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Brian Banks > Tim Tebow
Real talk.
I really, REALLY want to find out what the Jets are gonna do with Timmy this year.
What, no “that Brave movie is misandrist!” comments?
Is it misandrist? I haven’t seen it yet.
IME a lot of “grrl power” movies do have a fair bit of misandry in them, since they seem to think the only way to raise women up is by denigrating men (“dumb/incapable oafs”). But I have higher expectations of Pixar, I guess.
I saw the trailer, but from what it looked like to me, it didn’t look like it would be “All men are stupid” just “Everyone in this character’s life” is stupid. Which is a very different situation. For something to be misandrist, I feel it needs to not only have stupid men, it needs to have some implication that this is WHY they’re stupid. Because of their wicked brain-destroying penises.
I dated a guy who said MLP was stupid because the only main male character was an idiot. But as far as I’m concerned, the only main male character was like 8, and no other males strike me as being particularly dumb in it.
Though there are some “Grrl power” things where it’s just “Ha, look at those men, they’re so incompetent with their masculine traits. We women are so much better at having masculine traits.” I expect better of Pixar.
Of course, then it might be mary-sue-ish…
Me neither, but the arguments against it I’ve seen seem to come from an awkwardly unaware place of privilege or just didn’t plain hold water. shrug
I just saw Brave, and I didn’t see much that upset me. Plenty of stereotypes of both genders, but it seemed more along the lines of “we’re emulating Ye Olde times, which is the setting of the movie” combined with cartoon comedy, rather than rooted in anything really problematic.
I mean, there were a few things here and there that bothered me, but nothing big. I thought it was a pretty solid film.
I particularly liked the mother’s character arc (which IMO is even more significant than Merida’s), where she learned that being lady-like is not all-important, and especially her realizing that she can actually learn to take care of herself instead of depending on men + servants.
If you play brave backwards its the scum manifesto. True story bro. Tots misandrist. … /Lamech’s completely sane conspiracy theories. I’ll have to play if forward to see if its actually misandrist, since I haven’t done that yet, but I don’t have any reason to think that it is worse than the average movie. (Although the average movie isn’t exactly wonderful sooo…)
From the trailer it looks like I would (if I chose to see it) mostly be disappointed by how it lacks the trademark Pixar quirkiness. Sure, it looks like a solid story – just not a Pixar story.
Though the “lady does manly* things better than all the men” trope is not my favorite either.
*The work deliberately sets them up as manly to emphasize the contrast.
It’s Mulan in Scotland. And it’s a pretty fucking lazy version of Scotland, too, chiefly designed to appeal to Americans who think that Scottish accents are hilarious and quirky.
If you don’t believe me, one of the major “jokes” revolves around the fact that LOLOMG SCOTTISH PEOPLE DON’T WEAR UNDERPANTS UNDER THEIR KILTS LOLWAT
Ohshiz. Football.
<3
All of the football.
New link from cracked!
I am afraid to post this for fear I starting another NiceGuy (tm?) rant, but here we go:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-girls-dont-seem-to-understand-about-nice-guys/
Part of the problem is that I can’t tell if it is supposed to be a work of parody or not. The last couple entries seem to suggest it, but I honestly had such a hard time wading through it I just couldn’t tell. Opinions?
There was a tangent on a previous thread regarding the use of ‘dude’. Someone on a website I frequent linked to the comic Sinfest, which turned out to be a pretty good example of how some folks will use a condescending variant in the name of feminism.
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4290
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4047
Is the author of sinfest using those terms “ironically” or is she serious about calling people “dudebro’s”? But yeah, gendered insults are never cool.
As far as I’m aware the artist is a man, and given the slant of the strip, I’m pretty sure it’s a pejorative use. He parodies non-feminist men, not feminism.
I got cosplay, which is FAR better than football.
HeroesCon weekend… ah, wish I could live here:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/06/heroescon-2012.html
True Blood, has encouraging treatment of a male child sexual abuse survivor in this week’s episode (Season 5 episode 3)
(watch till the end)
I don’t think that this plot-line is in the books. It looks like the show’s creators felt bad after having him raped, and then making light of the rape in the previous series.
However, his character does have one of the classic child sex abuse phenotypes; Hyper macho, sex addict, drug addict, abusive adult relationships (Where he is the abused) ect… Not all child abuse survivors are like this, but some of us are.
I came across a person who had “misandristcutie” as a twitter name. Looking at their feed, they weren’t being ironic. How does one punch another through the internet?