"Think about it," he (Sorbo) said. "We give ‘pride’ an entire month in this country — yet we give our veterans one day. This is really weird to me."
May is Military Appreciation Month. November is Veterans/Military Families Month. Then there's Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, each service's birthday (June 14 being the most significant one 😉).....
Kevin's either failed to do basic research or he's lying.
I recall the pushback that Rep. Bella Abzug got back in 1971 when she got Congress to recognize August 26 (the date in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was certified, granting women the right to vote) as "Women's Equality Day". Her response? "We now interrupt our long-running program, the Millennium of the Man, for this brief word about a day for women."
And we are still, over 50 years later dealing with whiny men crying that we actually recognized women for a day, even women’s history month gets shit thrown at it. Every year the spike in searches for international men’s day always lands on August 26. And they don’t even care about international men’s day when it does come around, not unless they can use it as a cudgel to beat down on women.
Ha! Years ago when I gave my mother her Mother's Day present I sort of whined – being a smart arse – why isn't there a children's day. She said every bloody day is children's day you cheeky little bugger!
"Kevin's either failed to do basic research or he's lying."
A truly convenient aspect of having followers who won't fact-check is that you don't have to differentiate - you can say things without concern for those things being either true or easy to debunk.
When you've got a captive audience, your performance doesn't have to be any good.
Of course you don't. You just want to indiscriminately superimpose your values onto kids who may barely understand who they are or who they want to be. You want to breed a bunch of "manly men" who probably don't cry, hide their emotions, and whose basis is likely found in Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet. If the cliche were any more blatant, it would be laughable.
Problem is: Sorbo is serious, which means we have to be just as serious in opposing him and his bullshit.
The religious right loves their stereotypes, and tries to hammer everyone into the molds they approve of, whether they fit or not. Absolutely nothing qualifies Sorbo to pontificate on the trans-gendered, or any other subject I know of. He's just one more fool who conflates his religion and politics with actual expertise. Ever the professional victim, Sorbo wonders why he can't find work in Hollywood.
Well, handsome is subjective. He was my mother’s idea of handsome, I was not as impressed. I say that about guys like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and those guys. I’m not opposed to the muscles, but to me there are other more attractive assets on guys than just being burly. Chris Evans is hotter when he’s not flexing because he’s got a very pretty mouth and caring eyes, his face has some softness to it that the others never had. But Tom Hiddleston isn’t bulky at all, lean muscles are nice, but his attributes are more around his emotional intelligence. That generation of main characters were an outlier for getting women’s attention, while women don’t complain, the muscle man standard is for the male gaze and them alone.
I always liked him, his acting was passable and he did make good movies, I just never found him physically attractive. I just assumed his love interests only worked in theory, like because they’re scripted and Hollywood chose him, rather than actual attraction. But like I said, handsome is subjective.
It's a shame Kevin didn't do even a cursory bit of research on lions.
"A female lion is called a lioness. Lionesses are super females, performing the majority of duties in their pride (group), from catching most of the food to protecting the territory from intruders and raising cubs. These intruders are typically other female lions living nearby, looking to expand their territories."
I'm guessing the story doesn't teach young Lucas that part of his male duties is to find another pride, then murder it's infants so that all future pride infants will be his?
Maybe that's the 2040 version. Conservativism hasn't quite regressed to that point yet.
I agree! If your boy kid wants a pretty pretty princess toy or cake, let them. If you take your kid to a library or bookstore story time (I hope you do), and suddenly find out the adult reading the story is a guy in a dress, but your kid wants to stay, let them stay. That's letting kids be kids. My kid's story time readers included gay guys, straight women, and someone in a giant llama costume. The one he didn't want to stay for was the giant llama costume, because it scared him. So we didn't make him stay. That is how you let kids be kids. The gay guy? With little kids it doesn't even register, with big kids they don't care unless you care. Soooo...don't care.
I don't think anyone is teaching that. At an early stage, what you are teaching is that if the kid wants to play with a 'different gender' toy, that's perfectly fine. If they want 'different gender' clothing or jewelry, that's fine too. No four year old doomed themselves to be a bad adult provider for their family because they wore a beret in their hair.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒.
