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Indiana Jones is a tough watch. Had to turn it off after 30 minutes or so

Edit: Since a lot of people misunderstand me here.

This is Indiana Jones, something I watch purely for entertainment, its not very entertaining to watch him berate and belittle a overly hysterical depiction of a woman for a full length movie. It's not as if this is the absolute pinnacle of human culture, its a movie series made for entertainment. It still was an important part of the human experience for many. If my goal is to get a glimpse into how culture was earlier, then sure, but that was not my goal when I watched Indiana Jones.

I loved Indiana Jones as a child, and wanted to introduce it to my wife as ENTERTAINMENT, not as an important cultural event that forever changed human culture.

Sexism, homophobia, transphobia and racism was normal in older movies, and one should not dismiss old culture based solely on that. Many films are too great to pass up, Indiana Jones is not what I would prioritize to watch despite these issues.

Early 2000s entertainment too. A good portion of the edgy jokes could be considered funny because they were made on the assumption that "We can laugh about this, because we all know racism and sexism is bad, right?".

And then 2015ish happened and it became obvious that a lot of people weren't laughing AT the -isms but rather WITH.

EDIT: Which slur did Ross use, BTW? I haven't watched that show in eons, and I don't remember any.

I had a hardcover book sitting on my shelf. Got it at a yard sale a while back. "The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction," it was published in 1979 and most of the stories are much older.

The level of racism was pretty amazing. One story referred to a mugger as a 'black buck' Another was set centuries in the future and had an anthropologist keeping some 'primitive' people in high tech chains and cages.