I used to love Pucca, especially the theme song.

Puritan culture in the US still runs deep; all punishment & brimstone, no reconciliation &/or rehabilitation The “moral” being Judith cheated so she _deserves_ to contract HIV, never find love again, & be alone comes from a sick mindset. Not saying Brice should’ve stayed with her but if Tyler Perry really wanted a storyline about HIV/AIDS Judith could’ve gotten counseling (Brice too, separately) then she could find a welcoming community & met friends in an HIV/AIDS support group or something

Hello. I hope all is well with you. You're inspirational. Thank you for continuing your work and lending your much needed voice and gifts in this space. In light of the recent announcement of Zendaya's engagement announcement, I'd like to know your thoughts on single moms and the harsh ridicule they receive. I believe there are constructive ways to have conversations about single motherhood without condemning young and older women to a hard life and for being undesirable after bearing a child out of wedlock. How does one going with their lives and be their best if everyone's foot is on their necks? Some want to play God and determine who get forgiveness and who must pay for their indiscretions.

0:36 Amphibia mentioned

I was going to bring up house of Payne when CJ started seeing someone with HIV and was shunned for it until she also was able to explain her story.

Cartoons always portrayed the evil man as a dark haired person mostly with beard and big nose

perry trying his hardest to get rid of his misgynoir rep with that recent ww2 movie

The way I clicked so fast bc of the thumbnail!! I read this manga in middle school and it had always haunted me (good and bad) I love rereading every once in awhile but always heartbreaking. I've always bought jp manga that wasn't licensed in eng yet and this was one of the first ones

Good channel

The HIV/AIDs is treated in media is so annoying. Besides the PSAs of the 80s-90s, it usually falls into 2 categories. Used as a punishment for someone for someone with a demonized sexuslity(women, sex workers, queer golks). Or as shock tragedy. The later is so annoying especially considering how dated it is. Back in the day it really was considered a death sentence but these days you can still live a fulfilling life with HIV so it irritates me that people still use a character dying of aids for shock value. Especially queer people.

Gurl I thought I was the only one who liked Judith. I remember watching this movie with my auntie when I was a kid and I was cracking up. I know she was trifling but there's just something so charismatic about Jurnee Smollett. She made Judith so funny and paired with Brice's angry lip quiver...it was hilarious. I'm sorry there's just something deeply unserious about this movie. But real talk the movie was so frustrating. Tho Judith was dead wrong she tried to work things out with Brice time and time again yet he ignored her till she started cheated. It irritated me how she was the only one who was held accountable because her infidelity wasn't the only problem in their relationship. And Judith's "punishment" irritated me aswell. It felt less like "cheating is bad and being reckless can risk your health" and more like "this is the price you pay for not putting up with his mess. If he don't cheat, there's no reason to be dissatisfied." Tho Brice didn't deserve to get cheated on I'm still tryna figure out what did he do make him deserving of happy ending. He was shown to be unwilling to communicate, reassure or be attentive to his partner so as a reward for his unwilling to make a relationship work is a new relationship??? Also what is it with Tyler perry and making relationships the reward. The grand all be all. Like it's understandable that Jurnee lost Brice over her behavior but being single don't gotta be miserable. In his movies the Jazebel gets punished by being without a man, and the abusive men tend to get redemption...like why???

