I'm still pissed as hell that Halle Berry won for Monster's Ball, where she was on her knees getting fucked like an animal rather than her as Dorothy Dandridge

... Dude, we know. I'm not sure why you consider this insider-type knowledge or why you came in guns blazing because people have criticized the outcome of this year's voting. Would you prefer that the Academy not be criticized at all?

Dude, it's both. The academy and hollywood are part of the same machine. The problem is the film industry in general. They both suck.

This is not insider-type knowledge. It's been discussed ad nauseum.

Touche. I personally think that not smiling is silly, I just don't care to judge this woman because of her choice not to smile.

She's not foregoing emotional response, she's foregoing one particular means of expressing one specific emotion. There are other ways to display happiness besides smiling.

Is this woman choosing not to smile really more "intense" than a woman taking 30 to 45 minutes each day to apply a hundred dollars worth of cosmetics to their face/body, as millions upon millions of women do each and every day? Not really. The only difference is that the former behaviour falls outside societal…

Exactly. This woman is doing exactly what she wants with her damn body. She is defying conventional feminine behavior (to smile and appease others) and public opinion to do what she wants. For all the articles on here, bemoaning being told to smile by strangers, you'd think Jez would support a woman who chose not…

Calling women vain suggests that they value their appearance over more inherently valuable factors in society, and should be scorned. I can't imagine what messages women are getting, and from where, that their appearance is important...well, as long as we leave the multi-billion/year beauty industry out of the…

To me vain is an empty criticism because we all do some things out of vanity, as is cheap because we all try to save money in some way.

You need some family planning education so that you can understand the difference between sex and getting pregnant.

Yes, and poor people have fewer options available to them, including contraception options, but that doesn't change the fact that it was a bad decision to bring another child into that family.

I'm not anti porn and I'm not a radfem, but throwing those terms around as loosely as you definitely makes me think you totally know what you're talking about. Nowhere in that link you provided does it say that women consume more violent porn than men. I have no idea where you're getting that from. Pretty hilarious…

They have a 3 yr old, a 2 yr old and another one almost born and they are living in a motel room. No, I'm not at all surprised they would keep a loaded handgun accessible to children. I imagine their whole world is just one bad decision after another.

well you might see it that way but that's not how it bears out in reality- people experiment and click random vid and try new things when they are still learning about their sexuality, not everyone has a clear idea of what turns them on and many are on a path of discovery. people also get bored easily and move to more…

source?? no idea where you are getting this from, because I've seen stats that prove that men do fantasize about rape, in fact lots of porn aimed at men highlights female resistance and discomfort ??

I mean if it's Tilda Swinton I guess it's OK but I really can't get behind Sandra Bullock's body of work at all.

It's not about "liking." It's about what's good for our gender and our species. Women are born into subjugation, it is all we know, so naturally some are going to conflate condition with drive and desire – that is what fetishes are, crossed wires in the brain.

There was a study done in hawaii on the cusp of the eighties when porn was banned, and rape rates dropped significantly. It's a good counterpoint to all the misinformation spread by the porn industry about sexual repression causing rape and female consumption of porn being posited as much higher than it is when it's…

Porn encourages rape culture. End of fucking story. Anyone else who says differently is 100% delusional. Stop bubble wrapping the issue with your stupid empowerment/sex positivity bullshit.