and felt it was worth sharing here as well. Found this post on Twitter/X. I know I post a lot about this sort of thing but this comment is right on the money about the problem of the "women and children" rhetoric. The implication that a man/boy dying during a tragic event like a bombing, shooting, terrorist attack, natural disaster, etc. is nothing major and not worth mourning even if that may not be the intent behind it. A male dying during an unfortunate incident like this is someone's son, father, brother, husband, etc. and it's so cruel to imply using this rhetoric that somehow a male's death doesn't matter. It's become worse in recent times how it's become "women and girls," which implies not even boys' lives and safety matters. Which is a whole other level of screwed up. I always felt "women and children/girls" is a classic example of misandry and how it's so widespread and enforced in much of society and institutions. I've seen some people defend it saying it's because women are more vulnerable. Well men are just as vulnerable and the average man isn't a Rambo-esque Action hero who's immune to harm. There's also misogynistic aspects to it too with how it infantalizes women and has them solely reliant on men to protect or rescue them when women are also capable of being soldiers, rescue workers, first responders, etc. and their efforts should be commended as much as the men in these professions.

Worth noting it was a female user who posted this as well, which is great. Always nice to see when both genders stick up for each other and call out bigotry against each other. I flaired this as progress because it always feels like progress when this rhetoric is called out for being blatantly anti-male and also when women call it out, showing they don't take well to men's lives being made out to be disposable and not worth caring about. Regardless of gender or age, everyone has a right to safety and protection.

Found this post on Twitter/X and felt it was worth sharing here. I know I post a lot about this sort of thing but this comment is right on the money about the problem of the "women and children" rhetoric. The implication that a man/boy dying during a tragic event like a bombing, shooting, terrorist attack, natural disaster, etc. is nothing major and not worth mourning even if that may not be the intent behind it. A male dying during an unfortunate incident like this is someone's son, father, brother, husband, etc. and it's so cruel to imply using this rhetoric that somehow a male's death doesn't matter. It's become worse in recent times how it's become "women and girls," which implies not even boys' lives and safety matters. Which is a whole other level of screwed up. I always felt "women and children/girls" is a classic example of misandry and how it's so widespread and enforced in much of society and institutions. I've seen some people defend it saying it's because women are more vulnerable. Well men are just as vulnerable and the average man isn't a Rambo-esque Action hero who's immune to harm. There's also misogynistic aspects to it too with how it infantalizes women and has them solely reliant on men to protect or rescue them when women are also capable of being soldiers, rescue workers, first responders, etc. and their efforts should be commended as much as the men in these professions.

Worth noting it was a female user who posted this as well, which is great. Always nice to see when both genders stick up for each other and call out bigotry against each other. I flaired this as progress because it always feels like progress when this rhetoric is called out for being blatantly anti-male and also when women call it out, showing they don't take well to men's lives being made out to be disposable and not worth caring about. Regardless of gender or age, everyone has a right to safety and protection.

I remember way back then we owned a couple of VHS tapes that were released around the late 80s. I want to say this would've been circa 1986/87 at the latest, maybe? One was about safely crossing the street and the other was about first aid, and I recall one had a reddish VHS box. The names of both totally escape me at this time, but I'm hoping these sound familiar to some here and they can help me to identify them and perhaps someone even had them both uploaded to YouTube in decent quality.

Always enjoyed the two Dentist films and fondly remember catching them both on cable quite regularly back in the late 90s and early 2000s, especially on Cinemax, which always showed the weirdest movies. The titular dentist is among the more underrated and overlooked Horror villains, played to perfection by Corbin Bernsen who makes him in equal measures frightening and dangerous, but still sympathetic with him with his point of view of how his life is deteriorating. The use of tooth decay as a metaphor to symbolize how he views his life around him is decaying is quite cleverly done. Both of these movies get pretty outrageously gory and gruesome, with gruesome moments that can rival anything you see in the likes of a Saw or Terrifier film. These movies do for dental visits what Jaws did for swimming in water.

It's a shame there was never a third film, I'd definitely like to see far more of this character. Between the two I think I slightly prefer the second, but both are definitely solid.

No spoilers for the recent Horror film, Obsession. Which was excellent and I'd highly recommend it. I can't be the only one who was reminded of Loved To Death from TFTC Season 3? It reminded me so much of it and very much felt like the same story re-imagined for this era. It's a film I can totally imagine the Crypt Keeper introducing and book-ending. I wouldn't be shocked if the director may have been influenced by Loved To Death and incorporated some elements of it into the film. I very much recommend the film and it would make for a solid pairing with Loved To Death given how much alike both are. Both involving men who wish for a woman to be madly in love with them only for those wishes to backfire in such a horrific way.

