I imagine them oiled up and having sex in the gymnasium.

You'd think, since the USA is freaking constantly at war, and how we see countries at war continuously across the globe, Breihan would know how countries characterize the people they are at war with. It's pretty much inevitable.

That no one ever seems to self-disclose as an MRA suggests to me they are as rare and/or mythical as SJWs. Like the term "Communist" in the '50's, these terms just seem to be something that gets hurled at an enemy to hurt them.

Adrian Zmed was shirtless a lot in that. It helped my pubescent years.

Well, a hairy butt can be nice, too, but I'm good with a butt shot, either way. But for erotic t.v. viewing, a hairy chest is practically a must.

Great art and philosophy. But we may have been mislead about the people themselves by historians of the era…

Yup, Doctor Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent, all over again.

Sadly, I'd say it's closer to howling in the void (how I wish people on the internet would read closely Yeats' Second Coming).

I myself obviously misread it, heh.

This is an interesting distinction. Thank you.

It's all about the Athenians, bro.

Contemporary Greeks aren't the same race of that era, actually (nor are contemporary Egyptians genetically similar to ancient Egyptians, nor are Italians to the Romans), but I can dream. The statues of Praxiteles be damned!

You think movies program children? Do we need to go back to censoring comic books? I thought the whole argument we've been making on the left was that individuals aren't the puppets of the pop culture they consume.

Your username is probably going to make it impossible for anyone to listen to what you say. I think you make a good point.

Whenever you go to war against a group of people, you "other" (that's a verb now?) the opposition. You do this for obvious reasons. The movie isn't making a statement about any specific cultural group, it's demonstrating how men behave preparing for, going to war. It's about the mentality of war—psyching yourself up…

The 300 played pretty much nonstop for about three months on the screen of the leather bar I used to hang out in. My only critique of the movie is that everyone's chest is waxed. Show me some chest hair, man!

The Hamlet that Hawke starred in is one of the best movie versions, if admittedly Hawke himself is not one of the outstanding elements of the movie.

LOL, can't believe I did that. I know the guy's name, though I always have to look up how to spell the last name. Egg on my face.

Meh, I don't want to get too into defending him, but you spend your whole professional career called by your band's name, and you can get caught on camera the night you just…can't…take…it…anymore. It really doesn't have anything to do with the charge of nefarious cultural appropriation and "frat bro" behavior O'Neal…

"Complicit" seems like such a silly word for such a benign phenomenon as Twilight. At any rate, if you can find an actor who would have rejected those roles—with promise of steady, good pay, major media coverage and access to a career in the big time—let me know.