"Narcissistic Mothers" are a thing that a well known parlance in female circles. I think
@Lidl Drip could probably explain about it more (I'm not saying you have one, Lidl, but its a phenomena I don't really know much, if anything, about, and you are a very knowledgeable person), but in my opinion the "Prog mother who troons out their child" is just an updated version of the archetypal Narcissistic Mother.
yeah, there's a reason r/raisedbynarcissists is a thing, and although it includes narc fathers, most of the posts tend to focus on narc mothers, and both parents being narcs. There's enablers too, which I am convinced are actually covert narcissists themselves that hide their own narcissism very well. Then there's r/raisedbyborderlines, which is a corollary subreddit devoted to the other Cluster B Clusterfucks that can fuck up a child's life. The subreddits themselves caution that "narcissism" need not be full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder, need not be diagnosed, and is deduced from behaviors that show a stunning lack of empathy and varying degrees of selfishness and entitlement. Bob definitely shows signs of selfishness and entitlement. It is unknown whether his own mom is an "enabler" (covert narcissist), but we can't really rule out that possibility at this time. Narcissistic traits can be genetic.
I wouldn't be surprised if Bob's dad, being an alcoholic, had a narcissism problem. It's a chicken-and-egg scenario when it comes to alcoholics; alcohol can do the damage that creates narcissistic behavior patterns, or the patterns pre-existed before they started drinking and the personality is one of the ones that is more susceptible to addiction.
As seen in the movie Mommy Dearest, which was somewhat popular when I was younger though I don't think I ever saw it.
We have the book. Poor Cindy Crawford! Heck, poor any child of Joan Crawford. It's not particularly surprising that an actress is a narcissist. Any asshole actor/actress, that treats fans and even film crew like something they scraped off the bottom of their shoe (Dustin "Screech" Diamond is a prime example), is almost surely a Narcissist at the very least, and a full-blown psychopath/sociopath at worst.
I guess for the time being, Film Theory is keeping Bob on. I guess they're all as stupid as MatPat and secretly desire the denial of oxygens in the wasteland where reside the obsolete
MAGAnaiseghoulen barrow wight trash.
Oh FFS, Bob. NO, just because some people appropriated the metaphor of "red pill" and "blue pill" does NOT mean they did
not see the film. It means they violated YOUR blue curtainisms with their own blue curtainisms. Isn't Blue Curtainism the backbone of modern movie "media analysis", Bob? Looking at your shit, it absolutely appears to be the case. Even if the modern meme of red/blue pill has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the message of the movie, it is very common for people to take one metaphor, and turn it into ANOTHER metaphor (with or without Blue Curtainism). Tale as old as time.
Some

NEEDS to tweet the following at Bob:
The Cult of the Blue Curtains DEMANDS, as taught by English Literature profs since time immemorial, that ANYONE can interpret a media and get ANY message they want out of it. It doesn't matter what the author(s) intended, because The Matrix doesn't reals, because none of it ever happened.
It sure as shit doesn't matter whatever the Wachowski troons intended to retroactively claim what red pill and blue pill
ackshually mean, because the core basis of the red pill and blue pill metaphor is the basic concept that the blue pill allows you to stay in ignorance while the red pill allows you to find the truth. You can apply this metaphor to literally anything. I mean, it
could mean trooning out versus not, sure. But that's just ONE interpretation.
Walter Chaw (and Bob, for that matter) should NOT type their movie reviews with one hand.
17Mar#37
OK, I got half a chuckle out of "Duney". ALMOST clever, Bob. ALMOST.
Blame Canada. That's literally where Elon was educated (oh, and South Africa too).
A professor! I'm so impressed!
Communications profs are almost as woke as Sociology Profs. Which is bigtime woke.
Your guys' idol Anita Queen of Vidja games Sarkeesian literally wanted to take titties out of vidja games because "sexist". You have an issue with MAGA CHUDs being upset about that, go take it up with
her. As for me, I smell goalpost-moving style gaslighting.
Kratos is Black and sheet.
None of this matters because Kratos doesn't reals and
God of War Never Happened - Bob, probably
Also, seriously? Kratos has a TAN under all that ashy makeup and they think that means he's BLACK? I have a friend who under the right conditions LOOKS black or maybe half-black (under these criteria), but they're NOT.
