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'The Boys' star Valorie Curry asks for 'boundaries' from fans (www.cinemablend.com)

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[-] Silverseren@fedia.io 177 points 3 weeks ago

The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

It's super weird that they're that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.

[-] Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.org 53 points 3 weeks ago

That's actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right... Kind of alarming if that wasn't picked up on by some

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 weeks ago

These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn't satire or get upset that wolfenstein's Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 weeks ago

"I loved Rage Against The Machine until they went woke"

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

These idiots didn't even say "woke", they said "political". They've never processed any part of Rage lyrics other than "fuck you, won't do what you told me".

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't understand? Why did ratm have to get political?, why couldn't they just stick to their music?

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

If you really suck, the games are about Nazis killing this one guy

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago

Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.

Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don't like rights being taken away.

[-] Silverseren@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago

No, they really don't see it. And they instead idolize Homelander and think he's the one that's correct in the show and doing what's right and what they want to do.

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It's how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 24 points 3 weeks ago

One day we'll have a movie that starts with a warning like:

This movie is satire. If you actually relate to and agree with the ideas presented in this film, please seek professional help.

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately it would get paid as much attention as the FBI warnings about piracy being illegal.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like the only satire that works is full blown, overt caricature, like the WW2 propaganda cartoons

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's.. Not satire

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Poe’s Law per Wikipedia

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

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[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yes my ideal woman should breastfeed a fully grown lab experiment

[-] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Its the same reason they like to play Born in the USA all the time.

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 25 points 3 weeks ago

Star Trek has a similar subset of fans that are all like "When did Star Trek get all woke? More pew pew!"

Try 1966

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

This has to be satire. Right?

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

The push to get trump on the GOP ballot started as the largest troll in 4chan history.

Halfway through, the ones in on the joke got swarmed by morons who thought it was serious.

But man, literally the everest of trolls, was almost beautiful to watch.

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 113 points 3 weeks ago

Without reading the article, they wanted her breast milk, didn't they.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago

Article doesn't say but there is a good chance by the context.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago

That seems to be it indeed

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago

Holy fucking lol what

^i have never watched this show and have no context at all for this information^

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

the whole shows premise is to make you go "Holy fucking lol what" pretty much when they push new extremes every episods

but despite that its actually very good

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It is very good, but they crossed the line for me, and I stopped watching. I'm not sure when it was crossed. I think it was s03e01 when they were running around inside of a human asshole, and then turned a person into little meaty bits all over the room. But I finished the season somehow. When another season was announced, I decided not to watch it. I do enjoy the show, but I don't enjoy feeling like my eyes and brain have been violated every other episode.

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

they were running around inside a human penis yes .

somehow the deep making out with a squid was worse for me

[-] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well, shit, why did I not watch that sooner? Seems I have some catching up to do.

unzips

[-] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

I only ever saw the first episode and hated the guy whose girlfriend is run over. The whole character rubbed me the wrong way and I couldn't care for him at all despite the show trying to make me care. The star light lady that was the only thing that got me, where I was like I hope she will be fine. But it wasn't enough for me to commit to watching more.

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

The main antagonist has mommy issues and a brest milk fetish.

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Something their mothers never gave them, from an organ they’ve never seen in person.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

I suggest we begin referring to Y'all Quesa as "soap flakes".

[-] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well that's just weird

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably straight from the source.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 96 points 3 weeks ago

“I know people saw a character that I played do some really extreme things on The Boys and I don’t care if you’re in costume, I don’t care if you’re in character – it’s not OK and it’s not funny to demand those things from me in person at my booth. It’s not OK.”

“Frankly, to the person who did that repeatedly today, I made it pretty clear that it wasn’t OK and that only seemed to make this person and their friend angry. I didn’t think this needed to be explained but I was deeply uncomfortable – it was quite clear I was uncomfortable.”

Homelander cosplayers, huh? Who would've thought about that...

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Feels like this sort of behavior is the kind of thing that should get you instantly booted from the con, and have your badge revoked, and have you flagged to never be allowed to return to the con, and hell let's just go ahead and give your information to all the other cons that keep such records so they know not to issue you a badge ever again, either. Cons are supposed to be safe and joyful places. If you violate that compact, there should be no compromise.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Someone definitely asked if they could suck on her tit while dressed as Homelander.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Should have some Soldier Boys and Butchers ready to go for times like that.

"Oi! You wanna do some in-character reenactment?"

[-] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 weeks ago

Quick note that I see the article is from PinkNews, who have recently had a large number of former staff come out against their leadership for transphobia, ableism, racism, misogyny, and an incredibly toxic workplace culture. This includes recordings of Cohen saying stuff that frankly promotes this sort of fan behaviour.