"All I ever wanted, all I ever needed..."

[greygirlbeast]

How do you break a fairy tale? You send Cinderella back to her cinders.

Or back to scrubbing toilets.

This is, near as I could tell, the message of the almost indescribably insipid Jupiter Ascending. I have been a steadfast admirer of the Wachowskis ever since Bound (1996). Though, I will admit that I skipped Speed Racer, because the very idea

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[elibrite]

1. Until now, I didn't realize there had even been a fuss over the treatment of Black Widow in Age of Ultron. I poked around -- apparently a lot of people without critical thinking skills or any desire to analyze a narrative looked at the same scenes that I thought made Natasha a wonderfully more nuanced character and gave fans a look at her backstory (which most other Avengers got a fleshed-out version of several movies ago)...and then some of those same people got on Twitter and lobbed poorly spelled obscenities and threats at Whedon.

2. Sarkeesian did a wretched job contextualizing that tweet, if indeed she meant it to have a context other than what was picked up on above, but the article her tweet linked to (by someone else) was about pop-culture and marketing subsuming "feminism" into a discussion about consumerism and the kind of limiting choices ("You can be a stay at home mom or a working mom!") only available to an already privileged group who want and are able to exist within certain binaries. A good read. I hope, like the article she linked to, Sarkeesian's a better writer in long form -- but her statement and a host of potential readings of it all have their problems. "Collective liberation" is a freakish concept indeed.

And...as a practically lifetime daily reader of your blog, that's my de-lurking finally done, I think.