Nobody makes Renegade Cut but myself. It's a solo project. There are no collaborators, editors, etc. It's always weird when someone comes into my comments section and says "You guys" referring to the creator of the video. I am one person.
Or a comedic toned film that no one takes seriously. "Urban Horror" rarely are taken seriously. The only two horror films set in the inner city that are serious in tone are Candyman and Tales from The Hood. Though Saw could qualify as a serious inner city horror, but as you stated Jigsaw is like a vigilant/slasher merging. however if he were targeting hard Criminals like thugs or drug dealers he'd be a full vigilante but people would be rooting for him.
@@darkservantofheaven It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think Child's Play could also qualify for a serious urban horror, though I don't know if the city plays a major role in the story.
@@darkservantofheaven Do you consider the films, The People Under the Stairs and Bones, to be examples of serious urban horror films or comedic urban horror films (If you don't mind me asking)?
@@Panabag I would argue the inclusion of voodoo sorcery, the lead as a single mother, and the outwardly wholesome being made to contrast with crime and poverty all required a cosmopolitan and depressed urban setting.
This reminds me of why the later two Purge films were widely considered to be better films than the first. Parts two and three are easier to identify with, as the stories revolve around people who are easier for most of us to relate to. With the political climate involving class and race and society boiling over on the pot, it's not so easy to identify with the rich family who can afford their expensive security system, so the audience isn't quite as afraid for the fates of the characters. It becomes more of a cautionary tale to a demographic that (oftentimes anyway) probably wouldn't even pay attention to the lesson.
"blame the victim" That's seriously one of the most detestable staples of conservative / reactionary ideology. Fantastic video, btw. Equally entertaining and enlightening.
Great piece. As someone that grew up in Baltimore (Brookyln, Roland Park, Pikesville) and moved to the suburbs recently, there's a big difference. I can tell that people have no idea about some of the things I've seen or experienced. It's a totally different world. We need videos like this to open people's minds. Even if it sparks the brain of one individual!
I remember after Columbine a kid in my school joked about mass school shootings. When confronted about why he would joke about it, he responds was because it could not happen here. He was confused by everyone asking him why it couldn't. It. Just. Couldn't. Wouldn't. Happen.
Caucasians are a walking horror movie all of them are a walking horror movie. I can only imagine the ritualistic depraved behaviors that happen in the suburbs.
I don't know what I was expecting with this video, but it sure wasn't an in-depth exploration of white flight. It's an amazing perspective I never saw before... and now will never be able to un-see. Well done (as usual).
The final shots of Halloween are the chaos, all the places the evil visited. And then, finally, the Myers house, where the evil started, showing the suburbs aren't as pristine as we all assume.
First irregular housing was build by homless veterans, then more and more house with cheap material was build to house freed slaves. Thats basically how favelas were initially created.Then they got bigger and bigger and now they are an universe of their own. The perfect example of racism, clasism and segregation in Latin America and America as a whole.
I'm not the kind of person who goes out of my way to watch horror films, but I want to see a suburban horror film where the protagonists are black or Latin. The horror of course comes from a serial killer/slasher/monster/whatever but the real horror is the neighbors being unhelpful and consistently treating the protagonists with suspicion or minor gestures that let's them know they're outsiders.
I adore these types of videos when you make them. I don't have to have remembered these old, slasher films to enjoy it, and this is a pretty interesting way to explain housing discrimination. I'll most likely use parts of it when I teach housing discrimination at the school where I teach for black history month.
My mom was one of the only 2 black teachers at a local high school near my town(she sent us to a bigger school closer to our home) We were in the suburbs with blacks, whites, and others(military base close by). I didn't realize until later how much more privileged we were in comparison to her kids at her school. A lot of those kids lived in run down trailers with busted out windows, houses sometimes with no power or water, or stressful home conditions(parents on drugs or abusive) Her school was 99 percent white with 2 kids being biracial. Some folks don't believe that the "suburban dream" doesn't work for exclusively white people all the time. Some of those kids still remember my mom and tell me how good she was to them and really looked out for them like they were her own.
I was a 1980s, white, middle-class, suburban kid and this video feels authentic to my experiences... I think this taps into the rise of hardcore punk rock and skateboard culture in the suburbs as well.
