I never would have thought ole Snoop Would be such a snowflake
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Self-proclaimed badass and gangsta is scared from a lesbian couple? This is beyond humiliating.
Being uncomfortable around LGBT I can understand. It's dumb, you're dumb, you're stupid, but I somewhat understand. You've been brainwashed for decades and need a minute to adjust... I guess?
But scared?
And of all beings, snoop Dogg? Wasn't he pretending to be a bad ass gangsta rapper?
Afraid?
Afraid of two people holding hands?
Afraid of seeing a woman who might have some manly facial features?
Afraid of generally just really nice people living their lives?
Afraid of two (or holy hells, maybe... Even three!??) people that just love each other and live together in the same home and maybe like to do things together in the privacy of their own home that you maybe would not do?
AFRAID OF WHAT, YOU SHIZZLE FUCK?
He isn't afraid of gay people.
He is afraid of having to have the conversation with his grandkid about gay people having a baby due to the content of a kid's movie.
Sort of like how a grandparent would be uncomfortable discussing procreation with their grandkid. Shit, parents are uncomfortable discussing that with their own kids and that is a far easier and more straightforward thing than discussing sperm donors.
He is scared that a kid's movie will inspire questions that he is uncomfortable answering as a grandparent.
What will he do when his grandkids learn about his history and the incarceration and accusations, I'd be afraid of that more if I were him
Why is the assumption by these people that there is a sexual component required in the explanation? Age appropriate explanations are easy.
"Know how some families have one mommy and one daddy? Some families have two mommies or two daddies instead."
If the kids ask about the actual mechanics of procreation they are old enough to hear something like:
"Some couples adopt or they find someone to have a baby with who helps them make a family."
Was there any need to mention surrogacy or donors? No. Kids don't need to oversexualize queer people. Adults don't need to over sexualize queer people! When people are sheltered from our existence until they are in their early teens they tend to think of gay couples as explicitly just sexual relationships rather than romantic or family building ones that are as dynamic as straight relationships because they were introduced to them as a sexual mechanics first kind of way. It's dehumanizing.
I remember when old people were boycotting Frozen because it didn't have the traditional "boy saves the girl" narrative. They thought it would inspire uncomfortable questions from their grandkids.
Fuck people who think like this.
I don't think kids can even procounce or comprehend the words 'artificial insemination'.
Nah he’s just rich enough to be bigoted.
Crazy and sad considering the persona that made him rich.
He got stripped of all cred the day he performed at Fat Loser Weaker Hitler's inauguration.
This isn't even celebrity news at this point.
It’s easier to explain how a lesbian couple can give birth to a baby than it is to explain how an invisible man in the sky made someone pregnant 2000 years ago, but it didn’t stop snoop from becoming a born again Christian.
Snoop continued, “I didn’t come here for this shit! I just came to watch the goddamn movie!” He added, “Fuck me, I’m scared to go to the movies. They’re throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for.”
Sounds like a "You" problem, Snoop.
Remember when snoop was on trial for murder in the 90s? Or his Trump crytpo party? Whiney uncle Tom.
Snoop said that his grandson asked him, “Papa Snoop, how did she have a baby with a woman? She a woman!”
This is the part that gets me. Its really not that complicated.
If a kid is old enough to ask this then you can tell them "oh a doctor can make you pregnant with an operation".
forreal, people have such low opinion of what kids can understand (because they think kids have all their own same biases automatically)
My partner teaches preschool, sometimes the kids ask her if she's a boy. She says she used to be but she's a girl now, the kids say "ohhh" and immediately move on. It only ever gets weird and confusing for the kids when the parents feel the need to argue that point.
As if snoop is struggling for comfortable seating and a big ass screen...
he sounds like a 55 year old white woman. putting his head in the sand, cause that sure gonna make everything go away that he doesnt agree with.
just seen his new video clip yesterday, and its 100% ai generated. looks like he is rather selective about the new world.
