I daydream about the US going with Thaddeus Stevens' post-war ideas all the time.

No, this is Trio's Fox and Hound, correct? I spent my early 20s there. You left out the best part, that these drinks were like $4.00 each. Good times!

I love Kesha but I feel like she's trying reeeal hard to Lemonade here. It's not good.

Sigh, I know I should just walk away but I'm on summer vacation (I teach history, for what it's worth) so unfortunately, I have the time for this:
By "step out of those stereotypes" do you mean ignore them? That would be easier to do were I not a Black woman who has been negatively impacted by these stereotypes in my…

Ok, teachable moment here:
Yes the Arab slave trade happened and created negative associations with Blackness in Arab culture. What does that have to do with the way that Black women are portrayed in media in the west? US chattel slavery, which provided the material and cultural foundations of our society, relied…

Baffled by this response, honestly. I am talking about the racial/historical context in which this work is produced. Regardless of intent, Bilquis' portrayal played into well worn stereotypes of hypersexualized, exoticized Black women with no voice. I've loved the AV commentariat for a long time, understanding that…

You're willfully missing my point. Did I say invented? I said "a character developed", in that the inspiration may be ancient but every decision about how she was portrayed in this show was indeed made by those men, in our current cultural context.

Fair. But it always bothers me when Black female characters endure levels of degradation not inflicted on the white women around them, in shows/movies. You may be surprised at how often this happens.

She is a character developed by white men in an industry with a history of intense objectification of Black women's bodies and denial of their agency and dignity. This show is beautiful but it wasn't created in a vacuum. Why pretend otherwise?

Yikes. The source of those particular stereotypes has a great deal more to do with the exploitation of Black women's bodies under imperialism and the slave system. If you're not familiar with that history, then I can see how this particular sequence didn't bother you.

The objection is that they're given short shrift compared to other characters on the show, not compared to their characters in the books. And i get that, I am sensitive to how Black women are portrayed on tv and i've been uncomfortable with Bilquis throughout. Just so many stereotypes, objectification, exoticization…

When they showed his face I was like "Whoa. Hot Jesus."

I thought the parallel was not just in that Elizabeth and this woman both did horrible things but the implied redemptive power of their husband's love. Philip still loves and believes in Elizabeth, as evidenced in the wedding ceremony. And this is after years of knowing that she is capable of monstrous things. That…

I'm late and catching up but I LOVED how that scene showcased their dynamic. Philip needs to believe that the worst things that he's done are not what defines him. Elizabeth just doesn't think that she's done wrong. Until the end of that scene, at least.

Yeah, I was kind of concerned that her job didn't have mechanisms to prevent female dealers from getting accosted by men in the parking lot.

Not even kidding, I discovered Fandor's streaming over the weekend and I was excited by their animated features. I had every intention of signing up this week but with this news… and how AWFUL I find Jared Leto to be, I just can't give them my monies :(.

Like the shark, the panda has millions of teeth which it uses like a hacksaw to cut through bone, candy, and fences…
YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN, MR. SIFL!

I appreciate the hell out of this review! Thank you.

I love that movie! So good.

Yes. In general I find the host bits tedious but the ones that are good are really, really good. Like Ernest Borgnine's Children's Stories still cracks me up whenever I think about it, as does their parody of the song from Pod People and Tom Servo's "Creepy Girl" song!