karivara t1_je6elvf wrote on March 29, 2023 at 7:08 PM

Reply to comment by spaghettimiilk in Jennifer Aniston Says ‘A Whole Generation of Kids’ Finds ‘Friends’ Offensive: ‘You Have to Be Very Careful’ With Comedy Now by Neo2199

Monica's backstory as a fat girl and Chandler's relationship with his transgender parent would be hard to do humorously now. Other than that I agree, the other possibly offensive plots are mostly b-plots or one off jokes that could be excluded.

MrBoliNica t1_je7pua3 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:36 AM

IDK, New Girl seemed to do the "i used to be a fat person" storyline with Schmidt, and nobody ever seemed to care lol

Throwhfx073 t1_je9ipev wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM

Fat men are fair game still. Can’t say anything bad about fat women though, see Lizzo for reference.

MrBoliNica t1_je9k11v wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:24 PM

Lizzo is a real life person, Schmidt and Monica are fictional characters.

Idk, it’s weird that you wanna be mean to fat women. Do you man

Throwhfx073 t1_jed6uip wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:48 AM

It’s the hypocrisy of the double standard. I didn’t say I want to be mean to her, but I don’t think her morbid obesity should be cheered or celebrated either. Hell when she said she was going to go on a diet a year or two ago, she got huge backlash for being “fatphobic” or other such nonsense, just for trying to get healthier.

Being fat is a result of poor food and exercise choices 99% of the time. Yes I know there are fringe cases where there is a medical problem or someone with a disability but the vast majority of people are just lazy and overeat garbage food. It should not be celebrated and promoted because it normalizes it which causes a ton of problems for society, along with severely straining the healthcare system.

MrBoliNica t1_jeduh1x wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:37 AM

Lizzo is celebrated and promoted because she’s an amazing performer, not because of her weight

zsreport t1_jea9k1q wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:38 PM

Both those stories could be done today, but with changes so that the storylines are fleshed out to be more than big punchlines.

kazh t1_je898z8 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:07 AM

They weren't very humorous back then though. I was a dumb kid and didn't take care about much but even I know a lot of that show's humor was lazy trash when it aired.

It couldn't be done that way today as easily because there are better and funnier writers on other shows that would probably get picked up or renewed instead. People aren't more fragile when you peel away from rando Twitter accounts. People just have more options now.