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'The Boys' star Valorie Curry asks for 'boundaries' from fans

www.cinemablend.com 'The Boys' star Valorie Curry asks for 'boundaries' from fans

Valorie Curry, who plays Firecracker in 'The Boys', has asked for fans to have boundaries after an "uncomfortable" experience at Comic-Con.

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The Boys has a lot of super creepy right-wingers who idolize the fascist characters in the show, totally oblivious that the show is making fun of them and those characters.

It's super weird that they're that dumb, but combined with that is just how weird and disturbing they are as people because of that.
- That's actually incredible. It was extremely obvious they were taking the piss out of the right... Kind of alarming if that wasn't picked up on by some
  
  These are the same folk who think the Colbert Report wasn't satire or get upset that wolfenstein's Twitter account promoted a new game about killing Nazis (all the wolfenstein games are about killing nazis).
  
  Being oblivious to reality is a feature of Republicanism.
  
  Take rights away from 50% of the population, be surprised that the vast majority of women don't like rights being taken away.
  
  No, they really don't see it. And they instead idolize Homelander and think he's the one that's correct in the show and doing what's right and what they want to do.
  
  Is it incredible? Poe's law hasn't gone anywhere.
- As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.
  
  In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It's how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.
  
  One day we'll have a movie that starts with a warning like:
  
  This movie is satire. If you actually relate to and agree with the ideas presented in this film, please seek professional help.
  
  Poe’s Law per Wikipedia
  
  Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
  
  I feel like the only satire that works is full blown, overt caricature, like the WW2 propaganda cartoons
  
  Oh yes my ideal woman should breastfeed a fully grown lab experiment
  
  Its the same reason they like to play Born in the USA all the time.
- Star Trek has a similar subset of fans that are all like "When did Star Trek get all woke? More pew pew!"
  
  Try 1966
  
  I blame that on the nu-trek movies really. Just dumbed down pew pew.
- Sorry, but this is not at all obvious.... especially to right wingers.
  
  I mean it's not like they outright say "HEY RIGHT WINGERS, YOU ARE DUMB" but I'd argue it's pretty damn obvious.
  
  It's a show about superheroes masquerading as icons of peace while behind closed doors they're rapists, murderers, liars, and just all around pieces of shit.
  
  Sounds a lot like most fascist ideologies and right wing politics.
  
  "oblivious".. not obvious
- This has to be satire. Right?
  
  The push to get trump on the GOP ballot started as the largest troll in 4chan history.
  
  Halfway through, the ones in on the joke got swarmed by morons who thought it was serious.
  
  But man, literally the everest of trolls, was almost beautiful to watch.
- That's because telling people what NOT to do is pretty much never going to work. "Don't think of a bear." It's better to focus on what to do and real solutions instead of criticizing alone. The Boys doesn't offer anything in way of solutions except perhaps violence. It maligns fascists and antifascists and horseshoe theories them together.
  
  What I'm most curious about is how much insider info related to celebrities is being released through these episodes and characters. Because THAT is actually accurate and interesting.
  
  What do you mean, insider info being released?
- The reverse side of representation matters.
  
  Mis...representation?
Without reading the article, they wanted her breast milk, didn't they.
- Article doesn't say but there is a good chance by the context.
- That seems to be it indeed
  
  Holy fucking lol what
  
  ^i have never watched this show and have no context at all for this information^
- Something their mothers never gave them, from an organ they’ve never seen in person.
- I suggest we begin referring to Y'all Quesa as "soap flakes".
- Well that's just weird
- Probably straight from the source.
“I know people saw a character that I played do some really extreme things on The Boys and I don’t care if you’re in costume, I don’t care if you’re in character – it’s not OK and it’s not funny to demand those things from me in person at my booth. It’s not OK.”

“Frankly, to the person who did that repeatedly today, I made it pretty clear that it wasn’t OK and that only seemed to make this person and their friend angry. I didn’t think this needed to be explained but I was deeply uncomfortable – it was quite clear I was uncomfortable.”

Homelander cosplayers, huh? Who would've thought about that...
- Feels like this sort of behavior is the kind of thing that should get you instantly booted from the con, and have your badge revoked, and have you flagged to never be allowed to return to the con, and hell let's just go ahead and give your information to all the other cons that keep such records so they know not to issue you a badge ever again, either. Cons are supposed to be safe and joyful places. If you violate that compact, there should be no compromise.
- Should have some Soldier Boys and Butchers ready to go for times like that.
  
  "Oi! You wanna do some in-character reenactment?"
- Someone definitely asked if they could suck on her tit while dressed as Homelander.
Quick note that I see the article is from PinkNews, who have recently had a large number of former staff come out against their leadership for transphobia, ableism, racism, misogyny, and an incredibly toxic workplace culture. This includes recordings of Cohen saying stuff that frankly promotes this sort of fan behaviour.
- Updated to cinemablend!
  
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Northern Ireland

Ah for fuck sake, had to be us didn't it.
Star is a bit of an exaggeration.
- Compared to who? Your Mr. Nobody's ass?
  
  Lmao gottem
- One of the main characters on an extremely popular TV series....
  
  Yeah, I think that qualifies as "star" status.
  
  Besides, why do you care? Does belittling her and her "stardom" make you feel big?

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