I agree, that's the danger. The one doing it is you dude, not us.
I absolutely know that. I have often said that it takes for more courage for a man to walk down the street wearing high heels that it takes for a gang of thugs to take out their masculinity issues on him
Sorebuns whines how veterans only get one day a year (a lie).
Wonder if he supports gay veterans. Atheist veterans. We've had both in this country since the American Revolution, where we fought to escape a Christian theocracy and a king who believed he could rule by divine right.
The brilliant Green Acres spun off from the dreary, relentlessly unfunny Petticoat Junction, which was a shameful waste of Bea Benaderet's comic talent.
Hillbillies came first, then Junction, then Acres. If you recall, a number of Junction regulars also appeared on the first season of Acres--Uncle Joe, Sam Drucker, the two engineers on the train. And Drucker made the switch permanently.
That would be pricey for a hardcover of an actual novel. Even at today's inflated paperback prices (and who publishes kid's books in paperback anyway?} that's way over priced for a book that probably has at most two dozen pages.
“The 64-year-old actor, best known for his starring role in “Hercules” chronicles the journey of a lion cub named Lucas who endures numerous obstacles on a tricky route to find the cure to a deadly illness that has plagued his sister in the new children’s book, The Test of Lionhood.”
Wow, this sounds great! I didn’t read the book, but I can guess the outcome of the journey.
Lucas, after so many travails, comes upon a group of Eagle Scouts, ends up sexual abused by the Scoutmaster and finally gains enough strength and courage to move along.
He then encounters, a radical democratic liberal, and must fight his way, against all odds, because the democrats has weaponized the DOJ and FBI against him.
After finally surviving his grueling journey, Lucas gets his hands on the magical cure that will save his sister cub. However, after speaking with Joe Rogan and JRK Jr. (the poor man’s JFK Jr.), Lucas is convinced the cure (using MRNA technology), has not been adequately tested, and therefore is given a treatment of Hydroxychloroquine; a cure all approved at the highest levels of the evangelical church and Joe Rogan.
Lucas, galvanized by his new friends, and only after doing his own research, accepts the Hydroxychloroquine, and sets off to save his sister cub.
Lucas eventually makes his way back to his sister cub, and administers the Hydroxychloroquine. Unfortunately, his sister cub would die a miserable death a few days later.
What were you expecting? A miracle? It’s hydroxychloroquine, people? Unless, you have malaria, it’s useless!!!!!
That said, it’s still a true, feel good story of triumph, courage and overall stupidity, which only a bunch of morons like Sorbo could appreciate...:)
Separate but equal. I vaguely remember that being a counterproductive concept in our history, but who even knows anymore? They took down all the statues so now nobody knows history.
Are we also going to ignore his recent comments about men in Hollywood not being manly? Poor Timothee Chalamet, what did he ever do to Sorebut?
One of the right’s favorite manly characters, Ron Swanson is supposed to be a joke on their ideas of masculinity. We’re making fun of you. And how masculine is it to cry about how other people act when they have no bearing on your life whatsoever.
I for one am going to be very interested in seeing how Chalamet shapes up as he goes from being Paul Atreides to Usul / Paul Muadib in Dune, Part II. That should be an indicator of just how manly or not Timothee is, never mind how good an actor.
Based on Part 1, I think he's the best on-screen Paul we've had so far- one part lost puppy, one part angsty teenager... and 𝘫𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘵 a dash of future space-tyrant trapped by a destiny that wasn't even supposed to be his.
That there was a gap in production might actually help him sell it- unlike the other two actors who've tackled the role, he'll 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 be a couple years older after the time skip; they'll just need to roll him around in the sandbox a few times.
I think both the David Lynch and SciFi Channel versions have something to say for themselves. As for the current iteration, I was impressed that Denis Villeneuve actually created ORNITHOPTERS, though a real one would be a mechanical nightmare. I also like Stellan Skarsgård as Vladimir Harkonnen. I find him a lot more menacing and far less the scenery-chewing caricature the previous two were.
Guess we'll have to wait until next March to see what evolves from Part I.
