Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall.

🌈 camille. supergirl, doctor who, the good place, b99, killing eve, star trek discovery

[syfysource]

So this iris is gonna hold right? Pure titanium. Less than three|micrometers from the event horizon. It won't even allow matter|to fully reintegrate.

Stargate SG-1 1.03 The Enemy Within

[loveridden1999]

realest ever

[w00z13sbackup]

logan roy - rolling with the LGBT

[jenny-holzer]

[mintyarisato]

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[decomposedmaw]

catching peace instead of fish

Phone Wallpaper Here

[redlipstickresurrected]

Youran Tang aka Sleell11 (Chinese, based Chaoyang District, Beijing, China) - 思绪 (Thoughts), 2022, Paintings: Digital Art

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[butchfaith]

every time a female character gets called the mom friend i shoot another hostage

[funeral]

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[marisatomay]

To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: “you miss a lot of a movie when you don’t watch it”

[thetursithan]

It's all easy if you have suitable tools ...

[drakonovisny]

[cykelops]

I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually

[carolsturka]

[shesnake]

it's so crazy that people will watch the handmaiden and then completely shut themselves off to the fact that it is fundamentally a story about how the violence of the male gaze affects lesbians as soon as they show a nip. just totally over their heads. they refuse to engage. they're so fucking stupid.

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

The Film Stage: I read an interview with you that was conducted by someone who found The Handmaiden’s “male gaze” troubling. Have many people spoken to you about those matters after seeing the film? Park Chan Wook: You know how important these reading sessions, that Hideko is part of, are for this film? These scenes are designed to literally show what “male gaze” is, and, in a very palpable manner, it shows you what the violence of gaze can do. Even if Hideko was wearing layers of kimono, it doesn’t matter; she might as well have been exposed in the nude in front of those men. So, rather than touch her, these men are meters away from the stage where she’s giving the reading — but, in these reading sessions, they might as well have been gang-raping her. So for a filmmaker who is trying to make a film about the violence of male gaze, and to make a movie that is a criticism of these kinds of violent male gaze, really, how careful we have been and how much thought we have put into designing these scenes of Hideko, who’s been the subject of such violent male gaze all her life. When she finds her true love and has this moment of love, and makes love, how careful would I have been not to make that moment yet another object of voyeuristic male gaze? So, if you could, please consider that. I would ask, please, that you forget the fact that I am a male director and, please, try to look at the film objectively. To depict a woman as having sexual desires, in a frank manner — to be showing a nude female body, and show it in a beautiful way — does that automatically make this fall into the male gaze category? I think that’s where the problem begins, and this kind of thought, in itself, is a “male gaze” of looking at this issue. It is entirely possible for female filmmakers to depict women in their honest sexual desire and to show their nude body and the beauty of it. Female directors could just as well do that.

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[chilewithcarnage]

sorry gotta get my ‘friend that’s too woke’ on but I don’t think the solution to misogyny is more misogyny. like by all means rip into republican/right wing women but your critiques should be about how they’re evil soulless people not ‘haha they’re ugly/visibly aged. they don’t know how to put on make up!’ like i don’t fucking know man I don’t think any woman at all should be required to wear makeup or be made fun of for not wearing it ‘properly’ also let’s stop doing the ‘not conventionally attractive = morally bad’ thing. that last part especially be kicking y’all asses.