Rebel News Podcast - Miss Understood No. 30 — Nickelodeon, Teens, & Oversexualized Scenes

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all the culturally and politically misunderstood

00:00:24.040 ladies, non-binary, or gents. We are your hosts. I'm Kat. And I'm Nat. And today this is part one

00:00:32.060 actually of our two-part episode where we're going to be talking about Playboy. Hello. Hello. And then

00:00:38.700 of course everyone's favorite producer and writer Dan Schneider. Schneider. And we're going to tie

00:00:44.440 everything together in a nice little bow for you. So stay tuned till the end. You don't want to miss

00:00:49.240 it. You don't want to miss it girlfriend. But first our patented culture shock moment of the work

00:00:53.580 Take it to work, Kurt. Well, on Thursday, September 1st, Kanye West, he took to Instagram and just

00:01:04.100 started posting text pictures of text and also screen grabs of conversations with maybe you're

00:01:12.600 aging yourself. I am in my 30s. I apologize. Screen grabs of his conversations with potentially

00:01:23.340 his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Yes. And the big culture shock is that he basically told someone

00:01:32.180 that we think is Kim Kardashian. We assume it's Kim Kardashian. He basically said that his children

00:01:41.420 will not do porn, implying that Kim Kardashian allegedly potentially does pornography. And that

00:01:49.840 her Clinton friends can come get him and he's ready for them. And it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot,

00:01:57.900 you guys. Yeah. And it's interesting. I guess there's a debate about where their kids are going to be

00:02:03.140 going to school and he doesn't want the kids to take after their mother. No. Who was obviously

00:02:09.320 exploited. We assume by Kris Jenner for fame. So it's interesting and it's interesting that he's

00:02:16.040 coming out and calling out the Clintons. I mean, there's a lot of conspiracy theories about that

00:02:19.520 and stuff, but it's interesting that someone like him would say it. Right. Because he's so famous and

00:02:24.120 he should be like on like some sort of suicide watch. Yeah. Some of his messages are troubling

00:02:31.120 because you never know if he's just. Well, I don't mean suicide. Yeah. I mean like a suicide watch,

00:02:37.700 but it's troubling and he's taking a big risk here coming out and saying this. And it's interesting

00:02:42.200 that he's calling out Kris for doing something that we all know is true. Like she exploited her

00:02:47.280 own children and Kim needs to be mindful of that and hopefully protect her own kids. I think that's 1.00

00:02:51.200 like. Yeah. And it speaks to the theme of this whole part two, one episode, two part episode.

00:02:57.340 Can't speak even though I speak for a living. Yeah. And we're going to be talking about grooming

00:03:01.220 and pornography, mostly in not so much pornography, but like Playboy and potential like revenge porn

00:03:09.760 that Hugh Hefner had and infantilization. So a lot on the docket. Oh, there's so much to talk

00:03:16.140 about. So hop on the rocket and let's go. All right. Should we start with Nickelodeon? Let's

00:03:21.200 talk about Nickelodeon because we talked about Nickelodeon a few weeks ago and it more has been

00:03:25.920 coming out since then. And it's pretty crazy. Even just last Thursday, we can talk about Daniela

00:03:33.180 Monet in a second. Should we just give people a quick recap of what we've discussed before?

00:03:36.960 All right. So wrap her up nicely. In episode 27, we talked about this. So in a 2018 joint

00:03:43.480 statement, Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider announced that they would be parting ways, prompting people

00:03:46.840 to speculate why. The New York Times reports before their separation, ViacomCBS, the parent

00:03:52.040 company of Nickelodeon, had investigated Schneider and found that alongside the many co-workers

00:03:55.960 who praised his attention to detail and work ethic, many people he worked with viewed him

00:03:59.500 as verbally abusive. They also conducted interviews with employees and allegedly discovered there's

00:04:04.280 no evidence of sexual misconduct by Schneider. Although according to Daily Mail, Schneider

00:04:09.440 had a history of forcing the young actors into sexualized scenes. So that takes us to

00:04:14.360 turdurr. Turdurr. So last Thursday, a former Zoe 101 star Alexa Nicholas, she, she has some

00:04:23.540 tour. I don't know what. Yeah. Eat Predators is her tour. Tour of what? So they're just protesting.

