Okay, my blood pressure is back up, and I'm no longer light-headed. I am a surgical device rep; I'm in the OR 3-5 days a week. I specialize in orthopedic solutions for extremities. I was just recently in a case with a poor guy who had an avulsion fracture of his 5th metatarsal. As soon as I read "genital ...…
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As an owner of a set of balls, I fully support this guide and its message. Proper genital conduct need not be adhered to when your assailant doesn't do the same.
All sorts of the expected commentary on this one already.
This article is a thing of beauty. It is balanced, informative, and reaffirms my decision to enroll my 8 year-old daughter in karate classes.
Ok.. you totally lost me..
the girl was what she wouldn't have- parenthood. I'm sure when she was a lovesick teenager she imagined having a child with the man who became the king. She loved him. I'm assuming that is part of why she was upset at the birth announcement. I'm not saying aurora didn't have it bad, but as she is telling the story…
Oh I was just talking about in the original. You asked why it wasn't a pile of socks, etc. and I think it was a spindle, and blood, for a reason. Maleficent cursed her so that her life would be over when her innocence was lost.
I'm usually attuned to this kind of thing but it honestly did not occur to me when watching the film, that the cutting off of her wings was a metaphorical rape. I watched with three 8 year old girls and I guess I was watching through their eyes. Of course I can see how it it is being interpreted this way. There had…
"This weekend Maleficent made a boatload of cash, and that bums me out — because this wasn't the Maleficent I wanted"
I thought she loved aurora bc she grew as a person. She realized she had displaced her anger, and she saw something in the girl she wouldn't have ( the girl was a product of a relationship she wouldn't have, which originally made her angry, but then made her feel maternal toward her -"godmother" and all that). I liked…
It is not bad ass, is just plain childish and stupid, sleeping makes more sense as it will create more suffering by knowing that her beloved will never find peace
I disagree entirely.
I think Meredith is 100% wrong on this one. The cartoon 2d cardboard character never impressed me for its one tone depth. Simple villains are a dime a dozen and so was the animated version.
Right, she doesn't just kill the baby that second. She sets it up. It's amazing she's a maniac. I love it.
I'm a little baffled by this reaction. Of course she's not pure badass evil in this movie — it's her story. Nobody is pure evil in their own story. I wish it had stuck a bit closer to the actual events of the original, because that's where the fun of such a revision comes in, but objecting because she's not evil…
I've got two quibbles with your post. You seem to forget that the Disney version was not an original idea. It was an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet. So the 'original score' was not entirely original. And the ballet was based on the book by Perrault or the story by Grimm brothers, waaay back in 15th century, which…
I thought the whole point of the movie was the rape scene. Too often do we see movies about a man who has something happen to "his woman" that defines his growth. It was nice to see a movie about the woman in that situation for a change. Her path from sorrow to seclusion to vengeance to finding love again was…
I thought the part about her becoming embittered because Stefan cut off her wings in an act of betrayal was fitting. She fell in love with a no-good fella, and tentatively makes herself vulnerable in order to love, only to be betrayed. She made one of those small, simple mistakes of the heart and that mistake had…
I think Angelina Jolie was great in this movie.