Incidentally, when it first came out I managed to get through almost all of the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie assuming (having missed the relevant dialogue at the beginning) that Yondu actually was Peter’s biological father and Peter just, I dunno, happened to really strongly take after his mother.
(I guess me and Drax have something in common.)
skalja
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I was 15-17 and hanging out on LiveJournal (the primary social…”
I don’t think I ever saw the Katrina thing (?!!!!!) but I remember the childfree rhetoric. Normalized to an extent that’s just horrifying in retrospect – I knew it was awful then but it seemed more everyday awful, you know?
It was like…background radiation or something, wasn’t it? Especially since if you questioned it you were usually hit with “WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM OF SPEECH? WHY ARE YOU TAKING AWAY MY FREEDOM?” and no-one wanted to take away anyone’s freedoms, not then, not when the various governments across the world seemed to be doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
Of course, this was before I knew what freedom of speech actually meant…
It was so awful and messy. The reaction to Katrina was even worse, though. “These people had so much, and they lost a little of it” I remember someone saying sanctimoniously at the long-gone probably-unmourned-for fandom_wank blog as the death toll rose.