{"id":40152,"date":"2013-12-20T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/hollywoods-fear-of-girl-cooties.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:23:03","slug":"hollywoods-fear-of-girl-cooties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/hollywoods-fear-of-girl-cooties.html","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood's Fear of Girl Cooties"},"content":{"rendered":"
For all that Hollywood (TV and movies) gets painted as a den of liberal groupthink, it's pretty clear that their sole interest (in, yes, a groupthinky kind of way) is how to make money, following trends toward making money, and ignoring anything that the suits\u00a0decide\u00a0won't earn money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that means taking TV shows and cartoons and dumbing them down to just be things that goofy young boys want to watch (and then buy toys for), well, there you go. \u00a0Because why would we want a "Young Justice" or a "Tower Prep" or a Teen Titans cartoon that isn't just about SD Titans doing zany things?\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paul Dini Tells Kevin Smith about Hollywood’s Fear of Girl Cooties<\/a>
\n And to think just earlier this week you had the New York Times calling Hollywood about their long time claims about not being able to lead movies. And now you have a big name comic and animated…\n <\/p>\n

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For all that Hollywood (TV and movies) gets painted as a den of liberal groupthink, it's pretty clear that their sole interest (in, yes, a groupthinky kind of way) is how to make money, following trends toward making money, and ignoring anything that the suits\u00a0decide\u00a0won't earn money.\u00a0 If that means taking TV shows and cartoons … Continue reading “Hollywood's Fear of Girl Cooties”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,852,28,41,40,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-moguls","category-media-movies","category-media-tv","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45139,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/a-live-action-teen-titans.html","url_meta":{"origin":40152,"position":0},"title":"A … live-action Teen Titans?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Sep-14 6:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm intrigued, though Akiva Goldsman being associated with the project does not fill me with confidence. 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