If it happens it will have something on it (rape/murder), but in no way does that take away from how very, very fucked up The Swan was.

I think groom’s cake are unnecessary—then again, so’s cake!—but they’ve been around awhile. I remember going to family weddings as a kid in elementary school with my parents and quite a few had groom’s cakes. It’s not a new thing.

I mentioned that already in another comment. They may have! Or, having the ‘M’ cover her face instead of hide behind it may have been a conscious choice to reduce the visual allegory.

I think you think that art directors and designers have way more editorial power than they actually do.

Either way, I don’t think it’s “crooked”. Bias isn’t by its nature bad, designers are allowed commentary, not all news is hard news, and the Trumpets who claim otherwise really don’t know what they’re talking about.

Eh, sort of. I think it’s the subtle things that make the difference—both Clinton’s and the Pope’s covers have them in profile to the ‘M’ (well, they both have more than one cover, so just the ones that look like devil’s horns).

There have been a number of applications.

But seriously, there’s no way the placement of Trump’s face below the ‘M’ isn’t intentional. Time might not be making an intentional statement, but their design team is.

TheNix made zero points that aren’t addressed in the main piece.

I have a great friend who is a feminist and a romance author, her name is Kimberly Bell. I don’t read romance really, so I may be a bad source—but I’ve read hers and they’re genuinely good! Witty tales of strong women getting it on in historical settings.

lol, yeah. he’s being a wee bit pervy there.

#rosepettles = #rosepetals = “rose petals” = euphamism for pussy

Agreed! I think the “big reveal” wasn’t even for the audience, it was for Dolores. William’s identity was key to her getting to where she needed to be to catalyst the cylon insurrection.

I’ll re-watch, but that’s definitely not how I remember it and I only saw the movie a few days ago.

As a now-married lady, I have experience in adult relationships and I can tell you it is 100% possible for women to have platonic friendships with men. Even women who have cheated on their partners in the past (that’s me, not proud of it, but it is the truth). Which do you think, that women are only friends with men…

That’s not what she says. She doubts herself because her first attempt at sailing goes shittily and says she never should have tried (obviously paraphrasing I’m not in the movie right now). That’s classic self-doubt, it doesn’t undermine every single other action she chooses to take in the movie.

When does she explicitly state that? I can’t remember a single moment in the movie that the ocean forced her to continue (though I do remember that the one time Moana asked to be un-chosen the ocean basically immediately said “ok” in its ocean-y way). It encouraged her and brought her back on board when Maui threw her…

The concept of fate or selection negating agency is really strange to me. At one point in the second half of the story, Moana asks the ocean to “un-choose” her, because she decides that the path is too difficult. While this emphasizes the ocean’s participation in the story it also emphasizes Moana’s hard work up until…

Bad/good are subjective, but to say Moana has no agency in the narrative is objectively wrong — she makes all her own decisions and her desires are the catalyst for what she chooses to do. How do you figure she has no agency?

I grew up in a non-denominational, evangelical church. A church can be both (and most of the evangelicals I’ve ever met describe their churches that way).