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@CuriousMagpie Oooh, I did not know there were disco murders.
@ai6yr I don't think most of them were, I think it was a lot of fear mongering to keep teenagers out of the city. It worked for me! That was my last year of high school and first year of college.
@CuriousMagpie @ai6yr I don’t think any of the shootings were connected to discos. Mostly young women or young couples walking or in parked cars.
Scary times.
@ai6yr I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. But I had the soundtrack on LP as a kid in the 70s.
I got the premise of most popular movies back then from the parodies in MAD magazine!
I firmly believe today, and recent decades, "period piece" shows are a way to retain racist/misogynist role knowledge in pop media. All of them.
First comments/question:
Were people really this casually misogynistic in the time period, or was that the movie specifically?
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It was normal for the time.
Oooh, from the comments: sorry for bringing up so much trauma and PTSD. 😬
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For me, the 60s were worse. I had a good job in the 70s. The 80s were a scramble trying to survive for me to pay much attention to larger social issues.
(now fast forwarding to the dance parts, lol) #movies
(hmm, definitely a lot of casual racism in this movie too... 😬 ) #movies #SaturdayNightFever
Personally, I'm fine, but thanks for thinking of us.
Never goddamn forget is why I remember.
Just found out today! that someone I've known for 30+ years is an anti-black racist; stated, so I assume the rest is in the bag. He was always dodgy and left few (but not zero) hints. TX turning blue infuriated him so much he blurted it out.
Another GNU person shits the bed. That org is death now.
They're everywhere. I don't see him often now, once per decade, but I won't let him pass next time I do.
Confronting your "friends" is hardest. They're not abstractions.
@ai6yr Yes. And very homophobic.
You don't want to know the mnemonic sentence I was taught -- in high school -- to remember the resistor color code.
The one I learned was both racist and misogynistic - it was 1979-80 I want to say.
@ai6yr OMFG some of the comments the partners at one of the big three consulting firms (where I worked in the 90s) used to make about the women in the office - from the secretaries to the consultants too. It was DISGUSTING. Still remember the holiday party where practice partner was practically mauling one of the secretaries while his wife sat uncomfortably at a table nearby. Misogynists and CREEPS.
Worse. They just got their asses kicked in the recent election. I distinctly remember how routine it was at literally every place I worked including the gay one.
@ai6yr According to my mom? Yes.
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Yes, very much so. Not just the movie.
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Openly casually misogynistic. Now they hide it better.
Enjoy the gang r*pe.
@EugestShirley Oh geez, this may not be so entertaining...
@ai6yr @EugestShirley it is a really hard movie. The music success skewed its perception for the general public.
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Yes, very much so.
@ai6yr Saw it in the theater (maybe first run). It's nothing like the reputation it has.
@ai6yr Could give you some tailoring ideas 💡 🧵
@ai6yr yikes, brace yourself it is gritty
@ai6yr @beandreams Oh, yeah, it's a lot heavier than it appears on the surface.
I forgot about the details it's been so long.
@ai6yr wow.
You're gonna see Travolta with hair. 😂
@ai6yr an unfortunate snapshot of that moment in history.
It'll always be associated with the Son of Sam killings for me, it came out a few months after Berkowitz was finally caught. During his two-year killing spree, there was a lot of media attention on the danger of going to discos because of him.