I’m a first time sub and I agree. I currently live in a suburban area that has a lower income/working class apartments. Because of where I live and how isolated the city is, everyone know or can guess where I live. What makes matters i now fear things I never feared before, like schools shootings. I’m a parent and I worry schools shooting every school year. Coming from someone that use to live in the inner city that is scary as hell. My old high school had its issues but we had metal detectors and anyone caught with a weapon was either arrested or expelled.
another great video, its so good to see an analysis that goes deeper into the fabric of our institutions to see how they shape our perception of reality
I've always been creeped out by suburbs because I thought they looked like the place a zombie apocalypse would start. Now I'm going to be creeped out by suburbs because they were created by and for racists.
The channel Nyx Fears and the lady May who runs that channel did an interesting analysis of suburban horror as well, and a more recent interpretation of the new Halloween along with the older analysis.
Omg that stuff about the legacy of WW2 black vets not be able to buy a home when they would've been affordable brought such straight forward clarity to why and how institutional racism from the past manifest and persists in the present. Thanks.
This is my first time commenting on your show even though I've been watching it for many years now. Fantastic video as per usual Leon. I don't live in the USA myself, and I notice a lot of cultural differences from how I grew up and what I see around me. However, I do find it very interesting to learn about American culture/history in general. I also share a lot of your world views on many points. Your show is a testament to someone who doe a LOT of research into the subject matters. Keep up the good work!
I wonder, is any of this taught in schools in America? Because every time I come across some American downplaying racism it's under the guise that "slavery ended hundreds of years ago" and therefore racism doesn't exist any longer... and it seems to me, watching these videos (as a non-American) that racist policies were set in place not too long ago and their consequences are still much evident nowadays. Thank you so much for these videos. The more I watch them, the more aware I become of the racism African Americans face and the ignorant delusion of the America that movies and TV shows ingrained in my brain all my life is nothing but a facade.
The craziest thing is, growing up in a country not remotely as ethnically and culturally diverse as the US, I always thought it'd be so wonderful to get to know people from different cultures and learn from them, and share foods and traditions...
Halloween 2018 The suburbs feels less secure that in 1978 the entire perseption of life has change. Alyson is taking care of an african american kid unlike her great grandmother who take care of two white kids, the party has not only white people neither. Alyson is not the virgin girl, she has a boyfriend but she get cheated and her friend tried to advance on her. Laurie is now a traumatize women that is tired of the USA and had abandon the suburbs for a distant and bunkered place in the woods, and even sugest her grand daugther to left the USA and tried something else, go to México. Im Méxican, and i have meet a cuple of white retired friends coming from the USA , saying how expensive the USA have become and that is really hard, even for white people to live with a pension in the suburbs. A lot of young people is also coming from the USA, one friend tell me how tired she was of the suburbs with only rich withe people, how depress they were and how expensive everything was. That made me inmediately think on what Laurie Stood sayed in the movie. Great video by the way... Since i was a kid the suburs have always intrigued me in movies... maby it is indeed some voyerism.
I never really thought about it any deeper than the idea of "something scary coming into your house and that's terrifying because home is supposed to be your safe space," and it's set in suburbia because that's relatable to Americans. Interesting stuff here
I wish you could expounded more on the last point you made about the generational split in what's scary and to whom an audience might relate. I've often felt, certainly in horror films, that what scares one generation may not another. I love classic horror films like "Dracula" or "Frankenstein." They're entertaining and fun to watch, but I've never found them scary. Conversely, I've eagerly sat down to watch some films I always heard were terrifying only to be bored out of my mind. "Rosemary's Baby" comes to mind as the worst offender, as does "The Blairwitch Project." "Halloween" is a cool flick that I enjoy, but I never found it scary. I wonder what you make of all that.
damn i hate academia. i desperately want to read the sources, but i'm not in college anymore, so i can't access most academic papers. great video as always, though. i really appreciate the way you illustrate these themes across multiple works and how they work with reality. this is exactly the kind of critical media analysis i crave: exploratory, thorough, unflinching, but even-handed and not immediately dismissive or overly-dramatic.
That's a pretty great idea. I could see Jordan Peele doing a great reverse version of these movies where the invading force is coded white instead of black.
Someday UA-cam will become (accreditated and) a primary source of education. Resumes will state what videos were watched followed by a paragraph summary of the arguments and lessons learned.
I found the most interesting point made in the video is the fact that our generation doesn’t identify with the family in these films. However, I wonder what can be said for POC of any generation that has perhaps always watched these films from the position of the voyeur?
