The cartoon killer generation

 

So Pepe LePew is being cancelled due to "lack of consent" in the cartoon . And so many other things are being cancelled because, while there are so many ways to interpret something, society will choose only one perspective and make it the general thing.

As a kid, what I understood from this move in cartoons was how cringy guys can be who don't understand you don't like them, and guys can easily get the same message from it and learn to not act desperate, right? Also, women can learn that playing "hard to get" makes you more wanted, which is true (even if it's wrong to play these games, haha).

It's considered a "bad influence", right? For kids/ guys.

Pepe LePew was an old cartoon, so I can tell you some things I observed as a kid, from back when we used to watch this cartoon, among others.

While growing up, half the guys in my class would grope girls during breaks. Now people only take this part into consideration and rush to explode already, but you know what was more fucked up? More than half of the girls in my class would happily allow it and were PROUD of it! They thought it was cool, so the kids thought if so many girls allow it, it's ok and the "abnormal" ones are that don't. And what these girls would watch daily was teen series and mainstream pop music videos, in which we all know that the "cool guys" were always surrounded by slutty women and the "pop divas" were more than half naked and sold their shitty music through sex-appeal. That was clearly what the girls were inspired by, and they were always calling the rest of us out, making fun for not allowing the same things and "not having a boyfriend or more yet" at 14.

So, I have to ask myself, was Pepe LePew the bad influence on guys, or the girls that acted slutty and made fun of the others for not doing the same, making the guys think their behavior should be the standard?

(If you can't understand this and think I am "victim shaming" or whatever, get out of here because my patience is running low. The facts are simply that not everything is black and white and we are just polishing the surface by censoring what is convenient.)