😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.
😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.
😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.
😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.
😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.
😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.
Wtf is the Hays Code?
Old media guidelines for stories and content in America. It’s an interesting read, I’d recommend looking it up because i only remember 1/10 of what it included
Aaaaaaah ok.
the hays code existed because they thought women and children were too stupid to know fiction from reality, and would recreate what they saw in movies and media, so movies werent allowed to “encourage bad behavior” and have things like violence, smoking, incest, prostitution, and whatever else was considered immoral.
And many many things were considered immoral. Shows and films today like, say, Riverdale, would violate the Hays Code.
An American TV show in the 50s called “Leave It To Beaver” was hailed as a very wholesome, friendly, moral show, where nothing really happened, gender roles were rigid, there were nearly no people of color, queerness and disability didn’t exist, antagonists were basically hippies, and the characters were incredibly stilted and polite. It was the kind of thing conservatives today might remember fondly.
The entire queer coding thing only exists becasue of the Hays code
I tried explaining it to someone who suggested that “queer and disabled people just openly defy the laws and talk about themselves in public or create their own TV shows about themselves.”
When I said that in many cases they could be punished, or arrested, I was scoffed at, because “oh, they show smoking and sex on cable TV, things are fine now, they should just do it in secret if they’re so afraid” and I realized there was no point. The person had also refused the offer to read the Hays Code because they didn’t want to spend time reading something that would bore them.
😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.
😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.
😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.
😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.
😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.
😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.
Wtf is the Hays Code?
Old media guidelines for stories and content in America. It’s an interesting read, I’d recommend looking it up because i only remember 1/10 of what it included
Aaaaaaah ok.
the hays code existed because they thought women and children were too stupid to know fiction from reality, and would recreate what they saw in movies and media, so movies werent allowed to “encourage bad behavior” and have things like violence, smoking, incest, prostitution, and whatever else was considered immoral.
And many many things were considered immoral. Shows and films today like, say, Riverdale, would violate the Hays Code.
An American TV show in the 50s called “Leave It To Beaver” was hailed as a very wholesome, friendly, moral show, where nothing really happened, gender roles were rigid, there were nearly no people of color, queerness and disability didn’t exist, antagonists were basically hippies, and the characters were incredibly stilted and polite. It was the kind of thing conservatives today might remember fondly.
The entire queer coding thing only exists becasue of the Hays code