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Hollywood's 'progressive snowflake era' is over with shows now 'hot, horny and white,' NYT guest essay says

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As the loony Liberals continue to circle the drain.

I like me some "hot, horny and white"!

And now here come the whiners to piss in my Cheerios. :p:p

but MAGA... but MAGA... but MAGA... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.

"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.

Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.

She cited the Netflix show "The Hunting Wives" as evidence that Hollywood is no longer woke — proclaiming that everyone on the series is "hot, horny and white."

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.

However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.

"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.

Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.

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Well, if an editorial says it is so, it must be! Editorials are never wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

No, srsly, this is painfully stupid. Some show on Netflix is "evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift", unless you look at some other show, with majority minority casts, or maybe not even any white people at all. It is hilarious how people look to make money writing stupid shit for MAGA folks since they know MAGA folks will never think critically about what they want to believe.
 
Jezcoe said:
This is the dumbest ****ing discourse ever.
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Well- be grateful. If it’s not this, it’s gonna be about cat-eating Haitians, cancer-causing wind turbines, autism-causing vaccines, secret Kenyan birth certificates, Hunter Biden dick pics, genocidal S Africans, Jewish space lasers, and other such odds and ends.

The conversation sinks to the lowest common denominator- and in this Trump era, that’s pretty low. Don’t expect any elevated, sophisticated, well-informed conversation.
 
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As the loony Liberals continue to circle the drain.

I like me some "hot, horny and white"!

And now here come the whiners to piss in my Cheerios. :p:p

but MAGA... but MAGA... but MAGA... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.

"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.

Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.

She cited the Netflix show "The Hunting Wives" as evidence that Hollywood is no longer woke — proclaiming that everyone on the series is "hot, horny and white."

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.

However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.

"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.

Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.

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Huh ?
 
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As the loony Liberals continue to circle the drain.

I like me some "hot, horny and white"!

And now here come the whiners to piss in my Cheerios. :p:p

but MAGA... but MAGA... but MAGA... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.

"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.

Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.

She cited the Netflix show "The Hunting Wives" as evidence that Hollywood is no longer woke — proclaiming that everyone on the series is "hot, horny and white."

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.

However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.

"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.

Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.

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I love how Faux news omitted the part of the editorial that Amazon just purchased a cheap spec script from an 80 year old screen writer. Okey dokey, Gramps. 🤣🤣

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | Hollywood Is ‘Hot, Horny and White’ Again

The entertainment industry is tired of being so progressive.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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As the loony Liberals continue to circle the drain.

I like me some "hot, horny and white"!

And now here come the whiners to piss in my Cheerios. :p:p

but MAGA... but MAGA... but MAGA... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.

"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.

Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.

She cited the Netflix show "The Hunting Wives" as evidence that Hollywood is no longer woke — proclaiming that everyone on the series is "hot, horny and white."

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.

However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.

"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.

Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.

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Hollywood may be moving away from it, but one can see the Times isn't. "Socially conscious framework" is a euphemism. One could equally describe Hollywood as moving away from "identity politics and well intentioned racial discrimination."

Then again, truth-in-advertising has never been a facet of the left's "socially conscious framework."
 
That girl Sweeney is getting some traction because she's reasonably pretty, but she's not going to start a new era all by herself! The "outrage" suggested is not liberal outrage, but promoters-backing-a-made-up-controversy outrage.

The change in Hollywood is far more serious, and its cause is far more serious. States like Texas will put up something like a quarter of the movie budget as long as you say whatever the state wants you to say. So yes, government funding of propaganda works. The producers aren't even going to be embarrassed because a lot of the DEI movies were also government propaganda, and not even good government propaganda. But in the background you have countries like China putting out movies that actually have a lighter touch on propaganda, which audiences want to watch, which could outdo them all. Yeah, I know, Trump has a tariff planned... but how is that going to help an international movie industry?
 
Seems a bit early for pushing that kind of message, I mean it's an ad and one movie, it totally discounts all the rest of the movies, but sure.
 
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Who is Sidney Sweeney, and why should I care?
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To quote one of our writers here in Sweden (translated 😊):

"Sweeney is a blonde, curvy woman and also an actress, but mostly in the same way that Red Bull is a meal. She is known from the TV series Euphoria, The White Lotus, and for her inability to deliver a single line that doesn’t sound rehearsed. Now she has made a much-talked-about advertising campaign for the jeans brand American Eagle...

