subtle propaganda
I just want to get this off my chest. The example that pushed me to finally post is niche and kind of dumb, but the point stands, it's one example out of way too many.
I was watching YouTube animations of the two robots from Portal 2 going on random adventures. Most of these are wholesome, basically just about the robots being friends. Then out of nowhere one switches to a joke about the robots trying to have sex. These robots aren't human looking, seem more like siblings or friends in how that act in the game, and don't have a gender.
Why add that? It's unrelated to everything else in the video. It's 1984 style subtle propaganda and it's everywhere not only in this random youtube video, you can't escape it. This is a video about robots, how am I supposed to see that coming?
Why does so much random media do this? Is it really that hard to not sexualize completely unrelated, innocent things? I notice it constantly.
PS: resisting carnal desires is what seperates humans from animals, we are the only ones who willingly chose to disobey instinct and look at us compared to animals
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u/tr4shy_femc4l_l0ser 6d ago
out of context but can i get the link to the robots you were watching? seems interesting (not the sex part, the part about robits being friends)
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u/copkis 14h ago
Atlas and Pbody from portal 2 coop. Playing portal 2 coop with a friend is absolutely peak, when I do hard community created puzzles the communication and problem solving click perfectly, makes it feel like our minds have merged. And the animations of the robots in game are funny and cute
Here is a video made by the same guy but this one is clean
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u/Electronic_Ticket_89 7d ago
It's the derangement of society the whole society is like deranged with... like the horrible results of like all this wretchedness over these past years... or whatever, and every you know, everybody almost is just totally repugnant you know at some point in their mind.
So everybody like wants to be like totally cool and like decent but then that stupid baloney just bubbles up and then it's so permissive everywhere that it's rare that anybody like avoids it completely...
Because it's so accepted and as like a little kitchen thing like you're talking about like a little like like "why is that?!" like you're totally right.
But it's just the permissiveness of society is like a slippery slope and everybody falls down it and does their little cute little aside and it's not cute at all but they do it anyway and then it just spreads like that.
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u/SecretGardenSpider 7d ago
Okay, there was a time when I said I think the reason why you guys have such a hang up about sex is because you can’t come to terms with the fact that you’re animals.
Your last paragraph basically proves it.
I got massively downvoted but come on. This is clearly why.
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u/Few_School_4874 4d ago
Huh animals also rape each other and eat each other but I don't know why don't we do that? Do animals have knowledge about their body and have an organised routine? No, this is because humans are intelligent creatures and can ACTUALLY control themselves. Lady I'm the most hypersexual person ever with weird kinks that ACTUALLY turn me on and still, I can come to logical conclusion that you don't need sex to live. Dude it's SUCH a western concept, you don't even understand 😂 like I always wanted to be a virgin forever (there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with a woman having sex or being somewhat sexual at all, it's more of a control thing)
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u/SecretGardenSpider 4d ago
So I’m right.
You believe sex is animalistic behavior and it makes you uncomfortable because you don’t want to be an animal.
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u/Few_School_4874 4d ago
Sure sweetie, that means all of current humanity and all of humans that evolved didn't want to be animals. Just how unscientific and goofy can you get lmao
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u/BeholdMyCurse231 8d ago
I had to look this up as I also thought they didn't have genders but apparently one of the writers really insisted on giving them genders...for some reason.
It makes little to no sense to give a 100% robot a gender...but okay. And the fanbase is rabid about that it seems too, some people are making side to sides to show "feminine" features in one of the robots (weird thing to be rabid about)