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And that is his most normal name.

A coworker pointed out to me that it's possible that this was meant to be a statement about plastic surgery — women bandaged up after getting implants and lip injections, etc. — that just reads very wrong a little too logically. Regardless of intent, though, these get-ups really do look like yet another attempt to

I see a big Leigh Bowery influence in the costumes here as well.

I think you're reaching a bit here, and by "a bit" I mean "an insane amount." There is plenty of real racism to get offended about without having to conjure it out of thin air.

For some reason this specific frame evokes Keith Haring art for me.

Besides, I immediately get Kardashian when I see them.

To me this reads kind of like a chicken or the egg thing. If you describe someone as having 'a big butt and large earrings', why does that automatically mean blackness? I know there's a line, but I think this is a bit too vague for us to throw the racism card at it. Culturally insensitive, maybe, but then you've got a

(mummies + Kim Kardashian) x Johnny Wujek / Lady Gaga = whatever the hell this is

I was reading the first couple of paragraphs of this piece, thinking to myself, "But… mummies. They're mummies. Why do they have to be members of any race? Presumably, their skin has decomposed by now."

Erm....I think it's definitely just poking fun at plastic surgery slash Kardashians.

I think it is problematic to assign these bodily attributes to black women as a whole. Personally, I consider these womanly attributes.

Yeah, I'm a black woman and I can't even work up any outrage over this.

I for one am just glad that there are no ancient egyptians around so we can all be spared the jezebel outrage article (that writes itself) on the cultural appropriation of ankhs and sphinxes and what not.

Spindle wheels were designed long before flyer & bobbin wheels; the yarn was spun off the tip (if you've ever seen an Indian charkha, it's like that) and wound onto the shaft of the spike. Though the neat thing is that the Sleeping Beauty tale actually comes from a time before wheels, when hand spindles were used.

don't feel bad. I like The Saint too.

There was one thing I liked about Maleficent, and that was the subversion of the "true love" trope. The Prince himself was protesting kissing the sleeping girl: "I only met her yesterday!"

Aww really? Sleeping Beauty is probably my favorite Disney classic, but I absolutely loved this reimagining of the tale!

I thought the part about her becoming embittered because Stefan cut off her wings in an act of betrayal was fitting. She fell in love with a no-good fella, and tentatively makes herself vulnerable in order to love, only to be betrayed. She made one of those small, simple mistakes of the heart and that mistake had

I really liked this movie! I've got nothing bad to say about it.

I think she used Aurora as a surrogate childhood which led her down a journey about finding compassion, that the experience with Stefan had stripped from her. Eventually leading her to confront the dirty old bastard and annihilate him while finding a way to love herself again through the innocence of Aurora.