Loved the ornithipters! I had a hard time trying to visualize them way back when I read the novel, so seeing them actually, impressively, brought to screen was quite thrilling. :)
““This takes nothing away from women's equality … women just have a different role in the family, and I think you need both a man and a woman raising a family."“
Then why do so many traditional values men dump wives and pregnant girlfriends so often?
This “women have different roles” is some fucking bs to give man an excuse not to have to do undesirable work in the home. Cleaning up after yourself isn’t a woman’s job, it’s basic human decency. Change your baby’s diapers ferchrissake. Play with your children, teach them stuff, pick up after them, take them to the doctor, pack their diaper bag, none of that is so special that only a woman can manage to do it.
Let’s not also ignore the lack of empathy for families that have faced the death of one of the parents. And a great deal of other situations where there is only one parent.
Having loving, supportive, involved parents is all that is needed, whether it’s a single pattern, or two moms or two dads or a village of aunts and uncles. These are far superior to many religious mom and dad families where the children are used as tokens of piousness or are abused or neglected. The two parent nuclear family is far too modern and has far too many drawbacks to be what Sorbo thinks it is, a paragon of virtue.
I really want to print your post out and frame it! The things I'm proudest of as a parent was responding the way I did when my ex ran off and moved to a different city with her boyfriend, and I had a 7 year old and 11 year old boy to look after. Every packed lunch, every school meeting, every school assignment, every skidded pair of undies, every doctor's visit, all the housework, every time I had to leave work in the middle of the day because of something that happened at school. Talking my work off the ledge because I had to leave at 5:15, because it was a 75 minute commute and the daycare closed at 6:30. The list goes on and on and on. Then I got cancer in 2017, and kept on through chemo and being so beaten up that everything hurt and I was literally shuffling around the house trying to staying on top of (read: winging) it. Not quite sure how I got through that, but I did, and I beat the cancer too. I've been free of it almost 6 years. The point is that every single thing I did that I am proudest of, amounted to "doing a woman's job" in the eyes of these ingrates. It can always easily be worse, but it was genuinely tough at times. I think a lot of these traditional chest pounding manly-man types would probably fall to pieces.
Thank you!! I love those kiddos, and it does really annoy me reading of someone who would think less of our scrappy little wing it and make do family just because we're a single parent family.
Entitlement as well. Conservative Masculinity embraces the trope that "REAL MEN" (TM) are entitled to arm candy at every stage of their lives. Individual women are disposable when they age out of their assigned role.
Also, they are Privileged Characters who bear absolutely no responsibility for their toxic masculinity. Entitlement and privilege.
And genuinely loves it, because he loves his daughter as any good father should, and loves spending imaginative play time with her, just as much as he would love playing catch with his sons.
It would be great if sons were socialized to understand that it's perfectly fine and a lot of fun to join their sister's tea parties, as a lot of sisters already join their brothers' ball games, but except for a few isolated instances, that doesn't happen. Most of my friends' kids continued the same pattern I saw in my childhood of separate boy play and girl play, and all too frequently, the boys derided and picked on their sisters as lesser-than, and the girls saw their brothers as bullies.
Even if the father manages not to model it much, boys pick up toxic masculinity ideas from their peers. It's fine for girls to be 'tomboys' and play with the boys, but a boy who plays 'girl games' with his sister(s) gets labeled a sissy when his peers find out. So at best, he feels shame doing so. I remember being a little jealous about an 'Easy bake oven' in an attic. (Didn't grow up with my half-sister and a decade older than her, so not much opportunity for such play and, of course, it would be unacceptable for me to play with it on my own.)
I do think it is in general getting better, generation by generation, but like making spanking socially unacceptable, it's a slow process. Consider the leader of a major country took his son to see a 'girly' movie. I don't know if it was just a political stunt or a boy who wanted to see the movie and a good father who took him to see it (and like any politician, tried to get a little mileage out of it)
Yeah, I agree -- even with good fathers, boys are surrounded by a culture saturated with messages of toxic masculinity. It's a huge problem that can only be beaten back little by little, generation by generation. And toxic rightwing nut jobs are trying frantically to reverse every bit of progress made in their obsession to pound everyone back into 1950.
When I was made redundant, they told me I'd never get a job in the local area. So my wife went back to work and I looked after the young son (about 3 I think). Did the cleaning and the cooking and all that stuff. One of the best times of my life come to think of it – that was when I started studying at university again. One of my favourite assignments was about toys – got to interview the boy about some of his. Good times.
