That she exhibited the boorish manners of a Yalie?

I like this take. The part of it I like most essentially asks: “are you a journalist or a PR flack?”

I’m not talking about newswires reprinting info broken by other sources. I’m talking about the journalists on the ground in Austin engaging directly with the Alamo folks about the Drafthouse’s systemic history of covering for sexual harassment. On the record. Not private conversations in between cool movies.

Katie, putting aside the tone-deafness of showing another porno or having a dude terrorize festgoers for a bit during the year where Fantastic Fest is under siege by sexual harassment scandals, there is a much bigger issue here. A big part of it for me is that you and a lot of other journalists attending seem to be in…

Are there any members of the Jezebel community that don’t agree with Body-Positivity when it’s glamorizing women that are clearly so overweight that they’re destined for health problems

Way to try to nice guy your way into an argument about health outcomes and end with “destroy the aesthetic integrity of our public spaces.”

stating that fat women “destroy the aesthetic integrity of our public spaces” kind of negates your entire “I care about their health!” argument.

Oh for sure there would’ve been complaints, just as there is the first umpteen-dozenty or so times someone different than the norm is cast...until there aren’t, and it becomes the new normal. I’m just saying, this could’ve been a big moment for all kinds of equality, and instead we got generic actress/model #23908.

I…

There’s no rule stating that a buff woman is not extremely good-looking. I think it boils down to the fact that I’ve been waiting literally my entire life for this movie, and to have someone cast who kind of...feels wrong is a major issue for a lot of people. I mean obviously she catches infinitely more shit for this,…

But this was a chance for a female hero to be that. Its fine to suspend disbelief because shes not human, but neither is superman, or Thor, or the multitude of strong male heroes that are muscular even though they technically don’t have to present as such.

Why can’t I bring up the too skinny comment? She’s too skinny. This is my beef. I don’t care about her eyes, her Americaness, none of that. I care that there was a chance to use a strong woman, one who hasn’t dieted into the sample size norms of Hollywood and nope, rail thin again.

Capitalism isn’t value neutral. It’s a bad thing that encourages hoarding  and unnecessary competition over resources to the detriment of the planet and everything living on it. You can’t just be so good that the realities of brutal systemic exploitation on a global scale don’t touch you. That’s absurd. 

Just another lesson in how capitalist enterprises can never truly be feminist ones. In the war between do right by women/employees and make money, make money always wins. 

if that stuff is the worst they have from Fey in decades of working in Hollywood, i’m not getting up in arms. sorry.

How the hell are Tina Fey and Amy Schumer on remotely the same level as Maher?

More like “what did Tina Fey do”. Amy pops off about tons of race based humor....

You just summed up my fears perfectly. I’ve never been able to articulate why the idea of lady sex robots creeps me out, but that’s basically it. Men already act as if women exist solely for their enjoyment, and this seems like a step in the wrong direction as far as fighting objectification goes.

And I hate to shame…

I always see these articles with hundreds of comments from men (with hundreds of favorites for each comment) going on about finally replacing women. As in women have no purpose to exist other than men fucking them.

I was going to ask why we are working towards entire fake women to fuck when we can’t even seem to make a responsive fake penis/strap-on etc. yet. But then I remembered that I know the reason. Enjoyment for women, trans people, the disabled..?! What is this madness??!

This is a wonderfully written article. That said, I can’t help but be really squicked out by this literal objectification of women (bc let’s face it, these will be 98% made and marketed for men). Do we honestly need any more of that? I feel like this will have some scary effects on sexual politics.