I agree with you about the 90's. I think we are the same age or close to it. Nirvana, Metallica, Prince, Dr Dre, just an incredible decade for music.
But I disagree with your take on the trailer or at least one particular thing. It is certainly ham handed but I don't see any reason why the lost boys need to be boys. The lost boy is an archetype and girls can fill that archetype just as well as boys. In my experience prepubescent kids do sex segregate somewhat but there is always some mixing and some girls that gravitate to the boys. We used to call them tomboys but maybe that's not PC anymore. So I don't see any reason why Wendy being the "mom" and Peter the "dad" necessitates they all he boys. I do agree with you that the trailer makes it look like they don't do it well but I'm sure the writers of "Hook" could pull it off.
Well judging by the trailer some of the Lost Boys are also not pre-pubescent (which was also the case in Hook with Rufio, but then he had become the new 'father' at that point). Also, I'm confused by your last sentence. What about the writers of Hook?
I think you could probably have Lost Boys who are girls but my goodness, they could handle it better. It's just so cringe.
I was trying to say that the trailer leads me to believe they didn't handle adding girls as lost boys very well but that the writers of Hook would be able to add girls as lost boys in a way that actually worked. So basically agreeing with your last sentence.
Actually Erik I think the 90s were a pretty progressive time. Growing up outside Trenton, NJ, I played rec league baseball and basketball on heavily mixed race teams (white, black, chinese... not many Asian subcontinent people in that area yet) and there was never a whiff of racism between us as kids or teens. Maybe it was a Fox and Hound situation, or maybe racism was reintroduced and peddled. There's good money in race hustling, and there's good power to gain when you can divide people through collectivism. That's what this all is now with these media depictions- race based collectivism. They couldn't split us up through class in the USA, so they turned to race and gender. Many of our fellow citizens are falling for it, but more and more are waking up and "seeing through the BS" as you say.
Yeah, it was definitely the least bad time ever. I definitely witnessed some racism (both my siblings are adopted from Korea and so I'd see it pretty first hand from time to time) but that's always going to happen. Never getting rid of it entirely. And yes, all of this just feels enormously divisive when it really doesn't have to be like this.
I agree with you about the 90's. I think we are the same age or close to it. Nirvana, Metallica, Prince, Dr Dre, just an incredible decade for music.
But I disagree with your take on the trailer or at least one particular thing. It is certainly ham handed but I don't see any reason why the lost boys need to be boys. The lost boy is an archetype and girls can fill that archetype just as well as boys. In my experience prepubescent kids do sex segregate somewhat but there is always some mixing and some girls that gravitate to the boys. We used to call them tomboys but maybe that's not PC anymore. So I don't see any reason why Wendy being the "mom" and Peter the "dad" necessitates they all he boys. I do agree with you that the trailer makes it look like they don't do it well but I'm sure the writers of "Hook" could pull it off.
Well judging by the trailer some of the Lost Boys are also not pre-pubescent (which was also the case in Hook with Rufio, but then he had become the new 'father' at that point). Also, I'm confused by your last sentence. What about the writers of Hook?
I think you could probably have Lost Boys who are girls but my goodness, they could handle it better. It's just so cringe.
I was trying to say that the trailer leads me to believe they didn't handle adding girls as lost boys very well but that the writers of Hook would be able to add girls as lost boys in a way that actually worked. So basically agreeing with your last sentence.
Okay gotcha, I just wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying!
Actually Erik I think the 90s were a pretty progressive time. Growing up outside Trenton, NJ, I played rec league baseball and basketball on heavily mixed race teams (white, black, chinese... not many Asian subcontinent people in that area yet) and there was never a whiff of racism between us as kids or teens. Maybe it was a Fox and Hound situation, or maybe racism was reintroduced and peddled. There's good money in race hustling, and there's good power to gain when you can divide people through collectivism. That's what this all is now with these media depictions- race based collectivism. They couldn't split us up through class in the USA, so they turned to race and gender. Many of our fellow citizens are falling for it, but more and more are waking up and "seeing through the BS" as you say.
Yeah, it was definitely the least bad time ever. I definitely witnessed some racism (both my siblings are adopted from Korea and so I'd see it pretty first hand from time to time) but that's always going to happen. Never getting rid of it entirely. And yes, all of this just feels enormously divisive when it really doesn't have to be like this.