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I think it is such an interesting quandary in modern times because while it shouldn't always be the responsibility of an oppressed class to explain how they wish to be treated, at the same time this is new information for an older generation that is probably most palatable when it comes from the source. Either way, the worst outcome is people thinking that they can't say anything correctly, when the simplest answer is to not be an a$%hole and respect other people's rights. There are numerous examples of the media pitting people against each other that serve as an excuse to say that these issues are still debatable (like the use of the term cancel culture or political correctness). However, disrespect of people's civil rights is always inexcusable, and those whose jobs depend on fandom and followers should face consequences for alienating their audience.

I dunno know, I mean he was in town for over a year and nobody asked him where his twin sister Cassie was living? 😉

If the devil reveals that Lani is Paulina's daughter what are the consequences? I get that Abe will be mad that she kept the secret, (as if she could have told him between kidnappings and being shot). But, does it actually impact Lani, Eli, or their kids if Paulina turns out to be the biological mother? I feel as if I am missing something like it makes Eli and Lani related...

I'm going to have to add Stephen Schnetzer as Cass Winthrop to this list. Think of how varied his partners were; from Nicole Love, to Kathleen McKinnon, Frankie Frame, and Lila Roberts. The Kathleen/Frankie/Cass triangle only worked because he had chemistry with both actresses. He made Nicole interesting and funny. He also humanized Lila and gave her routing value. Finally, the man looked so natural in a tuxedo, he wore it like most would wear sweatpants. Even when soaps, (and fashion), went somber in the 90s he continued to exude glamour and panache. Also, Felicia Jones on GH. Most female characters cannot sustain after being in a supercouple once their partner leaves town (e.g. Hope on DAYS). However, Felicia was somehow able to make Tom Hardy and Colton Shore sexually alluring, even thought both characters were played by the most wooden actors in daytime. She also brought out the best in Dekker Moss, a completing unappealing guy. And then created a second super couple pairing with Mac. Her friendship with Lucy, Luke, and Kevin were also highlights. She is a force of lightness in an often dark town.

Maybe Viki was referring to that perm that Christine wore was not as tough as people believed? I am always entertained by a double hustler relationship in soaps. They are hard to maintain because one member of the couple is always trying to get the goods on the other. But, I like that they're bonded over their mutual respect for being cons. It's like you hate 'em for what they've done, but you gotta appreciate them for trying it... Later when you could tell it would never work out because floppy hair never pairs well with tight curls. They could never understand each other's separate but equal need for conditioner.

Well, as they say hindsight is 20/20, but it appears that they were more interested in developing a method of distribution than they were in producing content.

The TOLN issues are public and easy to understand. They were a bit ahead of their time. They tried to produce and distribute content and they simply ran out of money. Today a similar production would partner with a known streaming service in order to avoid those costs. However, ten years ago there were fewer streaming services available, so they tried to create one on their own. Unfortunately, the only content that they owned were AMC and OLTL, so they could not compete against Netflix and Hulu with their huge catalogue of movies and television shows. As a result, they quickly ran through their startup investment, and went bankrupt by 2013. Similar to the losses that P&G faced after consumer lawsuits over faulty products crippled the company, the issue had nothing to do with the creativity or quality of the content. It was just a lack of funding that killed those soaps.

From the Atlanta Journal This week at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, Judge Schroeder: - Told court to applaud a defense witness for being a veteran - Rejected video of Rittenhouse shooting victim, claiming zoom may distort image - Forgot to silence his phone; song used at Trump rallies played as his ringtone The defense showed a video in the courtroom today of one of the victims provoking the armed militia of Rittenhouse's gang asking them to shoot him. My response was if the guy is asking to be shot, how could he be seen as a deadly threat requiring response by Rittenhouse with a rifle in order protect himself? Then, the defense tried to show that it all happened quickly, but Rittenhouse had 30 minutes when he drove to Kenosha, and hours while he watched the protest, to plan how to protect himself by not getting involved. And regardless of the speed of the incident, Rittenhouse was able to shoot three people all at close range in under four minutes, one of whom had his hands up demonstrating he was not a threat. I am terrible at predicting these things, but I don't think the acquittal will bring new protests, because people assume injustice in these types of cases. But, the post-acquittal interviews on non-minority concerned media outlets will cause a cultural uproar that will result in little to no change in gun laws or judicial oversight

The problem is that a mistrial would be used by the defense as a motion for acquittal. The citizens of Kenosha need to remember the misdeeds of this judge and vote him out. The New York Times The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Bruce Schroeder, has repeatedly clashed with the prosecutor, raising his voice and at one point telling him "I don’t believe you."

So, do they call the owner of Goop, Janet Paltrow?

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has got me all riled up today. The judge is awful, from only allowing the victims to be called "rioters or looters" to disallowing testimony that Kyle said on his twitter the week prior when he saw the protests on TV that he wished he had a gun to shoot "those people." Then, they completely shame one of the victims because he had been hospitalized for bipolar disorder (as if his mental illness made him a threat against a guy with a rifle). Meanwhile, Kyle was home schooled because he could not cope with his peers in public school, but that is disallowed from testimony. The defense portrayed him as a lifeguard there to provide emergency medical care, but on cross examination it comes out that he was only a security guard at a YMCA pool for 20 hours, had no EMS training, and offered no care to those he shot. It is such a disgusting display of how privilege and social media bravado warped this guy's morals to the point the he felt it was within his rights to travel 30 minutes (with no driver's license) to kill three men because they supported a different set of political beliefs.