00:04:29.400 It's a protest tour. Yeah. They're going outside studios and protesting the executives, specifically

00:04:34.840 Rob, Rob Schneider, Dan Schneider. Not wrong. No, Rob Schneider's cool. Yeah, Dan Schneider.

00:04:40.120 So they, so they kicked it off by gathering outside of Nickelodeon studio, studios in Burbank,

00:04:44.200 Burbank, California to protest enabling of abuse from executives at the network and specifically

00:04:48.800 called out Dan Schneider. She held up a sign that said Nickelodeon didn't protect me.

00:04:53.960 Yeah. And so this was, so this was last Thursday. Yeah, this was recent. And so it all started off

00:05:00.860 with, um, uh, Jeanette McCurdy's book, which we talked about in the 20 exactly. And she talks about

00:05:07.000 the creator who she doesn't name, but people assume together that it's Dan Schneider. Um, and then

00:05:12.820 there is something else that happened last week, which is, um, Daniela Monet, who was a star on,

00:05:19.400 was it iCarly? Uh, Victorious. Victorious. Yes. Again, I'm very old. Um, so she said that she found

00:05:26.900 one of the scenes too sexual and she complained to the network, AKA Dan Schneider about it and they

00:05:33.020 left it in. Yeah. Um, and there's other examples of over-sexualized scenes and costumes that I think

00:05:41.380 we should maybe mention because it seems to be a consistent thread throughout all of his shows that

00:05:46.440 he worked on. And not only that, but also important to note that the guy had a weird disdain for women.

00:05:52.020 He never had more than two women writing on a show. It was always a bunch of men, which is creepy

00:05:56.260 because it's a bunch of men writing for young kids. Like mostly girls, mostly girls. And, and so

00:06:02.940 there are some of the examples include one where, uh, Victoria star Ariana Grande puts her big toe in

00:06:08.320 her mouth. And then another is a scene where she's seen with her eyes closed, moaning and squeezing 0.99

00:06:12.060 a potato in both hands, begging it to give up the juice. Um, Monet also described an uncomfortable

00:06:17.000 scene where she was forced to apply lip gloss while eating a pickle. And then of course, this

00:06:21.100 is the, this is a good one. Um, insider also references another inappropriate scene where

00:06:25.740 goo with roughly the consistency of an egg white was, was being squirted repeatedly on teen actor,

00:06:30.860 Jamie Lynn Spears face, which, uh, which one of her male time, right? Yeah. She was 13 years old.

00:06:35.700 And one of her male castmates compared it to a cum shot. So this is, this is pretty graphic stuff.

00:06:41.280 And apparently like, like you said, she repeatedly have to, had to do it, but it was Dan Schneider

00:06:45.000 apparently who kept saying, Oh, we need to take it again. We need to take it again. And then

00:06:49.420 one scene, the egg white, like goo goes completely on her face and down her nose and mouth. And, 1.00

00:06:56.220 and he was like, that's the one. And that's the one that made it into the final edit. Yeah. It's,

00:07:01.140 it's pretty creepy. And it's really unfortunate that these like executives who are adults did not

00:07:05.760 care if their actors were uncomfortable, not even actors though. People behind the scenes also came

00:07:10.400 forth and forward and said that they found some of it to be a little bit off putting and icky.

