What if we get sucked into a near-peer meme war and discover their meme technology is a decade ahead of ours
Hypersonic memes
Iirc this was posted because a bunch of edgelords were calling an actress the n word though :sadness:
the posting gap keeps growing as the chinese get stronger and stronger behind the firewall
Also the autism causes him to be a transphobe, but it's okay it's because he's autistic!
edit: this is legit an episode from the series
Dude's transphobia is just the tip of the iceberg. He's the perfect live-action encapsulation of the :very-intelligent: meme. Just a bottomless well of hatefulness with "My social ineptness plus my screenwritten genius proves that I'm right" slathered on top. Imagine if they gave Archie Bunker a PhD.
It's horrible, I could only watch clips and pieces of the show. It's just an even worse Big Bang Theory or Sheldon show. Am I the only one that felt that Monk was kinda the only show that actually covered neurodivergence without making it too fucking crazed/superpowered or am I just wearing nostalgia goggles?
I get the sense its just a consequence of western storytelling. When you're writing a medical drama with a featured central character, that character needs to be borderline superhuman anyway. The "neurodivergent" pitch is just his "got bit by a radioactive spider" origin story and has about as much to do with mental development as a Marvel Comic has to do with bio-physics.
Past that, all these characters are inevitably Ayn Rand knock-offs. Proven smart by high credentials that they tacitly reject, constantly at odds with the bureaucracy, incredibly annoying in a way that the writers translate as "sexy", materialistic to comic effect, and hyper-masculine to the point of making a frat house blush.
am I just wearing nostalgia goggles?
I don't think Monk was the only show to do neurodivergence well. But it was an exception that proved the rule.
It just pisses me of similarly to Grey's anatomy in how it portrays medicine in a absolute hierarchy compared to what it is now (a gaggle of team members working together to keep patients alive and trying not to piss each other off). There have been doctors I've met like this (the Sherlockian ubermensch mfers), but they more or less become the outcasts and "annoying weirdos" that you have to grit you teeth and bare with (though I've sen multiple dressing downs of these individuals as well).
Was there any other shows similar to Monk? Luthor pops into my mind but I forget if he was neurodivergent or not.
tldr: great man theory is bullshit and doesn't exist in medicine and actually harms the practice of medicine.
Was there any other shows similar to Monk? Luthor pops into my mind but I forget if he was neurodivergent or not.
I enjoyed "Crazy Ex-girlfriend". Nothing like Monk, but it did a good job of doing a show about a woman who is bipolar.
I should pick that one back up, I watched the first few episodes and loved the musical stylings of it and how it looked at the downsides to being a "manic pixie dreamgirl" trope in semi realistic terms.
I sent her a card saying hit my line, I'm autistic. This isn't what I meant!!
:cri:
I thought they were more going for a Doogie Howzer vibe, except instead of an adorable 12 year old super-genius still learning how to navigate an adult world, they decided to amalgamate the most annoying attributes of every character in Big Bang Theory.
I never watched the show but also never got the appeal. Anytime I saw my mom watching it all I could think was it was like one of those 80s movies about a nerdy 14 year old becoming a doctor
But also, it’s about his BrAvE PeRsEvErAnCe despite the TrAgEdY of him being autistic
After that fucking awful trans kid episode from that show recently these are very much deserved.
Imagine the most offensive "rude autistic manchild savant" trope you can think of, turn it to 11, then drop him in a hospital where no matter what protocols he breaks and how many comically offensively acted meltdowns and yelling matches he gets into, he is always right and vindicated by the end of the episode.
I just saw a clip from the show where he literally starts yelling "turn it off" and then does the whole eyes closed hands over the ears thing...
About a fucking automatic hand dryer.
Eric Foreman: Robocop Surgeon. 10/10 ratings across the board. Rated M for mature
So it's a show written by neurotypical libs about a stereotypical savant autistic doctor (played by allistic actor). And yes they support the hate group Autism Speaks. Also I think there's some transphobia in there too at one point.
Is that a Chinese Doge after a generation of evolutionary divergence? I feel like Charles Darwin without the wierd religious hangups.
