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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I always thought that Pee Wee's exile for spanking it with a bunch of other guys in a porn theater was pretty performative. It was the suits at CBS that kept trying to turn his adult material into a kid's show in the first place. It was fine for them to snap back to reality and reconsider his audience, but blacklisting him from everything was too far.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 9 hours ago

I feel like a lot of people were more prudish back then. What he did didn't harm anyone.

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I agree. It would have been a great opportunity for him to recast himself as an adult. Just like Rowan Atkinson doesn't need to be Mr. Bean.

It sucks that this is a question that has reasonable answers for it that has to get nuked because lemmy is full of censorous slime, who are self-conscious of their own censorous nature. Mean while they have posts on the front page pointing fingers of censorship at others.