Pretty tasteless of them to ask him to make fun of a tragedy. Who does that really?
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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I think it's fine to make fun of everything, including tragedies. And especially made up tragedies, like a movie. It depends on the intent of the joke. Whether you find it funny or not is subjective anyway. There are good jokes about the holocaust, so I don't see why there can't be good jokes about a movie. Now, whether the particular joke they were asked to do was good, that I don't know. But in principle I think you can make jokes about everything.
It is fine to make fun of everything. I'm interested in the practical critiques of Brokeback mountain cowboycraft, whatever that may be. Requiring uninterested people to do the same is stupid.
I don't think anybody was required to do anything. If Ledger doesn't want to do it for any reason, that's fine. I'm not arguing you have to joke about everything. The comment I replied to said that you shouldn't joke about a tragedy and that's something I disagree with.
Heartless people. People who make money off of a trend, while not giving a flying fuck about the content or cause.
Dude was BASED AF
Shit that movie was sad.
I feel like I may remember the event alluded to with gyllenhaal's character towards the end.
Also, crazy that it was twenty years ago.
Brokeback Mountain changed my mother's entire worldview with regards to homosexuality, and I'll be forever grateful to it for that.
I'm queer dude from the South who moved to California for safety. Yeah, they hit the nail on the head.
Queer girl here. If the US goes extreme against you again, you and your partner are welcome to move in with me in the UK. 🌈
I have a friend who needs help like that but no money or job.
I want to be able to help them but it's beyond my needs. If anyone has suggestions I'm open to them.
I'm a trans gal in Texas. I'm clueless on how to escape and I'm terrifying.
I have gone from the south to California twice, but both times with assistance from family. It is crazy expensive in most of the desirable places in California, but here is the key, the cost of living is not magic. It would be just as expensive to live anywhere else. The actual cost of living is the same everywhere. You are lucky to barely scrape by anywhere you go. The trick is getting to the destination getting established in the first place. This is super difficult on one's psychology. When I left behind everyone I knew to be on my own, I did not expect it to be so hard on me, but it was downright traumatic in my early twenties. California is like a foreign country compared to anywhere in the South. It takes years to really embrace the difference in a positive way.
Most people that I know of that moved here on their own were either independently wealthy or lived out of their car for awhile. Car life is not as easy as it may be elsewhere. There is an enormous homeless population here and they are deeply prejudiced against. The weather in the LA basin is what drives people to live here both well off and homeless. It almost never never freezes in the LA basin. The ocean follows a deep water upwelling pattern unlike anything on the Atlantic East coast or gulf. That regulates temperatures differently.
Anyways, the average opportunities present in any region determine the cost of living. So you must compete with the average person in the region for average pay to barely scrape by like everywhere else. How you personally fit into that average is what really matters. Escaping prejudice is always a matter of fleeing to intellectuals in terms of stereotypes and averages. California has backwards prejudice people too in some places. It is not a panacea, but there are less insane scientific skeptics here than elsewhere.
Stay safe.
I really hope you'll find happiness and feel safe there. I couldn't imagine living anywhere where I felt that "unwelcome".
I feel a whole lot safer. I settled down with my partner out here a while ago. The area is a little scary, but we're trying to bring some queer culture to Rainbow.
It had its funny moments too like when they ate pudding.
Butt full of beans
Hey now, don't yuck my yum! 😤
Watched it once, never again. Don't have the guts.
Isn’t it a movie about two dudes cheating on their spouses with each other
Essenially, yes, but the movie has more layers than that
Like the fact that they're forced by the society they live in to hide their relationship, and only a stupid, shallow, and deliberately callous individual would try to reduce it to "cheating on their spouses"
Or perhaps just someone with trauma
Spot on