Oh, and the sexual harassment stuff was my only problem with Horrible Bosses -- lol, rape is funny when it's a hot lady perpetrator.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 12, 2011 7:56:12 am PDT #16261 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kat - Jul 12, 2011 7:56:24 am PDT #16262 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, yay for day 2, msbelle.
Allyson, have fun in Vegas.
My appointment with the ABA therapist? She's 30 minutes late. She called 15 minutes ago to tell me she was late leaving. Um. okay. No yoga for me.
Jessica - Jul 12, 2011 7:57:49 am PDT #16263 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
16 pound baby born in Texas.
Holy shit. That's more than my 6-month old weighs now.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2011 8:00:33 am PDT #16264 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
lol, rape is funny when it's a hot lady perpetrator.
That's entirely my hangup with seeing it. Although it's probably less than 1/3 of the movie, I just am tired of my entertainment dollars going in that direction.
In watching the rape on True Blood I was appalled. Not in how it was filmed--it was clearly non con. But at the thought of the responses. And sure enough, I read stuff like "But surely he'd have been into that." "What? Rape." "No, sex with multiple women." Oh, you meant gang rape. Much better. Good god, he clearly didn't want to have sex with the one and he'd been dating her, why would the others be any better? And then the showrunner called it his comeuppance for previous casual sex. Good GOD indeed.
Allyson - Jul 12, 2011 8:01:09 am PDT #16265 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I think that if people handled rape in fiction like...RAPE, I wouldn't mind. Admit that wielded sex pollen is roofies is rape. Admit that men can be raped. Admit that prison rape isn't part of a jail sentence. Admit that it takes recovering from. Admit that no means no. Then I'd be okay. But that so rarely seems to happen.
cosigned
Jessica - Jul 12, 2011 8:03:39 am PDT #16266 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Although it's probably less than 1/3 of the movie, I just am tired of my entertainment dollars going in that direction.
I was very glad to have seen it for free for just this reason. The non-rape-joke parts ARE really, really funny, but it's not a movie you see for the cinematography, so I'd recommend catching it sometime on Netflix streaming.
Jesse - Jul 12, 2011 8:07:12 am PDT #16267 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's entirely my hangup with seeing it. Although it's probably less than 1/3 of the movie, I just am tired of my entertainment dollars going in that direction.
Yeah, that's totally fair.
Sort of relatedly, the preview for the Anna Faris movie about revisiting past dudes made me laugh out loud, especially the gynecologist bit that made me think it was going to be a movie actually written for ladies.
flea - Jul 12, 2011 8:08:27 am PDT #16268 of 30001
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I wish I could share my living room with all of you. Dillo is playing the drum loudly and arhythmically, and singing "You spin me right round baby right round" at the top of his lungs, atonally.
flea - Jul 12, 2011 8:14:01 am PDT #16269 of 30001
information libertarian
Now he has moved on to "I like to move it, move it."
Jessica - Jul 12, 2011 8:15:25 am PDT #16270 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Flea, stop posting and get the camcorder!