Imagine 'conservative parents having their 11 year old daughter talking about trans rights and worker cooperation . Parents : "Where did you learn this woke-commie garbage !? Must be that Marxist teacher ! Daughter: No dad, it's on Netflix ...😅
Sadly between the manufactured controversy around Cuties and cartoons like He-Man and She-Ra, the reactionary narrative around Netflix is that it's an indoctrination centre for Bad Things
@@josephcottone9909 I think it's perfectly valid to criticise Netflix for some of their early promotional material for the movie, which was creepy as hell. You can have a debate over whether it was reasonable to cast underage actors as the leads, but I think at lot of that is going to come down to cultural differences between the US and France in terms of permissiveness, and it is a French movie. But the reactionary line seems to be that Cuties proves that Netflix is a paedo ring as opposed to any good faith discussion of the movie.
I was never the target demo for Babysitter's Club (at that time, my book series of choice was Dragonlance), so it's all new to me. But if Ben Shapiro thinks you're a threat to America, then you're definitely doing something right.
My 9 year old daughters loved this show. And so did I. They learned a lot. All of it was presented in an age appropriate way and sparked some great conversations. Most of their friends watched it too. My personal favorite conversations, as a professional activist, were about Dawn's tactics at Camp Moosewood and why they worked and why other tactics might not.
Truly? An adaptation of a nostalgiac kid's piece that not only modernizes the ser up but keeps certain aspects well enough that it doesn't lose its identity and feels more like a cool retelling rather than a soulless money marketing ploy? Am I dreaming?
I think something you could have mentioned about Stacey is how she (and the rest of the BSC) is literally fired for being diabetic, with the lamest excuse ever ("it's dangerous for children to come in contact with medical equipment" how do you think insulin pumps work?), and has to have a doctor help her prove that is she just as professional as her abled friends. Other than that, great video, and I actually finished my rewatch this morning, so perfectly times too
@@mariasolenardelli3745 It really isn't, considering having a disability literally means you lack or have a defective version of an ability most people have. Being disabled literally puts you outside of the norm. I'm not going to call other people "abled" or something stupid like that when I'm the one with the genetic glitch.
@@captaincomic8678 being ok with 'normal' but upset at 'abled' is fucking stupid way to call out someone who genuinely was upset by ableism. Just saying
@@captaincomic8678 your opinions are your opinions, but you are outnumbered among the disabled community. “Able bodied” and “neurotypical” combine into “abled”. As a queer disabled person, here’s a useful analogy: “abled” is to “disabled” as “straight” is to “gay” or “queer”, or as “cis” is to “trans”. Would you advocate replacing “straight” with “normal” too because straight people are the majority? I hope not, that would reinforce homophobia, so likewise using “normal” for “abled” would reinforce ableism
Kristy's monologue at her dad made my old ass cry. I adore this show and adored the books as a kid (Jessi was representation for me lmao), I watched it with my sister and my nephew and we all loved it. My nephew was trying so hard to pretend he wasn't enjoying it but was enraptured.The fact they made it this fabulous activity series that handled everything so well is AMAZING.
The first time I saw a trans kid on TV was an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit back in 2009, fully 12 years ago. The episode was called Transitions and they treated the kid as a girl not as her biological sex.
This show carries so much optimism and friendliness and understanding with it, I'm just so happy watching this review of it. I'll need to watch it for real now!
It gives me similar vibes to The Saddle Club, so I'm actually pretty stoked for kids to have something like this that's actually contemporary for them.
It is really worth a watch - especially the first season. Surprisingly great child actors, amazing writing, and celebration of friendship among girls who are growing up.
you're totally right, i am crying (seriously, i was enjoying the show so much and when that episode came up i was terrified about how they'd handle it. mary anne really came through, though)
This series looks so wholesome and fun! I loved what Mexie added to the video. Her perspective, and even just having a different voice pop up (Shapiro doesn't count) really rounded out the video. Can't wait to see what show you cover next!
Ben acting like respecting someone's pronounces will change the chart and make the doctor forget that she's biologically male and can have specifically male or trans women medical conditions is classic Ben Being respectful= Rewriting reality to him
Not to mention that disrespecting her pronouns and making her feel unsafe or insignificant could cause her to hide or downplay any symptoms she feels because she's trying to escape the hospital. As much as Ben Shapiro would like to believe otherwise, there is a point to being kind to people besides "everyone wants to personally oppress me by implying that other people matter".
