“It’s not the male gaze that’s made little girls buy princess dolls for all these years,” she added. “They’re into it. And so we’re into it. Who’s been the fan base that’s kept Wonder Woman alive all these years? Women. So let her be every glorious thing that she is. Including hot and beautiful and sexy and loving and…
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When the movie costume was revealed, I remember people complaining that she was wearing a skirt. To which I said “It’s influenced by ancient Greece. EVERYONE wore a skirt.”
And yeah, she’s not really treated like a lust object the way Cameron seems to think she is. I mean, everyone comments that she’s good looking, but…
I’m so glad Cameron decided to continue to tell Patty Jenkins about how much better he was at feminism than she was.
Twelve years? That’s about two less than I’ve been with Mr. Duck...
Especially since the Obamas always radiate a genuine warmth for each other. This family loves the shit out of each other, and they came together (and stay together) because of that love. 45 and his family reek of convenience and of absent parenting.
Okay, yeah, that’s a thing that happened. However, is nobody going to talk about the woman standing just to the left of the podium and staring unblinkingly at the camera?
He’s the least humble person in the world. His body language....he’s just waiting for her to say his name, his cue, so he can move in and take over. No “pride” that his wife is up there with him. Zero warmth. Jist a little boy impatiently waiting his turn. He probably finds her accent grating (full disclosure - I do)…
And they’re Ed Harris’s sons, which makes me so much more interested. But oh my god do I not want to see this. I used to love this auteur shit in highschool - thought I was so smart for enjoying Gus Van Sant and even Lars Von Trier - but these days David Lynch is the only person I want to make me uncomfortable.
Take a look at today’s date, Gregorius XIII.
He justifies it, just clumsily, ugly. Beverly thinks it’ll bring them together, that sex can act as a form of bonding. It’s about 8 pages, not a chapter but not short (a subsection of a longer chapter).
If I had the power to jail people based on dumb things they said...King would def not be on my top list of targets, lol.
While the whole thing is a garbage fire, it would almost be more understandable if it...
We need to add Rats to this list. As well as having no internet connection/cable at your house. Both of these things are beyond tragic.
Stranger in a strange land was first published in 1961. I don’t know how conservative publishers were back then, but the fact that it was written in a more conservative time could be an explanation. Lady Chatterley’s lover was still banned at that time, and that was only about an affair.
It’s not terrible for writers to write about terrible things. But it is terrible when it comes out of nowhere and doesn’t seem at all believable. Readers got to know Bev in hundreds of pages before this jarring scene. This did not ring true to Bev at all. Extremely disappointing for many, many reasons.
Especially as (and note, I haven’t read the book) it’s apparently VERY clear it’s ONLY straight gangbanging. No gay kid gangbanging here, just regular old male-female kid sex that helps them escape a sewer. Because that’s way more acceptable. Somehow.
I am a HUGE Stephen King fan, and I agree with all of this.
And yet... we live in a world where Piers Anthony’s Firefly was actually published. I mean, how did that even happen?
a chapter-long scene