39 Times Our Pop-Culture Forefathers Were Just Plain Wrong
Pop culture is hopefully learning from its mistakes
Sensitivity and tolerance can progress pretty slowly in pop culture. We suspect that, because tropes involving crude stereotypes helped rake in millions of dollars, Hollywood and the music industry like dipping back into those bounitful wells. It takes a serious shift in the status quo for them to realize that certain problematic jokes, characters, lyrics and plot lines aren’t what the people want anymore.
Affect their bottom line, though, and changes are made almost automatically. Funny how that works, huh?
Here’s a good taste of how far pop culture has come…
Manhattan
Dances with Wolves
‘Going Postal’
Funny Suicides
Dirty Harry
Sixteen Candles
Fat Suits
Pepe Le Pew
Power Rangers
Si and Am
High Schoolers Trying to Lose Their Virginity
Divorced People Falling Back in Love
The Fat Man-Child and His Hot Wife
Parents Trying to Be Cool
Canned Laughter
The Old Hollywood Accent
Ben-Hur
Drugged-Out Child Stars
Old People Jokes
AC/DC
White People Are Nerds
Old Hollywood
Superbad
The Blind Side
Disney’s Pleasure Island
American Beauty
Song of the South
Garden State
Nivea
Long Duk Dong
Barney Stinson
Apu
Emotional Powers
Hanson
Source: VICE