[Chat Log] April-May 2019

[Charlet]

Hi guys

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

hooooly moses did i just read a couple of bad academic articles about carmen

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

i have read some BAD academic articles about pop culture but "carmen sandiego is problematic because it makes the powerful adult woman character a villain and she wears red, which makes kids associate her with bad things because it's the color of a stop sign, in contrast to the statue of liberty which is green" is... a mighty hot take

 

[Claire Yeon]

@Jacqueline Hyde please link me to these articles so I can make a drinking game out of reading them

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

@Claire Yeon heres the one (click the thumbnail under “files” to download) Media Wars in Children’s Electronic Culture: Domesticating the World with Carmen Sandiego and the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers · The Carmen Sandiego Collection

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

the other one i didn’t even put up because it put carmen in the title then only mentioned her once, to say it was bad because it casts a woman as a villain and espouses a white male perspective

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

thats not even a summary, that’s pretty much the sentence she wrote

 

[Lucy]

Okay no more posting articles after I've taken my night time medicine..... It makes me act like I'm drunk. ?

 

[Claire Yeon]

Wow. Wow. That was... something else, all right.

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

luce, you don't need medication to feel drunk reading that article

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

claire, that is not even the worst article on pop culture i've read. i have read some nuclear takes, though i can't remember them atm... which is probably fortunate.

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

i did love "carmen is latina-coded because she has black hair" as if white people don't have black hair