Disappointing but he won't be the last rapper who expresses conservative views. Rap as a genre tends towards having materialistic and conservative lyrics so maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
It’s mixed. There’s the two major sides of that coin that I would split the style into and one is hyper materialistic and sexualized while the other is full of political commentary and sometimes even talks about mental health problems among other things. Like, while I’m sure you can find examples of both from any one artist there’s for sure a stark difference between Snoop here and A Tribe Called Quest.
Imagine being s grown ass man who's seen some shit, but the visuals of two other men doing romantic things is "scary" to you. What a little pussy Snoop is.
Ok, boomer. Also: sad old man. I bet he has no problem explaining why he was a murder suspect? Or why he used more weed than god intended?
I mean I'm not going to throw shade at pot smokers but if you can explain to your niece why your jacket smells funny, you can explain why that other kid has two moms.
Just like the “giving up smoke” thing, he’s being paid to say this.
Who knows? But look all around. There are so many signs that they want to ‘do away with the gays.’ In Florida, they are painting over the rainbow crosswalks for zero reason repeatedly deploying the state DOT to fight them. Then there’s this. And there’s talk of making gay marriages invalid.
I meant the smoking thing, my bad
It was a brand deal with Solo “Smokeless” Stove (which he didn’t disclose until after it had made headlines) https://www.solostove.com/e-ad/p/the-snoop-stove-bonfire-2.0
If you have to explain lesbians to your kid you've already failed. Adults are free to love other adults. How's this so fucking complicated???
My parents had to explain "lesbians" to me because I didn't know the word
The concept of women living each other was just implicit
Edit: love the single downvote from some bigot that wandered in here. Hey, feel free to comment, champ!
It's even more pathetic because the context was apparently Lightyear, where a lesbian couple has a kid, and the typical MAGA boomer reaction: "How do I explain that!?" Uh, people adopt, Snoop. Like, that's always been a thing...
Besides snoop being dumb, surrogacy is a thing.
The fact is, its like a 2 minute convo where you just lay out the facts. Its only difficult if youre trying to indoctrinate your children or you hate talking to them.
Specifically he said he wasn’t sure how to explain to his grandson how two lesbians gave birth to a child. I guess “Science can do some really interesting and unexpected things” was too hard to grasp for his grandson?
"Well, sometimes two women fall in love with each other, and that's okay. Now eat your popcorn."
Jesus Christ, is that so hard, you fragile dickweed?
Sir, we all have had to sit awkwardly next to our parents when hetero sexy times happened during movies, the concept of lesbians existing is nothing compared to that.
New evangelical conservative hero now: "lesbians are scary." New evangelical conservative hero 20 years ago: "Guess who's back in the motherfucking house/With a fat dick for your motherfucking mouth."
Praise Jesus.
When a celebrity hits a certain age can we just assume their brain is guacamole and not listen to them, ever.
Aw fuck. Why, man? Just why?
To those that don't know, Snoop Dogg has been making a lot of material for kids lately. He has a YouTube channel (called "Doggyland") designed for preschoolers. That means he actually does have an audience these days, even if they're far too young for Lemmy.
I used to think, "Aw cute, becoming a granddad has inspired him to create educational videos. He even gets to explore his new Bow Wizzle fursona!" (I mean.)
But this, this takes back all the joy. I wouldn't be surprised if some parents who hear about this decide to unsubscribe and/or block his channel.
1960s Conservative White Man Admits He's "Scared" to Go to Movies Because of Black Representation
"Papa, how did those people vote? They black!"
"1960s Conservative White Man then insinuated that non-slave black characters may not be appropriate in children's movies."
Typical old man s***. Zero ability to self reflect.
Here's an interesting excerpt from an intervention he was given by Dionne Warwick.
"I told them, I said, 'You guys are all going to grow up. You're going to have families. You're going to have children. You're going to have little girls. And one day, that little girl is going to look at you and say, 'Daddy, did you really say that? Is that really you?' What are you going to say?'" she added.
Failing to explain concepts to children indicates more that you don't understand than that they won't understand.
So, he’s has to explain something to a child? Sounds like a nightmare. These people would take away your rights because they don’t want to deal with reality.
