Cultural icons beware! Have the 2010s made us too judgy?
What can I like? What should I stop liking? Culturally-speaking the last ten years have been a bit of a confusing time.
As our favourite films, books and songs of the past begin to be seen from a modern viewpoint, they can feel at odds with our current thinking.
The much-loved classic Christmas song, Baby It's Cold Outside for example has recently been re-recorded by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson for the #MeToo era.
Disney's princess movies, treasured in homes across the world, began to come in for criticism for their characters "drippy existences".
And when it found a new audience via Netflix in 2018, even the transcendent Friends was uncomfortable viewing for some.
Too soon?
But are we being a little harsh towards our past cultural icons?
Here to help us evaluate this question in our minds are those young whippersnappers at comedy show The State of It who have dropped a new sketch aimed squarely at the easily-offended.
Comedians Robert Florence, Rachel Jackson and Nathan Byrne pose as peeved millennials in a pretend late night discussion programme.
With their "zero alternative gender profile representation" and their "stale, male, pale, regressive agenda", The Beatles get a taste of ‘snowflake’, just in time or Christmas.
"This, a million times, this!"
Watch 'The State Of It'
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Episode 3: Identity
10.30pm Friday 5th December on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland.
‘The State of It’ on The Beatles
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