I would argue that pressuring women for sex by questioning their bliss following street cred was also very much a part of free love, but yes.

A lot of sketchy male hippies probably didn't quite grasp that consent was still a part of free love.

The thing with Nolan is he wants to make standard genre films with a fun conceptual twist, but he often underestimates how much more fun the conceptual twist is than the genre film he’s trying to spice up. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that Inception isn’t a movie about dream shenanigans, it’s a…

The Nolan bashing started with Dark Knight Rises and continued with Interstellar because he lost some important collaborators who helped make his earlier stuff work, he got big enough that people stopped telling him “no,” and he already got to use a lot of his dream project ideas earlier in his career.

And as…

Thanks for the response. I think I pretty much agree with your points, and describing him as someone driven by “a small set of anxieties” is a description I wish I had thought of.

But I diverge from you a little when it comes to describing Interstellar as a story about (in part) a man afraid of losing his children;…

As an amateur Nolanologist, I’ve come to the conclusion he gets his plot motives from a small set of anxieties. Underneath the pseudo-cerebral exterior, he’s an innocently personal filmmaker who loves James Bond movies and airplanes. He is, in modern parlance, a classic dad and total wife guy. Also note that while…

So will Elizabeth Debicki be murdered in this one, too? Presumably she will, but only if she’s someone’s love interest. It’s kind of Nolan’s thing.

I love Nolan’s films, even when they’re pretty stupid (see: Interstellar, a tonal mess but it has so many great moments) and Inception is a movie I’ll just love forever—I’m…

I started playing drums this year at age 40, and if you give me another ten years, I MIGHT be able to do what this kid is doing, if you let me do all the sticking first, and then do all the footwork separately.

Ellen is a challenge to the LGBT community to not see things in black and white. “Ellen the shitty boss” can and does coexist with “Ellen the trailblazer for LGBT folks in celebrity media.” We should not let one erase the other in either direction.

This is a much better piece on Ellen from The Atlantic. It examines the trauma she went through as a young woman and why she built a facade around her to protect herself. It does hold her accountable but also empathizes with her and highlights how essential she has been: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020…

It’s not that either because systemic discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality are their own thing that needs to be addressed as well. The MeToo movements and the various police murders should have made that clear.

I’m a millennial and already wary of where cancel—or callout, which is pretty much the neighbor of cancel—culture is heading, if it’s not already there. What started as a legit movement to call out dangerous, predatory figures in power has since slipped into “they were mean to me once 10 ago and should probably lose…

Because that would require talking about class consiousness and anti-capitalist perspectives. It’s easier to just go with sensationalism than to talk about the endemic destruction of workers’ rights.

Is anyone else starting to hate the way we’re talking about Ellen? It’s not “weakened unions, workplace discrimination.” It’s “OMG this lady pretends to be nice but secretly she’s mean! So fake!” As though it’s bad for the nice lady with the bland middle America sitcom no one watched to yell at a writer, but it would…

Direct answer — That plus self led online instruction is how the entirety of my ongoing education and professional development has occurred for the past 15 years.

I was more speaking to the problematic business usages of the network, producing the massive volume of wasteful traffic.

Well actually, as a bit of a musician myself I feel I should tell her...you fucking rock and I hope that music brings you a lifetime of joy and fun!

#manpraising

You don’t have to try to so hard to one-up everyone, you know.

Too cute and way talented. Miss Nandie’s going to be more than Internet famous in the very near future. 

You know, I think I'm actually done commenting. The idea of all us being snarky and agreeable all the time is saccharine; I actually vomited in my mouth a bit. What is the mission of the Jezebel blog? Why can't I be accepted as snarky and fun some days, and argumentative and emotional on others? Certain issues get me…