00:07:15.960 And the content is for children too. Yeah. Like, like, um, Daniela Monet, I think was over 18 when she

00:07:24.800 filmed her like pickle scene or whatever, but Jamie Lynn Spears was 13. But not only that, the audience

00:07:30.580 is children. It's Nickelodeon. It's, it's marketed towards children. Right. So it's like Dan Schneider

00:07:37.540 thinks he's like, he's like producing an MTV show, like Love Island or something. Right. And I mean,

00:07:42.420 you could sit, you could argue that, okay, it's going to go over children's heads, but that doesn't

00:07:47.140 make it okay. Like it's still, it's still present in the content and that content is forever. Like

00:07:52.140 it's, it's, you can find it. There are so many clips online of all of these gross examples. People

00:07:56.480 have made compilation videos and all that stuff. Um, so I, I definitely suggest going, uh, and watching

00:08:02.120 them. Cause it's just, it's disgusting. And these kids are being exploited. And what's even stranger to me

00:08:07.100 is that in a lot of these instances, I bet their parents were there. Like, did they ever push back

00:08:12.380 or were they just so keen on exploiting their kids for money so that they have a lucrative career?

00:08:17.560 I just, it's so gross. Well, we talked about this before with, um, Jeanette McCurdy. Yeah. Um,

00:08:23.200 and I brought up the, the movie Honey Boy, uh, that's based, produced and acted in by Shia LaBeouf

00:08:28.800 that's based on his life. And that's exactly what happened to him. He, I don't think it was a sexual

00:08:32.880 nature, but his father was just like, so eager for his kid to make money. And obviously when

00:08:38.040 a kid is underaged that who gets the check, it's not the child. So right. And who knows

00:08:43.120 where they're putting that money and if the kid's ever going to see it. And that's a thing

00:08:45.960 too in Hollywood where, um, not even just Hollywood, child actors and doing commercials and stuff,

00:08:51.380 their parents take the checks and the kid never sees a penny of it. Yeah. Which is abuse.

00:08:55.220 It's child exploitation. Yeah. It's, it's horrible. And apparently, um, actors and sometimes

00:09:01.220 their parents vied for Schneider's attention and some parents were so desperate for Schneider

00:09:05.280 to notice their children. Nicholas said, uh, that they would physically push them toward

00:09:09.240 him and everyone took careful note of his favorite stars. So interesting. He played favorites

00:09:14.240 in front of all these kids. And then the parents were like, he likes this actor better. Get

00:09:18.980 in there. Go up and talk. That's so gross. So obviously there's a lot of, I'd just like

00:09:23.040 to thank my parents for never pushing you to become an entertainer. Yeah. Thank you. I mean,

00:09:26.800 clearly the adults involved in both the production aspect and the parenting aspect have really royally

00:09:33.180 screwed their kids. Like, isn't that just the worst? It it's the worst, especially because

00:09:39.800 I mean, we've said this, but, uh, Jamie Lynn Spears was 13. Yeah. Like an 18 year old being

00:09:46.280 uncomfortable is still awful. Yeah. Just terrible. And you're marketing that material towards children.

00:09:51.040 But Jamie Lynn Spears was 13 years old. That is so young. And I think part of the issue is that even

00:09:57.180 if these young actors and, you know, writers and stuff are coming forward and complaining to, uh,

00:10:02.640 Nickelodeon, the fact is Schneider was the breadwinner. And you know, like the Bible says the love of money

00:10:08.480 is the root of all evil. And so you got to follow the money, honey. Like if there's big profit to be

00:10:13.260 made, of course the studio is going to follow the money and pursue things that aren't satisfying for the

00:10:20.420 actors or make, and things that make them uncomfortable because they don't care about their well-being.

00:10:24.000 They just want to make profit. Yeah. Greed is just, greed is really the big evil here, I think.

