Thanks! Everyone who has functioning brain cells realizes that the Trump administration put that argument forward in the immediate aftermath of the uproar over the travel ban to try to justify what they did. Everyone who has functioning brain cells recognizes that in no way did the Obama administration’s actions…

The reaction to this whole debacle just reinforces to me how misogynistic the backlash was against the Ghostbusters remake.

To add on to my previous comment, to suggest that she should’ve put herself in even more immediate danger and tried (probably unsuccessfully) to stop him while he was alert sounds fucking ridiculous to my ears. This isn’t much different from a kidnap victim attacking their abuser in an attempt to escape - it’s self…

He was an immediate threat to her and her mother’s lives at any other time. He was violent and physically bigger. This was her only option for self defense as she was trapped living with her abuser.

Its so sad that fan service is just a standard these days and that it is just accepted now. It absolutely kills anime for me. Biggest example that most people probably know is SAO’s 2nd half of season 1 ruined by fanservice. God all that fanservice BS was infuriating. And that is mild now compared to how the standard…

I would say there’s a line between treating women as being sexual and being sexual objects, and this anime definitely chooses the latter to the point of absurdity. Japan is very judgmental on sex. Permissiveness towards sex only applies to male sexuality, but for a woman it’s very much frowned upon. This is why most…

For me it’s not that there’s wicked naughty sex stuff, but that women are so often portrayed as sub-sapient, to the point they are literally presented as animals. The feminine ideal appears to be a child with a pituitary condition who has been dropped on her head (the middle one) too many times.

I’ve heard the parody argument before with regards to other anime, and it always come off as an excuse to get a free pass. Parodying a trope is a way to criticize it in some ways, but that criticism never amounts too much if the endless pervasive nature of fan-service never actually stops, and the parody just becomes…

She can be critical if she wants and I don’t think she’s saying people can’t enjoy it.

wow, this is pretty smug. I’m a sex-loving do-as-thou-wilt Satanist and I’m repulsed by the tropey fan service thing that governs so much anime these days. you don’t have to be a prude to hate it.

Hi, omgSona. I have talked about Attack on Titan being bad, so hopefully you’ll find that interesting!

I’m talking about how sites like Jezebel, xoJane, and Into the Gloss have gay men as featured writers despite being outlets that were implicitly created to reflect the voices of women and to provide jobs for women. I’m talking about shows like Kimmy and Girls starting out as voices for unconventional women and…

Fanservice has killed so much anime (and manga) for me. It just makes me feel stupid. I don’t care about shows that are made for fanservice, if you watch a show about bikini girls boxign, the damn show is about that. But i’ll watch a show about cooking (and you know which) and the girls orgasm and have have giant…

I think it’s time to have the uncomfortable conversation about how and why feminist/women-friendly spaces have become dumping grounds for gay men. Jezebel is included in that.

Ahh, the Sneak Creep. He takes a situation that everybody hates (texting during a movie; and make no mistake, EVERYBODY who isn’t an asshole hates that) and turns it into a Planet Me Diatribe and excuse for abusing and hassling this woman and her sister (CALL THE POLICE). For less than twenty dollars.

While gender and race do play a role, money and prestige are bigger factors here. Russell consistently makes films that are showered with awards—and actors clamor to work with him despite his reputation. Depp brings in millions upon millions for Disney. By all accounts, Mo’nique was a real problem during the Precious…

Not begging for an award is not unheard of, and has been done before by prominent white male actors without them being deemed so “difficult”

I think some are. I’ve read multiple gossips accounts about how Alex Pettyfer was positioned to be a Next Big Thing around 2011 but he was universally disliked and considered difficult, so studios stopped casting him. He’s been in less than one project every year since. I’ve also read that Channing Tatum is not…

I’m 100% not going to disagree about Lee Daniels or Tyler Perry or how racist and sexist Hollywood is, but choosing not to campaign for the Oscar was her behaving like an asshole. It may be a shitty part of the job, but it is part of the job and what is expected of any actor who takes on a role.

Monique behaved like a complete asshole in the press junket for Precious. She has a legitimate gripe with Hollywood but her behavior was fucking intolerable.