I dunno, I still root for Laurie in the new one, although don't feel much for the rest of the meat fest. Honestly she seems like an outsider herself in that movie more than anything.
It's worth noting the suburbs are actually increasingly diverse and impoverished (on average). No longer just the white only suburbs of the 70s and 80s.
Love the video however I just saw the new Halloween as a Halloween sequel and a good one at that. But that's due to the awful sequels and remakes. Not trying to dispute your points, just enjoyed the movie.
14:30 ummmmmmm yes we do, we just can't because housing has been turned into a speculative market for the rich and priced out anyone without generational wealth or exceptionally high income, and are employed precariously if at all, meaning we have no financial stability with which to support a child. the idea that millenials "aren't interested" in families, homes, and luxuries is a bourgeois myth perpetuated in the same way as the myth of de-facto segregation, while being institutionally enforced through private and governmental forces for the benefit of those institutions at out detriment.
*sighs* I didn't say people my age "aren't interested" in having children or being homeowners because we have something against family or shelter. I said we aren't interested for the financial reasons given in the video. We don't disagree on this.
"This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen here" *me taking a drink of a cola, nevermind my waistline or thighs* Young one, things are never as hunky dory as they look on the surface, the fact it happened, means that shit wasn't going right in the first place. What would one say about "The Stepford Wives"? A film set in the suburbs itself? EDIT: Too soon
when I was little we went into a suburban area honestly it was more of a gated community in mt to see one of my white aunts and a couple houses called the police because they said we were collecting dogs and cats for food when really it was wild animals. (I'm chinese) it's only gotten worse with all this. my aunt brought it up recently when we visited her. this just kinda reminded me of that.
Nobody makes Renegade Cut but myself. It's a solo project. There are no collaborators, editors, etc. It's always weird when someone comes into my comments section and says "You guys" referring to the creator of the video. I am one person.
Renegade Cut and what a fantastic job you do! :)
Hug from Portugal 🇵🇹!!
Keep up the good work. But please dont burn yourself out.
If your slasher is in the suburb it's a horror movie
If your slasher in the city you are probably in a 80's vigilante movie
Or a comedic toned film that no one takes seriously. "Urban Horror" rarely are taken seriously. The only two horror films set in the inner city that are serious in tone are Candyman and Tales from The Hood.
Though Saw could qualify as a serious inner city horror, but as you stated Jigsaw is like a vigilant/slasher merging. however if he were targeting hard Criminals like thugs or drug dealers he'd be a full vigilante but people would be rooting for him.
If your slasher is in the country, it's an exploitation movie?
@@darkservantofheaven It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think Child's Play could also qualify for a serious urban horror, though I don't know if the city plays a major role in the story.
@@darkservantofheaven Do you consider the films, The People Under the Stairs and Bones, to be examples of serious urban horror films or comedic urban horror films (If you don't mind me asking)?
@@Panabag I would argue the inclusion of voodoo sorcery, the lead as a single mother, and the outwardly wholesome being made to contrast with crime and poverty all required a cosmopolitan and depressed urban setting.
This reminds me of why the later two Purge films were widely considered to be better films than the first. Parts two and three are easier to identify with, as the stories revolve around people who are easier for most of us to relate to. With the political climate involving class and race and society boiling over on the pot, it's not so easy to identify with the rich family who can afford their expensive security system, so the audience isn't quite as afraid for the fates of the characters. It becomes more of a cautionary tale to a demographic that (oftentimes anyway) probably wouldn't even pay attention to the lesson.
The final line of a renegade cut is always so chilling
Click on the notification bell so that you'd never miss an episode?
Very chilling..
"blame the victim" That's seriously one of the most detestable staples of conservative / reactionary ideology.
Fantastic video, btw. Equally entertaining and enlightening.
Great piece. As someone that grew up in Baltimore (Brookyln, Roland Park, Pikesville) and moved to the suburbs recently, there's a big difference. I can tell that people have no idea about some of the things I've seen or experienced. It's a totally different world. We need videos like this to open people's minds. Even if it sparks the brain of one individual!
I remember after Columbine a kid in my school joked about mass school shootings. When confronted about why he would joke about it, he responds was because it could not happen here. He was confused by everyone asking him why it couldn't. It. Just. Couldn't. Wouldn't. Happen.
