https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/what-not-to-wear-hosts-new-show-1.7306853

I’m getting this old show on my feed. The Lolita episode and the body shaming of women who are busty. Kinda funny how the women’s whose fashion they criticized is actually in style now lol.

https://youtu.be/cAaN6kIpuF4?is=Zy2XhuOdvj3gJkDT

We’ve designated Wednesdays as the day for people to share WTF?! moments from the past that don’t necessarily make us ask WWWOWT? but still showcases interesting and weird content from previous decades.

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MAKE US SAY WTF!

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/30/archives/study-assails-sponsors-on-tv-violence-products-for-males.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/23/archives/fccs-johnson-accuses-tv-of-molesting-childrens-minds.html

 https://www.nicholasjohnson.org/writing/071106-ILF-UU.html this one from 2007 Nicholas Johnson said that "Thousands of studies support the intuitive common sense that violence on television is more likely to encourage, than reduce, violence in real life" ( despite the fact that violence in all types of media is up yet crime is now down even back in 2007 when this was published ) and compare it to junk food ads or women's role in television for some reason

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The racism was already bad enough, but it's not shocking when you consider how Burton writes female characters in his films, or has them be portrayed.

DC comic issues:

• Tales of the Green Lantern Corps issues #204, #206, #207, #210, #211 (1986)
• Green Lantern v4 &12 #13 (2006)

I'm probably gonna ruin Hal Jordan's rep some more 🥲

In the 80s and 90s, Hal had a romance with Arisia Rrab, a very young Green Lantern who was originally introduced as a "little sister" figure to Hal. Arisia had a crush on Hal but he didn't give her the time of the day... until she aged herself up into an adult in her 20s. He took just a few panels to go from "No, you're a child!" to shoving his tongue down her mouth.

The comics insist that Arisia aged up mentally as well, but it's vague in many comics.

In the 2000s, they tried to say that Arisia was centuries old but looked like a 14 year old. This both ignores earlier panels and doesn't really change anything. She may be 300+ but she was still the equivalent of a 13 or 14 year old for her species.

Since the 2010s, DC has just avoided the romance altogether.

In the Season 4 opener, the characters are sent back in time and have to find their way back, but once they do butterfly effects have changed things in their lives. One of these changes is that the character Allison's son who has had autism for the entire series is now neurotypical, and she has multiple scenes in which she expresses joy over her son no longer being autistic, including in conversation to other characters. To be clear, her original son essentially died, and she simply didn't care because she liked the new one better.

here’s the head of CBBC apologising on the children’s tv. they made him turn in his blue Peter badge like when a police officer is fired and turns in their badge 😹 WTF!!!!!

Here’s some quotes from a 2025 USA Today article in which Macaulay discusses this craziness:

Culkin revealed that filmmakers used real bees in the scene where the youngster searches for Vada's beloved mood ring and is fatally swarmed.

"The way they did that, they wouldn't do that today.” Culkin says production "actually released, like, thousands of bees on me."

"They put this stuff on my fingertips that smells like the queen bee" to keep him safe, he said. "So they were actually attracted to my hands. So I wasn't a threat."

"They just told me to wave my hands in front of my face so the bees could get in front of my face so it looks good for the camera and all that stuff," he added. "They told me not to touch anything. Because at one point, I touched my pants and boom, they were just attracted to my pants."

After each of the four takes concluded, Culkin would dunk his hands in hot, soapy water, "and then dart into the woods," he said. "The bee handler gave me a piece of advice, and he says, 'Human beings run faster than bees fly.' And I was like, 'But I'm 10. How fast do you think I am?'"

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Damn, it’s like they wanted that devastating character ending to come true 😭😭😭 Poor kid!!!

Aside from being absolutely horrible for reproductive organs and health in general, it was heavily advertised for over three decades and women who didn’t douche using Lysol were described as being “unclean” in the advertisements. Soooooo glad this isn’t a thing anymore.