Probably the only guy who became president in a very long time to actually have a well thought out immigration policy was George W. Bush (yes, the war criminal) back when he was governor of Texas. He even wanted to implement some of it as president. Unfortunately, he was a dummy, Cheney was a cartoon villain, and 9/11 absolutely derailed any conversations about doing anything that did not involve killing muslims and erroding Americans’ civil liberties.

To this day, some of his immigration ideas are what MAGA would call super woke.

https://www.bushcenter.org/topics/immigration

Then why did they go after Don Lemon?

^jk

That’s groceries for two for a month.

Jesus…fuck. Those paragraphs were really difficult to read.

It’s OK. Nothing would make me happier than to be wrong in this case. Hopefully they stick to their guns, shut down the gestapo, and finally do something to restore democracy and protect the safety of their constituents. I’m not holding my breath.

Performative bullshit. They’ll fund the fascist department they helped create (DHS) soon enough. Primary the old dems out!

It’s a weird hill you’ve chosen to die on, but ok. You do you.

Lolita is meant to be disturbing. A horror story told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator. Intellectually, I appreciate it, but I too could not get through it.

Hahahahahaha. My firm is so overworked thanks to work cleaning aftwr AI related fuckups that we are often triple booked or more.

If this keeps up, gray beards are going to retire in luxury thanks to this AI bullshit.

Yes

Me: “It’s the hot dog luge”

Wife: “What? Why?”

Me: “Weiner rests in the split of the buns”

Wife:

I haven’t seen the movie, only read synopsis and reviews…

The main actresses were of age (17 & 18 at time of filming) but the movie was about a girls camp. Most of the other girls were much younger. Cynthia Nixon was 13 and looking younger. My issue is more with the portrayal than the plot. For a few years in the 70’s and early 80’s there was a trend to make jailbait movies for the pleasure of adults. Little Darlings wasn’t the worst, but it is still problematic. The plot of Tatum O’Neil’s character flirting and trying to bed a man in his late twenties or thirties was included for no other reason other than to feed the fantasies of the adult males in the Audience.

Manhattan is another disturbing example. The actress was 16 and the plot was of a man in his forties in a sexual relationship with a high school girl.

The Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a teen hitchhiker than promptly fucks the rando trucker that gives her a lift.

Examples seem endless and they all point to the same obsession that generation of men have with young teen girls. Woody Allen, Trump, Epstein, Ted Nugent, etc. They all demonstrated the same issue.

It, and other movies of the seventies and early eighties opted to sexualize young actresses, primarily for the enjoyment of adults and not to help young people feel seen and represented.

You bring up American Pie, a movie about teens trying to get laid. Not a single one of those actors being sexualized was a minor or presented as a minor. That’s what I have a problem with.

I do not have a problem acknowledging young teen sexuality. I have a problem with the sexualization and exploitation of young teens by movie makers at the time.

Read my comment again. In the edits I clarified that my memory jammed Personal Best and Little Darlings together.

Yes, I am younger than a boomer, but I am still in my fifties.

I’m bisexual and have been dealing with homophobic bullshit for over forty years, so please kindly fuck off with your insinuations of homophobia.

Imagine what they’ll do to rogue piñatas.

When I say that I want you to give me “the D”, this is also what I mean.

One thing rarely touched on is how her image and movies were used to groom other children for sexual abuse back then. I know a few people, including myself, that were abused to The Blue Lagoon.

I was a bit young so I don’t remember well, but wasn’t there a mainstream movie about a girls sports team that was essentially just teen (13+ not 18+) softcore lesbian porn? I think one of the Hemmingway sisters was in it.

EDIT: I think I am jamming two movies together. One is Personal Best (1982) with Mariel Hemingway. I still can’t remember the name of the young teen girls one but I do now remember that the plot was that these young girls were trying to lose their virginity. Fucking boomers. Seriously.

EDIT 2:

Found it. The second movie was Little Darlings about girls at camp.