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A video essay series investigating the meaning and messages embedded in popular culture. Hosted by @radicalbytes

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@PopDetective

Pop Detective

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Our new video essay uses the BarbIe Movie to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including men!

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Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

This video essay uses the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including...

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2 months

This is one of the most depressing indictments of corporate media that I've ever seen. There's exactly ONE original story on this list. Everything else is a sequel, remake, or reboot.

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*A lot* of Disney/Pixar/Lucasfilm/Marvel films were updated, teased, and announced at #D23 last night. Which one are you most looking forward to? Check out the full list:

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Sex scene discourse is back again and once again missing the point. The question isn't should sex be portrayed (yes), the question is *how* is sex portrayed? Is it consensual? Is it coercive? What are the power dynamics? Is it mutually satisfying? Is everyone having a great time?

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We’re working on a future video essay examining the media pattern wherein men achieve instant redemption through death, instead of struggling through personal transformation. We're including unsuccessful self-sacrifices and unexpected resurrections as well. Suggestions welcome!

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One of our upcoming video essays will examine colonialism in modern board games. It’s going to be quite the undertaking! You can follow our playthroughs via this thread and donate to our project here:

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Which policy was violated exactly? You linked to a long list of guidelines but refused to tell me which one I violated. None of them seem to apply to this video. How am I supposed to avoid this issue in the future if I don't know what I did wrong?

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@PopDetective unfortunately, there's not more we can do on our end. it was carefully reviewed & the decision is final, based on the policy violations we shared in our last tweet. we really appreciate your understanding. let us know if you have any other q's

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She should have ended her journey surrounded by a community of found family in the resistance. Not all alone again isolated on another desert planet. Rise of Skywalker was an unforgivable disgrace.

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If you were given the opportunity to change one aspect of Rey’s story or character, what would you change? The only rule is that you must keep things constructive and respectful.

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Boys DO cry. In this video essay we examine the narrow set of social situations where tears are permissible for men in media.

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Boys Don't Cry (Except When They Do)

Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetectiveSince we all know that boys (and men) do cry, this video focuses on the relatively narrow set o...

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2 years

New video essay! Marvel superheroes rarely use their powers to help build a better world, it's the villains who are constantly dreaming up audacious schemes to transform the universe.

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Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo

Superheroes usually manage to roll back the various apocalypses but rarely use their powers to build a better world. The villains are the ones constantly dre...

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5 years

Audiences aren’t stupid. If large numbers of fans are “missing the point” of a film, then the filmmakers failed in getting that point across.

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Hit us with your most controversial movie opinion.

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Our new video essay highlights the pattern of playing the sexual assault of men for laughs in entertainment media:

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Lost my first patron today because I put a note on an old Newt Scamander video essay urging viewers not to give JK Rowling any more money due to her bigoted harmful anti-trans views. Might go back and put it in all caps just to make sure the point is extra clear.

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Working on a video essay exploring this analysis of superheroes by the late David Graeber but applying it to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. How do you think it will go over with MCU super fans 😬

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Here’s part 2 in our video essay series examining how the sexual assault of men is often played for comedy in entertainment.

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Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 2 Female Perpetrators

• WATCH PART 1: https://youtu.be/uc6QxD2_yQwIt’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted or harassed are in entertainment ...

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“Whether we like it or not, cinema assumes a pedagogical role in the lives of many people. It may not be the intent of a filmmaker to teach audiences anything, but that does not mean that lessons are not learned.” - bell hooks, Reel to Real

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bell hooks and her writing influenced each and every one of our video essays. Her powerful voice will continue to be a guiding light for Pop Culture Detective projects. Rest in power.

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Hate that everything needs to be a reference to some other preexisting piece of culture. Hollywood is capitalist culture eating itself in a never ending loop forever. Being ironically self-referential is getting really really old.

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Hugh Jackman recreates the Wolverine meme 😂

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6 years

Given that Pop Culture Detective video essays can take a really long time to finish, how much interest would there be in a monthly audio podcast? The format would likely be more casual discussions about masculinity and media that could fill the gap between scripted videos.

