Too cynical and political...not about the show
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“I was disappointed when I listened to my first episode and it quickly became political and racial. That is the Podcasters’ choice, of course, but it was ironic to hear two very evidently young people with no children comment on what it’s like to have a child whether as a single parent or not. And then quickly weave race and politics into it when most peoples day-to-day lives and decisions around these things actually don’t have a lot to do with that. Very quickly became evident that they are very liberal and clearly had some level of distain or lack of understanding around religious efforts to support young women who become pregnant. I saw that’s inherently a negative thing. The episode wound up honing in on some essay that a woman had written about Gilmore girls commenting, seemingly negatively, on the fact that the show was too white (which when you think about it as a racist comment itself), and that somehow this show would’ve turned out differently or been viewed differently because she was black. Then they got onto Sarah Palin‘s daughter and Malia Obama.
What these millennials, like many others, are missing from the equation is the fact that they have allowed themselves to be manipulated by the media to make everything about tribalism, whether on race or other grounds. I studied racial and gender intersectionality in law school, so I’m not coming from a place of so-called ignorance.
But here’s my political feedback: if you focus more on the needy in this country no matter their color, we would get a lot further. Because it would be out of benevolence and charity, not out of victimhood. A wealthy young woman who gets pregnant is going to have a lot more resources in her hands regardless of her skin color. That is not to say people don’t get treated differently or experience disadvantages on the basis of skin color, but what the media likes to leave out (because they’re too busy riling people up to emotionally addict them to their programming), is that life is actually a lot more gray than that and there are a lot more factors that go into peoples’ disadvantage than simply skin color or ethnicity. And that, over time, various disadvantages that may have been related to skin color or other factors are now superseded by other things.
I can point out many occasions in the main stream media where people are treated poorly *because* they’re religious. So victimhood can be spun any which way.
In any event, this is not why I watch Gilmore girls and it’s not why I came to this podcast. So if you’re looking for fun commentary on the show, don’t come to this podcast.”
martyf_23_ via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/13/21
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