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Men's Rights Activists. They believe that misandry is a serious problem, and that men are truly the more oppressed/subjugated gender compared to women. They claim that all they care about are promoting issues that concern men, but cloak everything in a heavy dose of anti-feminism. If you get into a conversation with an MRA, mentioning an issue concerning women will be sure to get a cry of, "But what about the men??" If you're concerned with racial issues, it's sort of the equivalent of when white people ask why there isn't a White History Month. Consider yourself lucky if you've never encountered one lol. Hah. I don't have a problem with that one, because a douche is bad for you, anyway. (Although that's probably not why the word was coined; I'm sure it was because of the girly associations.) Calling someone a pussy, though...

Heh. IMO she and JPK were the best of the four main girls, and I was annoyed that Britt and Phoebe were the ones who got more attention after TSC instead. Hope that Malia ends up being a good role for Shelley.

I hope Malia commits patricide.

I think it's because when I see someone making heavy use of "females" instead of "women" - obviously we're talking about nouns and not adjectives - it's usually been from MRA-type assholes. They refer to men as men, but women are "females." The word's been tainted because it so often comes with a heaping bowl of sexist condescension. It's sort of like how I now associate fedoras with "Nice Guy" douchebags. The fedora was actually popularized as women's fashion, but damn if it hasn't been completely co-opted and taken over by the Nice Guy contingent.

Whichever episode featured this master thespian:

I don't really care about the picture, but that link also provides some choice quotes from Ben where he compares abortion to slavery. Fuck off, Ben.

Ah, yes. See: Teen Wolf (Scott vs Stiles/Derek), The Vampire Diaries (Stefan vs Damon), Supernatural (Dean vs Sam).

Seriously. It makes people like me who find them BOTH overrated feeling really left out. I feel like if I say something negative about one of them, that person's fans will wrongly assume that I'm a fan of the other, like I don't have enough room in my cold black heart to make fun of both. Can't I just think they're both twerps in their own special ways? :(

Now that Edge of Tomorrow has been released, I'd like to mention that it's based off the Japanese novel All You Need is Kill. The main character's name is Keiji Kiriya. Stop it, Hollywood. "But it's an American adaptation!" Whatever, like Asian-Americans don't exist. Why does "American adaptation" always default to white? (Rhetorical question.)

While Orange is the New Black has some funny moments, I haven't been able to get into the show as a whole. I'm happy for its success and acclaim because we could always do with more female-dominated shows and lots of well-rounded POC characters - and despite my apathy, I can recognize that it's a decent series - but I'm not personally on the bandwagon.

Haven't we been punished enough?

Considering how many films tend to fail the Bechdel Test, I'm not convinced that this is true. Obligatory disclaimer: No, the Bechdel Test is not and has never been meant as the ultimate arbiter on whether a specific individual film is feminist or not. It's meant to track general trends and patterns: When so many films fail what on the surface sounds like a pretty easy test to pass, that says something. Especially when you think about how many movies would pass the reverse Bechdel Test quite easily.

There are some shows or movies that I watch and love even though I know they're completely ridiculous. See: The Fast and the Furious movies, or A Knight's Tale. I genuinely adore and love those movies even if they're completely silly and stupid. By contrast, take something like Teen Wolf. It's a hot mess of a show. I'm not going to put it in the same circle as F&F or AKT because for me, it's not. I still watch because despite everything, it's entertaining in how much of a hot mess it really is, as opposed to a show like Glee, which is just too boring to even hate-watch at this point. A show like Teen Wolf triggers the masochist and spiteful motherfucker in me. Something like The Fast and the Furious doesn't. Sure, on the one hand, they're all fun to watch in their own way, but ain't nothing wrong with getting a bit more specific about why it's fun, IMO. Sometimes a show does actually fill me with rage to the point where I have to stop watching, because then there's no entertainment left, just hate. I finally quit watching The Vampire Diaries when I realized that I was getting no entertainment value from the show whatsoever because it was pissing me off too much.

It looks like they tried to pair up somewhat evenly matched cheftestants, but I don't know, I think I would have rather have had higher seeded chefs go up against lower seeded chefs, the way it works for a lot of sports tournaments. Doesn't seem right that someone like Stephanie or Kristen will get knocked out in the first round. Save that for the next one! I'm sad because I like them both lol. But I guess it wouldn't have been interesting to see a total blow-out/mismatch.

"I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Disney's Mulan. It's THE workout song.

Apparently the new Bruce Lee biopic will be told through the eyes of a white disciple/protege named Steve Macklin. I'm assuming the guy's fictional because I haven't heard of him anywhere else and google's not turning anything up. It's kind of eyeroll-worthy that they're making the POV character yet another white dude in the first place, and if it turns out that he's completely made up, that would be even more annoying. Hopefully there really is a Steve Macklin out there and my google fu just failed me, lmao. In animated news, people have been complaining that Hiro Hamada from Disney's Big Hero 6 doesn't look Asian enough. I wonder what exactly would make him look "Asian enough" for some people? Maybe something like the Chang triplets from The Proud Family? Not that I think it's impossible to read Hiro as being white (aside from his name, obviously), but that has more to do with the fact that white is considered the default in Western animation, so viewers tend to demand more exaggerated, stereotypical features to distinguish other races. It reminds me of when people kept insisting that Aang looked white in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Finally, what do people think about Blended? I kept cringing during the trailer when they kept referring to Africa. Just Africa. Because Africa is a monolith and a single country instead of a continent. Maybe the actual movie is better, but it's Adam Sandler, so I don't know....

The problem for me was that my English teachers had a way of sucking the life out of all of them. I think it wasn't until college that I didn't end up hating a book that was assigned reading.

The National Treasure movies. Come on, Nic Cage, where's the third installment you've been teasing us about? I want to find out what was in the President's secret book, dammit.

As a kid, I used to love Full House and Michelle was my favorite character. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that the show is actually pretty awful and that Michelle was quite possibly the spawn of Satan.

I like Bollywood when it's done properly. I don't like seeing DWTS do "Bollywood-inspired" dances that amount to sticking bindis on their foreheads and waving their arms around.

I feel bad for Brooke. The way that TPTB let her go was shitty. Yes, she was a horrible host, but she seemed like a nice person despite her bland personality. She didn't deserve that. I'm not upset that she was replaced, but I am upset with how she was replaced.

Since we don't have a DWTS Canada, I'd like to see Patrick Chan. The ensuing drama would be hilarious, and we could have a drinking game based on how often he manages to slip on the wood floor.

One of the Duggars. Maybe Josh or Michelle. It will never happen, of course, because I'm sure the Duggars think that DWTS is a den of sin and depravity. Poor Josh would be defrauded by the sexy female pros slinking around him. ....I need this.

My wish is that during tonight's show, Derek trips on the stairs and takes out Maks on his way down. The two will lie there in a tangled heap from which they cannot extricate themselves, and Meryl and Amy will have to dance with each other instead. Meanwhile, Mark will be completely high on painkillers and he'll twirl Candace right into the judges' table, where she will knock out Carrie Ann, Len, and Bruno.

Hey, just be happy we didn't see Derek's infamous crotch bob. We got off easy.