Not even close. I know people with darker skin tones from fucking Scandinavia, no black ancestry there at all.
Breast physics and ideologies.
"Story AUTOMATICALLY has POLITICS because ALL STORIES HAVE POLITICS" is a helluva take from Level 99 Coomer Bob. That's why I think they
shouldn't refer to it as "politics" in games/stories. It should be "Current Year Bullshit", so you don't feed into Bob and his senpais' idiocy.
Saying every story has politics in it would be like saying
Little Red Riding Hood is all about avoiding black people as represented by wolves who have big eyes, big nose, big lips, great big teeth, and will eat you all up like Mr. Barbecue from Haiti (or raep you). See, I can asspull this blue curtain shit, too!
Come to think of it, I'm surprised some Communications/Sociology/English Lit major HASN'T come up with that kind of bullshit to analyze
Little Red Riding Hood.
Women (and "women") can't best men in e-sport, blame sexism.
There actually is a biological advantage, but it's hormones-and-brain-related. Women at some points can't concentrate well enough to focus to "git guud". Other times, they can. (I have it on good authority that women can play vidja games better while on the rag). I mean sure, there's some guys who are like that, but in general women aren't interested in video games for a variety of reasons including they give up too easy on hard shit that requires precision, and many women have NO interest in "repetitive shit" which they consider "boring". Also in general women have spatial analysis deficits (not all, for sure) compared to men which makes then bad at judging distances and shit in games. And I'm not even talking about games designed to appeal to women like fucking "Candy Crush" which is just basically tetris, but prettied up.
Everybody gets treated like shit in gaming for being BAD. Regardless of gender.
17Mar#53
Says the sentient thumb who has NEVER had a meaningful long-term relationship AT ALL (let alone a proper "break-up" because any "relationship" was no longer than a regret-filled abortionless One Night Stand, if Bob's claims to Chadhood in the Bar are to be believed). Which is WORSE than being divorced, depending on how you look at it.
Making fun of someone for being divorced when you've FAILED to even clear the few first steps to even being ABLE to be divorced is just not it, Bob. At least THEY actually managed to snag a Significant Other and have a wedding.
Literally the only Russian people I ever met that are living in America are all older people who left during the Soviet era. Most of them have no experience with any form of post-Soviet era Russia.
Literally anyone from the Eastern Bloc who came over during that time are absolutely aghast at the shit that's going on in Leafland right now. Which is going to happen in USA soon at some point, and boy will Bob ever be surprised about it. These Eastern Bloc Cold War Era refugees absolutely know what the fuck wokeism is, what it leads to, and that it's happening right here, right now. They absolutely will NOT put up with that bullshit.
I'd say mostly women aren't interested in Vidya, so they literally aren't bringing their best. But yes, blame sexism Bob.
This is correct. I'd argue any woman that is legit interested in vidja are autistic to some degree. Any woman that has good-to-excellent ability to do shape rotation in their head and has good spatial shape recognition will be interested and can git guud. These are few and far between, though.
What is best in life?
To crush the Mayoghouls. To see them driven off X. And to hear the lamentations of the Believers.
Bob would make this up and quote it unironically.
There's no difference. Except that women are so emotionally fragile that insults by 12 year old boys will crush their souls and eliminate their ability to compete properly.
Christ almighty, calm it down with all the misogyny.
Yeah, this ties in with the hormonal advantage men have in playing vidja that I alluded to earlier in my post. Estrogen is the mind-killer. (which would totally explain why MTF troons can't git guud either).
Bob can't comprehend this, either, but he can't git guud for other reasons - being a lazy narcissist, he lacks the patience for Nintendo Hard. For he is The Kwisatz Tarderach, Lard of Lynn, Pol Potbelly, Masshole Mussolini, Ba'ab al-Movie, Sheikh Diabeeto, Perpetual Acolyte of
The Cult of Our Lady of the Blue Curtains, Bob the Blue Curtain Builder, Bobby the Smoothbrain
Heenan Chipman, the paste-consooming, crayon-eating Blue Curtain Analysis "expert".