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aravistarkheena
aravistarkheena2

“But if you want a cliffnotes version: body modification comes as a sort of rebellion against societal norms for her, amongst other things.”

Don’t you people bore yourselves with this constant, obsessive injection of identity politics into every single thing you talk about?

He’s absolutely right.

Craig was disastrous for that reason. Best Bond, in all honesty, was George Lazenby, who only did it once, but the film he was in was the greatest of all the Bond films ever made.

This has *this* all over it.

The ‘fuck’ is fine. I was being too sensitive.

Scanner Darkly should have been #1 IMHO. Probably the best adaptation of Dick for the screen, ever. (I don’t count Blade Runner, because it is only very loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep).

Nice mind-reading. Problem is, I thought no such thing.

You sound a lot more upset than anything I wrote. Nor am I “pushing back hard.” I wrote a comment on an online forum. Don’t take any of this discourse as more important than it really is.

The question of race is very important. The question of Rocky Raccoon’s or Iron Man’s race is not.

It’s only disappointing to a tiny slice of people who are obsessed with such things. And as half of these “beings” are aliens or gods or raccoons or walking trees or whatever, the question of race just seems like nonsense.

Of what relevance to anything is the color of the people in the trailer?

* “is confused...”

As often occurs, I think Jezebel his quite confused about how much the producers of mass culture care about their very niche concerns. The movie will likely be enormously successful, regardless of the fact that some tiny number of people squawk about “cultural appropriation” and the like.

Who’s justifying anything? I was simply reacting to the ridiculous characterization of a great and ancient civilization as “amazingly primitive.” Rome did terrible things too, but they were not “amazingly primitive.”

That “amazingly primitive culture” that produced Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Prokofiev, Tarkovsky, and the first man made satellite in space.

I think that this is also fair.

This seems fair to me.

Taste is only normative to a degree. But it is to *some* degree. There is a reason why the New York Times would pay certain people to be art critics for the paper and not others. There is a reason why awards like the Hugo and Nebular are highly valued. And it’s in part, because we *do* take some peoples’ tastes

They can be wildly varied, but they can also enjoy substantial agreement. This is a point that Hume make in “Of the Standard of Taste.”