I’m curious about this. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” was excellent and actually made by a lesbian, one who makes a point to explore those themes in her work. She did so very thoughtfully in that movie, and it certainly didn’t shy away from eroticism or sex. (incidentally it was also a French movie.)

Yeah, see I don’t at all give a shit about the nuns being lesbians; it’s that it’s being given to us through Verhoeven’s lens. Said it before, but “Puritanism” ain’t the whole story here. It’s about cis hetero men telling the stories of queer women, which tend to trend toward hypersexuality and fetishization of an…

I see “FCBK” and my brain pronounces it “Fuckbook,” and considering what it’s done to everyone from the news media, to democracy as a whole, to your Aunt who won’t get a vaccine, it’s pretty fitting.

Even Michelle? Dang.

Yeah, agreed with all this. Sorkin is pretty shitty at writing women characters. Maybe he got a script doctor in to help but with his ego my gut says “nope.” The documentary “Finding Lucy” which aired on PBS 20 or so years ago is a nice look at who Lucy was, and I found the ending of it especially moving (her later…

So far the only employees being visibly punished in their company over opposition to them standing by a transphobic “comedy” special happen to be trans people. And it’s not because trans people are inherently more likely to cause trouble. (probably the opposite.) I hope the walkout happens. Then at least Netflix will…

He also made an immensely popular, generally [by gentiles, anyway] well-regarded movie whose explicitly Jewish characters looked like this. It doesn’t just stay off screen and at traffic stops with this guy.

So you’re saying that as long as they emit carbon, they are part of the problem.

Good point. Unless something talking about a huge systemic issue doesn’t address one specific instance specifically, they are unrelated. Kinda like how if climate change scientists can’t DIRECTLY link climate change to a specific petrol factory, that specific factory proooobably isn’t part of the greater issue. And…

It would’ve been easier for you to just google, but I did some free work for you. I’ll expect a thank-you card in the coming week

A white cis guy would’ve been given a second chance or a “severe talking-to” rather than serious workplace consequences. Same deal with the woman suspended for “crashing” a Zoom meeting. Black people go to jail for crimes like accidentally voting in the wrong precinct while white people get probation for sexual…

People crowing about how “ackchullee they got fired because of this reason, not because she’s a Black trans pregnant woman” seem to forget who in this country gets to have second chances and who is kicked to the curb the moment they get a viable excuse.

Apparently Chappelle is relishing his “cancelled” status (although he isn’t, this article clearly explains that), and in the mean time Netflix suspended a trans woman who (checks notes) made a thread explaining why the comments from a “sticky” program are damaging and ending with dozens of names of trans people who…

I’m pretty sure Black trans women are the most likely to be victims of hate crimes, have the lowest life expectancy of anyone in the LGBTQ community, and bear the brunt of the most hatred in society. The idea that part of humanity that’s Black is diametrically opposed to and oppressed by the part of humanity that’s…

“You write three beefy, well-worded paragraphs about the heart of the matter, and then you finish it off with a sentence that reads like it was written to be read by the most stereotypical, nebbish, woe-is-me worrywart Jewish mother with a New York Yiddish accent”

I think it went something like this: In the Silent era, women DOMINATED the film industry as directors, innovators, producers, etc. But when it became more of a business, of a system.. then things became more streamlined and more locked-down. Women were shoved out. The Hayes Code was established. You couldn’t take as…

So to answer the Internet Geniuses who respond with tired shit like “should Catholics only be played by Catholics, THEN?” There’s a difference between the role Catholicism plays in the world and the role Jews and Judaism play. One is the richest most powerful church on earth and has been for centuries. The others were…

She’s a national treasure.

She’s a national treasure.

Huh, I was wondering what the status was of Seth MacFarlane’s TNG self-insert fanfic.