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5 years

It’s much harder to find media where male characters find redemption through a long slow process of personal transformation or restorative justice. Zuko from The Last Airbender animated series comes to mind as one good example.

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NEW VIDEO ESSAY: It’s not Star Wars unless there’s a lovable droid stealing the spotlight, but there’s also something profoundly tragic about the role artificial lifeforms play in Star Wars.

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The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars

It’s not a Star Wars story unless there’s a lovable droid stealing the spotlight but, when you really stop and think about it, there’s also something profoun...

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2 years

This special podcast episode is a conversation with award-winning Swedish artist @simonstalenhag , creator of narrative art books Tales From the Loop and The Electric State. We discuss what it’s like for small artists to be courted by the Hollywood machine.

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40 years ago bell hooks wrote in her book "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center" that feminist movements should include men in struggles for liberation. She later devoted whole books to the topic including "The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love," which is a must read.

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Or what if the force always existed in all living creatures and therefore there were always force users and we don't need the whole thing personified down into a single messianic individual? Star Wars needs to ditch the royal bloodlines bs once and for all.

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James Mangold says his ‘STAR WARS’ film is inspired by ‘Ben-Hur’ & ‘The 10 Commandments’. “It’s a chance to tell the entire story of its own, the birth of the force... Where did it come from? How is it found? Who was the 1st Jedi?” (Source: )

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The Whale winning best makeup for a fat suit is kinda fucked up.

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5 years

Upcoming video essays for 2020 • Boys Don't Cry (Except When They Do) • Redemption Means Death at the Movies • Colonialism in Modern Board Games • The Status of Droids in Star Wars Please help make these projects a reality by becoming a patron today!

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Hot take: The original animated films are a million times better than these live-action remakes because the art of animation can tell a story in much more interesting and creative ways.

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Dwayne Johnson and Auli’i Cravalho will return for Disney’s live-action ‘MOANA’ remake.

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Putting together a list of movies where police brutality is played for comedy. Hollywood must change the way it depicts law enforcement.

Film list: Police Brutality as Comedy

A list of movies in which the brutalization or abuse of suspects by law enforcement is played for comedy. The police brutality may be written as rogue action but it's still framed as a form of poetic…

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The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct the Adorkable Misogynist trope:

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In solidarity with the Writers/Actors strike, we're pausing work on two video essays. One about Rose Tico and another on how movies represent gaslighting. These aren't promotional videos since Pop Detective never takes corporate money but they do praise media from struck studios.

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Working on a video essay script on how The Barbie Movie represents patriarchy. It's becoming increasingly clear that the film's many overlapping metaphors are a little too clever for its own good. And I have too much to say about it. 13 pages is unwieldy. Cuts need to be made.

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This is absurd. Pop Culture Detective videos have been written about by dozens of news outlets and are taught in high schools and universities across the country. We also have over half and million subscribers. Does YouTube only care about corporate brands and celebrities now?

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The second installment in our series on the sexual assault of men played for comedy in entertainment. Part 1 focused on jokes about men assaulting other men. This video examines media in which women are depicted as perpetrators who prey on men or boys.

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Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 2 Female Perpetrators

• WATCH PART 1: https://youtu.be/uc6QxD2_yQwIt’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted or harassed are in entertainment ...

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Maybe the best Star Wars to ever Star Wars

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No they didn't. Disney doesn't get its money from box office numbers alone. They make most of their money via merchandizing, licensing, subscription services, games, theme parks etc etc.

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‘STRANGE WORLD’ and ‘LIGHTYEAR’ lost $152.4M and $106M respectively. (Source: Deadline)

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New video essay about Everything Everywhere All At Once, Waymond Wang, and empathic masculinity.

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Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang (and Ke Huy Quan)

Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetectiveEverything Everywhere All At Once is a genre bending multiverse movie but it's also one of the ...

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On Stranger Things, nostalgia, and the danger of resurrecting 1980s action hero manhood.

