Hobie is definitely Miles number 1 defender😭
i think rvb fans who legit don't know what halo is and assume everything halo is rvb are so cool and sexy
Never assume that female authors can't be misogynistic.
JK Rowling literally wrote the most appallingly embarrassing and vapid female characters known to humankind, and she's a woman and supposed "feminist." Every female character she had fell under 4 categories:
1) Dutiful and devoted mother
2) vapid girly girl who's a bitch because she's girly and she's hot and pretty but empty headed and hates books
4) a fat villain, whose main physical attribute is that she's fat, and also she's evil.
3) cool girl who's not like other girls because she's nerdy and/or a jock.
Then you have Stephanie Meyer. Who has insisted she isn't misogynistic because she would've written Bella as a flat and boring character even if she was male...and then when she wrote a gender bent twilight, she immediately gave male Bella an actual personality.
Like.
It's sad but.
But you know.
Women can be bad writers, lol.
Women can see other women as not people too. Women can be so vicious about other women, in fiction and in real life, maybe even more judgmental and harsh and callous than they'd ever be towards a man.
I kind of laugh at it because think of it like this...
Why did JK Rowling write from the perspective of a boy?
Because she probably grew up with the idea that she wasn't like other girls.
She had a working brain and didn't chase after boys all the time, like those other dumb lipstick wearing ninnies that were popular and cool and made fun of her in school.
So she wrote from the pov of a boy because she secretly thought I'm like the boys!!! I have thoughts!!! I wish to live vicariously through a protagonist who's a boy, and has his opinions and feelings heard.
Which is also hilarious in hindsight, because of how anti trans she now is. Like JK, my girl, my dude, what are you doing? You can't be a boy, silly.
And Stephanie Meyer is a Mormon, but let's say the reason she can't write female characters, or more specifically, a protagonist, is because she also frames the male as being the interesting one.
Neither of those authors could shake off the feeling that all women are bland and vapid and uninteresting, and men are the main focus.
And this was with vaginas, you know?
Shockingly...having a vagina does not immediately guarantee that you'll have any sympathy for other vagina havers.
Anyway.
This wasn't about anything, I was just thinking the other day of how female authors can be so violently misogynistic and it's really sad.
I admit I was also thinking about lizzo.
Being a woman...doesn't mean you support other women.
And when you are a woman, and you don't support other women...you're just awful.
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
#this is correct and I agree HOWEVER#only in the case of monetization#obviously it’d be fucked up to write a song and use Taylor swifts voice and get money off of that#but there’s a difference between that and like. using Ryan reynolds voice to make a video of him singing two trucks for the meme#ai art is fucked up but imo as long as one is not profiting from it then it’s just memery
Saw this tweet and had to collect Ryan Gosling’s best PR quotes for Barbie
I like seeing conservatives pivot towards "barbie isn't actually woke!!!" now that it's about to hit a billion dollars, in like two weeks.
I've literally seen them insist barbie was a "conservative" movie, lol. And that "feminism isn't woke."
Sweaty, the barbie movie had black president Barbies and disabled Barbies and fat Barbies and other Barbies of color. It even had a trans barbie.
It was a movie about feminism and anti patriarchy and the relationship between men and women and women and self.
It is woke.
Two white leads aside, it's as woke as they come, and far more woke than 99% of the things they call woke.
A woke movie is smashing at the box office and you are losing the culture war.
Trans barbie is real and she is coming to kill you all.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if VFX is unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting VFX (do not revel in this. do not glorify striking as an inherent action. let's all just hope that workers get better conditions. also as many have pointed out VFX is an entire sector of production, not just animators. poor wording on my part)
saw Barbie and I’m obsessed with the Ken war being, like, play fighting but then Allan got to commit actual violence as a treat
my mom doesnt like the word Piss bc its crass but the fact of the matter is that when our cat shoots a perfectly horizontal beam of urine hard as fuck straight over the top of the litter box she does not Pee. she Pisses
currently thinking about how when we saw barbie and it was at the point where it said "and all misogyny and inequality for women was gone. at least that's what the Barbies think." and all the women in the theater laughed while all of the men were dead silent
just had the weirdest interaction. this off-leash Yorkshire Terrier wobbled up to sniff my ankle, and then its owner said “the vet wanted to euthanize her”
and I was like “……oh”
and she said “4 years ago. she had a stroke, but I went to church and prayed to the Virgin Mary, and now she can walk again. but sometimes she drops, which is why I have this stroller”
and I was like “oh, okay.” I didn't know what to say after that, so I was just like "it's a cool dog" and kept walking
Another thing the Barbie movie made me realize is how many movies "made for men" I've watched with some guys friends of mine (like Fast and Furious).
I go to the cinema, watch the movie, happily listen to their thoughts about it and say I enjoyed my time. I ignore how bad the story may have been and enjoy my time because he is enjoying his time.
But when it comes to a movie to which I emotionally connect so deeply as I did to Barbie, I don't see the same effort coming from them to understand why I or any of our girl friends enjoyed our time wearing pink and watching a movie about a doll.
Just a thought that occurred me
My favourite Da Vinky twins trans ally moments:
- When they said their pronouns are they/them because there’s 2 of them
- “It doesn’t matter what your pronouns are, because at the end of the day, it’s night”