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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Am I the only one that thought Boyhood was overrated? Like the meta of the movie is unique and impressive, for sure. It’s an incredible idea to film a movie following the development of a kid into adulthood in real time, and the perseverance to make it is laudable. But… I found the movie that resulted felt like… well like someone who had an idea for a movie 11 years ago and kept changing the plan along the way without being able to change what’s already filmed. It felt messy and disjointed. Not like it is terrible, but I have no interest in watching it ever again. Certainly not in my to 30 movies of all time.


  • Just to be clear, feminism isn’t about not being attracted to beautiful women. It’s perfectly human to admire someone’s beautiful features, regardless of anyone’s gender. Feminism is about respect, equality, rejecting prescribed roles and limitations placed on gender, and acknowledging and addressing privilege and patriarchal systems of society.

    Notice none of those things means you can’t still like the sight of boobs, butts, legs, abs, biceps, or whatever gets you excited. It does mean that you shouldn’t reduce someone’s value to those things, nor should your excitement about seeing someone’s beautiful physical attributes become a problem for them, like if you harass them or catcall them over it, or worse.

    But Emma is well respected, not only as an actress but as an advocate, and she’s there to represent a great cause to the UN. They can respect her and her work and message and still think she’s a knockout at the same time. They’re not mutually exclusive, and that’s a pretty relevant part of feminism, divorcing worth as a person from sexuality and attractiveness.







  • “Ford Dodger”? Are you intentionally messing up the make and model of his car? Is this a sort of joke I’m not getting? Ford and Dodge are different car manufacturers and the Dodgers are a baseball team. I dont even know why you’re are referring to its make and model (twice) in your post in the first place. I know it doesn’t really matter, but it sounds like an old person calling every video game console a “Nintendo Genesis”. If that’s the goal, kudos.




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    5 days ago

    I pronounce Spiderman like you pronounce the surname Peterman. Spider-min. In fact, the same goes for other comic book characters. Super-min, Bat-min, Iron-min, etc. But not for women. For comic book character names ending in “woman”, you emphasize the A sound so it sounds more like “man”. Spider-Wo-man, Wonder Wo-man, Invisible Wo-man, etc.







  • You do realize that the impeachment isn’t the goal, right? It’s just the first step. If you want to forcibly remove Trump while he’s still alive, you only have 2 options. 1) You need Vance and half of Trump’s cabinet to formally deem him incapable of executing the powers of the office and replacing him with Vance under the 25th amendment and then (when Trump pushes back) have 2/3rds of both houses of congress vote to agree he’s incapable. Or 2) Have a majority of the House vote to impeach him, and then have 2/3rds of he Senate vote to convict, which will result in his removal from office. Impeachment isn’t just a formal scolding. That’s called a censure. It’s an indictment of a crime that will then be tried in the Senate. In both cases of impeachment last time, the spineless Senate voted to acquit. But that doesnt mean that they won’t ever break ranks or that in voting to acquit they may lose votes as a result.