00:10:29.880 Yeah. Yeah. It could be that Dan Schneider is actually a creep and wanted to have like, you know,

00:10:35.760 to diddle your kids. I was going to tip her around it, but that, um, or it could be what Nat just said

00:10:41.740 and that it's actually like, you could care less about the children and it's just greed. But the point is,

00:10:46.120 is that there's a market for it. Yeah. Which I guess we can kind of like, we're going to talk

00:10:50.980 about infantilization and what's going on with women, grown women acting like children these days. 1.00

00:10:57.000 Um, but I just want to read this one quote and I don't know which article it's from, but I'll

00:11:00.860 post it later. It says, Nicholas, who has been outspoken about her negative experiences at

00:11:04.620 Nickelodeon told Insider, it's from Insider, um, that Schneider once yelled at her so harshly when

00:11:10.180 she was 13, she broke down in tears. So it's like, and she left the show after two seasons

00:11:15.780 because of this alleged abuse. Yeah. Yeah. So again, like, uh, a producer yelling at someone,

00:11:22.260 making them cry, not super new, especially like when they're a kid though. Yeah. But that's why

00:11:27.580 it's so gross. And like, we've all heard stories about Shirley Temple when she was a kid back. I don't

00:11:32.820 even know. Was it the fifties? Yeah. We were not around. We were super, yeah, super good. But apparently

00:11:38.880 she suffered sexual and emotional abuse throughout her, um, her career as a child actor. It's

00:11:44.580 not good just because it's like not new. It's so, my point is it's not new, but it's not good

00:11:49.500 and it doesn't make it okay. And who's really talking about this? Exactly. Like this, like

00:11:54.000 if Nickelodeon's having, has skeletons in their closet, you can bet that Hollywood and children,

00:11:59.040 there's something, there's something bubbling under the surface and people don't want to talk

00:12:02.820 about it because either people don't care about kids or there's just so much evil that it's

00:12:07.220 just going to be overwhelming once exposed. Like I think the solution here is parents don't let

00:12:11.800 your freaking kids in, in, in Hollywood. Yes. Like, I don't, I don't know. We've talked about

00:12:17.580 this before too. Like are, are kids necessary in shows? Like maybe if it's a, it's a network for

00:12:25.280 children, like I know I used to watch certain Nickelodeon shows and like my little sister did

00:12:30.320 and kids like entertainment. So it's not like you can prevent them from having entertainment,

00:12:34.220 but we need to protect them. So we need to vet the people who are making this content. And just

00:12:39.620 because, and it's on Nickelodeon, it's not just on Dan Schneider because he is the catalyst for a lot

00:12:44.080 of this, but it's like Nickelodeon was probably thinking, well, there are some sketchy allegations

00:12:49.600 against him, but we've looked into it and bottom line is he's making us money. Yeah. Like that is

00:12:55.100 where it's wrong. Like he's wrong because he's a creep, potentially, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly,

00:12:59.800 but Nickelodeon could have done something about it instead of just like, Oh, he's making us money.

00:13:06.760 So let's just let it continue. Like if it was just Jeanette McCurdy and she didn't name him,

00:13:11.540 it's like, okay, maybe, maybe not. But now it's, it's several people, several people. Yeah. And not

00:13:16.600 even just actors. It's like we've mentioned in the last episode, it's there's writers who've,

00:13:20.700 and not only that, he also had a very delicate ego. So aside from kind of spending maybe too much time

00:13:25.460 with kids or texting them privately, apparently he would chat with teenage cast members for hours

00:13:30.380 after the filming ended. Um, like it's clear that he had a delicate ego and that reflected

00:13:38.460 how he treated people and he treated children like they were adults is how it seems to me.

00:13:43.880 It's like, he got confused about whether they were really children or not. And they were,

00:13:47.420 and children can't process anger the same way they can't. Like we should talk about grooming a 0.98

00:13:52.380 little bit now. Yeah. Well, I just want to mention one more thing specifically about Nickelodeon.

00:13:55.560 I watched that compilation video of, cause it, you just sent it to me. It's like maybe came out

00:14:00.060 today, um, of Ariana Grande and all those scenes. Like one of them, like you mentioned was her 0.95

00:14:04.360 putting her like sucking on her own toes. One of them's her putting her finger down her mouth. 1.00

00:14:09.680 Another one, she's like doing stuff to a potato. Yeah. Um, and then there's this other one. 1.00

00:14:15.100 Yeah. She's juicing a potato, not scientific. And then this other one, she's like laying on a bed,

00:14:20.080 like hanging off it and pouring water on herself. And she says, I'm soaking wet.