He's been conservative for years. It long predates this kiddie book. So I would say 99+% likely the book is true belief and <1% likely it's an attempt to get another acting role.
Gene Kelly started as a Catholic and then became an agnostic after he grew disenchanted over the RCC's support of Franco against the Spanish Republic. He severed ties permanently with Holy Mother Church in 1939. And prior to that separation, he visited Mexico and was convinced the Church was failing to help the poor of that country.
Can you imagine what he'd make of the child sexual abuse of his former religion?
I hadn't heard that. Seems strange for a man in a genre (the musical) that is the forte of gay men. I mean, the man worked in Hollywood, which is filled with gay people and always has been. He worked with casts and crews that were heavily populated with gay people.
Didn't Lucy Lawless hand him his ass on Twitter a while back? Can't remember exactly when, but he had tweeted some right wing conspiracy crap and she let him have it.
Yep. She not only handed him his ass over his tweets about the Jan. 6 insurrection, she also slammed him for his now-deleted tweet where he revealed himself to be transphobic.
"Think about it," he (Sorbo) said. "We give ‘pride’ an entire month in this country — yet we give our veterans one day. This is really weird to me."
May is Military Appreciation Month. November is Veterans/Military Families Month. Then there's Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, each service's birthday (June 14 being the most significant one 😉).....
Kevin's either failed to do basic research or he's lying.
I recall the pushback that Rep. Bella Abzug got back in 1971 when she got Congress to recognize August 26 (the date in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was certified, granting women the right to vote) as "Women's Equality Day". Her response? "We now interrupt our long-running program, the Millennium of the Man, for this brief word about a day for women."
And we are still, over 50 years later dealing with whiny men crying that we actually recognized women for a day, even women’s history month gets shit thrown at it. Every year the spike in searches for international men’s day always lands on August 26. And they don’t even care about international men’s day when it does come around, not unless they can use it as a cudgel to beat down on women.
Isn't every day international men's day?
Ha! Years ago when I gave my mother her Mother's Day present I sort of whined – being a smart arse – why isn't there a children's day. She said every bloody day is children's day you cheeky little bugger!
No--AMERICAN men's day. How scurrilous of you to try and sneak other countries into it. God wants real men to be American, dammit. Take that, commie!
Archie would have called me a "radical, hippie, yippie, commie, freak, pinko".
Like the woman said, it is millennium of the man.
Both.
Or he's purposefully ignorant.
"Kevin's either failed to do basic research or he's lying."
A truly convenient aspect of having followers who won't fact-check is that you don't have to differentiate - you can say things without concern for those things being either true or easy to debunk.
When you've got a captive audience, your performance doesn't have to be any good.
And don't forget "Fleet Week" although I only know about it from watching NCIS or something.
Damn! Beat me to this, too. I'm really batting a thousand this morning.
𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑜, "𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡.
Of course you don't. You just want to indiscriminately superimpose your values onto kids who may barely understand who they are or who they want to be. You want to breed a bunch of "manly men" who probably don't cry, hide their emotions, and whose basis is likely found in Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet. If the cliche were any more blatant, it would be laughable.
Problem is: Sorbo is serious, which means we have to be just as serious in opposing him and his bullshit.
Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet AND GI Joe. Real men are not only butch but aggressively so.
The religious right loves their stereotypes, and tries to hammer everyone into the molds they approve of, whether they fit or not. Absolutely nothing qualifies Sorbo to pontificate on the trans-gendered, or any other subject I know of. He's just one more fool who conflates his religion and politics with actual expertise. Ever the professional victim, Sorbo wonders why he can't find work in Hollywood.
It's not, as he claims, because he is a Christian. It's because he does bad movies.
It’s because he is incredibly bad at acting. He makes the movies bad.
He could only ever play one type of character: handsome brick. When the handsome part left him, all that remained was the brick.