@@FlauFly They've just gotten better and better over time as well. I had a subscription for awhile because it wasn't too expensive and I used to make collages. I would read the magazine before cutting it up, and remember there being some good stuff in there even back in 2008 or 2009.
i work in a bookstore and the newer editions of The Baby-Sitters club have such a charming art style im always interested in the content but as a 26 year old feel out of my element lol glad to know the series is actually good! Edit: Okay havent finished the video but Mary Ann and Bailey (and Dawn) had me sobbing. What a heart warming message.
the books were the first series i remember falling in love with, and seeing a little of myself in every character. i am so glad they did such a great job adapting it for kids today so it can be just as special to them 💕
When Alicia Silverstone is involved, I know it’s going to be worth it’s weight. She’s a badass activist who’s learnt to say no to things that don’t align with her personal ethics.
This is like, the best way to do a collab tbh. Having specific large sections dedicated to a different voice tends to get jarring, but this back and forth really preps me for both voices throughout the video. Mad props
i don't remember the thing about "clients not picking their sitters" from the books. i thought they had customers request specific sitters all the time. like charlotte always liked to be watched by stacy.
They did have regular gigs, but I remember new jobs going to the sitters based on who was free or needed for gigs instead of them being able to choose. It was more that the regular jobs tended to go to the same girl because she tended to be free on the same nights each week
i nearly cried when the young revolutionary explained the camp situation using "econimc stratification". like you are so young, supposed to enjoy your time at this camp, and yet you understand how this scheme - and the rest of the world - works against poor people...devastating
I think at that age, a lot of kids are aware of economic stratification and have some sense of class consciousness. It's just weird for them to have the vocabulary to describe it
This reboot is great. My husband and I (both 29 at the time) watched it in just two days and it made both of us cry and laugh a lot. My husband really liked the co-op stuff. I was a big fan of the 1990 series and 1995 movie and this show is better than both. It felt like it was for me at age 12 and age 30.
I got a little teary eyed hearing what great messages kids can get from this show. I probably wouldn't have been such a shitty person from 6th to 12th grade if I had shows like this growing up.
Not to play devil's advocate too hard, but it seems like a major theme of the series (or at least the adaptation) is dealing with the patriarchy. It's interesting that the series is named after babysitting, which is traditionally seen as a role only for young women. Young men are not expected to babysit. From my male perspective, there is a sense of weirdness or a suspicion of a young man who would want to babysit. From a female perspective, I would imagine it more as an expectation or obligation. I feel like I'm sounding like "waah waah what about men?" but I'm curious if the series offers looks at how the patriarchy is damaging to boys as well.
I'd be surprised if there isn't a plan to bring in Logan (Mary Anne's boyfriend and the only male member of the BSC) eventually, but I'd be surprised if they do that anytime before the 3rd season.
@@sarahv9713 Which, honestly, is probably good. Let the series settle in, and then start the conversation that is the most controversial. Because men and boys who don't believe in patriarchy are the ones who are most likely to think that it is absurd for boys to be hurt by "male domination". If the series has got them on-board with a basic grasp of how patriarchy works it will make that message easier to understand.
Also you aren't playing devils advocate at all, you're questioning a possible continuation of the themes of the text. Devils advocate is debating in defence of a position you don't claim to have.
I was one of those boys who wanted to babysit; "weirdness and suspicion" is a good summary (EDIT: that might be why I feel uncomfortable watching this review and wanting to see the show).
Hey I know you didn't do this on purpose, but Stacy having diabetes is really important. I have grown up with type 1 diabetes since I was a year and a half old. I have never known a life without it. Having to do so much mental work whenever I eat anything, getting rushed to the hospital multiple times for diabetic ketoacidosis, diabetic damage to my eyes, reproductive system, and extremities are all things that I have to deal with. Her having diabetes should just be one small part, but I have never seen a diabetic character in a show I like. Invisible disabilities are serious issues as well and shouldn't be used as just one lump term. Stacy is not just her diabetes, but her having it is a big deal.
I agree! The ending comments about Stacey really disappointed me with how dismissive they were. I really liked the way the show portrayed her unique situation as all of the other main characters were ablebodied. Without her character, the show would be very ableist in nature. (Note: it's been awhile since I watched the show, so it's possible there were other disabilities presented that I forgot about, but I'm pretty sure that she's the only one among the main cast.)