Noone pointing out that this story is bullshit? If the kid knows how a baby was made, and understands enough that biologically speaking that it would be "impossible". The kid did not fucking ask that.
As much as I liked snoop as a kid we all knew that death row was full of shitty people who would do anything to get ahead. Suge knight would have his goons violently "handle" buisness afairs, and many people believe that he had Tupac killed. Snoop and Suge later "squashed the beef". Which is insane considering the allegations. He's scared to go to the movies, but will pal around with potential murderers? Okay Snoop.
At this point we should all view snoop as a made up character. Hes in so many good works of art gorillaz, trailer park boys, the boondocks and so on. All of which's creators would hate what hes said here and go against the messages of the works of media hes helped produce. Hes desperately trying to stay relevent, I think this is just another way of keeping his name in the loop. Pathetic.
At 5 I knew two parents were involved in getting someone pregnant. I understood in very general terms the biology involved. I absolutely would have asked this question. That being said I also expect my dad, a doctor who already explained pregnancy to me, would have just explained IVF.
Okay valid. but my point was that children arent stupid. I believe you as that 5 year old would have assumed adoption. I actually had this experience as a child, I knew a kid with two moms and from what i remember noone asked her how she was made. Questions were generally about whos the more masculine or feminine, or why they picked eachother and not just found husbands.
Maybe im way off base, and if i am i apologize. I just have to assume this story was manufactured to stir up contraversy. It reeks of the classic look what my kid wrote/drew to make some political point "even a kid understands this, see?".
I think it was more of a “Why did the studio put us in a position where we would be asked this?” situation. Im not a fan of Snoop but listening to the actual discussion made it seem less homophobic and more irritated at having to deal.
obviously there is a time and place for these conversations, a theater is not the place. but on the otherhand he litterally says he told the kid to shush and eat popcorn. Whereas your dad or my mom would have have explained on the spot. The only excuse I can see is that its his grandson and maybe he isnt sure how his parents would react to him teaching him this stuff. but to me Its a serious enough topic that it should be explained at least later by them. Even if he isnt homophobic dancing around the topic certainly is.
Childrens media often covers serious topics like, death, mental health, divorce, bullying, diversity, disabilities to name a few. Its litterally designed to make kids ask questions like this. I dont think hed Ignore any questions on these topics. Infact theres probably 100s of examples he could have used when his own kids or grandkids asked heavy questions. Why did this stick out in his mind? The interviewers first example of this was anxiety, which is a much more reasonable approach to this conversation of "should we be putting this stuff in kids media?"
Also I just watched the clip from buzz lightyear for additional context. and my previous statement assuming adoption was not an option because it depicts the pregnancy and raising of the child. So I was off quite off base there.
Edit: itallics
I challenge you to find a dozen instances of gay parents giving birth to a child without any added explanation. Yes there are hundreds of instances of LGBT+ relationships in kids media but there probably aren't many claiming two women can on their own produce a child.
All this being said IVF explains everything. Kids know babies are in bellies so it's just a different shot that some mommies get. When my buddy's parents had their first biological child at 7 his mom said she got IVF and that's how she explained it.
Im confused. My point was that the purpose of the scene was exactly to get the child to ask the parent about a heavy topic ( lesbian mothers and IVF). This could very well be the first movie to represent this, im not sure why thats relavent. I would think its unhealthy for a kid to go about modern life without being at least a mild understanding of alternate lifestyles. Ignorance classically promotes bigotry, fear, shame.
Nowhere in the scene or interview does it make any claims that this is physically possible without outside intervention. Assuming snoop is living under a rock and doesnt know about IVF. It would still be important for him to learn and look it up for his own intrests and the intrest of the kid who is asking.
Answers:
1 one of them might be more feminine, maybe neither?
2 they didn't find husbands because they found eachother and fell in love and wanted to be together
I mean, I will admit this was very scawy to answer, I almost went into hiding together with Snoop for my safety!
Don't you know children will band together, get guns, and torture murder your entire family of you accidentally give the wrong answer about these things?
Snoop Dogg Calvin Broadus, fixed it for you.
Snoop has always been a jerk.

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