Well, handsome is subjective. He was my mother’s idea of handsome, I was not as impressed. I say that about guys like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and those guys. I’m not opposed to the muscles, but to me there are other more attractive assets on guys than just being burly. Chris Evans is hotter when he’s not flexing because he’s got a very pretty mouth and caring eyes, his face has some softness to it that the others never had. But Tom Hiddleston isn’t bulky at all, lean muscles are nice, but his attributes are more around his emotional intelligence. That generation of main characters were an outlier for getting women’s attention, while women don’t complain, the muscle man standard is for the male gaze and them alone.
Arnold has a humorous side that I like, but physically was never that attractive to me. Chris Evans OTOH, yum.
I always liked him, his acting was passable and he did make good movies, I just never found him physically attractive. I just assumed his love interests only worked in theory, like because they’re scripted and Hollywood chose him, rather than actual attraction. But like I said, handsome is subjective.
Kind of like Steven Seagal, who plays the same character in all his movies. Only the character's name and location are changed.
He turned out to be a mess.
Paging Jethro Tull, Jethro Tull please report to the shady stage...
Maybe Mr. Sorbo should do something constructive like join the striking actors on the picket line - assuming they would want him.
It's a shame Kevin didn't do even a cursory bit of research on lions.
"A female lion is called a lioness. Lionesses are super females, performing the majority of duties in their pride (group), from catching most of the food to protecting the territory from intruders and raising cubs. These intruders are typically other female lions living nearby, looking to expand their territories."
https://wildexplained.com/blog/female-lion/
Ain't it a bitch when reality messes with the story you wanna tell? 😁
One would think that, after damned near two millennia, they'd be used to that happening by now.
But then he would have to show women as strong and independent. Can't have that now. /s
I'm guessing the story doesn't teach young Lucas that part of his male duties is to find another pride, then murder it's infants so that all future pride infants will be his?
Maybe that's the 2040 version. Conservativism hasn't quite regressed to that point yet.
"Conservativism hasn't quite regressed to that point yet."
By "that point" you mean saying publicly what they're planning/doing.
Isn't that exactly what he's doing, though? He's just doing it with hate-fueled wingnut propaganda instead of teeth and claws.
Beat me to it (late getting started this morning). Have deleted my post.
(knew i should have read the comments first)
“𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝.”
I agree! If your boy kid wants a pretty pretty princess toy or cake, let them. If you take your kid to a library or bookstore story time (I hope you do), and suddenly find out the adult reading the story is a guy in a dress, but your kid wants to stay, let them stay. That's letting kids be kids. My kid's story time readers included gay guys, straight women, and someone in a giant llama costume. The one he didn't want to stay for was the giant llama costume, because it scared him. So we didn't make him stay. That is how you let kids be kids. The gay guy? With little kids it doesn't even register, with big kids they don't care unless you care. Soooo...don't care.
𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑝 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒.
I don't think anyone is teaching that. At an early stage, what you are teaching is that if the kid wants to play with a 'different gender' toy, that's perfectly fine. If they want 'different gender' clothing or jewelry, that's fine too. No four year old doomed themselves to be a bad adult provider for their family because they wore a beret in their hair.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒.
I agree, that's the danger. The one doing it is you dude, not us.
I will tell this B-list idjit what bravery is.
Bravery is standing up and being yourself when the world is telling you to be someone else,
Or else.
Out LGBT adults are some of the strongest people you can find. (Especially the Ts)
I absolutely know that. I have often said that it takes for more courage for a man to walk down the street wearing high heels that it takes for a gang of thugs to take out their masculinity issues on him
Sorebuns whines how veterans only get one day a year (a lie).
Wonder if he supports gay veterans. Atheist veterans. We've had both in this country since the American Revolution, where we fought to escape a Christian theocracy and a king who believed he could rule by divine right.
Likely Jerkules would tell you there were never any atheist or gay veterans. F Sorebuns with a rusty discus.
No atheists in foxholes!!!!!1!!!
Lucy Lawless likely hurt her back when she carried Sorbo in "Zena, Warrior Princess."
Probably #1 in TV history of "spin-offs that were better than the original show".
"Frasier" spun-off from "Cheers." It not only lasted 11 years, it outlasted the show it spun-off from. It won 37 primetime Emmy Awards. :)
The brilliant Green Acres spun off from the dreary, relentlessly unfunny Petticoat Junction, which was a shameful waste of Bea Benaderet's comic talent.
