I don’t get the blanket outrage for people being landlords. Are they good landlords? Do they take care of the property? Do they offer reasonable rental rates comparable to similar properties? Do they keep rent increases limited? Then what’s the problem with making an investment that provides a decent place to live?…

Probably because so much of what passes for being progressive online is taking ideologically sexy but wildly unrealistic positions and then shitting all over people who don’t match those positions 100%

A Marxist analysis of property (or really any economic activity where paying rents is required) seems to be inherently flawed, since Marxism as I understand it doesn’t really think that rent is a moral/viable requirement. If Joan wants to get into dollars and cents when she’s analyzing property ownership through a…

So Jezebel is in the “Property is Theft” camp now? Good to know.

And her exes are apparently coming forward to give declarations against her. There is just so much about this case Jez refuses to write about. 

Which is hilarious because she in fact got arrested for being abusive to a past partner.

Ambers attorneys insinuated (or flat out said, i cant remember atm) that he was abusive to past partners. So it makes sense for exes to come forward and tell their own story. I think establishing history is important but can only go so far. 

Meanwhile, according to DM, Winona Ryder, Penelope Cruz, Vanessa Paradis have provided statements to support his case.

Of course no mention or article of the Amber Heard audio from a month ago painting her as the abuser. Just going to ignore all of that because it doesn’t fit the narrative being pushed here.

Aw. Heartbreaking to overhear that conversation. Sigh. 

I just appreciate that Little Women/the March family are the sweet, caring, Christian trojan horse thanks to which generations of girls in conservative families have been introduced to a queer, gender non-conforming role model in Jo.

I just got home from the theater. Will 100% have a crying hangover. I think Saorise captured Jo’s discontent. I LOVE the 1994 version, but Winona was a whiny Jo. The jumping plot was confusing for the older women in the audience that didn’t know it well.

I never liked the book or the adaptations...but so far, only one person mentioned this version to me as a good movie to see and he is a 70ish white man who works at Meals on Wheels with me. He assured me this version was better, for what it is worth...

“Who the fuck doesn’t talk to their daughter for months because she applied to a college that you specifically did not want her to apply to?”

The same white dudes that are sitting there going “I don’t see why representation is important. Why, I as a white dude living on the East Coast have no difficulties relating to a character that is a white dude living on the West Coast even if they aren’t just like me.”

It’s interesting though, that we can love hate male protagonists (the list of white male anti-heroes is endless), but female protagonists have to be likable or the movie/tv show is crap. Even better if the female protagonist is taken down a notch by being unbelievably clumsy/bad at relationships/ball-buster at…

Really proves how many “great” movies were judged so merely on the basis of white dudes being able to relate. Plastic bags floating in the wind ain’t that deep.

I read through some of the negative user reviews and largely it seems that people believe that a good film is entirely about the story and how much you personally relate to it. Or that if you dislike a character that the film portrays as a protagonist, well meaning, or in some way loving that the production as a whole…

The way she spoke about it was a lot like how I talk when someone asks me about something that I’ve been thinking about a lot. Like “oh my god I have so many thoughts and how can I put them succinctly and thoughtfully” and then my brain gets hung up and it totally backfires into that same kind of uncommitted drivel.

Same!! Saw it 3 days ago and if I think about certain parts of the movie too hard I will start crying immediately. I loved it.