Agreed—Winter Soldier stands up really well to repeated viewings, especially on a thematic level, but Guardians leaves me a little colder every time. Also, the action in Winter Soldier is far and away the best action I've ever seen, while Guardians is too explosive-heavy.
I mean, yes, I care about the BDSM community. BDSM is a kink subculture that cares more about explicit consent than any other culture on the planet. There are aspects to it that I personally enjoy and aspects that aren't my thing. I find it more than a little trivializing that 50 Shades is known as a BDSM book when…
He's literally in a movie about a so-called BDSM relationship. That's why this was news. The film literally has a sex dungeon in it. I mean…did you miss that part of the story? That he finds a pseudo-BDSM relationship worth portraying on film, but when exposed to the reality of it, he's condescending about it?
Well, I'm not outraged. I just think it's a fucked up thing to say, and it annoys me because it's indicative of a thoughtlessness on his part. And I find that thoughtlessness especially troubling considering the roles he's in, and how that reflects the film that will end up being made and marketed as a romance. We can…
It's written as if the woman is willing, but the author very badly misunderstands BDSM, so what's written is a deeply abusive, non-consensual relationship where he emotionally manipulates her every time she attempts to use her safe-word, pushes past boundaries she tries to put up, and generally goes too far. Again,…
He chose to say that he felt like he needed a shower after going to see people engage in consensual kink. It's condescending because I doubt he would say the same about his role in the film, which portrays a non-consensual, abusive relationship. It's not incendiary, but it's fucked up, especially because he's now been…
The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling is fast and good. Also, I second anything by Lois Bujold—the Vorkosigan Saga is excellent, and while the sci-fi aspects are great, it's the characters and the humor that really make them fun to read. The Curse of Chalion is great too!
Gosh I love A Civil Campaign. Sometimes I think about the white grub worm things and have a nice chuckle, apropos of nothing.
It's on Amazon Instant video! Go watch it!
If you account for rapes never reported to the police, about 3% of rapes end in conviction. You can basically rape with impunity in American society.
Honestly, most Millenials I know listen to a lot of NPR, and to a considerably greater extent than the Boomers I know. It's probably the problem with these sorts of anecdotal conversations—I'm generally frustrated with the lack of criticism most Boomers react to whatever narrative they get from traditional media.…
Citation needed.
Both of those things can be true—New Media fills a void that Old Media creates, and Millenials are more likely to consume New Media, and thus get different content than their Boomer brethren.
Mike Brown is a household name because Twitter made him one. Big media started covering Ferguson in the first place because #Ferguson was trending on Twitter. Waiting until the riots started would have been a different story altogether, three months late. I'm talking about the immediate protests after Brown's death,…
Yeah, all journalism comes with a narrative slant. New Media certainly has that in spades. Sorkin just has this grand idea that true Old Media journalism consists of nothing but speaking truth to power, when often that truth is hard to ferret out in the first place. And often only comes to light because of viral…
Lulz, too real.
Whoops, defense attorney.
Whatever—you might not see it, but I do. Tech-savvy Millenials are way more informed about, say, Mexico and the murdered students, than any Baby Boomer I know.
The problem with Sorkin is that he ostensibly thinks he's laying out both sides of a debate without any resolution, but the tenor of the show—plot, characterization, dialogue—always gives far greater weight to one side than the other. And it happened here with Jim and Hallie—Jim gets the salient points, gets the…