Poor Bobbie Spencer was sent off to a "fat farm" to hide Jacklyn Zeman's pregnancy.

wrong topic sorry for the post

@carolineg To be fair, the topic is characters that we're surprised lasted, not character that are useless. As for Marlena, you'd have to agree that she is an outlier on a soap that values youth. I mean how many other great-grandmothers are still driving stories in daytime? From my point of view that defines "surprising"

Is there a mattress shortage in Salem? Why can't anyone have sex in a bed?

It is ironic that of all of those jerks who resisted medi-care for all, none were willing to pay for their own vaccinations. Conservatives fought the Affordable Care Act by tooth and nail for a decade, but none of them are worried saving money for the government by paying for their own vaccine. Why is a guy like Tucker Carlson taking the vax for free if he is so opposed to community access to medical care? Think of the herculean effort it has taken to get 68% of this country to go get a shot and then two weeks later return for a second dose. Now, remember a few years ago when there was a shortage of flu vaccines and the stories of people cheating to get the shot? Or during the SARS outbreak when Manhattan socialites were going to their doctors asking to hoard the unproven treatment in case of emergencies? Maybe if they made it cost prohibitive for the poor, then conservatives would have jumped on board and demanded two shots and a booster for everyone who ever wanted to enter a building. I say for the next pandemic we market a gold plated vaccine that costs $10,000.00 (as well as free dosages of the equivalent vaccine for all). Place the viles in a sheepskin case wrapped in alpaca delivered by Tesla with a digital lock made by Apple. And every egotistical sport figure, toxic male, and affluence seeker would cover the cost of vaccinating the rest of us.

I would add Y&R's Michael Baldwin to this list. Someone recently posted that it will be 30 years since he was introduced. I could not have predicted after his introductory story as sexual harasser turned rapist that Michael would have not only gotten more airtime than Cricket in the last decade, but would also get an entire family built around him, and a romantic partner. Helena Cassadine (GH) started as stunt casting for L&L's wedding, but she has driven story since the late 1990s Abe Carver (DAYS), Abe's been backburnered so many times that the actor left the show at one point and nobody noticed. However, looking back from the Reilly years to today he has been a part of most major stories. Honorable mention to Marlena Evans (DAYS), in a show where families dominate the town we've only met her kids (and briefly her sister Samantha and niece Trista). She is an honorary Brady, but there's never been a family built around Marlena. Coupled with the fact that the actress has been fired for being too expensive and the character killed half the town at one point, it is an unexpected trajectory that she would still be a leading lady in 2020.

Yeah, I always forget that the Buchanan's didn't literally bring the "D" (as in BDE) to Llanview when Asa moved to town Thanks for the reminder

https://ktla.com/entertainment/general-hospital-star-cassandra-james-responds-to-ingo-rademachers-apology/ Really, well considered response, well worth the 5 minutes to watch:

I don't mean to pile on with too many responses to a simple query, but I always interpreted it that Jason's lack of emotional remorse due to his brain damage is what made him a good contract killer. He didn't possess any special skills in shooting, fighting, or aiming, but he also never faced any trauma over killing his enemies, because the injury to his amygdala eradicated those thoughts (not factual, but an interesting creative choice). So, while his peers might take pause over killing a guy who was older, or a father, someone's loved one, Jason could do it without regret. Of course, the silly part of that writing choice is that an injury to the amygdala would blunt all emotion, but Jason was somehow still able to express smouldering anger with his trademark blue-steel-stare.

I get your point, but to clarify what lessons I've learned from this time in our cultural history, I would say that intentions don't matter in an apology, but it is an expression of privilege. Ingo assumes the morals and politics of a person based solely on their cultural identity , but we're supposed to see him an actor, environmentalist, father with varied intentions - no way - if a minority representative calls out behavior as abhorrent, the acceptable response is to listen and promise to change, not explain or rationalize the original statement. For example, I was just listening to a lecture about the effect of the renaming of the Washington DC football team, when members of a minority population speak out and say this is bad, the response should not include a rationalization that the team was trying to honor that culture, but to listen to experience of those affected and promise to change.

I was thinking this topic was familiar, so I found the two prior topics when we thought of similar examples, (including the OLTL school shooting story), for your reading pleasure

To put it more simply, intentions are BS, that fact that one makes a comment based on minority status makes them a jerk, regardless

The lesson that I've learned from Ingo's situation is that if someone of a minority status calls you out for racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or transphobia, then you are; regardless of intention. If you make a comment on social media based only on the minority status of individual, you do not deserve to use the excuse that your intentions were pure. It is the height of majority privilege to assert that people should consider one's underlying meaning when you respond to others only based on how you perceive them as different. It is as if Ingo (and others that use the same apology tactic) are saying that they are allowed to make assumptions about my morals and beliefs because I am gay, but I have to see them as a varied individual.

TikTok is really making me smile with all of these old clips. Berternie20 posted this scene from two of the greatest soap opera thespians of our times 😉 I especially admire the way she says "nekkid" and Carl's awful wig. Y&R.mp4 Jill had to bathe rather than shower due to her shooting, and now they're going to have to change the law... (that line makes so little sense that I wonder if it was an improvisation on the part of Ms Dickson) Also, I had no idea that someone else played David Kimbell before Michael Corbett (poor Bruce Penhall from CHIPs didn't get the job despite his panting over Mrs Abbott) Y&R 2.mp4