Being an internet refuge for Graeme McMillan
Oh to be a white male and successful
oh to be a white male and successful
Brief summary:
Avengers 2 comes out.
Feminist and female writers take issue with black widow depiction. A lot of them do.
Joss gets saddy pants and leaves Twitter.
And the #IsupportJossWhedon hashtag begins.This rant isn’t about avengers 2. This rant…
Of course there’s an #ISupportJossWhedon hashtag. Because of course this has become a nerd movement overnight.
That’s why it’s so crucial that a film like “Wonder Woman” does well. We’ve confirmed that it will be the first woman-directed live action feature with a budget over $100 million. If “Wonder Woman” bombs (which we don’t think it will), its failure will be offered as damning evidence proving that big budget films by and about women shouldn’t get made. As Diablo Cody recently told LA Weekly, “If a movie starring or written by or directed by a man flops, people don’t blame the gender of the creator. It’s just kind of weird how the blame is always immediately placed on female directors.”
I don’t know why I’m surprised that Wonder Woman will be the first woman-directed live-action feature with a $100 million + budget, but I am.
(From here, and those who’ve been asking about Marvel’s fear of doing female-led movies, it might be an interesting read.)
Richard was part of an army of hundreds of volunteers around Los Angeles who were sent out to change people’s minds. And a study by researchers at UCLA and Columbia University found that a year later, not only did these voters stay convinced, they also convinced others in their own households to switch. Apparently neither of those things ever happens.
Ukip has paid for a double-page ad in the Daily Telegraph on the same day the paper’s front page claimed that voting for the party was like writing a ‘suicide note’ for Britain.
Yeah, it was a joke. Off-colored. Whatever. I’m unapologetic about a lot of things, but I got into a lot of internet trouble. Because that’s a thing now, you can get in.