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Stranger Things, Belligerent Romance, and the Danger of Nostalgia

The hit Netflix series Stranger Things is a love letter to iconic pop culture media of decades past. But there are dangers in leaning too heavily on nostalgi...

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1 year

Ugh. The droid servants in the latest Mandalorian episode say they all like being slaves because they want to be useful. We made a video essay a while back about how Star Wars leans into the slavery metaphor but has nothing meaningful to say about it.

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The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars

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3 years

New video essay! Watching people’s stories unfold on the big screen can be fascinating and exhilarating, but the act of looking can also feel uncomfortable, invasive, even violating.

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The Ethics of Looking And The “Harmless” Peeping Tom

Watching people’s stories on screen can be fascinating and exhilarating, but the act of looking can also feel uncomfortable, invasive, even violating. And un...

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Melissa said nothing even remotely wrong or untrue and her post definitely wasn't antisemitic. Spyglass may come to regret this.

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Spyglass, the production company behind ‘SCREAM,’ released this statement following firing Melissa Barrera for her support to Palestine: “We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing,

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The only thing that could ruin this amazing scene would be someone making a new entirely unnecessary movie to explain it.

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The most terrifying part of the first alien movie isn’t even the xenomorph. It’s the space jockey It’s just…there A horrifying remnant of something that no one inside the film can even explain

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It's particularly important to ask about the communication (or lack there of) between characters having sex in a story. Do they talk about what they want or like? Are they attentive to each other's desires or boundaries? Do they check in with each other before, during, or after?

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If a character decides to have lots of sex, is it portrayed as normal and healthy? If a character decides not to have sex, is it also portrayed as normal and healthy? If a character decides to stop having sex even as it's happening, is that also portrayed as normal and healthy?

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2 years

Started a new list of Hollywood movies that have collaborated with the US Department of Defense. It's only scratching the surface as there are thousands more, many still redacted in FOIA requests.

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Film list: Hollywood Collaborations with the US Military

Movies made in conjunction with the US Department of Defense or Central Intelligence Agency. Pentagon assistance is only granted after scripts have been reviewed, changed, and/or significantly…

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Almost finished...

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Wow our video essay about Waymond Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once just crossed 1 million views!

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Compiling a list of movies that traffic in anti-trans "comedy." It might be a visual gag or a casual punchline. The worse examples involve complete freak-outs about a transgender character à la Ace Ventura.

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Film list: Transphobic Panic

Movies that include transphobic or gender policing jokes. Sometimes it's a visual gag. Sometimes it's a casual punchline. And sometimes it's a complete freak-out about a transgender character (à la…

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If a media franchise listens to its super fans and gives them what they say they want, the result will almost always be derivative pandering garbage. Taking risks by dramatically departing from tradition is the only way to create something potentially interesting.

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Gentle reminder that while it’s great to see #Weinstein finally being held accountable for some of his many crimes, making prison rape jokes about him directly contributes to rape culture. Here’s our video essay on why rape is never a form of justice:

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6 years

The Last Jedi is a movie about men learning to trust women's ideas and decisions:

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How The Last Jedi Defies Expectations About Male Heroes

Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetectiveThe Last Jedi is a movie that’s designed to defy fan expectations. Nowhere is this subversion m...

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And that ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary folk is why we hold all comments for review. Nice of them to consistently prove the point of our channel though ;)

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2 years

I was a little concerned our video essay about Waymond Wang might not have much traction on YouTube because positive commentary typically doesn't do as well as harsh criticism but I'm happy to report we're nearing 400k views!

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Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang (and Ke Huy Quan)

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Between the making of Avatar (2009) and Way of Water (2022) James Cameron met with indigenous people from Ecuador and Brazil who tried to teach him about their struggles. I'm curious to see if that made any difference or if the new movie is yet another white savior myth.

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Whatever ad agency is responsible for this poster series probably didn’t even notice the subtle sexism but it’s pretty undeniable when only the three women are posed in passive positions.

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2 years

We did it y'all! 6 years and 28 video essays to hit a million subscribers. Thank you!