Sweeney looks at us with a glazed expression, like a deer freshly awakened from anesthesia, and talks about her jeans. The tagline is a worn-out pun: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” where the garment sounds like “genes” in English. In another clip, she explains how our genetic makeup determines hair and eye color, and so on. That she has commendable DNA is the concluding point. This dad joke, serving the culture war, has sparked a fierce debate about racial hygiene and Nazi ideology. First, the left got upset, then the right got upset about their indignation, and in the middle sat the algorithm, quietly pleased.

One must assume that was the whole point.
The advertising agency is said to have hoped for exactly this chain of reactions — Sweeney’s old-fashioned pin-up ideal and constantly exposed cleavage have already previously divided the internet’s inhabitants into woke and anti-woke camps. (Her loudest fans are a far-right swarm of hornets who want to crown her as an Aryan breeding queen.)"

This is why you should care (or not).
 
Juks said:
To quote one of our writers here in Sweden (translated 😊):

"Sweeney is a blonde, curvy woman and also an actress, but mostly in the same way that Red Bull is a meal. She is known from the TV series Euphoria, The White Lotus, and for her inability to deliver a single line that doesn’t sound rehearsed. Now she has made a much-talked-about advertising campaign for the jeans brand American Eagle...

Sweeney looks at us with a glazed expression, like a deer freshly awakened from anesthesia, and talks about her jeans. The tagline is a worn-out pun: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” where the garment sounds like “genes” in English. In another clip, she explains how our genetic makeup determines hair and eye color, and so on. That she has commendable DNA is the concluding point. This dad joke, serving the culture war, has sparked a fierce debate about racial hygiene and Nazi ideology. First, the left got upset, then the right got upset about their indignation, and in the middle sat the algorithm, quietly pleased.

One must assume that was the whole point.
The advertising agency is said to have hoped for exactly this chain of reactions — Sweeney’s old-fashioned pin-up ideal and constantly exposed cleavage have already previously divided the internet’s inhabitants into woke and anti-woke camps. (Her loudest fans are a far-right swarm of hornets who want to crown her as an Aryan breeding queen.)"

This is why you should care (or not).
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I guess not, does she have a hot brother?

Perhaps then my interest would increase.
 
Juks said:
To quote one of our writers here in Sweden (translated 😊):

"Sweeney is a blonde, curvy woman and also an actress, but mostly in the same way that Red Bull is a meal. She is known from the TV series Euphoria, The White Lotus, and for her inability to deliver a single line that doesn’t sound rehearsed. Now she has made a much-talked-about advertising campaign for the jeans brand American Eagle...

Sweeney looks at us with a glazed expression, like a deer freshly awakened from anesthesia, and talks about her jeans. The tagline is a worn-out pun: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” where the garment sounds like “genes” in English. In another clip, she explains how our genetic makeup determines hair and eye color, and so on. That she has commendable DNA is the concluding point. This dad joke, serving the culture war, has sparked a fierce debate about racial hygiene and Nazi ideology. First, the left got upset, then the right got upset about their indignation, and in the middle sat the algorithm, quietly pleased.

One must assume that was the whole point.
The advertising agency is said to have hoped for exactly this chain of reactions — Sweeney’s old-fashioned pin-up ideal and constantly exposed cleavage have already previously divided the internet’s inhabitants into woke and anti-woke camps. (Her loudest fans are a far-right swarm of hornets who want to crown her as an Aryan breeding queen.)"

This is why you should care (or not).
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I can assume we will not be seeing her accept an Academy Award for Best Actress in the near future?
 
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As the loony Liberals continue to circle the drain.

I like me some "hot, horny and white"!

And now here come the whiners to piss in my Cheerios. :p:p

but MAGA... but MAGA... but MAGA... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.

"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.

Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.

She cited the Netflix show "The Hunting Wives" as evidence that Hollywood is no longer woke — proclaiming that everyone on the series is "hot, horny and white."

Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.

However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.

"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.

Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.

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Alrighty then. Good to see people have hobbies.

I like going to the movies. I really don't care what others think about them.

We're going to a matinee of the new Naked Gun tomorrow. $7.50. Can't beat the price. And then it's off to Galena Creek Park for a nice hike in the mountains.

It's good to have hobbies.
 
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