“There can be no great triumph over racism without addressing capitalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, the environment that we live in and the food that we consume. We have to recognize all of these connections.”
Rape Culture: If a woman drinks alcohol and gets raped, it's partially her fault. If you don't want to get raped, you shouldn't be drinking.
Men at bars: Can I buy you a drink?
Me: No thanks.
Men at bars: What the fuck, why not? Come on. Come ON, let me buy you some alcohol. God, I was being nice. Why would you turn down my generous offer? I guess chivalry really is dead. What a bitch.
"The fact that Trump's supporters are loud and angry and petulant isn't a sign that America's getting more extreme. It's a sign that the country's progressed to where their once-common views are now extreme. Looking at Trump and saying that America is getting more radical is like looking at Alabama in 1963, when peaceful black people were attacked with fire hoses and police dogs and blocked from entering a university by their own governor, and thinking "wow, black Americans have never had it worse!" They were finally starting to get it better, and some people didn't like that."
For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, Kaphar presents a painting show titled “Drawing the Blinds,” along with an extension of his 2011 Jerome Project titled “Asphalt and Chalk.” The former maintain’s Kaphar’s practice of bringing history into the present, and traditional artwork into the contemporary conversation.
Many of the works allude to the historical absence of African Americans and women from the verbal and visual canons. In “Behind the Myth of Benevolence” a portrait of a silver-haired man is peeled back like a fallen drape, revealing behind it a nude depiction of a black woman, gazing at the viewer. In “Stripes,” a similarly stuffy portrait of a white man is cut into strips, many of which are nailed to the surrounding wall, exposing the wooden frame beneath. The image is both mischievous and violent, a ghostly hoax and a work of sadism.
I’m really loving the theme lately with big budget film and TV projects in the ‘nerds and nostalgia’ genre having White Male Entitlement as the villain
like
Mad Max asked who killed the world
their answer was ‘toxic masculinity’
Jessica Jones answered with ‘rape culture’
and Star Wars threw in ‘entitled, privileged white dudes with nostalgiaboners for eras of extreme oppression for everyone else’
could we ask for a more accurate unholy trinity, or a better group to be putting this shit on blast??
No honestly I can understand MRAs complaining about Star Wars TFA lacking characters they can identify with - but there was simply no way to bring Jabba back.
"By Monday morning, Trump walked back his previous statements that wages were too high, albeit without conceding he'd ever argued as much. In fact, Trump tweeted, wages 'are too low'"
"Baited? Though Trump has yet to call for government measures to boost wages — in fact, he's said he wants to keep the $7.25-an-hour minimum wage 'pretty much where it is now' — his changing tune underscores the tension between Trump's white working class base and his bid to helm a party whose leadership opposes efforts to increase the federal minimum wage."
Bernie, still driving the conversation this cycle.
a goddamn calrissian. who, like their father before them just shows up and is crazy awesome. like, imagine landos fly ass daughter who rocks up with a blaster and has a million and one embarrassing stories about kylo ren that she uses to taunt him in a fight. who flirts with rey and finn and is frenemies with poe and is just the best.
*shoots blaster* hey benben! remember the time our parents took us to endor and that ewok claimed you as his bride? cause i do!
Literally less than 1% of what it made at the box office.
oh noes.
and it’s based on the shoddiest math ever
Bad Math + Dishonest “Reporting” = Shocking Direct Impact!
This Movie “Lost” the Viewership of People Who Never Would Have Paid to See it in Theaters in the First Place! Detractors Report: They Would Have Only Ever Considered Watching A Shoddy Bootleg Over A Shaky Internet Connection!
man even if i give them THAT and assume they would have actually paid to see it, these pointless nerdbags don’t realize that they’ve refuted their own fucking argument???
like, let’s take their fuckin bullshit numbers as a given. $4.2million is a COMPLETELY acceptable amount to “lose” given that that’s about an hour and fifteen minutes’ worth of profit from the opening weekend.
like, what they THINK they’re arguing is that Star Wars is losing out from not appealing to them, but they’re actually just proving how irrelevant of a demographic they are!
That’s… Actually really sad. Even with their inflated, garbage math, they’re completely and totally insignificant and they can’t even comprehend that fact.
“But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates them and their universe, and when you see the rage, the pettiness, the meltdowns and fountains of male tears of fury, you’re seeing people who really expected to get their own way and be told they’re wonderful all through the days.”
I fancied painting an elf and also, I saw a picture of this really cool ear pendant with a living plant in it the other day and wanted to incorporate it into something.
From the way this Elf is dressed, I’m tagging this for the Sindar.
This shit’s been going on since time immemorial – before movies, it was wives editing and proofing books, sometimes putting in enough work that, had they been male, they would’ve been credited as co-authors.
That’s why having George Miller rhapsodize about how amazing his wife Margaret Sixel is and how important she was to Fury Road was so unusual and important – too often, women’s contributions to their husbands’ creative endeavors are viewed as a sort of marital obligation, not achievements in their own right.
Also, there’s this:
“You can see the huge difference in the films that he does now and the films that he did when he was married,” [Mark] Hamill pointed out in the 2005 interview, in a not-so-subtle dig at the prequels.
Yeowch.
Yes! Now, THIS is a valid and important case of a male director taking credit for/refusing to give credit due female work on “his” project, not to mention prime auteur theory bullshit.
“When we were finishing ‘Jedi,’ George told me he thought I was a pretty good editor. In the sixteen years of our being together I think that was the only time he complimented me.”
In “The Secret History of Star Wars,” Kaminski makes the case that she has been “practically erased from the history books at Lucasfilm” as a result of the divorce.
“[She] is mentioned only occasionally in passing, a background element, and not a single word of hers is quoted; she is a silent extra, absent from any photographs and only indirectly acknowledged, her contributions downplayed,” he writes.
“Marcia Lucas, the ‘other’ Lucas, has basically become the forgotten Lucas.”
This happens enough that we’re not shocked or surprised.
As if this was somehow the world the way Lucas alone described it.
“Sometime, somewhere, somebody is going to write a review of Star Wars that begins: “In Lucas’s future, the black races and the yellow races have apparently died out and a sort of mid-Western American (with a few South Westerners who seem to specialize in being war ship pilots) has taken over the universe. By and large, women have also been bred out of the human race and, save for the odd gutsy princess or the isolated and coward aunt, humanity seems to be breeding quite nicely without them. …””
- from a 1977 review of Star Wars by Samuel R. Delany
I assume everyone knows this but just in case you didn’t, the “Civil War Prelude” comics Marvel is putting out are not preludes like we’ve gotten for a lot of the previous movies with fill-in-the-canon-blank stories, but rather adaptations of both Iron Man 3 and Cap 2.
So the first two issues were IM3.
And the third issue, coming out this Wednesday, is going to be the start of adapting Cap2 to comic book form.
LESS THAN A WEEK TIL WE GET MCU SAM WILSON IN COMIC BOOK FORM.
