History Quotes / FairForItsDay

->''"He was a great partner. Smart, loyal... homophobic, but not racist. In [[TheSeventies those days]] that was pretty good."''

->''"It's innocent in the same way your grandparents accidentally [[RacistGrandma slipping in racial slurs]] is innocent. They don't know any better."''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Best of the Worst]]''' riffs ''{{Film/Supergirl}}''

->''"If it is true that [[Creator/JosephConrad Conrad]] would have us see...imperialism -- as doomed by impossible ambition, it is also true that Conrad writes [[CondescendingCompassion as a man in whom a Western view of the non-Western world is so deeply ingrained]] that it blinds him to [[SmallReferencePools other histories, other cultures, other aspirations]]. All Conrad can see is a world dominated by the West, and -- of equal importance -- [[RuleAbidingRebel a world in which every opposition to the West only confirms its wicked power]]...Conrad was both [[GoldenMeanFallacy an anti-imperialist and an imperialist]] -- progressive when it came to rendering the self-confirming, self-deluding corruption of the West’s colonial drive; reactionary in his inability to imagine that [the natives] could ever have had a meaningful existence of its own, which the imperialists had violently disturbed. [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad But lest we think patronizingly]] of Conrad as merely the creature of his own time, we had better note that we today appear to show no particular advance on his views. Conrad [[EveryoneHasStandards was able at least to discern the evil and utter madness of imperialism]], something many of our writers and certainly our government is still unable to perceive. [[ValuesResonance Conrad had the wherewithal to recognize that no imperial scheme — including “philanthropic” ones such as “making the world safe for democracy” — ever succeeds]]."''

The notion of a guy cooking being so comical, and the kitchen exclusively the domain of girls and pooves, is probably mystifying to younger audiences, but when I was a kid, around the time the show was airing, cookery was viewed as an effeminate pursuit. Along with hairdressing, it was a career choice that would give a dad a [[YourHeadAsplode fatal aneurysm]]. Even venturing into the kitchen other than to ask your mam how much longer your tea was going to be, [[HeManWomanHater you aul’ bitch]], or to have a slash in the sink, was tantamount to whipping your trousers down right there in the living room and camply [[UnusualEuphemism directing another man’s william right up your pipe]]. Don’t blame Zack for the crimes of the 1980’s, where chefs were presumed to be homosexuals, before they reinvented themselves as terrifying ogre-men pretending to be really, really angry all the time, in the wake of Creator/GordonRamsay screaming the bricks from the walls just because someone’s flan was pointing north instead of south or some-such other bollocks."''