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Hard Candy
2006 · Film · 104 min
Directed by David Slade
Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.
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The problem is that teaching marquis de Sade to young boys will make them coomer horny terrorists (it’s literally extreme graphic sex/erotica meant to arouse the reader) to the girls in their class. School is not the place for coomer fiction, or pedo fiction.
Teaching Lolita is child abuse because for anyone who actually went through that experience, they have to not only relive it, but see a quasi justification for it through the fact that this book is considered “great”.
It’s just like that movie hard candy. It’s all pedophilic and shouldn’t be taught.
>These old conversations bring back memories of how the internet used to be, sparking a strong sense of nostalgia.
You might be looking with rose tinted glasses. I joined Something Awful just as they were closing the file forums in my teens -- I thought they were just worried about the legal issues around stuff like AXXO rips, not... the terrible things.
All my life, I had folks from that place keep me purposefully precarious and police my responses to said precarity.
The early internet was a total shit show, and I'm forever traumatized it took as long as it did into "Hard Candy" for me to realize that guy was not only bad, but abnormal.
(And later on, it amused me greatly when some ex army dude was like "You can't say things like that" when I listed it on my OkCupid and said "Why wouldn't I want a girlfriend who enjoys movies about forcing pedophiles to jump off the roof?")
The friends I made, I made in real life -- it was "The Internet" who invaded my work, invaded my university club, and in one case, a college Democrats kegger where I met my first girlfriend with insults that used to live entirely online, when I was nothing but kind to the best of my ability once I became a man.
(Maybe if you went to more museums and Vagina monolugues, and spent less time getting teenagers high in the back of the MC Chris tour bus, you too could meet a "MILF" and not need to perpetually throw all ages shows for narcissistic supply, rude little man who forgets there's no such thing as "pre med" at our university)
Not you, parent... it's dark out, and I'm having a bad day, for for some of us, the dream of the 90s was an utter nightmare followed by an Eternal September 11th, never reaching this so called "real world" where we'd have the rights and opportunities of the late stage capitalists and... not exactly philanthropists... who made it this way.
>movies that inspired you? To think about technology, business, entrepreneurship? Also open to "fun"
Since you asked:
"Pirates of Silicon Valley"[1] was talking to the camera before a certain streaming service made it cool, and "Hard Candy"[2] caused a minor drama bomb when I went off to college because I had no idea it was a CSAM search term.
(In retrospect, the friend giving me feedback was weirdly insistent that my stance of "Why wouldn't I want to list a movie about murdering pedophiles on my online dating profile?" was totally wrong, and I deeply value the many folks who came and watdched pirated episodes of Dexter in my basement back in the good old days before streaming services.)
Anyways, both are wonderful plane movies for spooky season, but maybe also throw a copy of that catbus movie[3] on your device in case there's kids around :-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley#Historical_accuracy
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Candy_(film)#Plot
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro#Home_media
(OT) I discovered goldfrapp by watching Hard Candy. Awesome movie.
To be fair, "Hard Candy" is also the name of a cosmetics line and a Madonna album. I like the name and have never heard of the Ellen Page movie.
Firstly, best of luck with your startup! That's an exciting move. I'd also recommend moving somewhere like New York, SF, Boston, Austin where there is an active community of technologists with whom you can bounce ideas.
I wanted to point out though that your startup's name brings forth strongly negative connotations.
Your startup is photo sharing site called Hard Candy.
There's a movie called Hard Candy about a 32 year old pedophile photographer who gets castrated by Ellen Page's (Juno) character and then kills himself.
Something to be aware of as people see your site.