00:14:24.680 And it's kind of makes me feel bad for Ariana Grande because I kind of, and this is again,

00:14:29.520 like to talk about infantilization, like she sort of doesn't, she kind of never grew up a little bit.

00:14:35.500 She is someone who perfectly exemplifies infantilization. Yeah. She acts like a little 1.00

00:14:41.160 girl. I have no idea how old she is. She's like 30 in her thirties. Yeah. No, 1.00

00:14:47.120 she's actually in her thirties. Yeah. Like she's not a little kid. She's a grown woman. Yeah.

00:14:51.620 She's very tiny though. So I guess, yeah, yeah. But no, but it's also, it's, it's not just that

00:14:55.800 she's has a small frame. Like you have a small frame. Like you don't act like a little girl.

00:15:01.580 No, it's, it's a good point. And for those who don't know what infantilization is,

00:15:04.820 maybe we should just touch on that a little bit. Um, so it's in my pay pals. Yes. So

00:15:10.440 it's basically grown women posing as children. So there's an example, there was like a TikToker 0.91

00:15:16.120 influencer who now has deleted the photos. Um, she, she had her hair in pigtails and she was 1.00

00:15:20.640 dressed in a floral crop top and short skirt while holding a stuffed animal. Her expressions in the

00:15:24.720 photos show a range of emotions that are reminiscent of a child's demeanor. There's one photo with, uh,

00:15:29.600 of her with her arms crossed, pouting at the camera with a stuffed bunny. Um, like that's, 0.99

00:15:35.100 like that's supposed to be sexy. When people say grow up, it's like, grow up. It's like,

00:15:38.380 what are you doing? Well, yeah. And, and it's, it is an issue because it's become sort of like a

00:15:43.200 fetish. Yeah. And I think there's even porn like levels of this where it's like become,

00:15:48.120 what is it called? Like a theme in porn, a common theme or type of porn. I don't know.

00:15:52.280 Not clearly not very well versed in pornography. So, um, in that same article, they talk about this

00:15:58.320 other influencer named Hannah Kim, who is infamously known for doing the same sort of thing. Um, 1.00

00:16:04.220 infantilizing herself in a sexy way. And it turns out that her boyfriend,

00:16:08.380 her boyfriend was grooming, um, allegedly grooming minors. So it's weird.

00:16:15.760 Was it like, she felt like she needed to be sexy like that? Like sexy like that?

00:16:19.740 And so people that follow, I was, I was reading the tweets in the article and the people like,

00:16:23.740 I didn't know who this person is. Yeah. But some of her fans were saying how they were noticing,

00:16:28.900 like, isn't it weird how Hannah Kim's, um, like image has become more like young and innocent

00:16:35.240 since her boyfriend has been accused of these things. It's like almost like to keep him like

00:16:40.420 intrigued or to like validate. And it's, it's super, super weird. So it's kind of almost like

00:16:47.680 it, it like normalizes pedophilia in a way. Yeah. I also want to mention that, um, the author of this

00:16:54.060 article points out that there's this thing called age regression, which is like a, it's like a

00:16:58.900 therapeutic coping mechanism that some people use when they've had like terrible trauma. So

00:17:03.400 they revert back to like a simpler time or like maybe a time when something really bad happened

00:17:07.240 to them and they can't get past it. So the article wants to make it clear, like that's not the same

00:17:11.780 thing. Like you can regress in a way and make it sexual. But like, I like there is a separation of

00:17:18.480 those two things where one thing is like sort of like a mental coping thing, possibly a disorder

00:17:23.500 and it's sad. And it's like, it can be therapy for traumatic, traumatized people. And then there's

00:17:29.800 also just like healthy young women, seemingly healthy, who are purposefully infantilizing 0.99

00:17:36.780 themselves to appear sexy to men. And I also want to mention that this is not new. Like do,

00:17:42.020 do you remember Hit Me Baby one more time? Yeah. The music video? Well, even the way they made

00:17:46.100 Britney Spears sing, like the way they made her sound like a baby. Yeah. Like I don't think that's 0.94

00:17:51.880 her real singing voice, y'all. We'll never know. Culture shock. But like, I remember I was quite

00:17:56.400 young and, um, I'm sure everyone knows this, but Hit Me Baby one more time was her biggest hit.

