In the referenced article the director makes the connection explicit. He states that the movie (and science fiction in general) is directly connected to the contemporary society.

As much as I love Blade Runner 2049, this is the one nagging problem with the film for me. I didn’t have much of a problem with the objectification the female characters faced - this made sense in-universe and was clearly portrayed as an awful and reprehensible thing, especially when contrasting the cold clinical…

Well, Deckard forces himself on Rachel in the first film, and the other two female characters in the film are shown as “pleasure models”, so the sequel seems to keep right in line with the aesthetic established in the original.

I agree with you. The whole scandal has already tanked Jaeger’s department, its reputation, and its grad student enrollment long before his predatory behavior became public knowledge. But this is a long time in coming for the U of R—who have also been called out by their students and alumni for how poorly they handle…

Oh, and I’m not a millennial and my attention span is just fine, thank you.

It was a crap movie. Beautiful, but didn’t make up for the thin story story line. What made the original such a classic was that it was tight, the tension between Decker and the replicants built through the story arc and the ending was the epiphany and revealed humanity of Decker. I figured out the ending of 2049 and…

Longtime fan of SciFi/Tech-noir. Google it and you’ll find a number of “top” lists to help you get started.

As a fellow pedant, I support this post.

I love both movies but judging from the initial box office of both movies clearly they don’t work as mass entertainments.

There would be an assumption that nothing prevents her from getting a different, future job... So the award does not need to cover a lifetime of wages, I would think?

My friend in grad school was told repeatedly to wear makeup by female colleagues at the high school they were student teaching at and forbidden from disclosing their non binary status by the lead professor. This was at Evergreen.

I will say that there’s a huge difference between the UTA Talent Space and places like 356 Mission or Self-Help Graphics. These protesters have zeroed in on both of these latter spaces (but have picked 356 Mission as their main target, but still count SHG as on the list of “problems”, despite being latinx/chicano run…

This area of Boyle Heights is, and has been, zoned light industrial for many years. Look at a satellite map. The 356 Mission space, like everything in its immediate vicinity, is a warehouse, and its previous function was to store pianos. (All that’s not to say that the arrival of white-run art spaces doesn’t…

I bathe in Répreçion right before strapping on my 6" steel-spiked stilettos and heading out to dominate teh menz. I cannot truly feel like a woman until I do so.

and not wearing makeup that would be “deemed harassing to male colleagues,”

I bet many of these troglodytes would classify “not wearing makeup” as “harassing male colleagues”, if the perpetrator was a cis woman.

All I can think of is Braveheart-style warpaint, not, you know, Broadway-musical War Paint warpaint.

The two most extremely WTF moments in this article:

She was awarded $1.165 million in damages

“Not wear make-up that would be deemed ‘harrasing to male colleagues’”