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There is a term for this: a moral panic. Believe it or not, sometimes the best answer is to do nothing until the crowd moves on to the next panic, as with the
by iamnothere 2mo ago
There is a term for this: a moral panic.
Believe it or not, sometimes the best answer is to do nothing until the crowd moves on to the next panic, as with the “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s. Turns out D&D was not actually a gateway to Satan worship.
- judge2020 2mo agoLaws are actually being written though to clamp down on non-id-verified internet browsing. No laws came out of the moral panic of the 1980s.
- iamnothere 2mo agoRight, I’m saying there shouldn’t be such laws.
- gorgoiler 2mo agoIf we’re talking 80s, a better comparison would be He-Man. The FTC let the free-market run riot with children’s TV. Shows used commercials to push expensive plastic toys. The shows themselves became commercials for their associated product lines. Parents felt unable to resist the social pressure channeled through their children and congress eventually passed an act that let the FCC reign in the FTC’s damage. In the 2020s family economics has raced to the bottom: wages have stagnated, the cost of goods and services is set based on a household where everyone is in full time employment, and latch-key kids now have He-Man in the palm of their hands courtesy of Apple, Google, Samsung, and Xiomai. This situation is ripe for exploitation by anyone who can offer parents a solution to their kids’ insatiable phone addiction.
- inigyou 2mo agoUnrelated, but He-Man is the funniest name ever, and I can't wait for the gender roles people to come out with some series called He-Man and She-Woman.
- Cthulhu_ 2mo agoNo need to wait, they invented a female counterpart at the same time called She-Ra. Close but not quite.
- gorgoiler 2mo agoReminds me of human Pokémon: man -> woman -> wowoman https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/7ztt2k/the_three_genders_from_the_pokemon_post_on_rall/ https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/7ztt2...
- scandals 2mo agoYou haven't played Fire-boy and Water-girl?
- ColdStream 2mo agoIf D&D didn't lead you to Satan, you were playing it wrong. ;)
- scandals 2mo agoI guess he is the ultimate Dungeon Master
- Tangurena2 2mo agoNah, we just kept making our savings throws.