As pretty much every single article about these themes by Cracked, it left me on the fence. Yes, the
Sherlock episode with Irene made me wince at some moments (
goddamnit Moffat), but the other entries seemed like low-hanging fruits. I mean,
Avatar: The Last Airbender? It was almost like the "sexist video game problems bigger than the boobs" one.
Tesseracts wrote:Fun fact: a billion years ago, Maddox wrote for Cracked. Today he would probably get shot for trying.
That reminded of Cracked's
Doctor Who page, where whoever wrote it seemingly couldn't write John Nathan-Turner's name without calling him "retarded". I'm sure that's something that today Cracked would try to shoo the hell away.
Tesseracts wrote:Oh wait, men can't get shot. Only women and some black men can be shot. Men are objectively never victims of anything. Sorry.
Oh yeah, and then there's those lines the article had. Those came off as rather condescending to me. Call me a collaborator of the patriarchy or whatever but those ones just rubbed me the wrong way.
James Bond: "Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something."
Red Grant: "You may know the right wines, but you're the one on your knees. How does it feel, old man?"
– From Russia with Love
"This woman is an idiot without a basic grasp of the English language, and the guy is an abusive creepy weirdo."
– JamesT's review of Fifty Shades of Grey.