omg I am so sorry. I would be... beside myself (I’ll leave it at that).

Indeed - I very much agree with you. Thanks for the clarification on The Revenant.

Absolutely. But then I have to wonder - is it true that there were no women in that time and place? Because so much of our sense of where women were and were not is influenced by representations that were in turn exclusive of women.

Right, because 45 is ancient in Woman Years. For every 1 year a person ages, a woman ages at least 5. In People Years Giada is like 200.

Good point. Hopefully it will work out for the best.

In many ways it will be easier to prevent her from offending again if her target is people with an innate lack of agency; since those people have their lives an interactions managed by others.

Yes, yes I do think she is a danger to society!

It makes for good comedy though when women dressed like that deride Hillary for “playing the woman card.” I saw that on something called The Chew or The Chewed or somesuch.

I saw this dynamic a lot in 2007-2008. At a certain point the comment threads on blogs I followed closely became home to really nasty comments about Hillary’s marriage and all sort of personal insults, and when I would point out that some of it was inappropriate, I’d be personally attacked and told to ‘go away’ (‘go…

Look, maybe its not internalized misogyny, maybe you just have a reading comprehension problem. Or a wicked case of confirmation bias.

Apparently it really addles the cognitive functions.

Or put in charge of veteran’s affairs among other things. Bernie has done an outstanding job for veterans.

Someone younger, unfortunately, because I think it would be an exciting ticket. On the other hand, I think the only people who care about Hillary being too centrist are a minority of base Democratic voters who really need to just get their shit together. I don’t think having a self-defined democratic socialist would…

Yes. Likewise, the Turbo-Berners who say Hillary isn’t qualified to be President.Excuse me but if we can elect a man who served less than two terms in the Senate, and he did a fine job, I think someone who served in the Senate and as Secretary of State is qualified. Some of the same people probably voted for Nader,…

Then you may want to familiarize yourself with the way the Republicans treated Bill Clinton and Al Gore, two straight white Southern Christian men.

First, I should clarify that I meant movies with an over-abudance of straight men.

But its a really interesting point! Thanks for sharing the extra info.

Yes. More and more I am skipping well-reviewed movies if they look like they are bro-fests. At this point in time, unless the film has a specific narrative rationale for being overwhelmingly male, I say no - I have no patience for gender segregation / making women invisible.

That’s how I saw it - or rather, that Hydra was “worse than” Nazis (turbo-Nazis). Like, Nazis-plus, because magic.

and if you’re not much of a history buff, substituting one World War for another can sound like a needlessly superficial alteration