Strange. I thought The Beverley Hillbillies spun-off from Petticoat Junction and Green Acres spun-off from the Beverley Hillbillies.
Hillbillies came first, then Junction, then Acres. If you recall, a number of Junction regulars also appeared on the first season of Acres--Uncle Joe, Sam Drucker, the two engineers on the train. And Drucker made the switch permanently.
I'll be danged. I thought PJ was first.
They both lasted eleven seasons. Cheers 271, Frasier 263 episodes.
Yep, I actually did know that. Frasier aired after Cheers ended.
AND it's apparently coming back!
It is. He's back in Boston.
Won't be the same, though.
Funny how at the end of the original series he was supposed to take a job in San Francisco, yet in the final scene he lands in Chicago.
Now he's in Boston. Hope they explain what happened.
Alice Ghostley had the definitive take on Boston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVA_tl-XEpg
Sorbo said it's dangerous to teach children that men and women can swap sexes at will or that children can be whichever gender they choose.
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Literally, no one teaches this. You are born who you are. Your understanding of this topic is non-existent.
Manley men made of straw.
https://youtu.be/pc1am3KyYgA
And bullshit.
As a woman I have a lot to say about this book. None of it good.
Have you read it? I'm curious about what's actually in it, like is it mostly generic boys will be boys stuff, or is there something more heavy handed?
No, I prefer pro LGBTQI+ fiction.
At $20.69 (19.67 €) for a paperback and no Kindle version, I doubt any of us will read it.
Damn that's pricey.
That would be pricey for a hardcover of an actual novel. Even at today's inflated paperback prices (and who publishes kid's books in paperback anyway?} that's way over priced for a book that probably has at most two dozen pages.
“The 64-year-old actor, best known for his starring role in “Hercules” chronicles the journey of a lion cub named Lucas who endures numerous obstacles on a tricky route to find the cure to a deadly illness that has plagued his sister in the new children’s book, The Test of Lionhood.”
Wow, this sounds great! I didn’t read the book, but I can guess the outcome of the journey.
Lucas, after so many travails, comes upon a group of Eagle Scouts, ends up sexual abused by the Scoutmaster and finally gains enough strength and courage to move along.
He then encounters, a radical democratic liberal, and must fight his way, against all odds, because the democrats has weaponized the DOJ and FBI against him.
After finally surviving his grueling journey, Lucas gets his hands on the magical cure that will save his sister cub. However, after speaking with Joe Rogan and JRK Jr. (the poor man’s JFK Jr.), Lucas is convinced the cure (using MRNA technology), has not been adequately tested, and therefore is given a treatment of Hydroxychloroquine; a cure all approved at the highest levels of the evangelical church and Joe Rogan.
Lucas, galvanized by his new friends, and only after doing his own research, accepts the Hydroxychloroquine, and sets off to save his sister cub.
Lucas eventually makes his way back to his sister cub, and administers the Hydroxychloroquine. Unfortunately, his sister cub would die a miserable death a few days later.
What were you expecting? A miracle? It’s hydroxychloroquine, people? Unless, you have malaria, it’s useless!!!!!
That said, it’s still a true, feel good story of triumph, courage and overall stupidity, which only a bunch of morons like Sorbo could appreciate...:)
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛'𝑠 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 … 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦.
He said that because even Fox N̵S̵G̵O̵P̵ ̵p̵r̵o̵p̵a̵g̵a̵n̵d̵a̵ ̵a̵r̵m̵ News won't say "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen."
Ahh yes the "separate but equal" mentality we saw in the pre-civil rights days.
Separate but equal. I vaguely remember that being a counterproductive concept in our history, but who even knows anymore? They took down all the statues so now nobody knows history.
Yeah it can’t take away from wimmins equality because they don’t have any! Right, Kevbro!? High five!!!
And there most useful function: baby vessels...:)
But the book IS transphobic.
Sorbo's name is on it. That makes it transphobic by default.
Are we also going to ignore his recent comments about men in Hollywood not being manly? Poor Timothee Chalamet, what did he ever do to Sorebut?
