Maybe the issue wasn't that you were planning to write a rape scene, but that the only purpose for your rape scene was to motivate a male character. It's not the rape scene that's the problem. It's the fact that you, the author, should have more respect for your characters than to simply make them objects that you use…

I don’t think that observing a trend in the American film industry means that Pegg is dismissing the many counter-examples. There will always be artists who find ways to pay for the work that matters to them, like the documentarians who scrape and scrap to get their movies made, and there will be artists who find ways…

Angrier Geek indeed. Way to overreact.

This is not something we should believe, but it’s something we should worry about. Pegg is right that movies like Star Wars (and Jaws and Indie) were important during the 1970s-80s transition from movies with downtown premieres to the suburban multiplex. Sure, you can’t blame a single film for the shift toward…

That and another awesome thing that’s been pointed out on here - that Furiosa already had her plan in action completely independent of Max and his help. She wasn’t waiting for the “one”, the “hero”, or even an opportunity that presented itself as an unknown but tough rogue male. Heh. She was already doing her thing…

You know what the best and most subtle bit of feminism in the movie is?

One dude on Facebook was losing his tits because this movie is “social engineering” and it lured him in with DUDE STUFF like cars and explosions and if it does really well at the box office, it will mean more movies about strong women.

SOCIAL ENGINEERING.

“The problem is not the movie, it’s all the feminazis who are claiming this action film as their own. They don’t have the right to watch a movie where women try and liberate themselves from being reduced to objects and fight their way out of it and call it feminist, durn it! How dare they find validation for their…

The best thing about this is that you KNOW if Michelle Obama did that she would never live it down. The privilege of just trying some persona on for fun is real.

Oh for fucks sake Ann.

When Maclom says "The words you are looking for are 'thank' and 'you'", I really expected Felicity to say "Well, the second word is 'you'"

I am okay with “girl” when it can be seen as the female equivalent of “guy,” and I suppose I’d be okay with it if some ninety-five-year-old were referring to a forty-year-old, but when it’s talking about a woman in a professional setting I don’t care for it..

I hate that “girl” speech. No, Calista’s character, you are not a girl. You were done being a girl over a decade ago. You are old enough to be president and no man in your position or at your age would tolerate being called a “boy.” It feel like being gaslighted - if you don’t like that a grown woman is being called a…

So we’ll sleep like Hobbits. First sleep, second sleep, elevensies, lunch snooze, afternoon nap, supper siesta, dinner doze-off...

Let me put it to you this way. I was thanked by my boss for not crying every time she berrates me for no reason in front if everyone.

“what do you like to do for fun?”

“Ya know, I go home and I enter data into spreadsheets. Yall wouldn’t even have to pay me to do this job, I love it.”

Seconding iZombie reviews, this show is delightfully amazing and filling a hole left by Defiance.

Fun fact: Carrie Fisher script doctored a ton of dialogue on that movie. She completely rewrote the Barrymore role. So that probably accounts for a decent amount.