Posted this on other subs and felt it was worth sharing here. Saw this unbelievably ignorant and infuriating post show up in my Twitter feed from a blocked account thanks to this very annoying glitch that's resulting in posts blocked/muted accounts appearing in my feed, and I saw this and was reminded as to why I blocked this idiot. I mean, wow. It's bad enough people will try to deny and downplay the fact there's female violence against men/boys and in much higher numbers than people realize, but to outright claim that women don't rape and kill men/boys, either? That's a whole other level of plain screwed up and evil. There's definitely been many men and boys killed by women, and these same idiots will use the usual rebuttals that "Oh but it's nowhere near the same scale," "There's no epidemic of women killing men and boys," "You're not fearing for your life like women are when you're out at night," "Why do you only bring this up when women share their stories" and of course the favorite S-word of misandrists all over, that women raping/killing men/boys isn't "systemic." Ugh.

It's an undeniable fact both genders can be terribly violent against each other and both rape/kill each other. Women do it to men/boys just like the reverse, and both are equally repugnant and evil. It shouldn't be a contest as to who does what to who more, something misandrists are so fixated on doing. I never take into account the numbers given how extremely underreported and mispresented female-to-male violence is. I know I shouldn't be this upset by a random internet idiot who has nothing better to do than spout utter nonsense like this, but holy shit, how ignorant and hateful can one be to claim this? It's bad enough when people will downplay female-to-male violence/rape/abuse/homicide, etc. but then to claim it outright doesn't happen? Sorry, you have the right to your own opinions but not your own facts. It's a fact women (as well as girls) also do rape and kill men/boys and even if the numbers aren't as high, doesn't change or negate the fact. It's just as terrible as the other way around but they'll always downplay to not seem like a big deal.

I've said before many times I'm very liberal with the vast majority of my views and I hold almost no right-wing views on anything at all. But this sort of thinking and always trying to massively downplay and outright dismiss female-on-male violence and ignoring misandry and treating it as a non-issue is a big reason in recent times more males are being swayed to the Right and don't want to associate with the Left. Really sucks how people often associate any sort of liberal or left-wing thinking with this, when as a mostly very liberal person I despise it. Unfortunately people often think being liberal is the same as being the W-word (I think you know which word it is and due to how much the Right overuses it, I myself won't use it to avoid the association).

Twitter/X lately has had this incredibly annoying glitch where posts from blocked/muted accounts still show. I hate this, defeats the whole point of being able to block accounts you don't want to see any content from and a shining example of how poorly run the platform has been lately. Is there any extension for Firefox that has the block/mute function working properly and nothing at all from blocked/muted accounts shows up in searches? I'm hopeful there's something.

Saw this unbelievably ignorant and infuriating post show up in my Twitter feed from a blocked account thanks to this very annoying glitch that's resulting in posts blocked/muted accounts appearing in my feed, and I saw this and was reminded as to why I blocked this idiot. I mean, wow. It's bad enough people will try to deny and downplay the fact there's female violence against men/boys and in much higher numbers than people realize, but to outright claim that women don't rape and kill men/boys, either? That's a whole other level of plain screwed up and evil. There's definitely been many men and boys killed by women, and these same idiots will use the usual rebuttals that "Oh but it's nowhere near the same scale," "There's no epidemic of women killing men and boys," "You're not fearing for your life like women are when you're out at night," "Why do you only bring this up when women share their stories" and of course the favorite S-word of misandrists all over, that women raping/killing men/boys isn't "systemic." Ugh.

It's an undeniable fact both genders can be terribly violent against each other and both rape/kill each other. Women do it to men/boys just like the reverse, and both are equally repugnant and evil. It shouldn't be a contest as to who does what to who more, something misandrists are so fixated on doing. I never take into account the numbers given how extremely underreported and mispresented female-to-male violence is. I know I shouldn't be this upset by a random internet idiot who has nothing better to do than spout utter nonsense like this, but holy shit, how ignorant and hateful can one be to claim this? It's bad enough when people will downplay female-to-male violence/rape/abuse/homicide, etc. but then to claim it outright doesn't happen? Sorry, you have the right to your own opinions but not your own facts. It's a fact women (as well as girls) also do rape and kill men/boys and even if the numbers aren't as high, doesn't change or negate the fact. It's just as terrible as the other way around but they'll always downplay to not seem like a big deal.

Next to Television Terror, one of my very favorite episodes but unlike that one, one that sadly never really gets recognized or talked about all that much. I find this to easily be one of the most entertaining TFTC episodes and it makes for a perfect companion piece to Television Terror in the sense they both involve haunted houses. This one gets quite creepy at times and has one of the most hateful ever TFTC antagonists with Les Wilton, played so perfectly by Kevin Dillon who really makes you despise his guts and can't wait to see him get his. I remember catching this episode on HBO when it aired way back in October 1993, just in time for Halloween and it was perfect for the occasion. It's a shame this episode never gets recognized all that much as IMO it's one of the most enjoyable episodes. I can watch this and Television Terror anytime.