00:18:01.500 And it was her first hit. And she's dressed in a sexy school girl, school girl uniform. And I wore

00:18:06.340 a uniform when I was a teenager. It wasn't sexy. It was not sexy. But I remember people being like,

00:18:13.100 oh, a uniform. Right. It was mostly young guys. Right. But it's like they're this. So the sexy

00:18:18.920 school girl is disgusting. But it's also not new. So these are not like new concepts. But I also 0.80

00:18:23.640 wanted, I was also thinking about it last night. Kids used to graduate high school later. So you

00:18:28.420 could be like 19 and in high school. Right. Different than when kids are graduating at 17, 18. Yeah.

00:18:34.460 It's only a year, but it's sort of like, it almost goes from like non-pedo to pedo. Yeah. And we have

00:18:40.360 to drop, it's time to drop that. And you can't like, how do you force a whole cultural thing to just be

00:18:47.220 gone? Yeah. But women should not play into it. No, absolutely not. Because there's nothing sexy 1.00

00:18:52.460 about children. No. There's nothing sexy about them. Let's not sexualize. They pull in their 0.88

00:18:56.700 pants, you guys. Yeah. Like, let's not sexualize children, maybe. Okay. Because. Full stop. Just

00:19:02.320 a full stop. Yeah. I don't even need to continue. That's it. That's it. And it reminds me of like,

00:19:07.860 you know, everyone's, um, we're talking about like drag queen story hour. And I think we have like a

00:19:11.960 clip. Maybe we'll play it in part two, but, um, it's, it's kind of understandable why some people

00:19:17.980 think it's okay for children to be at like distilleries or bars late at night, watching drag

00:19:24.600 queens shake it, shake it and putting dollar bills in their underwear. It's because we're blurring the 0.98

00:19:29.300 line from adult to child. And that's exactly what was happening at Nickelodeon. They're like,

00:19:33.520 oh, well, they're actors. They're working. It's like, they're still children. They're still babies.

00:19:36.280 They're still little children and they have a long time to grow up and live with all this trauma.

00:19:40.860 Like you, sir, are obese and a weirdo. You're going to die soon. Like you don't have to live

00:19:45.480 with this for very long. So lucky you. And like preserving innocence. Like it's, it's just insane.

00:19:51.700 Like I, it's like these people who are grooming and grooming these children, I think that's the

00:19:56.960 right word. Like maybe they have their own trauma and they're trying to put that on children,

00:20:01.180 but it's like, don't let these kids grow up the way you did. If you've experienced

00:20:05.180 like assault or abuse cycle, it's like, you need to stop that cycle. We need to end it. We need to

00:20:10.160 let kids be kids. And just like, we've, we talk about this like endlessly on the show, but their

00:20:15.080 innocence must be preserved. And that's being taken away from them in Hollywood, but even beyond that

00:20:20.020 in our everyday lives. Exactly. That's the thing. It trickles down from Hollywood where you think

00:20:23.700 it's okay because Ariana Grande, when she was 16 or whatever was squeezing potatoes. And now she's 1.00

00:20:28.860 still squeezing potatoes. Yeah. And now she's still like, she's messed up the poor kid. Yeah. 0.94

00:20:33.400 Yeah. So yeah. And also they're trying to make, they're trying to like, we talked about this

00:20:39.740 again, we're kind of like reiterating ourselves here, but, but there is a push from people on

00:20:45.540 the left, not all of the left, of course, but some people on the left to make the word

00:20:50.180 groomer, not a thing. So yeah, because, because they don't want you to call a spade a spade.

