Ahhh you should watch Lindsay Ellis’s review of Bright on Youtube. So well-done, so funny. It’s called “Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy World Building.” 

It’s important to see specifically how images are constructed, because if you can’t do that then you can’t critique effectively. It’s important to be able to call out how much of what we see is fake. But the problem with this stuff is that it proceeds from there to shaming the women in the images for having work done.…

Could only get through half of this movie and then kicked myself for wasting that hour.

Ugh...I remember it being on Netflix at Christmas last year.

I feel that all these things, “no look, she really is ugly! she really is fat! she didn’t grow those boobs!” is ok, as long as they’re followed by the message of “and it’s totally okay”.

oh god I forgot about that.  Yeah, that was a bad dumb movie.

Bright really was terrible so of course it was almost immediately greenlit for a sequel.

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but I’m extremely uncomfortable with all of it. A little nip or tuck here or there can make someone feel better to the point where they aren’t obsessing in the mirror anymore, and can go about their business without the constant “but my NOSE” or whatever, but that isn’t what’s happening…

also, I know lyrically it works, and there’s a slight irony, but the final sentence of this article:

100% agreed. So many comments are of the standard misogynistic “I only like natural looking girls... but not natural natural, that’s eww...” kind.

There are better ways to show what photoshop and professional work does that doesn’t feel like some shitty women hating rag magazine, this doesn’t seem to be one of them.

I am from Argentina and the tone of this account reminds me a LOT of the pervasive woman hating culture there. Despite the fact that it’s one of the countries with most plastic surgery and dieting (and eating disorders), any celebrities instagram, even the out-of-this-world beautiful, is filled with comments like…

Yeah the mean girl circle jerk taking place on that account is really authentic and relatable. Definitely justifies tearing other people down.

Saw Suicide Squad for the first time on Netflix a couple weekends ago. Its really as bad as everyone said, laughably so. I actively felt bad for Cara Delevingne whenever she was on screen for the last third of the film. 

THANK YOU. I have visible abs; I can also have rolls depending on how my body is positioned. That doesn’t mean the former is “unattainable” and the latter is somehow more “real.” They’re both my fucking body. Just look at the comments on those bikini pictures - “great body either way, but her face sucks.” Women can’t…

This feels very close to body shaming. And yes, I realize that Photoshop etc is worse but I’m not comfortable with the way women are dissected by this account. 

I have a modest makeup. I rarely use filters because I want to show what it is like to be real and my age. Sometimes, I’ll use a filter for fun or because it looks artsy, and when I do, I always call myself out for it in the caption. Usually the caption goes a little like, “This isn’t fooling anyone, but..”

A friend…

would you like to place a bet on me ever leading a story on Jez with Kim again because i’ll win

Eh, he didn’t even really “come out” in the classic sense of “Mom, Dad, I’m gay.” He just developed this friendship with another boy and at some point began referring to him as his boyfriend, and we were like, Okay, yeah, we thought so. For a lot of kids these days, this stuff is so out in the open, I think it doesn’t…

He was still baffled that he hadn’t witnessed them, to which we simply responded, “You’re not a woman. Of course you haven’t.”

Guys that are creepy around girls often don’t 1) act creepy around their guy friends 2) act creepy around girls when they’re around their guy friends. We literally do not see that side of them.