Another underrated episode. This one is very fun and a nice little homage to TFTC's origins in comic books. There's some great monster effects in this one like with the laundromat monster and the refrigerator zombie (who seems to largely be a re-purposed Herbert Waverly from the Monsters episode, The Match Game). The late, great Harry Anderson makes for a solid protagonist in this and his abusive wife is so thoroughly detestable in the usual EC fashion. This episode sadly never really seems to get recognized all that much which is a shame as it's always a fun one.

Has there been a fix yet for this very annoying glitch? Other users have reported experiencing it as well, posts from blocked or muted accounts showing up in searches. It's very annoying and defeats the whole point of a block function at all.

What are the most accurate and faithful book-to-film adaptations that took as few liberties and deviations with the source novel as possible, and correspond with the novel almost word for word? One such adaptation that springs to mind right away is The Mist. I recall aside from the film's ultra-bleak ending and some dialogue here and there, the film differs very little from the novella. I remember being pleasantly surprised with how faithful the film was to the novella and how very little it deviated. The Mist is my favorite Stephen King story and I was very pleased with how the film stayed faithful to it.

If you want to count comic book film adaptations as well, one that's very faithful is the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. It's nearly a perfect shot-for-shot re-creation of the original Mirage Comics title that I recall changes very little aside from maybe some of the more slightly violent moments. One of the very few comic book films I recall that actually made an effort to adapt a particular comic with as few changes as possible.

Earlier on Twitter/X I noticed some posts popping up during a search that were from blocked accounts. When you block accounts you usually never see any postings at all from them, but now they're starting to show again. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. I hate this and it's another example as to just how broken and clunky Twitter has become ever since Elon took over. Anyone else having this problem? I hate this, defeats the whole point of blocking accounts if one is still going to see content from them when they don't want to.

Season 1 is noticably much shorter than the other seasons, having only merely six episodes. If I were to guess why it had such a short length, it was likely HBO testing the waters to see how it'd fare with the ratings and such, and also likely wanting to keep it on-budget. Thankfully the series right away with a success both with the ratings as well as the critical and audience reception, and it was a no-brainer come Season 2 to increase the number of episodes. It's understandable when the series first aired HBO was uncertain how it'd fare and wanted to see if it'd be a success and thankfully it very much was.

Posted this on a different sub and felt it was fitting for here as well. Not sure if the moderators may find it low-effort or it's been properly flaired.

This "organization" is such a blatant hate group with the misandry they promote and enforce. Not only that but they even blatantly encourage misandry and act as if they advocate for women when all they do is use them and create division and hate between the genders. Always intentionally ignoring and dismissing male victims of things like wars, natural disasters, etc. and ignoring male victims of crimes (especially when committed against them by women). I've never forgotten their now infamous post where they mentioned murdered journalists and despite murdered journalists overwhelming being male by 89%, they went on with their tangent of "stop targeting women journalists." So perfectly fine and acceptable for male journalists to be targeted and murdered? Evidently so in their eyes. And as usual making it into a contest as to which gender has it worse instead of equally advocating for people affected all across the spectrum regardless but of course as usual, intentionally excluding men/boys. They don't even seem to truly want to advocate for women but merely use them as props for their hateful rhetoric and agenda, which itself is also a horrendous practice. They're such a disgusting hate group and need to be designated as such but of course unfortunately never will. People still have the nerve to claim misandry isn't real or serious, when this "organization" is the very epitome of it. If anything, they showcase just how largely accepted and even encouraged misandry is in so much of society and even government.

I've said before many times how I'm very liberal with most of my views and hold very little if any right-wing views on anything, and it's truly embarrassing when people are quick to associate liberal thinking with an "organization" like UN Women. As someone who's mostly very liberal, I detest them. They're not only horrendously misandrist, they're also a disgrace to decent women everywhere, many of whom no doubt reject them.

This "organization" is such a blatant hate group with the misandry they promote and enforce. Not only that but they even blatantly encourage misandry and act as if they advocate for women when all they do is use them and create division and hate between the genders. Always intentionally ignoring and dismissing male victims of things like wars, natural disasters, etc. and ignoring male victims of crimes (especially when committed against them by women). I've never forgotten their now infamous post where they mentioned murdered journalists and despite murdered journalists overwhelming being male by 89%, they went on with their tangent of "stop targeting women journalists." So perfectly fine and acceptable for male journalists to be targeted and murdered? Evidently so in their eyes. And as usual making it into a contest as to which gender has it worse instead of equally advocating for people affected all across the spectrum regardless but of course as usual, intentionally excluding men/boys. They don't even seem to truly want to advocate for women but merely use them as props for their hateful rhetoric and agenda, which itself is also a horrendous practice. They're such a disgusting hate group and need to be designated as such but of course unfortunately never will. People still have the nerve to claim misandry isn't real or serious, when this "organization" is the very epitome of it.