One of the right’s favorite manly characters, Ron Swanson is supposed to be a joke on their ideas of masculinity. We’re making fun of you. And how masculine is it to cry about how other people act when they have no bearing on your life whatsoever.
I for one am going to be very interested in seeing how Chalamet shapes up as he goes from being Paul Atreides to Usul / Paul Muadib in Dune, Part II. That should be an indicator of just how manly or not Timothee is, never mind how good an actor.
Based on Part 1, I think he's the best on-screen Paul we've had so far- one part lost puppy, one part angsty teenager... and 𝘫𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘵 a dash of future space-tyrant trapped by a destiny that wasn't even supposed to be his.
That there was a gap in production might actually help him sell it- unlike the other two actors who've tackled the role, he'll 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 be a couple years older after the time skip; they'll just need to roll him around in the sandbox a few times.
I only got about a half hour in before going back to Kyle's version.
I think both the David Lynch and SciFi Channel versions have something to say for themselves. As for the current iteration, I was impressed that Denis Villeneuve actually created ORNITHOPTERS, though a real one would be a mechanical nightmare. I also like Stellan Skarsgård as Vladimir Harkonnen. I find him a lot more menacing and far less the scenery-chewing caricature the previous two were.
Guess we'll have to wait until next March to see what evolves from Part I.
Loved the ornithipters! I had a hard time trying to visualize them way back when I read the novel, so seeing them actually, impressively, brought to screen was quite thrilling. :)
https://youtu.be/4m2hYQJ8OUc?t=54
Samwell Tarly or Tyrion Lannister may not be manly enough for sorbo but they are great characters.
I thought they were both standout characters in GoT, and I'm not certain that John Bradley, who played Tarly, got anywhere near the kudos he deserved.
““This takes nothing away from women's equality … women just have a different role in the family, and I think you need both a man and a woman raising a family."“
Then why do so many traditional values men dump wives and pregnant girlfriends so often?
This “women have different roles” is some fucking bs to give man an excuse not to have to do undesirable work in the home. Cleaning up after yourself isn’t a woman’s job, it’s basic human decency. Change your baby’s diapers ferchrissake. Play with your children, teach them stuff, pick up after them, take them to the doctor, pack their diaper bag, none of that is so special that only a woman can manage to do it.
Let’s not also ignore the lack of empathy for families that have faced the death of one of the parents. And a great deal of other situations where there is only one parent.
Having loving, supportive, involved parents is all that is needed, whether it’s a single pattern, or two moms or two dads or a village of aunts and uncles. These are far superior to many religious mom and dad families where the children are used as tokens of piousness or are abused or neglected. The two parent nuclear family is far too modern and has far too many drawbacks to be what Sorbo thinks it is, a paragon of virtue.
I really want to print your post out and frame it! The things I'm proudest of as a parent was responding the way I did when my ex ran off and moved to a different city with her boyfriend, and I had a 7 year old and 11 year old boy to look after. Every packed lunch, every school meeting, every school assignment, every skidded pair of undies, every doctor's visit, all the housework, every time I had to leave work in the middle of the day because of something that happened at school. Talking my work off the ledge because I had to leave at 5:15, because it was a 75 minute commute and the daycare closed at 6:30. The list goes on and on and on. Then I got cancer in 2017, and kept on through chemo and being so beaten up that everything hurt and I was literally shuffling around the house trying to staying on top of (read: winging) it. Not quite sure how I got through that, but I did, and I beat the cancer too. I've been free of it almost 6 years. The point is that every single thing I did that I am proudest of, amounted to "doing a woman's job" in the eyes of these ingrates. It can always easily be worse, but it was genuinely tough at times. I think a lot of these traditional chest pounding manly-man types would probably fall to pieces.
Congratulations on beating the cancer!
Glad to still have you with us and being a great role model for your children.
Thank you!! I love those kiddos, and it does really annoy me reading of someone who would think less of our scrappy little wing it and make do family just because we're a single parent family.
"Then why do so many traditional values men dump wives and pregnant girlfriends so often?"
Replacement. There's still a woman there, it's just a new one.
Entitlement as well. Conservative Masculinity embraces the trope that "REAL MEN" (TM) are entitled to arm candy at every stage of their lives. Individual women are disposable when they age out of their assigned role.