SEX EDUCATION IS SOOOO IMPORTANT

If you ever need some more resources on that topic, we should definitely talk at some point. I've already done some research on this exact topic especially on Tyler Perry. A lot of the rhetoric around the height of the AIDS epidemic being in the media focus sold this idea that only certain people, "high risk" people need to worry about catching it. It's not unlike how Covid is still around now but ignored as just "only high risk people need to worry about it at this point" when in reality it's dangerous to everyone regardless of your health history. In particular, it was frequently stigmatizing toward several different LGBTQ people to the point of inciting panic and warning straight women about the dangerous of getting it from dirty bisexual men, and plays into a lot of biphobic stigma in how bisexual people are just seen as infected even by virtue of being "gay essentially." It overlooks the testing that was conducted at the time and the structural neglect and pathologizing done by the state to essentially use HIV/AIDs as a eugenics tool that disproportionately would affect not just the LGBTQ population but also the Black population as well. That's why it's so alarming in how women in particular are reaffirmed on purity culture ideas like "if you have any kind of sexual agency you will get a STD and it'll be your fault for not being virtuous enough." It's a mixture of misogynoir, ableism, and queerphobia in how it's presented in media. So with this discussion of slut shaming and controlling women's sexual activity also has to come the notions of how women are blamed for not discerning who is the dirty gay/bi man and who is the "clean" man. Even the way we describe someone who tests negative for a STD as "clean" is stigmatizing language that imagines people with STIs as inherently dirty people and contributes to the idea that they did something to deserve it. Tyler Perry has even done that exact character with the predatory, lustful gay man unable to control himself before too. There are some big counternarratives around HIV/AIDs at the time. A Different World is one that comes to mind, and even in that episode some of their jokes still reinforce the same kind of ideas about stigmatizing peoples sexual activity. In particular one of the jokes about how the one dude who is a loser guy who hasn't gotten to have sex is "safe" and they basically laugh at him for the sexless virgin trope, which doesn't examine how pushing this idea that men in particular need to be sexually active conquerors to be seen as real men contributes to the problem as well. Tyler Perry also did an adaption of For Colored Girls which added in another storyline in its rerelease years later discussing HIV/AIDs from the perspective of a woman who got it from her husband. I don't think the story should have been added and Tyler Perry doesn't make the story any better. If anything he proliferated that meme of that woman asking her man "were you the one doing the bending?" It does the same thing where it doesn't examine this any more deeply and tries to discuss the feelings of internalized homophobia or biphobia to an extent but it doesn't do anything beyond seeing disability as a moral judgment inflicted upon people. I have like...a million problems with Whoopi Goldberg, but she's one of the big parties to push for some of the better HIV/AIDS narratives we saw come out of the 1990s, such as the HIV episode of a different world and the way Captain Planet addressed mis and disinformation about public health surrounding HIV. It also contributes to who bothers testing in the first place and why people avoid getting tested or see it as you not trusting your partner. You take testing seriously because you love and care about them while recognizing that they didn't do something to "deserve" contracting a STI if they do.

Oh chile I almost forgot about this movie and the fact that I even watched it 😭 time for me to lock in to this video! 😌

I remember finding this manga at random when I was in my mid-teens, I was SO traumatized.

When it comes to Tyler Perry films, expect foolishness and confusion

I hated how "Diary Of a Mad Black Woman" ended. I like the movie but Jesus.

HIV is used as a punishment for a character's promiscuity or sexual deviance. This is a lingering way of thinking that came out of the AIDS epidemic from the 80s and early 90s. You transgressed by being a slut or by being gay therefore this disease is punishment so to combat that way of thinking you had TV shows like Golden Girls where they tell that HIV isn't a disease that only "bad" people get. But even centuries before that, cautionary fables of sex workers dying of syphilis

😭silent subscriber here. I clicked on this video SO FAST bc the manga snippet in the thumbnail unlocked a memory in my brain, and I needed to know what the connection was to Tyler Perry LOL. I double-checked and I did read Deep Love as a CHILD 😅 and i remember it scarred me as it had a follow up manga about the dog that the protagonist Ayu takes care of. I didn’t expect to hear about topic at all and now i’m reeling from other examples in media stigmatizing and demonizing those diagnosed with STDs

Will AIDS haven't stopped anybody from doing anything so they come out with covid and that hasn't really stopped anything so if we could face covid we are still going to have fun

Thanks for making this video! That ending was something else! The changing the actress was such a weird move Using hiv as a punishment and making her out to be unredeemable Yikes

