Okay so I'm watching The OC and in season 4, Ryan's abusive father gets out of prison and comes back. First, he tries to convince him that he's dying, then admits that he's full of shit and just wants to talk to him. Okay, bad. But then Ryan doesn't want to talk to him, citing the abuse in the past, and everyone around him pushes him and pushes him to have a relationship because he seems better now. Look, if he's better, that's great for the world, but like, don't try to force victims of abuse into situations where they're having to deal with their abusers. If he doesnât want to deal with his abuser, thatâs totally okay. Leave it alone.
10 movies directed by women about university students.
6 Years dir. Hannah Fidell (2015)
College students Melanie Clark and Dan Mercer find their 6-year romance put to the test as they grow apart the closer they come to graduation.
Goodbye First Love dir. Mia Hansen-LÞve (2011)
 A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivanâs 8-year absence from exploring the world  Â
Love that Boy dir. Andrea Dorfman (2003)
A type-A university student sets out to find a boyfriend and getâs more than she bargained for when she falls for a much younger boy.
Little Jerusalem dir. Karin Albou (2005)
Laura (Fanny Valette), a young philosophy student, lives with her immigrant family in a Jewish enclave in Paris, and is beginning to question the strict dictates of her religion.
Pitch Perfect 2 dir. Elizabeth Banks (2015)
After a humiliating command performance at The Kennedy Center, college a cappella group the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.
The Prince and Me dir. Martha Coolidge (2004)
Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) is a focused premed student who becomes intrigued by Eddie (Luke Mably), a wealthy Danish student. Paige falls for him, only to discover that his father and mother are the king and queen of Denmark, and he is heir apparent to the throne.
The Riot Club dir. Lone Scherfig (2014)
Two first-year students (Sam Claflin, Max Irons) at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Sleeping Beauty dir. Julia Leigh (2011)
A college student (Emily Browning) becomes a niche sex worker for a high-end brothel where customers pay to fondle her while she sleeps.
The Wild Party dir. Dorothy Arzner (1929)
A comely collegian (Clara Bow) falls for an anthropology professor (Fredric March) and accompanies him on a jungle expedition.
Cisgender actor Matt Bomer will play a transgender sex worker
Cisgender actor Matt Bomber will star in a new film Anything, where he will play a transgender sex worker, Variety reports. After the news broke, Twitter users fired back with a pretty basic idea that Hollywood still hasnât embraced: cast trans actors in trans roles. Transgender actress Jamie Clayton tweeted directly at Bomer about it (bottom tweet) â and he retaliated personally.
This Creepy Ghost Town In Illinois Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
Once upon a time, Cairo, Illinois was one of the most popular towns in Illinois. They got things right by founding the town at a great location, right at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Great views abound, and it was easy to found industry. But that great location turned out to be its downfall. It suffered flooding as the result of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. And industry really declined when river trading ceased to be a thing. Tensions flared, times changed, and it was eventually too much for this town to handle.
- never sleeps when I need to
- cries at anything
- fakes positivity
- spends money impulsively
- requires constant validation
- clumsy, canât go a day without spilling something
- laughs at own unfunny jokes
Morning Yasssssssss, Hunty: Â Danusia Francis Beam Routine
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UCLAâs Danusia Francis scored a perfect ten on her beam routine earlier this week and I need yâall to catch this dismount. Â Apparently itâs one of her signatures, but Iâve never seen it before and I bout stood straight up off my couch when she stuck that. Â And her spirit fingers are just the cutest! Â We might see her in the Olympics this year. Â In 2012 she almost made the British team, but she served as an alternate instead. Â This year sheâs competing for Jamaica so she might actually make it to the big show.
I love how the colored girls are truly giving it to the gymnastics world these days. Â I mean, aside from Simone and Gabby at the very top of the sport, clips from college meets keep going viral and I have yet to see the next Shannon Miller or Svetlana Khorkina or Shawn Johnson going viral. Â Itâs always a brown girl. Danusiaâs teammate Sophina DeJesus went viral a couple of months ago, but it was Lloimincia Hallâs floor routine from awhile back that really set the tone. Â Go âhead, yâall. Â Shake the sport up some more. Â Let me see a nae nae at the Olympics.
