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In reply to the discussion: When Your Favorite Childhood Films Are a Little More Homophobic Than You Remembered [View all]PCIntern
(25,532 posts)14. hey...
You had four guys living together and the father was about three years older than the oldest son. He claimed that each wife died by different means, but there were no women around at almost anytime. Serial killer and liar, if you ask me...
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obamanut2012
Dec 2012
OP
+1. True. Kinnison probably wouldn't last today.... or even break through. n/t
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#5
It's hard to gauge just how drastically things have changed over the last couple of decades.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#36
I don't dispute that his stuff was often disgusting, even at that time it made most
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#60
Right, if any of the "boys" had a girlfriend, she wouldn't last more than an episode
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2012
#30
The orginal Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books from the 20s were shockingly racist
TheMightyFavog
Dec 2012
#43
Uncanny. I don't remember it. ( That says something right there, I guess.)
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#88
Anti-homosexual propaganda films were still being shown when I was in school
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#12
"lots of young people hitchhike, it seems like a good way to get from one place to another..."
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#49
On the bright side, doesn't this mean we have evolved and are making progress as a culture?
Squinch
Dec 2012
#15
I think that joke is probably about Mexican 'border' v. boarder, not about mexicans not paying rent.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#50
Though what you say here is true ( racist caricatures) , you have to grant that....
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#79
i actually find looney tunes kind of subversive. of all the old cartoons, they're my favorite.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#86
The Maltese Falcon, otherwise a fabulous film, is pretty raw toward its one gay character.
dimbear
Dec 2012
#52
It is utterly ridiculous to pick up a film made half a century or more ago and
Skidmore
Dec 2012
#53
Hey guys: People will watch movies made TODAY in 20 years and say the same thing!
Romulox
Dec 2012
#71