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Shard posted:Oh man I just got to the bisexual episode of sex in the city. Jesus Christ. It's really really bad, and TV is still terrible about portraying bisexuals, especially male ones.
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Kwyndig posted:It's really really bad, and TV is still terrible about portraying bisexuals, especially male ones. What do you think of David on Schitt's Creek? (Although after looking it up, it was specified that he is pansexual.)
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Oct 4, 2023 03:08
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Shard posted:Oh man I just got to the bisexual episode of sex in the city. Jesus Christ. I legitimately dislike very few things (puppies, laughter, the person reading this) but sex and the city is one of them
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Oct 4, 2023 03:40
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DontMockMySmock posted:I believe in the theory that Marla Singer represents the narrator's feminine side, as Tyler Durden represents their masculine side. She is just as much in the narrator's head as Tyler is; nobody in the movie interacts with her other than the narrator and Tyler; not the men of Project Mayhem, not the people in the testicular cancer support group, nobody. Marla interacts with other people in the book. Project mayhem flunkies well as some of the support group people, if I'm remembering correctly.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:56
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she also steals meals from meals on wheels.
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Oct 4, 2023 07:04
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^ But Brad Pitt "does stuff" too. I suppose if we're going with the Marla is imaginary theory then it is Ed Norton stealing from Meals on Wheels, the same way it is Ed Norton who is actually running Project Mayhem because Brad Pitt's not real. I haven't seen it since it was new though.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:22
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DontMockMySmock posted:I believe in the theory that Marla Singer represents the narrator's feminine side, as Tyler Durden represents their masculine side. She is just as much in the narrator's head as Tyler is; nobody in the movie interacts with her other than the narrator and Tyler; not the men of Project Mayhem, not the people in the testicular cancer support group, nobody. She is kidnapped by the members of Project Mayhem. That's interaction.
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Oct 4, 2023 11:31
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And today in class we're going to learn that bias of interpretation is real-- everyone imposes their personal framing onto a work-- and a good thing that enables us to interpret works beyond what the authors almost certainly intended but may in-fact be consistent reads by coincidence and circumstance.
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Oct 4, 2023 11:43
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Kwyndig posted:It's really really bad, and TV is still terrible about portraying bisexuals, especially male ones. Yet another reason Crazy Ex-girlfriend is one of the best shows I think I've ever seen. Middle aged average looking guy comes out as bi. Gets into a healthy relationship. Gets a great couple of songs out of it.
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Oct 4, 2023 11:56
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Marla being imaginary is a very funny read bc it means the narrator is being kept up all by his OCs loving in his head and anyway its now canon for me
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Oct 4, 2023 11:58
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Yet another reason Crazy Ex-girlfriend is one of the best shows I think I've ever seen. You can’t just post that and not follow up with a video: https://youtu.be/5e7844P77Is?si=40zk5FbdU-d27Wkv The songs on that show were so great. (And man, I miss Adam Schlesinger. It’s rare for me to get upset about a celebrity death, but he absolutely died way too soon.)
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Oct 4, 2023 12:15
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Internet Old One posted:Fight Club is based on the cacophony society which is fairly left leaning as a whole but does have some libertarian tech bro membership. I don’t think they beat each other up though, that was Chuck Palalananauk’s homoerotic male bonding fantasy. Of course IRL it would have been over in a few weeks when someone dies. OK, you are aware that in Fight Club Brad Pitt isn't real, right? And that he specifically says "I look like you want to look"? He's talking about masculine body imagery in advertising because that is exactly what the real Tyler has bought into. He's every bit as much a reflection of Tyler's dissatisfaction with life as the IKEA furniture. And it's meant to be puerile whining. Tyler has got everything he was told he'd need to have a good happy life and there's still a gaping hole in it, because he's basically a manchild who won't look beyond his own happiness. He has this discussion with himself at one point, when he's talking about how men's lives are defined by women and muses that maybe a woman is the last thing he needs. He doesn't want someone to love, he doesn't want someone to share with, he doesn't care if anyone else is happy and he doesn't want to make anyone else happy. And most of all, he doesn't want to share responsibility for anything he does while everyone else does what he wants.
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Marla is confused by Ed Norton’s behavior, in the sense that she doesn’t realize why he sometimes fucks like Brad Pitt and sometimes is a passive little wiener. I don’t know that she would behave that way if he made her up. Her confusion only makes sense after the reveal that Tyler doesn’t exist.
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Oct 4, 2023 12:15
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The late 90s was a period of society audibly creaking under sheer contradictions if you were actually paying any attention; we had been assured Racism And Sexism Are Over, and yet as a lot of media shows there really wasn't actually any material progress on that, in fact poo poo got much worse with the crime bill and growing inequality as the boomers visibly pulled up the ladder. Body image in particular hit its worst in what's been called Heroin Chic in retrospect, where teenage girls having eating disorders was already a punchline, and toxic masculinity was reaching about equally cartoonish levels of unrealistic expectations before spilling over in the more raw misogyny of the 00s.
