Lighten up, Francis.
I'm revealing how many times I've read The Shining: There's a line in it where he's on the phone to Al, his old drinking buddy, and says, "I really bitched things up for myself."
So, okay, yeah. You could still call that misogynistically-coded language. But "whoa, Stephen King is a misogynistic victim-blamer" is not…
A little too much "I love women LOOK AT MY BOOKS!" in the middle there, but it seems sincere enough and there's no "Well, I'm sorry you took wrong." He openly admits he fucked up.
Hah, yeah, I'm sure Tabitha was not happy. His publicist is probably on him about the douchebaggery, too, however inadvertent it may have been. We'll see if there's more... he might do better to just leave it at this. You know, "Quit while you're behind."
Agreed. When you have 140 characters, you better look at the ways those character can be interpreted. I've given the wrong impression at least once by not looking at how else my words could be taken, and ended up spending way more time frantically trying to correct the misreading I set myself up for.
I took his clarification to mean he was using the word bitchery not to refer to any person involved but more like calling it a bitch of a situation.
Thanks, GinaGeo. I'm not on Facebook so I likely wouldn't have seen that elsewhere.
My inner Clean Person and my inner Bookworm have been duking it out for several years. By the size of the book cairns scattered throughout my house, the bookworm's winning.
Who would say that? He IS Bond. The fact that he's Black....well, I could care less. I've said "I want Idris as Bond" quite a few times. Never have I factored in the fact that he's Black. So, on the one hand, SING IT Idris. On the other hand, SHUT IT, people who say that.
Ben is an acquaintance of mine and a lot of friends have been posting the link to this Today show article/slideshow that has more of his perspective on the shoot:
http://www.today.com/news/moms-memo…
Ben wrote about the experience, saying: "Many people have asked me how I felt while doing that photo session. What I…
I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger.
he opens on Broadway in April is Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Please, tell me more about how this takes away from something that's already in existence?
No worries! When I get talking about spatial symbolism in Beowulf I can just see people's eyes glaze over. We don't all share the same passions—that's why it is so lovely and important to share information. I thank you for it!