The stock footage of those white people dancing on the street is a thousand times scarier than any horror film in this video
@Brendan Routh I'm still crying in the corner of my room after seeing that, ugh. 😱
The true horror of the suburbs. WHITE PEOPLE DANCING!
Caucasians are a walking horror movie all of them are a walking horror movie. I can only imagine the ritualistic depraved behaviors that happen in the suburbs.
you were a decent Supernan btw
jump scare warning at 7:19
Leon's stock footage game is on point
I have a subscription to a massive stock footage archive.
I don't know what I was expecting with this video, but it sure wasn't an in-depth exploration of white flight. It's an amazing perspective I never saw before... and now will never be able to un-see. Well done (as usual).
The final shots of Halloween are the chaos, all the places the evil visited. And then, finally, the Myers house, where the evil started, showing the suburbs aren't as pristine as we all assume.
This video was so good it brought me curiosity about housing laws in Brazil after the liberation of slaves.
Congratulations!
First irregular housing was build by homless veterans, then more and more house with cheap material was build to house freed slaves.
Thats basically how favelas were initially created.Then they got bigger and bigger and now they are an universe of their own.
The perfect example of racism, clasism and segregation in Latin America and America as a whole.
I'm not the kind of person who goes out of my way to watch horror films, but I want to see a suburban horror film where the protagonists are black or Latin. The horror of course comes from a serial killer/slasher/monster/whatever but the real horror is the neighbors being unhelpful and consistently treating the protagonists with suspicion or minor gestures that let's them know they're outsiders.
Great explanation! Glad you're using the your platform to speak on our reality.
Your content is always so interesting and thorough. Thank you.
was really not expecting to hear the “oh okay” instrumental in this
great video
Amazing essay! I think this is one of your best, deserves a few re-watches to let it all sink in.
this was really eye-opening and explained a lot, great video
I adore these types of videos when you make them. I don't have to have remembered these old, slasher films to enjoy it, and this is a pretty interesting way to explain housing discrimination. I'll most likely use parts of it when I teach housing discrimination at the school where I teach for black history month.
My mom was one of the only 2 black teachers at a local high school near my town(she sent us to a bigger school closer to our home) We were in the suburbs with blacks, whites, and others(military base close by). I didn't realize until later how much more privileged we were in comparison to her kids at her school. A lot of those kids lived in run down trailers with busted out windows, houses sometimes with no power or water, or stressful home conditions(parents on drugs or abusive) Her school was 99 percent white with 2 kids being biracial. Some folks don't believe that the "suburban dream" doesn't work for exclusively white people all the time. Some of those kids still remember my mom and tell me how good she was to them and really looked out for them like they were her own.
I was a 1980s, white, middle-class, suburban kid and this video feels authentic to my experiences...
I think this taps into the rise of hardcore punk rock and skateboard culture in the suburbs as well.
You did a really good job on this video.
you really have one of the best channels
I’m a first time sub and I agree. I currently live in a suburban area that has a lower income/working class apartments. Because of where I live and how isolated the city is, everyone know or can guess where I live.
What makes matters i now fear things I never feared before, like schools shootings. I’m a parent and I worry schools shooting every school year.
Coming from someone that use to live in the inner city that is scary as hell. My old high school had its issues but we had metal detectors and anyone caught with a weapon was either arrested or expelled.
What a FANTASTIC interdisciplinary analysis. One of my new favorite videos on UA-cam
The extra effort you put into horror month definitely shows. Thanks for the excellent content!
I learn so much from this channel
another great video, its so good to see an analysis that goes deeper into the fabric of our institutions to see how they shape our perception of reality
I'm a late starter to your videos , but I appreciate them very much , you sir are a genius
I am a bit late to the party, but I really enjoyed the october episodes. You are doing fantastic work Leon. Cheers from France.
This is such a great work, I hope more people will find it just like I did.
I've always been creeped out by suburbs because I thought they looked like the place a zombie apocalypse would start. Now I'm going to be creeped out by suburbs because they were created by and for racists.
This is a great video. I would have loved to see an exploration of films like “The Gate” and how demonology effected how we see Suburbia.
This is a *fantastic* video, and a devastating insight into american cinema and society. Thank you so much for the effort you put in on this one, Leon
Hey there! Just wanted to say I love your PFP!
