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Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

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Re: Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

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Post by panzagl »

Someone1234 wrote: post #35
anonbanker wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm personally waiting for footie pajamas to be considered office attire. I give it ten more years. either way, I'm saddened that you are downvoted. If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partne…

> If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partners. Do we not want to acknowledge this is happening, or was it merely the "tone" we're supposedly downvoting once again? One little nitpick, you fo…

He didn't say it was bad because he wasn't judging- just stating that there is a cultural shift.

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Post by collyw »

icebraining wrote: post #8
shaurz wrote: post #6

The next stage of infantalisation. I never thought it would get this bad!

Infantilisation is treating someone else as a child, not doing activities traditionally seen as exclusive of children.

You could easily argue the people selling these books to adults are doing just that.

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Post by SloopJon »

tomtoise wrote: post #2

Girlfriend has pretty deep mental health issues, she got one of these for Christmas and it works really well as a coping technique. Takes her mind off of whatever she's obsessing about and instead she gets lost in colouring. Highly recommended as a distraction to an overthinking brain.

Our family recently got a coloring book as a gift called Splendid Cities. I thought it was strange that it was filed under self-help. It's subtitled, "Coloring Your Way to Calm." My wife and daughter colored opposite sides of a symmetrical picture of onion domes. Intricate and rewarding, and yes, a relatively calm part of the day.

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Post by __z »

toxican wrote: post #29
pluma wrote: post #20

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Frankly it's more infantile that Americans insist on talking about "restrooms" when it's clear you're not going there to have a lie-down.

I don't think anyone really associate the the "rest" in "restroom" with resting. May as well call it infantile to call it a "bathroom" when only children take baths.

> only children take baths.

Huh?

I regularly take baths. They are very relaxing and help me de-stress. They are also good for relieving some types of pain.

Re: Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

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Post by amyjess »

One thing I'm surprised the article hasn't mentioned is that coloring is also a profession, and there are people whose careers center around coloring line art (typically using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet). They're called colorists (and some people are now saying "color artist"), and they're core parts of a typical comic book creative team. They get their names listed on the cover and everything.

Some of these new coloring books for adults may actually serve a very practical purpose: to provide practice material for potential colorists.

Speaking of comic books, some of these new coloring books for adults are put out by Marvel Comics. What makes these books "for adults" is that they are filled with un-colored line art from actual comics Marvel has published, and they cherry-pick pages with high levels of detail. You color in one of those books, you're replicating work that's been done by actual professionals. This isn't kids' stuff at all. It honestly makes me wonder if Marvel is publishing these books specifically as a recruiting tool for colorists.

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Post by anonbanker »

ams6110 wrote: post #32
anonbanker wrote: post #28

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I'm surprised at this, as in my experience, the overwhelming trend in north america is to avoid talking about bodily functions at all costs, nearly to the point of denying they happen. The words they use after they break this nigh-impenetrable barrier are usually codified in the most non-offensive ways possible. Someone having a conversation about "shit", for instance, will have a far more uncomfortable audience in N…

the overwhelming trend in north america is to avoid talking about bodily functions at all costs Unless it's a group of women talking about menstruation, that can go on for hours.

Fun Fact: The sole reason North American women discuss menstruation for more than two sentences is because they're wanting to make the man/men sitting near them uncomfortable.

Re: Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

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Post by anonbanker »

Someone1234 wrote: post #35
anonbanker wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm personally waiting for footie pajamas to be considered office attire. I give it ten more years. either way, I'm saddened that you are downvoted. If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partne…

> If you look through the past fifty years of culture, there is a distinct shift from ultra-masculinity and characteristics of maturity being favored to emotions, childlike playing, and feminine attire becming the characteristics that the youth favor in their sexual partners. Do we not want to acknowledge this is happening, or was it merely the "tone" we're supposedly downvoting once again? One little nitpick, you fo…

You would be guessing wrong, should you wish to guess.

Unfortunately, this means your entire post is a Strawman Fallacy.

But more importantly, are you saying our culture is not shifting towards the directions I mentioned?

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