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   Chop (chopaganda@shakedown.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 09:31:55 JST Chop

   • Flash Mob Of One

   @FlashMobOfOne Definitely feeling that vibe. Bunch of whiny brats blaming their careers fading on all the…

   …publicity and fame they got.

   Ok, sure.

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     Chop (chopaganda@shakedown.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 09:25:00 JST Chop

     Watching the new Brat Pack documentary on Hulu.

     Emilio Estevez in the doc is the same age Martin Sheen was in West Wing, and I’ve never felt older in my life.

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     Chop (chopaganda@shakedown.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 10:45:13 JST Chop

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     @Kshawn @mrcompletely @FlashMobOfOne I dunno. While I can’t defend a lot of his work when viewed through the lens of today, the understanding of sexual assault was fundamentally different back then. And on race, his movies were set in white suburbia which was a race bubble.

     Was he ever confronted on these issues later in life?

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     Kshawn (kshawn@shakedown.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 10:45:14 JST Kshawn

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     Had Hughes lived, he absolutely would have been a Scott Adams, James Woods, "My Pillow Guy"-level Trumper. There is no doubt about this.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 10:45:16 JST Mr. Completely

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     @chopaganda @FlashMobOfOne this whole Saint John Hughes thing is garbage. Some of his big brat pack movies stink (yes, breakfast club is largely good) and the way women are treated in some can't be handwaved away. I appreciated that Molly Ringwald wrote about some of that recently, and wasn't surprised she declined to join the party.

     Guru Demi Moore was cool though. And Ally Sheedy still seems like a dope person.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 10:45:17 JST Mr. Completely

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     @chopaganda @FlashMobOfOne my wife re read the article and said that 1) it was *really* mean, 2) Estevez and the other central figures did come off like total pricks, and 3) Mccarthy was barely in it.

     Most notable to me was that Mccarthy thought everyone young thought they were cool; my friends all thought they were Reagan Youth yuppie cokehead clowns. And just a brief mention of race, nothing about the overt racism, and nothing on the insane misogyny? Literal date rape as comedy?😒 🙄