This is not true. Female models (often, depending on the era, prostitutes) have always been available to male artists. But art in this period was not about creating something true-to-life, but rather an ideal, and male bodies were considered inherently superior to female, and there was also enormous interest in…

I’m not much into fashion, but I used to live by the Van Noten flagship store in Antwerp and walking by those windows was always such a joy. His stuff is really great.

There’s no universal rule. Different countries do it differently, they have laws for it.

Just one more reminder that having small tits is the bomb, no matter what all those boys used to say. B cup and no bra 4-ever!

But media *isn’t* a reflection of reality, it’s expression of our cultural beliefs and values. If there were less rape in movies and TV it wouldn’t be as normalized, and perhaps fewer men would see it as an option. And I think women would be somewhat less scared, all of the time.

That picture is not a black bear and it shouldn’t bother me but it kinda does.

This is so sad. I don’t know his other work but his character was absolutely the crux of TB, at least in its first seasons when it was so explicitly satirizing/analogizing (not even sure what the right term is here) homophobia through the vampires-as-an-oppressed class. Without him the whole show wouldn’t have worked.…

Thanks! I actually study legal history (family/inheritance) and the function of marriage was certainly to control women for many many centuries and still is across most of the globe. In the Western world it’s mostly not sexist per se anymore (i.e. now wives have independent legal rights, which has only been true for…

Lol literally no civilization has declined because of anything to do with marriage laws.

Yes, I would like a complete overhaul of the legal system of marriage, as my post so explicitly explained.

Wait, what?? You mean a movie with a female superhero could be profitable? And might be hella profitable because *women movie-goers have money too* and *have been desperate to see one of their own heroized for literally ever*-??!!??

This is lovely and I really hope it paves the way for more elasticity in marriage laws.

Bad Moms wasn’t great, but I love all of these actresses and the feminist vibe was real. I will watch this with immense pleasure.

Not my dad, but cut ties with my mom over a decade ago, and I also feel crappy about Mother’s day.

you can’t rehab a sociopath; all you can do is remove them from society for public safety. unfortunately she can’t get a life sentence for this.

for me it’s an automatic no.

Full disclosure: I married one of them. They’re weirdos.

Full disclosure: I married one of them. They’re weirdos.

I don’t think the monarchy’s defending itself here because the people don’t care. I think they’re coming to the people’s aid because the whole premise of this campaign is so horribly gauche and makes people uncomfortable. The Belgians are super-easy to discomfit, and the worse a situation is, the more no one will say…

Huh? She was sentenced to 99 years. A sentence is final unless a conviction is overturned. Texas can’t just go back and change it to death.