Parks
and Recreation is
a link between Aziz Ansari and pedophilia, first, because Aziz was on
the show (he played a character named Tom Haverford), but
additionally, because the show stars Amy Poehler.
In Mean
Girls,
Poehler who played a mother who passively excuses teen drinking,
as long as it's supervised by adults and occurring in the home. The
film was arguably lampooning
or mocking mothers
like that, but Poe's Law dictates that it is unclear whether
something is satire unless it's explicitly stated that it is satire.
Poehler and her character have effectively taught a generation of
American mothers to enable and ignore drinking, and possibly even
sex, that's occurring under their own roofs. This rationalization is
based on the premise that teen drinking and sex are inevitable, and
would happen somewhere else in a more dangerous scenario, if not for
parents hosting those behaviors and turning a blind eye to them.
There are numerous examples of Saturday Night Live sketches that poke fun at child molestation, incest, and teens wanting to date "older guys", and their friends' fathers.
From 2003 until 2016, Amy
Poehler was married to Will Arnett, the star of Arrested
Development and
Cartoon Network's BoJack
Horseman.
Jason Bateman was Arnett's co-star in Arrested
Development.
Bateman also appeared in Juno.
The film Juno arguably
normalizes teen pregnancy, and it also contains a scene in which
Bateman's character dances with Ellen Page's character. It is
difficult, for an innocent young adult, to immediately notice that
the way Bateman's character hit on Juno was completely inappropriate,
because the film is sort of shot from a teenager's perspective. The
film puts on the guise of an anti- teen-pregnancy - and an anti-
adults-hitting-on-teenagers - film, but Bateman's character suffers
only minor consequences for his actions (i.e., his wife divorces
him). The film is certainly not against teenage boys having sex with
teenage girls, nor is it strongly against adults hitting on teenage
girls.
Will Arnett, who co-starred with Bateman
in Arrested
Development,
is now perhaps best known for his show BoJack
Horseman,
on Cartoon Network. BoJack is
a cartoon about a horse who is basically Bob Saget from Full
House,
except washed up and trying to have sex with the girl who plays his
daughter. That character is named Sarah Lynn, played by Kristen
Schaal. Sarah Lynn becomes a Britney Spears -type character, develops
sex and drug addictions, and eventually dies of a drug overdose at
the age of 31. When she played BoJack's daughter, BoJack's character
called Sarah Lynn "my prickly muffin" affectionately, and
then, when Sarah Lynn becomes a sexed-up pop star, she releases a
song that features her singing about her vagina and calling it "my
prickly muffin".
None
of that is
creepy if the
show's intention is to make people aware that Hollywood is a sick
industry. And it clearly is; the show even features a character named
"Barry Richardson", a nod to sexual harasser and
photographer Terry Richardson.
But Will Arnett also appeared
in the 2018 film Show
Dogs,
which critics described as featuring a scene intended to teach
children to accept unwanted genital touching. Arnett plays the owner
of a dog, voiced by Ludacris, who is touched by a judge, and has to
go to his "Zen place" to avoid being bothered by it.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/23/show-dogs-rottweiler-groping-grooms-children-sexual-abuse
Given all of these facts, it's hard not to suspect that
Will Arnett and Amy Poehler might have been a "Pedowood [Pedo
Hollywood] power couple".
Even if they are not pedophiles, then
they are clearly insensitive about child sexual abuse; enough to have
considered it a laughing matter multiple times, and to have worked
with so many other people in the industry who have played pedophiles
and/or been accused of pedophilia themselves.
Post-Script, Written on February 18th, 2021:
Original excerpt written on February 4th, 9th, 14th, and 16th, 2021
and Edited on February 18th, 2021
This article was first published on February 18th, 2021
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