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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
sorry little emotional over some of this
But thanks for posting it though.
+1. Reflections on personal experience beat abstract theorising any day, I reckon.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Joss Whedon
Please … and more shopping
How about, "I am The Chosen One, and I choose to go shopping!" ;-)
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I'm getting very confused. What are we actually talking about here? I got lost sometime after the subject wasn't George Michael anymore....
I came up for air at Danielle's comment:
I think the entire leftist world should be explicitly feminist
+1
But other than that, I'm totally lost. Sally, I'm not clear what point you're making. If we want Greer's views we can read the book, but what are your views?
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
(Emma might find Black Swan’s deployment of the depraved bisexual trope particularly amusing/enraging/nauseating.)
From what I have heard, I honestly cannot decide how drunk I would have to be to just laugh instead of get enraged.
YMMV, of course, but to me Kunis's character is the only halfway sane person in the whole movie. She's mellow, she's kind, she's at ease with herself. Everyone else is creepy and obsessive.
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Well Craig, once again our mileage differs! While I don't disagree about the plot being overblown and melodramatic, Portman, Kunis, Hershey et al., really made it work, for me anyway. It's different in tone from The Red Shoes, and less original. but I don't think it's a turkey, at all. I found it beautiful and engrossing.
I remember seeing Michael Powell interviewed about The Red Shoes, he said, "It's all about dying for your art...", and the interviewer asked, "And would you die for your art?", to which Powell replied, "Oh, yes!!". Lovely man.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Isn’t it a rather delicious irony that three straight women have done more for the civil rights of this gay man than anyone else?
When Key and Goff grow a pair of ovaries, I’ll be the first to cheer from the roof tops.
Just have to say, Craig, I love the "grow a pair of ovaries".
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Deborah,
Actually, even saying, “If you want to look more feminine, then grow your hair longer,” could be problematic
I loved Sinead O'Connor's response to being told by her record company how to do her hair to look 'more feminine' - she got a #1.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Jackie, thanks for that, she's stunning ! And I love love the gold paint.
And all the more awesome because she's clearly worked bloody hard to get to self-acceptance.
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Regarding Mirren vs. Barr...Mirren is slim and handsome, granted, but she's got plenty of wrinkles, grey hair, flabby arms, and makes no attempt to hide her age, or apologise for it. No, we won't all look like her when we're 63, but I hope we can be equally happy with our ageing bodies. Barr tends to cover up her shape rather than reveal it, which is her choice. If I could think of any larger older ladies who do flaunt their figures I'd be championing them too.
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I heard a lovely story about a well-known Chch actress who went to a school reunion in a tight, short, low-cut dress, when all the other women were dressed demurely. They would have been in their late 40s or early 50s. Some of the men leered, and one sidled up to her and said, "You don't look like you've got anything on under that..."
In response she flashed her breasts at him, saying, "I haven't!", and he went away, mortified.