When I heard the name, this is what came to my mind:

You got somethin' you wanna say about glee club?

Yeah, but some don't. Slavery was bad because it obscured and destroyed the humanity of slaves. It made them into objects, and that's awful.

Cultural appropriation is a little more complex than mockery. It can be just taking it for yourself and acting as though you're entitled to it or a meaningful part of it, when that isn't necessarily the case.

Showing love and understanding to people in hate groups kind of has a track record for demonstrably positive effects.

Dang, that's some broad misrepresentation. I don't agree with them, but reducing them to the worst example within their group is a bad move. Feminism isn't Andrea Dworkin and shitty tumblrs, even if those are loud voices in the mix.

I don't even have a concept of ownership!

I just got back from seeing it. Probably my only beef was the color temperature business. Miller uses it well, but it's so overdone nowadays i just kind of have a gut reaction against it.

Well, to be fair, feminism ought to be taken seriously, but it also ought to be accessible, inclusive, and helpful. So while 'serious' is definitely an option, there are many other ways for feminism to roll.

"There's no law that says a dog CAN'T be a lawyer."

Certainly we handle the concept better, intellectually, than we did fifty years ago, but I think a lot of that is more about time and distance from the atrocity than an improvement in our understanding of it. We say the words, but dismiss the implications, and go back to insisting that it's all about figureheads,…

I've generally subscribed to the idea that Hitler has become sort of a fetish doll for people who don't want to believe that ordinary folks can inflict horrid evil. If Hitler was was a monster beyond the pale of mere men, then his ability to lead Germany to the extremities of the Holocaust means we don't actually…

I don't disagree with that argument, but I could do without all the people who are desperate to ride the atomic dick of justified civilian slaughter. It was an ugly chapter in an ugly volume of human history, and it doesn't do us any favors when we make heroes out of the people committing those crimes.

i remember seeing it in theaters, and I really enjoyed it as a kid. I've been afraid to revisit it because I didn't always have the best taste at that age, and I'd rather half-recall something being fun than have a vivid picture of mediocrity (or worse).

Oh man, I'm so glad I get to break the earth on this comments section, almost twelve years after the fact.

The big twist is that the class reunion was in their hearts all along.

Obviously, they had to tone down the existential horrors of Aussie life for international audiences.

The trick to really enjoying Mad Max is to realize that it's only the post-apocalypse in Australia. Everywhere else is the Jetsons.

As a miserable bastard, I'm obliged to boo you, but I want you to know that my heart isn't really in it.

It's not a parody, it's just unpleasant!