Thoughts as I’m watching Ellen DeGeneres make a political point with use of the movie Finding Dory,  and asked the question.   Shall I take political cues from the didactic teachings of children’s entertainment?  Or, plenty of items floating out there whose “message”, if you pair it down to such, land on the suspect, I’d tend to want to throw a thumbs up on.

And that which I’ve mulled when I saw some conservative  argument that raunchy allusions in episodes of the tv series Friends foretell the coming of President Trump, ala the acceptance of the vulgar up from society to the highest office.

And when I’m reading a local alt weekly feature that drafts the Barenaked Ladies and the band Earth Girls are Easy in a long list of problematic band names, in what I take to be a long series of lecture articles to set “Progressive Men” straight for diversity grounding.
(I bring up “Earth Girls are Easy” due to the confusion — never heard of the band, but then again never heard of most of the bands — but know the name from a silly comedic movie — and really only know the movie because of an episode of Siskle and Ebert of “guilty pleasures” (or perhaps “Worst Movies” with Siskle picking this just because Ebert gave it a positive review).

Both getting at the same argument, really:  The “This is why people are voting for Trump”.  A culture that needs to be soaked of one variety of vulgarity or another.
A smirking comment I’d see to stories along the lines of, oh, a college paper on the White Feminine Privilege of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte.

And when I see Andre Dice Clay chime in on Conan O’brien that “Trump is stealing my act” — your line of things come full circle as he may just well be making the same argument, minus artistic culpability.

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