But Taylor Swift would be the first victim of that, because when you look at Marxist socialist societies, they do not allow women to dress or sing or be on stage or to entertain or the type music that she would have.

Marsha Marsha Marsha...

You are not alone in hating American Beauty.

I’m not a bubble-gum pink fashionista but I still enjoy the movie quite a bit. I think about Elle a lot when I work out, “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.”

Also, I just love the way her face lights up when she hears Chutney testify…

While Elle is not a flawless feminist icon (we never did get to see her interact with or advocate for people of color)

One of the reasons the film persists in popular imagination, I think, is because its “thesis” is so relatable. The quote, “the law is reason free from passion” is mentioned several times, and everyone but Elle acts like this is true. But, through her actions in the film, she proves it false. It is “passion” (her…

Hmm it appears I need to go to Costco to get a 5 gallon bag of popcorn so I can watch this go down.

Obligatory:

I agree American Beauty does not really hold up these days. It was very much a product of the time. In 1999 we were coming out of the introspective grunge era and into a more vapid, superficial  existence. And Kevin Spacey still seemed so cool back then. Chris Cooper is still cool as heck though.

“What, like it’s hard?”

I hate American Beauty too - it seems like a soap bubble of a movie. Taken at first glance, it can pass for intelligent, but then it doesn’t withstand any real scrutiny, and its whole world view is mean and cruel.

She might’ve lucked out in the details of the case, but they previously showed her getting a really good lsat score, answering questions well in class, holding her own in a study group of intelligent peers, and earning a prestigious fellowship. She studies a lot and works hard, but that’s how smart people get smart,…

LOL I genuinely love American Beauty, and I’m not saying that to sound smart because I’m still not sure I fully understand it. (Or at least, I loved it dearly before we all found out Kevin Spacey was human garbage...now I’m not sure I could watch it and enjoy it).

Well, did you actually read the article, because it lays it out pretty clearly - maybe respond to that? In short, she starts out being motivated to get a man, and then learns and grows and ends up doing what she’s doing for her. It is entirely feminist. I don’t know why starting with un-feminist motivations but…

I’m none of these only because I’ve aged out. For most of my life, I played the Philosopher Fuckboy. Wore it like a suit of armor because I knew I had nothing else to offer. I played up a spotty superficial education and got real good at snotty condescension. Took me too long to realize the only one I was bullshitting…

Pookie and Ray-ray Voltron Nick Cannon is out here shooting up the club with four different IG models. Four different single mothers running four different broken single parent households with a single stretched thin part time father.

“Trust me, there’s a lot of people that I could’ve gotten pregnant that I didn’t. The ones that got pregnant are the ones that were supposed to get pregnant.”

“I’m like a seahorse out here,” he explained.”

Lindsay Ellis does a great positive piece on Megan Fox in Transformers: