I was laughing out loud at "And who could forget the scourge of Super Mario Bros. convincing countless kids they were actually Italian plumbers?". And the Pac-Man line
I was chuckling myself when I wrote it! I am glad you found as funny as I did, I was worried this might fall a bit flat.
It really is a wild echo chamber folks like this live in, isn't it? That quite a few believe this, and that some would read the original article and believe it, if only because it amplifies their own fears and insecurities, so it must be true as well!
They've been saying the same thing about anime, too. It really is s reheating of the old "Dungeons and Dragons made my kid a satanist" stuff from the 1980s.
Yes, and how magic the gathering was a finely crafted game meant to turn kids away from god as it dealt with "magic" - or that Doom was satan's video game because, well, you are running around in hell and it makes that fact "cool." Anime makes kids gay, etc. Wash, rinse, repeat. All the same arguments used against various aspects of progress in our history are being washed out, rinsed, and applied towards trans folks now.
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I was laughing out loud at "And who could forget the scourge of Super Mario Bros. convincing countless kids they were actually Italian plumbers?". And the Pac-Man line
I was chuckling myself when I wrote it! I am glad you found as funny as I did, I was worried this might fall a bit flat.
It really is a wild echo chamber folks like this live in, isn't it? That quite a few believe this, and that some would read the original article and believe it, if only because it amplifies their own fears and insecurities, so it must be true as well!
They've been saying the same thing about anime, too. It really is s reheating of the old "Dungeons and Dragons made my kid a satanist" stuff from the 1980s.
Yes, and how magic the gathering was a finely crafted game meant to turn kids away from god as it dealt with "magic" - or that Doom was satan's video game because, well, you are running around in hell and it makes that fact "cool." Anime makes kids gay, etc. Wash, rinse, repeat. All the same arguments used against various aspects of progress in our history are being washed out, rinsed, and applied towards trans folks now.
Funny you should mention Magic: The Gathering, since that's another "gateway drug" identified by PITT.
Wow, they sure did! I found something back in 2022 that mentioned it, LOL.
I was just recalling my own friends in school and how their parents felt about the game, and drawing those parallels.