00:20:54.580 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because, and it's so important that we continue to call out grooming behavior.

00:21:00.120 You don't want to slander people. So that's why we're like, we're trying to be very careful to say

00:21:03.580 like, these are alleged things. Like Dan Schneider has not been found guilty. Yeah. Which is also

00:21:08.200 something that I find interesting. It's like, okay, they've conducted this one investigation,

00:21:11.900 but now that there are more allegations, do you suspect that open it up? Are they going to reopen

00:21:15.760 it? And he seems to be, he have gone dark. Like no one knows where he is. He doesn't seem too active

00:21:20.880 on social media anymore. So it's interesting. Like, I wonder if this will, if the bubble will burst,

00:21:25.680 so to speak. In preparation for our last episode, I was reading an article about like, it was about

00:21:29.800 like, where did Dan Schneider go? Right. And it was talking about how he's like thinking about coming

00:21:33.880 back and like making more children's content. And it's like, now I know, like, are they going to

00:21:37.980 read the room? Yeah, exactly. I don't know if that's going to be happening anymore, but it is

00:21:41.240 important to understand that like, these are allegations. There's lots of them and it's a pattern,

00:21:47.300 but it's not, it's not a fact yet. So we are trying to be careful. And also like,

00:21:51.240 we're treading in the water. Yeah, no, it's, it's important to understand like, he's not guilty of

00:21:55.620 these things yet. No. Um, but it's important to talk about them because it's, yeah, well,

00:21:59.580 because more and more is coming out. Exactly. Yeah. And when like kids see on TV, you know,

00:22:05.860 infantilization, I think that they, they might, they might like read that and be like, oh, that's

00:22:11.320 like a little kid acting like sexually. Like how do they internalize that? Yeah. It's weird. It's

00:22:15.860 like little kids acting sexually and then women acting like little kids. Yeah. It's like becoming 0.97

00:22:19.920 this weird, gross, young kids are watching it thing. It's really weird and gross. Like women 1.00

00:22:24.340 should be women. Yeah. We are the givers of life. Uh huh. We are God. But yeah, yes. True. True God.

00:22:31.140 Yes. But we are grown ass beings who are not children and we shouldn't want to be children.

00:22:37.300 We should be proud. We should be proud. And it's on women and men to not like men. Yeah. You can't help

00:22:45.280 them. No. Like you, you have to just not, you have to ignore creeps and not give them attention

00:22:50.460 and certainly not date them. Um, but as women, all, all we can talk about is how as women, 0.84

00:22:55.500 cause I'm not a man, but well, I am non-binary. She's non-binary. Yes. But as women, we need to 0.99

00:23:00.880 not play into that. So like, I'm not going to dress like a sexy school girl because there's

00:23:05.520 nothing sexy about a teenager. No. Unless you're another teenager. Yeah. Like teenagers can find

00:23:11.520 each other sexy full stop. Okay. Yeah. And yeah, exactly. They can be like, Oh, she's

00:23:16.660 cute. Like when did you get your braces? Like that's fine. Which summer camp are you going

00:23:22.420 to? And for anyone who's attracted to grown women dressing like little girls, there's

00:23:27.080 something wrong with you. There's something wrong with you. Get help. Seek help. Pray.

00:23:32.720 Yeah. I'll pray for you. Yeah. Well, it's also like we've talked about this, I think probably

00:23:36.120 also, but like, um, I grew up watching the OC. It's a show about kids in grade 10. Yeah.

00:23:43.360 It starts there. Yeah. Yeah. It starts there. Yeah. But they're like boinking and they're

00:23:46.800 boinking. Yeah. But, but the, the actors are way older. Right. I was just talking about

00:23:51.640 that with my favorite editor here at rebel news, Dave Shrigley. And it kind of creeps me

00:23:56.080 out that because it's like young kids might be watching that and they're like, Oh, these teenagers

00:24:00.200 are getting freaky, but it's like, no, they're consenting adults. So it's like, it's, it's kind

00:24:04.120 of wrong. It would be even creepier to see children doing those things. Yes. Like actual

00:24:08.320 16 year olds playing 16 year olds boinking. That would be worse. That would be even weirder.