I love the free art class in the woods bc it shows how powerful dual power can be to ameliorate the living conditions of people while simultaneously building class consciousness. edit: So I actually started watching the show based on your advice, and honestly not including the political stuff, I love this show. I am a trans woman, and I never got the childhood or adolescence that I wanted. Besides being pigeon holed into gender roles I never wanted or liked, I didn't have really any friends growing up. The depiction of girls being friends, the way that they support each other and do things together and just are friends for one another really made me cry multiple times. Watching shows like this is really the only way that I get to experience the childhood I deserved. Thanks for recommending it!
This video is making me, a straight 37 year old white guy, really want to check this series out. Sounds so wholesome but isn't afraid to tell shit like how it be.
This is about as wholesome as rat poison. The world of feminist theory is just a fantasy that requires men to play along to make it stumble forward. Girls need to live in reality, a world that benefits them & needs them, not the fantasy world of sociologists presented here.
@@kylefox2397 B/c of the 21st century gender nonsense they push. It's not real but we're all supposed to pretend like it is. What they call "patriarchy" is society ordering itself based on natural properties. This show is a tribal land acknowledgement away from being a feminist studies class. The natural state of people who believe this garbage is broke. However, millionaires somehow deem this worthy of funding.
I teared up a few times watching this. Didn't know a piece of media could be simultaneously radically subversive AND wholesome. It's beautiful. I'ma try to get my nieces and nephews into BSC. The boys might balk at watching a girls show but I think if I explain my love for the Powerpuff Girls I bet I can get them to concede that watching a show about girls is okay :B
Xochitl Gomez has come so far since she played the First Latina Dawn Schafer in the Netflix version of the Babysitters Club! She just won the mirrorball trophy on Dancing With the Stars! Talk about a huge accomplishment for someone who left Stoneybrook to join the MCU!
Yo! That camp pay wall reminds me that one season in my life I was on my schools sports team. Where sometimes they would give us these catalogues from a company that would sell things with the school's logo and vaguely threatening us that we can't play if we don't pay. I bought a pair of socks. Granted they were nice, the cheapest, and the most useful. However, I don't like being coerced into buying something. Especially, to a teen who didn't have a lot in terms of money. In additionally, they would sometimes make us buy shirts from torments. Again, I knew I couldn't afford them and I knew another teammate with the similar issue but they angled it in the way of "supporting not only our team but the others."
I might have to give this a watch. I remember bits and pieces of the old Babysitter's Club show, but not much more than the theme song. It's funny that you point out Stacy is just a girl from New York and she has diabetes, and that's all you need to know. One, if that's the case, it is nice to see the pretty blonde white girl taking a backseat compared to the rest of the ensemble. But two, one of the only episodes I remember vividly is the one where she's hiking with a boy and trying to hide her diabetes and faints. It really only stuck out to me because it explained why my mom's best friend died, which she was never able to explain well. But her best friend had Type I diabetes and slipped into a diabetic coma. She never woke up and died several years later. Her two twin daughters were raised by my godparents, and as a kid I had a hard time getting it. I didn't really understand the importance of sugar, or how someone could struggle with high blood sugar and fall into a coma from low blood sugar. That episode made it all click, and I remember finding my mom after and hugging her for awhile. That's still literally the only thing I remember about Stacy's character tho. That, and I thought it was dumb af for her not to mind her blood sugar because she didn't want to look bad in front of a boy for... eating sugar??
There’s an actual town in Long Island, NY across the Sound from Connecticut called Stony Brook. I went to university there, so it’s very bizarre watching this.
Long Islander here. Yeah,…This place is so fucked and pretty conservative least where I live My Criminal Justice class is gonna do a poll thing on like, which students agree on a subject and stuff and I’m scared to see when it’s announced. It’s stuff like “Are African American Racially Profiled?” And “Racial Profiling against certain groups are okay if it’s done to protect the safety of Americans.” And we’d write agree or disagree. Scared tbh to see what people will say so yikes
A show about young ladies showing compassion, leadership, solidarity, and strength and rebellion against the status quo?? No wonder Ben Shapiro is incandescent with rage about it.
I haven't been sold on a series so hard. Growing up I didn't get into the Babysitter's Club, but everything discussed in this video now has me interested.
Bruh I am a 35 year old man and I read all these books as a child. I was EXCITED when I saw this series pop up on Netflix, and I am extremely impressed with how it panned out. I've never met my birth father and only ever spoken to him in the phone twice, but he's a fucking awful person and I don't want that kind of bigot in my life anyways, but the scene where Kristy got upset about her father leaving slapped me in the face and made me realize for the first time in my life that I was upset about never having my birth father in my life growing up and having to deal with what I called "the revolving door of daddy" every time my mother dick-hopped to some other guy my entire childhood. Cher Horowitz as Kristy's mom? Fucking iconic. Mary-Ann's character standing up for her trans friend? Fucking iconic and important, Benny-boy can shut his damn mouth for once and maybe go figure out why he doesn't make his wife wet. Mimi's story about the internment camp made me sob, and is also fucking iconic in a heartbreaking way because shit like that is somehow still happening. I've been considering re-reading both BSC and BSLS but I'm horrified I won't enjoy them like I did as a child.
