This is the kind of underrated comment we’ll only appreciate years from now.

The “critical reevaluation” of old stuff seems to have become a staple schtick of modern pop culture journalism and is never as compelling as the author thinks.

I think she could have improved her skills a lot more and been really something if she was less worried about being this glamorous woman. There is always something weirdly reserved about her performances, like she is holding back because she is afraid of potential criticism.

Oh man I loved Enough when I was a baby queer boy. Loved seeing her beat the shit out of that piece of shit and I was like “One day I’ll get you my bullies while wearing a wig!”

She’s worth $400 million.  We are out here starving and inflation shows no signs of slowing down.  How much more recognition do rich and famous powerful celebrities need exactly?

Sorry, everyone, but the Degrassi franchise wrote the book on nuanced pro-abortion depictions, starting in the Eighties and continuing for decades.

I actually just started watching Claws and was really impressed with a full-throated defense of abortion, in which multiple main characters discuss having had abortions and we watch one get one (then curse out some anti-abortion protesters, so cathartic), in season 1. Just wasn’t expecting it and in the current…

(sigh, again)

(sigh)

“the use of violence to confirm manhood and how cliched ideas about manhood can lead to someone’s own destruction.”

If you want to see a film where a young woman does choose to have an abortion, watch Grandma, starring Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner.

The term “toxic masculinity” might not have been in wide use in 1999, but Fight Club is 100% a critique of whatever we were calling it then.

Changed my mind actually. I forgot the writing specifically has her change her mind at the urging of an anti-choice protestor. Those people should never be portrayed as normal humans with anything worthwhile to say.

Fight Club isn’t condemnation of toxic masculinity because that isn’t really a term that existed back then. But it is a condemnation of capitalism and the use of violence to confirm manhood and how cliched ideas about manhood can lead to someone’s own destruction. 

You can’t get much more obvious than the guy shouting all the toxic stuff literally being a mental illness.

“Conservatives interpreting Juno as pro choice makes as much sense as liberals retroactively declaring Fight Club to be a condemnation of “toxic masculinity.”’

GLOW handled it really great as well.

I do feel like Juno also has to be seen in context, I feel like in a lot of media aimed at women, characters decide against abortion more often than not. The scale definitely always felt tipped in totality, with everything I was watching at that time. That’s what made Bojack’s Zap Zap Pew Pew so great, I’d never seen…

I teach an Intro to Film class and the required textbook is Looking at Movies by Dave Monahan and Richard Barsam. They discuss Juno extensively in the first chapter, so I have the class watch it for the first week’s film. For what it’s worth, I’d say Monahan and Barsam definitely believe the film puts its thumb on the…

I remember Bill O’Reilly doing a glowing piece on it and realizing that yeah, even if it isn’t explicitly anti-choice, it’s vague enough that a misogynist can come away thinking it is