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6 years

Abduction as Romance is a very old and deeply troubling media convention. It can be traced all the way back to ancient literature and is still a favorite plot device in Hollywood.

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Abduction As Romance

[[ Content warning: movies scenes containing domestic abuse ]] Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetectiveAbduction as Romance is a media ...

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5 years

Some research for a future video essay focusing on colonialism in gaming that will take a slightly different form than our usual episodes. Look for it sometime in 2020!

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2 years

These are the type of framing and messaging questions we should be discussing when it comes to sex scenes on the big and small screen.

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I'm afraid corporate media will take from this that they don't need a good narrative or character development or a decent message. They just need a fast-paced colorful 90 minute commercial for a product that's filled with hundreds of references to other products from the past.

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The #SuperMarioBrosMovie is projected to surpass 'Frozen 2' for the biggest box office opening in history for an animated film.

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Thanks to everyone who supported our channel in 2019! We published critical video essays on Stranger Things, Shawshank Redemption, and The Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs Part 1. We’ll start 2020 with Part 2 then move on to other topics including the Boys Don’t Cry myth.

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Monday!

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Collecting examples of a couple tropes that don't seem to have official names. Let's call them "The Magical Lovable Capitalist" and the "Enchanted Shopping Experience." These can be literal (like in Wonka) or more figurative (like in the movie Big from 1988.)

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It’s fascinating to me that many of the snarky responses to this thread simultaneously insist art is so important that it shouldn’t be questioned but also art is so unimportant that it has no real impact of people’s views or behavior.

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Hmm I wonder what could have possibly triggered such a sudden and sustained backlash from dudes on the internet? It’s a mystery! Seriously though, @RottenTomatoes just needs to ditch their "audience score” metric all together. It’s beyond useless at this point.

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Notice this thread is *not* an argument about how all sex scenes should be filmed. It’s a thread about the questions we should ask when analyzing and talking about sex scenes and their larger cultural impact. That should be obvious to anyone reading this in good faith.

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Now that filmbros have found this thread we might also ask why so many people get upset at simple questions about how consent is represented in media? Why do so many find the very idea of consensual sex scenes “boring,” “uninteresting,” “unsexy,” or an affront to art itself.

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What's this? A blockbuster movie that isn't a reboot, remake, sequel or prequel? And also isn't based on a preexisting toy, game, or comic book? I didn't think Hollywood made original genre movies anymore.

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"This is a fight for our very existence." #TheCreator arrives in theaters September 29.

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There can of course be other behind-the-scenes issues within the film industry involving coercion, power dynamics, or "male gaze" style camerawork but the above questions are important to ask when examining sex scenes within visual narratives.

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2 years

Getting close 👀

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Our latest video essay tackles the regressive nonsense on display in this tweet. Crying, emotions, and vulnerability are not "unmanly" or "dishonorable.” They're healthy and normal human responses, which are also necessary for relationship building.

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It’s super weird that all the men in these posters are standing up ready for action while all the women are sitting down and reclining.

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First posters for Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket and Groot in ‘GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3’.

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Anther important question to ask is why there are so few Hollywood sex scenes that model the principles of affirmative or enthusiastic consent? It’s actually kind of shocking that depictions of positive healthy sexual relationships are so rare in media.

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Uploading new video essay...

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There are a million nightmarish apocalyptic landscapes lovingly rendered in entertainment media but it's extremely rare to see better worlds or hopeful futures visualized.

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When the worst people on the internet hate your analysis, it means you must be doing something right.

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Unfortunately today is good day to re-share this video on US military recruitment, propaganda, and Hollywood:

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6 years

Two of our video essays were hit with bogus copyright takedowns today from Warner Chappell music. This action by Warner Chappell represents a flagrant disregard of the fair use doctrine. We are working to get both episodes back online as soon as possible.

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One of the many reasons The Boys often fails miserably as a critique.