YOO THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT TEMPTATION!!! I’ve YET to see any other KZbinrs talk about this movie!! I’m also glad to know I’m not the only one that HATES Harley. He was giving MAJOR creeper vibes.. 7:27 - 7:35 This too, when I saw the ending (back to the very 1st time of me watching the movie), I was just left speechless. Cause while I get that yeah, Judith shouldn’t have cheated, it STILL DOESN’T EXCUSE the fact that Brice wasn’t giving her enough attention/ love in the relationship. What I also didn’t like, is that we don’t know what happened to Harley. I brought this point up to my friend. That after the Brice vs. Harley scene, it just cuts to the end. But am I the only one wondering what happened to him? Like did he get arrested? (It’s a crime to go around willingly spreading HIV/ STDs, etc), or did he just decided to move on..? The ending was rushed. And we DEFINITELY at least should’ve gotten at least a scene/ snippet or better yet, have Judith explain what happened to him.

Literally the earliest i have ever been to a video Never thought about this topic before but i am ready to listen

Here because is a topic I want to tackle in my own writing. Also, first!

Im actually old enough to remember the famouse Bill Cospy Show. Well you might not be able to ruin childhoods, but certainly the memory of it. The show did not age well at all. Fresh Prince of Bell Air did age pretty well, and the few times it had social commentary where very strong. Wills Dad, the Racial Profiling Episode...

Interesting

Honestly, I just assumed that all animators in LA aren't that well off because of the cost of living in SOCal and the average yearly income for an animator. Plus I'm from California, (NorCal specifically) and I've visited LA multiple times, you don't need to tell me twice that people of all economic backgrounds live in LA.

Love your channel!

Well how are you doing mentally Happy New Year's

Toji's wife

I was in elementary when miraculous started and now I'm a highschool junior.

Even rich celebrities don’t deserve to be losing their homes in such a devastating way.

Yes

The phrase "eat the rich" is just crap now. People are using it for people they don't like, even the rich themselves

It’s great to criticize shows you like, it shows maturity

It seems like a LOT of people don't understand what eat the rich means and the history behind it 😔

Thanks for making this video, I do visdev for animation and have not been able to get a paying job since I graduated. Ordinarily that’d place me among the minority of graduates from my school, but other people with 10+ year careers have told me that this is a weird time for job seekers. It feels like companies don’t actually want to hire talent, but say that they do.

Yeah, people believe YT’ers, content creators and workers in the industry are rolling in money. I learned early that it’s false. Worked security for a decade and have several coworkers who have had national/global commercials, television and films. After hearing the saying, 15% of the industry actually work. While the remaining 85% are still trying to keep the lights on is still valid. Right now, there’s a makeup artist suing her coworkers & the only reason she may get compensation is because of those same coworkers ignoring her issues, for years!

Artists are OVERWHELMINGLY POOR. Only the top 0.01 are rich

Who thinks unpaid animators are rich???

Im truly disturbed to see ppl celebrating houses burning down because it’s affecting rich people. A natural disaster is happening and ppl really thought it was ok to cheer and celebrate smh. I’m annoyed with people participating in things they have absolutely no knowledge about.

"y'all don't wanna eat the rich, you wanna eat people who have a job" is such a funny aass quote that could be taken outta context so fast

Maybe someone should tell these people that the MAGA crowd are saying that California is on fire because its "Sodom and Gommorah" and hiring women firefighters.

0:34 it did indeed teach me that

These animators work so hard for so little pay

thank you for talking about this. i grew up wanting to work in animation and idolizing crew members, but truth be told most of them were likely just barely making enough to get by. the situation right now is devastating, on top of the animation industry having already been in a poor state beforehand

It's the hyper visibility and proximity to very wealthy people that makes it seem for some reason that *everyone* in the entertainment industry is making bank. I understand the perspective of people seeing a movie made millions of dollars and believing it all goes to the creators. I think the heads of these companies really benefit from that perception since it keeps most people from asking exactly where all that money is going in the first place. Everyone should have free housing and healthcare. No one decided to be born, and yet we have to pay to live. I wish there would be serious (inter)national conversations about social safety nets outside of a crisis. People deserve better