The channel Nyx Fears and the lady May who runs that channel did an interesting analysis of suburban horror as well, and a more recent interpretation of the new Halloween along with the older analysis.
Loved horror month!!! Every single episode was just great!
Thank goodness for this channel I'm learning so much. Keep up the good work ❤
Amazing once again. This channel should replace schools :)
Thank you so much for making this video
Very well written piece Leon
You're the second cool UA-camr I know from my hometown Bmore! You and Contrapoints.
Great video. The best I've seen so far.
damn, i`m hooked and ALL your video essays now, sir. great insightful source of so many relevant things. thank you for amazing work and keep it up!
Damn outstanding, meaningful, good work Man.
This was a great series!
Renegade Cut representing The DMV right. Keep up the good work.
Ahh you rock Leon. I can always feel my my mind grow and my conscience expand, when I watch your show
Omg that stuff about the legacy of WW2 black vets not be able to buy a home when they would've been affordable brought such straight forward clarity to why and how institutional racism from the past manifest and persists in the present. Thanks.
When I was a teenager in LatAm, and I watched 80s slasher films with my friends, we often found ourselves not scared, but cheering for the killer.
THIS IS FANTASTIC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR EFFORTS/ SUBSCRIBED AND SHARED.
This is my first time commenting on your show even though I've been watching it for many years now. Fantastic video as per usual Leon. I don't live in the USA myself, and I notice a lot of cultural differences from how I grew up and what I see around me. However, I do find it very interesting to learn about American culture/history in general.
I also share a lot of your world views on many points.
Your show is a testament to someone who doe a LOT of research into the subject matters. Keep up the good work!
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Be Well!
Heavy *oof* there at the end. Very well done.
Love your videos! takes me back to my tutelage at UC Davis, in my sociology and humanity classes.
I wonder, is any of this taught in schools in America?
Because every time I come across some American downplaying racism it's under the guise that "slavery ended hundreds of years ago" and therefore racism doesn't exist any longer... and it seems to me, watching these videos (as a non-American) that racist policies were set in place not too long ago and their consequences are still much evident nowadays.
Thank you so much for these videos. The more I watch them, the more aware I become of the racism African Americans face and the ignorant delusion of the America that movies and TV shows ingrained in my brain all my life is nothing but a facade.
The craziest thing is, growing up in a country not remotely as ethnically and culturally diverse as the US, I always thought it'd be so wonderful to get to know people from different cultures and learn from them, and share foods and traditions...
Nicely done.
This could be really enhanced by adding a discussion of Us.
Very, very well done; pithy and to the point. I lived some of that bullshit.
Thank you.
Great work.
This is brilliant analysis. Thank you
Preachy, yes. But we can't avert our eyes and ears from the truth forever.
Dope episode
this is amazing, I just taught my students about suburbanization and I love this horror lense so much !!!
You deserve many more likes.
Once again excellent! I really liked this horror themed month :)
Halloween 2018
The suburbs feels less secure that in 1978 the entire perseption of life has change.
Alyson is taking care of an african american kid unlike her great grandmother who take care of two white kids, the party has not only white people neither.
Alyson is not the virgin girl, she has a boyfriend but she get cheated and her friend tried to advance on her.
Laurie is now a traumatize women that is tired of the USA and had abandon the suburbs for a distant and bunkered place in the woods, and even sugest her grand daugther to left the USA and tried something else, go to México.
Im Méxican, and i have meet a cuple of white retired friends coming from the USA , saying how expensive the USA have become and that is really hard, even for white people to live with a pension in the suburbs. A lot of young people is also coming from the USA, one friend tell me how tired she was of the suburbs with only rich withe people, how depress they were and how expensive everything was.
That made me inmediately think on what Laurie Stood sayed in the movie.
Great video by the way... Since i was a kid the suburs have always intrigued me in movies... maby it is indeed some voyerism.
Fantastic.
I never really thought about it any deeper than the idea of "something scary coming into your house and that's terrifying because home is supposed to be your safe space," and it's set in suburbia because that's relatable to Americans. Interesting stuff here
I absolutely loved this one!!
I wish you could expounded more on the last point you made about the generational split in what's scary and to whom an audience might relate. I've often felt, certainly in horror films, that what scares one generation may not another. I love classic horror films like "Dracula" or "Frankenstein." They're entertaining and fun to watch, but I've never found them scary. Conversely, I've eagerly sat down to watch some films I always heard were terrifying only to be bored out of my mind. "Rosemary's Baby" comes to mind as the worst offender, as does "The Blairwitch Project." "Halloween" is a cool flick that I enjoy, but I never found it scary. I wonder what you make of all that.