You should really debunk Prager U’s recent 911 video. The whole video was shown in my public school classroom. I’m in 7th grade, learning in a Cfisd school in a suburb NW of Houston TX.
Though they haven't done 9/11 nor can pump out as much "no this is fine" content I'd also recommend the Gravel Institute's videos. If your teacher isn't a total TEAM RED GOOD, TEAM BLUE BAD person you could easily convince them it's worthy of their class time and respect since it was founded by the late Senator Mike Gravel. If not tho yall kids got phones, watch and share at lunch or after school.
@@ThexDynastxQueen my teacher has already said that she won’t take video recommendations. And I’m not going to show a political video to my school, sorry.
@@2Epikk It's fine you're a literal child, you don't have to do everything. Just wanted to offer a suggestion that wasn't available when I was your age in red and racist AF Florida.
I'm old enough that I was reading some of these books as they released, rereading the previous installments in between. I hadn't even thought of them in nearly 25 years. But when I watched the Netflix show, I recognized all the elements and characters immediately. Yes, it's been updated, but carefully and appropriately. It's a very faithful adaptation.
these episodes feel like summaries to me. it takes more than half an hour to read a book. like, Mary Anne meeting Dawn and becoming friends with her and then adding her to the Club seemed like a whole big journey in the book, but it took like 5 seconds in this show?
I read every BSC book I could get my hands on in the 90s. I was still in daycare when a friend let me borrow one of her books to read. It was one of the spooky specials that had Dawn as the main character. Ever since she was one of my favorite characters and probably the first to influence my interest in vegetarianism and environmentalism. The books really were ahead of their time in terms of culture and race.
I am definitely not the target audience for the show... but my younger sisters are, and so I've wound up watching this show when they've put it on. They ADORE this show, and seeing it for myself, I'm glad that this is a show with such incredible messaging behind it. I know for a fact that my younger sisters aren't the only ones who love this show immensely - if this show is what winds up popular with that demographic (preteens) then I think we maybe, just maybe, have a brighter future ahead. I love that y'all talked about this though! BSC is starting the revolution
I'm completely not target audience and don't have any nostalgia to books, but somehow I'm stumbled upon this series. Dawn, despite being last addition, quickly became my favorite and activist plot was hilarious and amazing.
I loved these books as a kid, i even collected the comic adaptations when they came out and those were my firt forey to comics that actually spoke to me, a kid, and got me into them
I remember reading the books and there was one where one of the girls (I don't remember who, I think it was a more recent member) was reckoning with her identity as a Jewish girl upcoming her Bat Mitzvah. She recalls the time she befriended the daughter of the the nearby country club's owner, and went there to play a bunch. Pretty soon she noticed the people were looking at her with derision, before the daughter lets her know that they're glaring because they don't normally let Jews into the club, but her dad made an exception for the girl. I didn't realise it at the time, but damn, that was something.
if they wanted to have trans inclusion, why not make one of the babysitters trans? not that like a depiction of a younger trans girl isn't important, but i think it would be much more impactful to have a young trans girl as one of the leads
I have a feeling the choice to include a trans kid being babysat rather than a babysitter is that it adds to the discussion of trans kids? Obviously the girls who babysit are still kids or young teens themselves, but maybe the thought was that it would be helpful to show a sweet story about how allies can stand up for trans youth, or something I’m all for a trans lead though
@@joeyjose727 Oh no doubt, it's good to have one of the main characters defend a trans kid. I just think it would be great representation to show a young trans girl as a babysitter as transfems are often not trusted in childcare due to transmisogyny
GREAT REVIEW 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💯🥳 Not gonna lie I've been on a Netflix boycott (except She-Ra i'm sorry but that show is immaculate) because they seem to have a disdain for dark skin girls. The colorism that we face seems menial but can have an impact on little black girls self-esteem. I'm gen Z but the new darkskin girlies need representation and not half baked offensive representation either. But I think I'll watch it with my nieces and nephews. It can start important dialogue and shape their minds. They have a good premise and in the future they could touch on topics like abelism, colorism, environment, discrimination, xenophobia and more examples of elitism.