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Oct 4, 2023 12:26
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oldpainless posted:I legitimately dislike very few things (puppies, laughter, the person reading this) but sex and the city is one of them That's 2 things
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Oct 4, 2023 12:28
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oldpainless posted:I legitimately dislike very few things (puppies, laughter, the person reading this) but sex and the city is one of them My big thing right now is how she smokes all the time and people go on about how good she smells. She smokes in her house she smokes in other people's houses she smoked in a drat house farm next to the horses. She would smell good awful never mind how it works taste too kiss her
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Oct 4, 2023 14:20
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Tokelau All Star posted:What do you think of David on Schitt's Creek? (Although after looking it up, it was specified that he is pansexual.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHYlJTqud0
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Oct 4, 2023 14:27
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Schitt's Creek took a few episodes to really hook me but drat what an amazing show once I was on board. David is such a whiney awful jerk that is somehow also endearing and lovable. Everyone else is great too, we were just talking about David.
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Oct 4, 2023 14:32
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Internet Old One posted:.  He's commenting on a picture of himself It's not a movie meant to be taken seriously.
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Oct 4, 2023 14:41
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Tokelau All Star posted:What do you think of David on Schitt's Creek? Exploitative, contrived, fake, and worst of all, not funny enough.
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Zombie Dachshund posted:The songs on that show were so great. (And man, I miss Adam Schlesinger. It’s rare for me to get upset about a celebrity death, but he absolutely died way too soon.) Qft e: there’s one Ivy album I still haven’t listened to, and I should but when it’s over it’s over and that’s gonna be really sad.
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Oct 4, 2023 14:59
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Chrpno posted:Exploitative, contrived, fake, and worst of all, not funny enough. The pansexual guy who wrote and starred as the character is fake and exploitative? It's cool if you didn't find it funny, I'm just checking on the other stuff.
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FreudianSlippers posted:
Hmm, I just checked, and the Gucci model is headless on the picture. Is this really him on the advert?
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Torquemada posted:Hmm, I just checked, and the Gucci model is headless on the picture. Is this really him on the advert? Yeah, it's mentioned on the commentary track and is a fairly well known film fact.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:I'd love to rewatch Sex in the City and wish it was on Netflix. Total turn off brain show. I'm glad she ruined things with Aiden, she didn't deserve him I'm going back and reading through the entire thread to kill time at work and man I wish this was still true lol.
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Oct 4, 2023 18:13
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mandatory lesbian posted:Marla being imaginary is a very funny read bc it means the narrator is being kept up all by his OCs loving in his head and anyway its now canon for me This is my OC, Tyler the hedgehog
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Oct 4, 2023 18:31
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Shard posted:I'm going back and reading through the entire thread to kill time at work and man I wish this was still true lol. i watched the first movie and not the second and not the new series and i'm very happy with where i stopped
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Oct 4, 2023 19:29
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mandatory lesbian posted:Marla being imaginary is a very funny read bc it means the narrator is being kept up all by his OCs loving in his head and anyway its now canon for me or he's dry humping a dirty bed like an animal.
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PhazonLink posted:or he's dry humping a dirty bed like an animal. Giving yourself the Ultimate Stranger
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PhazonLink posted:or he's dry humping a dirty bed like an animal. So he’s actually Jay Bilzerian from Big Mouth, got it.
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Improbable Lobster posted:This is my OC, Tyler the hedgehog  
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Internet Old One posted:
Note to director: Brad Pitt is the last person you want to cast to make this point.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Yet another reason Crazy Ex-girlfriend is one of the best shows I think I've ever seen. Agreed. Another thing I liked was showing her dump all her meds down the drain in the first episode and the show actually treats it as a Bad Move. Almost every other show or movie presents someone taking psych meds as a pill head who uses it as a crutch.
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How has Something About Mary aged? I never watched it in the first place but I wondered how it holds up.
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Shard posted:How has Something About Mary aged? I never watched it in the first place but I wondered how it holds up. The horrible people are treated as horrible so that's a plus at least.
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Read that as "Something Awful Mary" and I was wondering if there was an internet celebrity who started in the forums or the front page I wasn't aware of.
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Something Awful Mary is currently in custody awaiting trial after being filmed teabagging the desk of Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) during the January 6th riot.
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Shard posted:How has Something About Mary aged? I never watched it in the first place but I wondered how it holds up. I'm wondering now. I can't remember any racism or homophobia. There are two instances of able people playing people with a disability, but I don't remember any joking at their expense, and in fact the film goes out of its way to show people who treat them badly get a comeuppance.
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Torquemada posted:I'm wondering now. I can't remember any racism or homophobia. There are two instances of able people playing people with a disability, but I don't remember any joking at their expense, and in fact the film goes out of its way to show people who treat them badly get a comeuppance. Isn't that the movie where Ben Stiller goes to a rest stop right as it gets raided by the cops because gay people are using it as a hook-up spot?
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Len posted:Isn't that the movie where Ben Stiller goes to a rest stop right as it gets raided by the cops because gay people are using it as a hook-up spot? This does happen, yes. I'm not an expert, but this doesn't seem homophobic? It's not presented as a bad thing at least.
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