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Elmgrovegnome

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Outraged by blatant disinformation about female anatomy contained in Cardi B’s hit song “WAP”, two leading medical organizations recently published an open letter to Spotify calling for the pop star’s removal.

The National Association of Gynecologists (NAG) and the Women’s Health Initiative of New England (WHINE) jointly penned the letter and published it on their respective websites yesterday.



Cardi B’s song “WAP”, which stands for Wet Ass Pussy first came out in August 2020.

But representatives from NAG and WHINE say that it took more than 16 months of negotiations for the two organizations to finally settle on the most appropriate, gender-inclusive language to use in their letter.

The letter criticizes Cardi B because “the lyrics insinuate that only cisgender females can have wet a** p***ies, which is a major affront to everything we have reinvented about biology and medical science. Cardi B is a dangerous flat-earther whose song constitutes obvious disinformation. NAG and WHINE demand Spotify remove it immediately.”

Spotify responded quickly, and the company announced that it would set up a special committee to review all the content available on the platform, including songs, podcasts, and even commercials.

Any content found to contain disinformation, which the platform defines as “intentional deceit of a material nature”, will be taken down.

The committee has already announced that it has removed the entire music catalog of bankrupt rapper 50 cent with immediate effect, whose lyrics “contain obvious deceit about Mr. Cent’s wealth”.

The committee also deleted every podcast episode on the platform featuring an interview with Anthony Fauci, because “that guy has repeatedly lied his ass off.”

We reached out to Dr. Fauci’s office for comment, but his press representative replied that he was unable to respond to our request because he was too busy advising Justin Trudeau about different ways to extend his personal quarantine.
Wait a minute. They can make transgender females have WAPs? When did this happen? I don’t understand the science behind this.
 

RamFan503

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My kids told me that WAP stood for Worship and Praise. I feel misled.
12's kid...
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OldSchool

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Man... No doubt. Can you even imagine Mel trying to make that movie today?
Pryor, Murphy and a handful of other people wouldn't ever get on TV or any streaming service today it's a sad state of affairs. But we won't go further down that rabbit hole.
 

XXXIVwin

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Man... No doubt. Can you even imagine Mel trying to make that movie today?
There's a really good documentary about the making of Blazing Saddles called "Back in the Saddle." It's only a half hour long and it's really interesting and informative.

The writers and actors were very much wanting to make a movie that makes fun of racism itself. Gene Wilder said something to the effect that "Blazing Saddles is about punching racism in the face."

So I'd argue that Mel Brooks wouldn't try to make Blazing Saddles in 2022 because our society has changed its attitudes about racism so much (mostly for the better) in the last 50 years. Brooks would write an entirely different script in 2022, knowing that certain words are "out of bounds" today that were still okay to use in 1974. Mel Brooks wouldn't use the same humor now as he did back then, because Mel would know his audience would react entirely differently.

I know this is a touchy subject not appropriate for further discussion on ROD. I'll just say one reason I love the movie is that I know the INTENT of its creators was very much anti-racist. And yes, the norms of acceptable anti-racist humor were entirely different in 1974 than they are now in 2022.

Here's the link to the documentary, it's free to watch:


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41FeFIJKma0
 

RamFan503

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There's a really good documentary about the making of Blazing Saddles called "Back in the Saddle." It's only a half hour long and it's really interesting and informative.

The writers and actors were very much wanting to make a movie that makes fun of racism itself. Gene Wilder said something to the effect that "Blazing Saddles is about punching racism in the face."

So I'd argue that Mel Brooks wouldn't try to make Blazing Saddles in 2022 because our society has changed its attitudes about racism so much (mostly for the better) in the last 50 years. Brooks would write an entirely different script in 2022, knowing that certain words are "out of bounds" today that were still okay to use in 1974. Mel Brooks wouldn't use the same humor now as he did back then, because Mel would know his audience would react entirely differently.

I know this is a touchy subject not appropriate for further discussion on ROD. I'll just say one reason I love the movie is that I know the INTENT of its creators was very much anti-racist. And yes, the norms of acceptable anti-racist humor were entirely different in 1974 than they are now in 2022.

Here's the link to the documentary, it's free to watch:


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41FeFIJKma0

I think (hope) most people know what Mel was doing with that movie. It should be obvious. But these days, common sense doesn't matter.