All Three Major News Networks Ignored Bernie Sandersâ Speech Tuesday Night, To Show Empty Trump Podium
As Bernie Sanders took the stage on Tuesday night, the cable networks continued doing what they do best â talking.
Fox News, CNN and MSNBC all declined to carry Sandersâ speech, instead offering jokes about the evening while showing live coverage of Trumps empty podium while promising that we were all, âAWAITING TRUMPâ and âSTANDING BY FOR TRUMP.âÂ
In Fact: EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE HAD AIR TIME EXCEPT FOR SANDERS
As if these stations couldnât get any more corrupt, The Huffington Postâs Michael Calderone reported that the media have collectively given Trump some $2 billion worth of free air time.
Donât be fooled by the media yaâll. You can watch his incredible speech here & remember You ARE his media
The news out of Flint, Michigan brought the issue of contaminated drinking water into sharp focus, as it was revealed that officials at every levelâlocal, state and federalâknew about lead-poisoned water for months but did nothing to address the problem.
Under state-run systems like utilities and roads, poorer communities are the last to receive attention from government plagued by inefficiencies and corrupt politicians. Perhaps no group knows this better than Native Americans, who have been victimized by government for centuries.
In the western U.S., water contamination has been a way of life for many tribes. The advocacy group Clean Up The Mines! describes the situation in Navajo country, which is far worse than in Flint, Michigan.
Since the 1950s, their water has been poisoned by uranium mining to fuel the nuclear industry and the making of atomic bombs for the U.S. military. Coal mining and coal-fired power plants have added to the mix. The latest assault on Navajo water was carried out by the massive toxic spills into the Animas and San Juan rivers when the EPA recklessly attempted to address the abandoned Gold King mine.
âIn 2015 the Gold King Mine spill was a wake-up call to address dangers of abandoned mines, but there are currently more than 15,000 toxic uranium mines that remain abandoned throughout the US,â said Charmaine White Face from the South Dakota based organization Defenders of the Black Hills. âFor more than 50 years, many of these hazardous sites have been contaminating the land, air, water, and national monuments such as Mt. Rushmore and the Grand Canyon. Each one of these thousands of abandoned uranium mines is a potential Gold King mine disaster with the greater added threat of radioactive pollution. For the sake of our health, air, land, and water, we canât let that happen.â
There is no comprehensive law requiring cleanup of abandoned uranium mines, meaning corporations and government can walk away from them after exploiting their resources. 75 percent of abandoned uranium mines are on federal and Tribal lands.
âThese uranium mines cause radioactive contamination, and as a result all the residents in their vicinity are becoming nuclear radiation victims,â said Petuuche Gilbert of the Laguna Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment and Indigenous World Association. âNew Mexico and the federal government have provided little funding for widespread clean up and only occasionally are old mines remediated. Â The governments of New Mexico and the United States have a duty to clean up these radioactive mines and mills and, furthermore, to perform health studies to determine the effects of radioactive poisoning. The MASE and LACSE organizations oppose new uranium mining and demand legacy uranium mines to be cleaned up,â said Mr. Gilbert.
Politicians continue to take advantage of Native Americans, making deals with mining companies that would continue polluting their water supplies. Senator John McCain sneaked a resolution into the last defense bill which gave land to Resolution Copper. Their planned copper mining would poison waters that Apaches rely on and would desecrate the ceremonial grounds at Oak Flat.
While EPA and local officials have been forced to address the poisoned water in Flint, the contamination of Indian country water supplies continues. A bill called the Uranium Exploration and Mining Accountability Act, introduced by Arizona Congressman RaĂșl Grijalva, has languished in Congress for two years.
Reblogging because itâs an important story, but I really wish that it wasnât presented in such a divisive, blatantly anti-black way. Itâs entirely possible for us to care about government negligence and abuse on Indian Lands without saying âlook, theyâre paying attention to THOSE people when they should be paying attention to USâ
The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that heâs the most boring average person in the world. Itâs impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if sheâs female sheâs already SOMEthing, because sheâs not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male.
You can see this all over but itâs weirdly prevalent in childrenâs entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, whoâs a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster.
I try to think about that when writing new charactersâ is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?
Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post.
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