@Marlow: I think the dude hate comes from the fact that she's a HUGE star, primarily with women fans, and most guys think she's horrible. Not just average, or forgettable, but irritatingly present, horrible, and held up as a huge star.

@Lemon: Well, Joss is the god of writing great women characters. (Being a rampant atheist, I wonder if that title would offend him.)

@Marlow: Might I offer a polite counterpoint, speaking as a non-douchey (I hope) guy who's a regular Jezebel reader?

@wild7s: Sky High is one of the better superhero movies of the past few years. It's no Dark Knight, but it beats out a lot of them.

This movie makes me wish the universe would implode so I and my eternal soul would never have any memory of it having been made. It's a poorly acted, poorly written, poorly directly piece of crap that takes a bladder stone induced bloody piss on the novel that Heinlein wrote.

Wait... American Apparel mentioned in the paragraph about cheap? In what alternate universe? Also, Jezebel has done nothing but slam AA for it's rampant size-discrimination but then it gets recommended for new moms?

It's a nice enough room, but these posts always make me feel just a tad bit inadequate.

No mention of the decades filled with bondage oriented scenarios in Wonder Woman?

Does anyone else think the most absurd thing about that video was that the woman in it is so conventionally pretty and fits the American ideal of beauty already, without these "tactics?"

Y'know, I used to freelance at Lifetime in their design department, and many of their own employees refer to it as the Child Abduction and Rape Movie Channel. In my department, it was mostly women, with a couple of gay men and one straight guy, and no one there actually admitted to watching their programming on a…

@Morbidda Destiny: No, but I was thinking of dressing as him last Halloween. Couldn't find orange Crocs in my size. :/

@NewsBunny: Nope, NYC. Still, that guy sounds like me. Shorts in the snow, dead of winter, etc. And I never wear pants at home either. :)

Oh, and it wasn't a deal breaker for my wife!

I'm a guy, and I wear shorts all the time, unless it's a wedding, funeral or I'm getting paid. Even those have exceptions. I've chosen between freelance jobs based on whether I had to wear long pants, and I got married in shorts... at least they were tuxedo shorts!