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Take the representation of male sensitivity and caregiving in mass media. @TheBoysTV creators recently described the repeated raping of Hughie, a caring guy who wants to stop the cycle of violence, forgive his enemies and get married to his partner, as “hilarious”.

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“It is patriarchy, in its denial of the full humanity of boys, that threatens the emotional lives of boys, not feminist thinking.” The Will to Change by bell hooks

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This is an argument in favor of sex scenes in movies and also in favor of critically examining those sex scenes. Somehow a bunch of people are mad about that.

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We haven’t released a video essay in a little while but don’t worry, we’ve been working hard on 4 new big projects simultaneously: Droids in Star Wars, Colonialism in Modern Board Games, Boys Don’t Cry (Except When They Do), and something on the ideology of Fortnite.

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Note that the redemptive death isn’t always instant, it can also come after the man switches sides or rejects the evil path. These characters often have to prove they really "mean it" with their lives.

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Since Warner Bros' multiple take downs have basically killed this video with the algorithm, if you all could share it on your networks, that would be amazing!

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Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

This video essay uses the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including...

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Still want to make a video essay entitled "Rose Tico is the Best Character in Star Wars." And not to troll fanboys either, rather because she really does represent the heart of what Star Wars is supposed to be about.

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Tomorrow

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We’re using our time in lockdown to catch up on research for a variety of upcoming Pop Detective video essays so we thought we’d share some of our process. What follows are selected notes and stray observations from our re-watch of all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

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bell hooks' writing is a masterclass in being empathetic to the struggles of individual men, while remaining steadfast in the need to dismantle the overarching social system of patriarchy at the root of the problem.

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Our latest video essay made it to the top of Reddit's front page yesterday. Not bad for a 35 minute educational video about sexual assault and the importance of consent.

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Let me be as clear as I can be about this just to clear up any confusion. If your game puts players in the role of colonizers and rewards them with victory for being the best colonizer, that game is fucking racist. End of story.

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@PopDetective Not everything is racist. Sometime things come off as well meaning.

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And after seeing the movie it’s clear that James Cameron did not in fact learn any lessons.

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We won! After seeing our fair use argument, Warner Bros backed down and our Barbie video essay will stay online! Sadly, WB's two takedowns have killed the video with YouTube's algorithm. Please share it again so we can make up for lost reach!

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"Capitalism breeds innovation"

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Biggest films/shows of 2022. What are you looking forward to the most?

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Obviously. And so is basically every other halfway decent human being on the planet. So I'm in good company there ;)

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Eccentric billionaire industrialists who steal their formulas from colonized peoples should maybe not be represented as nice and whimsical in movies. They should be super creepy and untrustworthy. Even if their corporate empire happens to be built on candy making.

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Testing the lighting, depth of field, and focus racking for my upcoming video essay on colonialism in board games. This is the first time creating all the footage for a video myself. It's a bit of a learning curve :P

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Don’t like when women heroes skip their extended origin struggle? Fine, there’s a simple fix - Begin all media franchises with women heroes. Then after a decade or two, a few male heroes can join in and breeze right through their origin stories because we've already seen it ;)

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The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice policy in the United States.

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Ugh. Looks like big tech companies stole some of our video essays to train their crappy "AI" algorithms.

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Our latest investigation reveals a dataset of more than 170,000 YouTube video subtitles that big tech companies used to train their AI models. “Will this be used to exploit and harm artists? Yes, absolutely,” says @dwiskus .

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Ugh, @YouTube is shutting down their incredibly helpful community subtitling feature. Our viewers were able to easily translate each of our video essays into dozens of languages directly from within YouTube. This is a huge loss!

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Everyone seems to be talking about The Last Jedi again. Here’s why the film was an unexpected but much-needed masterpiece:

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How The Last Jedi Defies Expectations About Male Heroes

Help me make more videos! https://www.patreon.com/popdetectiveThe Last Jedi is a movie that’s designed to defy fan expectations. Nowhere is this subversion m...

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Roger Stone is a terrible person. He still doesn’t deserve to be sexually assaulted in prison. No one does. Rape isn’t a joke.

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