00:24:11.860 But yeah, but it's like, why is the content need to go there? Yeah. Why do we need to

00:24:14.920 watch kids boinking? I don't want to, even though they're adults, but like, I don't want

00:24:18.900 to watch it. I know. But you know, you kind of forget how young they are. It's true.

00:24:22.260 Yeah. In the show. Cause they, cause like the, the main guy, Ryan, he has shoulders like

00:24:26.580 this broad and you're like, no 16 year old boy has those shoulders. I'm watching him

00:24:30.480 now as an adult and you're like, you're hot. And I'm like, damn. I'm like, wait, you're

00:24:34.280 like, you're 30. Yeah. He's technically like old, but like, well, and then it's another

00:24:38.780 show that I watched Mindy Kaling's new show. Never have I ever. It's actually a really great

00:24:42.820 show. I think it's really sweet, but the spoiler alert, the season ends with her. She got like

00:24:48.040 a boink card from her friend and she wants to not be a virgin before she graduated high

00:24:52.200 school. So she just goes to his house and she just gives it to him. They're friends. They're

00:24:56.100 not in love. And like, she just goes and loses her virginity. She's not even in her senior

00:24:59.580 year yet. As if it's like getting a pap smear and it's like, why are we normalizing sex 0.83

00:25:05.100 for teenagers on TV? Like, okay, Mindy, you, you want to write this in, but like you're

00:25:09.920 a grown ass woman. Like, it's just not cool. Like teenagers are going to watch that. 1.00

00:25:13.940 And maybe that was her lived experience. Like, I don't know. I guess so. But like, I just

00:25:18.200 don't think that's good content for kids. Like why should your teenage girl be pressured

00:25:22.640 to have sex before her senior year? Because the TV is telling her that's the cool thing to

00:25:26.120 do. And by the way, do it with whoever you want. Don't love them or anything.

00:25:29.160 Yeah. You know, I just think it's really irresponsible. It's so weird because do you remember being

00:25:33.180 a teenager? There were so many things. It was like yesterday. Yes. Well, just think

00:25:37.280 back to last week. There are a plethora of complications and anxieties and fears to get

00:25:43.140 like, I got upset about like not making the school musical one year. Yeah. Those are

00:25:47.140 the, I was just auditioning for things, trying to get in. Exactly. And like, oh, I wasn't

00:25:51.200 on the honor roll. Yeah. Like, oh, I wanted to meet a boy. Yeah. I wasn't, sex wasn't even

00:25:56.760 my first kiss. Yeah. It wasn't even in the peripheral of my mind. Like, and it shouldn't

00:26:01.720 have been. No. You're a kid. Yeah. Like, you know, I was just trying to get my eyebrows

00:26:06.260 right. I know. And I did my bad eyeliner years, you guys. Oh, geez. So, oh, geez. And I just

00:26:12.160 think that kids are being robbed of that. Yeah. And they're making it all about sex and drugs

00:26:16.360 and all this pressure. Like, I don't, I haven't watched the show Euphoria, but everyone loves

00:26:20.020 it. But I'm like, I don't want to watch teenagers getting high and having sex. Yeah. It's not

00:26:23.920 cool. I don't want to watch that. That's what Sex and the City's for. Yeah. Exactly.

00:26:26.860 And even they are a bunch of skags. Yeah. But at least they're old. Yeah, they're old. 1.00

00:26:31.120 Exactly. At least they know what they're doing and they're consenting. So, uh, anyway, a lot,

00:26:36.660 we covered a lot. I think that was a good way to end part one. Part one is complete.

00:26:41.040 Part one is complete, you guys. Make sure you tune in next week for part two. Part two.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 06, 2022

Miss Understood No. 30 — Nickelodeon, Teens, & Oversexualized Scenes

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