AWESOME
I really loved Horror Month!
Oh okay!
That Young Thug instrumental was beautiful 👌👌
Loved it!! :)
Ooh what's the movie at 7:47?
Really fascinating topic, these videos always make me think
damn i hate academia. i desperately want to read the sources, but i'm not in college anymore, so i can't access most academic papers. great video as always, though. i really appreciate the way you illustrate these themes across multiple works and how they work with reality. this is exactly the kind of critical media analysis i crave: exploratory, thorough, unflinching, but even-handed and not immediately dismissive or overly-dramatic.
The sources are books. Not academic papers behind the Jstor wall. You can find them at your local library.
With the decline of suburbia do you anticipate more horror that deals with the tensions that arise from gentrification and the pushback against it?
That's a pretty great idea. I could see Jordan Peele doing a great reverse version of these movies where the invading force is coded white instead of black.
you're from Maryland? Dope
Someday UA-cam will become (accreditated and) a primary source of education. Resumes will state what videos were watched followed by a paragraph summary of the arguments and lessons learned.
Don’t we do that already?
I've never wanted to live in the suburbs. Small towns are much better and more diverse (in the south at least).
Pull no punches.
Hahaha no shit. I Graduated from Southern High School. The school right across from the Domino Sugar sign.
I'm from Austin TX, "our" bomber was from Pflugerville a nearby suburb
3:30 so you’ve read ‘The Color of Law’ I see
Yes, you would have seen it directly quoted and sourced if you had waited one more minute into the video...
Suburbia is hell
I found the most interesting point made in the video is the fact that our generation doesn’t identify with the family in these films. However, I wonder what can be said for POC of any generation that has perhaps always watched these films from the position of the voyeur?
Ginger Snaps! ❤
Where did the video clips of rich whites dancing badly come from? Just curious.
I have a paid subscription to a stock footage archive.
I dunno, I still root for Laurie in the new one, although don't feel much for the rest of the meat fest. Honestly she seems like an outsider herself in that movie more than anything.
Dang, that's a great way to put it. The insistence on focusing on teens and very young adults in most horror movies did not do her character justice.
It's worth noting the suburbs are actually increasingly diverse and impoverished (on average). No longer just the white only suburbs of the 70s and 80s.
Also to mention is that Michael Meyers was a baby boomer. A generation born from parents letting them have free range.
Love the video however I just saw the new Halloween as a Halloween sequel and a good one at that. But that's due to the awful sequels and remakes. Not trying to dispute your points, just enjoyed the movie.
14:30 ummmmmmm yes we do, we just can't because housing has been turned into a speculative market for the rich and priced out anyone without generational wealth or exceptionally high income, and are employed precariously if at all, meaning we have no financial stability with which to support a child. the idea that millenials "aren't interested" in families, homes, and luxuries is a bourgeois myth perpetuated in the same way as the myth of de-facto segregation, while being institutionally enforced through private and governmental forces for the benefit of those institutions at out detriment.
*sighs*
I didn't say people my age "aren't interested" in having children or being homeowners because we have something against family or shelter. I said we aren't interested for the financial reasons given in the video. We don't disagree on this.
"This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen here" *me taking a drink of a cola, nevermind my waistline or thighs* Young one, things are never as hunky dory as they look on the surface, the fact it happened, means that shit wasn't going right in the first place.
What would one say about "The Stepford Wives"? A film set in the suburbs itself?
EDIT: Too soon
Yeah, that's the entire premise of the video. Watch the video. Then comment.
@@renegadecut9875 Okay got excited
Is there any hope for humanity?
are you subtly saying you didn't like Halloween 2018?
No.
Raise your hand if you identify with Micheal.
when I was little we went into a suburban area honestly it was more of a gated community in mt to see one of my white aunts and a couple houses called the police because they said we were collecting dogs and cats for food when really it was wild animals. (I'm chinese) it's only gotten worse with all this. my aunt brought it up recently when we visited her. this just kinda reminded me of that.
Isn't living in the city scarier. Dude, as a visible trans person Im 500% more likely to get beat up here than in the city
yas ginger snaps