Also, they are Privileged Characters who bear absolutely no responsibility for their toxic masculinity. Entitlement and privilege.
A real man attends his daughter's tea parties.
And genuinely loves it, because he loves his daughter as any good father should, and loves spending imaginative play time with her, just as much as he would love playing catch with his sons.
It would be great if sons were socialized to understand that it's perfectly fine and a lot of fun to join their sister's tea parties, as a lot of sisters already join their brothers' ball games, but except for a few isolated instances, that doesn't happen. Most of my friends' kids continued the same pattern I saw in my childhood of separate boy play and girl play, and all too frequently, the boys derided and picked on their sisters as lesser-than, and the girls saw their brothers as bullies.
Even if the father manages not to model it much, boys pick up toxic masculinity ideas from their peers. It's fine for girls to be 'tomboys' and play with the boys, but a boy who plays 'girl games' with his sister(s) gets labeled a sissy when his peers find out. So at best, he feels shame doing so. I remember being a little jealous about an 'Easy bake oven' in an attic. (Didn't grow up with my half-sister and a decade older than her, so not much opportunity for such play and, of course, it would be unacceptable for me to play with it on my own.)
I do think it is in general getting better, generation by generation, but like making spanking socially unacceptable, it's a slow process. Consider the leader of a major country took his son to see a 'girly' movie. I don't know if it was just a political stunt or a boy who wanted to see the movie and a good father who took him to see it (and like any politician, tried to get a little mileage out of it)
Yeah, I agree -- even with good fathers, boys are surrounded by a culture saturated with messages of toxic masculinity. It's a huge problem that can only be beaten back little by little, generation by generation. And toxic rightwing nut jobs are trying frantically to reverse every bit of progress made in their obsession to pound everyone back into 1950.
https://youtu.be/tPtUJHpI3W0
Exactly what I was thinking of. Except good Dads don't need Doritos, just puppy dog eyes.
When I was made redundant, they told me I'd never get a job in the local area. So my wife went back to work and I looked after the young son (about 3 I think). Did the cleaning and the cooking and all that stuff. One of the best times of my life come to think of it – that was when I started studying at university again. One of my favourite assignments was about toys – got to interview the boy about some of his. Good times.
Sorbo is trash. I can’t help but wonder how much he really believes and how much is a desperate attempt to claw his way back up to c-list status.
Not even good enough for Dancing with the Stars.
Matt Walsh is on the next season. Aside from the shallow banality of the show, there’s a reason I don’t watch it.
It's Matt Walsh the actor, not the RWNJ.
The only others that I've heard of are Greg from the Brady Bunch and retired running back and child beater Adrian Peterson.
Mira Sorvino the actress, and Jason Mraz the singer. The rest of them? Who?
If Roger Daltrey or Pete Townshend was going to be on, I might watch. : )
Who would lead?
He's been conservative for years. It long predates this kiddie book. So I would say 99+% likely the book is true belief and <1% likely it's an attempt to get another acting role.
Fair point, but if I recall correctly he didn't become a right wing culture warrior until his mainstream acting career ran it's course.
It's amazing how quickly celebrities find White Jesus once their careers tank.
Gene Kelly started as a Catholic and then became an agnostic after he grew disenchanted over the RCC's support of Franco against the Spanish Republic. He severed ties permanently with Holy Mother Church in 1939. And prior to that separation, he visited Mexico and was convinced the Church was failing to help the poor of that country.
Can you imagine what he'd make of the child sexual abuse of his former religion?
Forgot to mention: What really aggravated him was the fact that the Church's riches stood out in such stark contrast to the nation's poverty.
But he never stopped being a homophobe.
I hadn't heard that. Seems strange for a man in a genre (the musical) that is the forte of gay men. I mean, the man worked in Hollywood, which is filled with gay people and always has been. He worked with casts and crews that were heavily populated with gay people.
Didn't Lucy Lawless hand him his ass on Twitter a while back? Can't remember exactly when, but he had tweeted some right wing conspiracy crap and she let him have it.
Yep. She not only handed him his ass over his tweets about the Jan. 6 insurrection, she also slammed him for his now-deleted tweet where he revealed himself to be transphobic.
Lucy ROCKS!