So is this the best way to remedy this? Make a movie measuring a girl's worth against her ability to do or better exactly what boys do?

>> ^hpqp:

>> ^renatojj:
Another movie about empowering women, we just don't have enough of those.

Indeed, we really don't. Especially when it comes to children's movies, which have a long history of sexist and patriarchal representations of women/women's roles. Here's a humorous take on a few of them:
http://videosift.com/video/Advice-From-A-Cartoon-Princess-Belle
http://videosift.com/video/Advice-From-A-Cartoon-Princess-Snow-White http://videosift.com/video/Great-Advice-from-The-Little-Mermaid

>> ^renatojj:

Another movie about empowering women, we just don't have enough of those.


Indeed, we really don't. Especially when it comes to children's movies, which have a long history of sexist and patriarchal representations of women/women's roles. Here's a humorous take on a few of them:

http://videosift.com/video/Advice-From-A-Cartoon-Princess-Belle
http://videosift.com/video/Advice-From-A-Cartoon-Princess-Snow-White
http://videosift.com/video/Great-Advice-from-The-Little-Mermaid

1) can't believe what she's seeing
2) look at mah balls
3) ..
4) $20

>> ^hpqp:

Kristen Stewart school of acting:
1.) Shake head with every line
2.) Look down at the floor and back up again constantly
3.) Never, under any circumstances, close your lips.
4.) Profit!
>> ^gwiz665:
Booo
bs.
>> ^hpqp:
At first I was all like "yay light entertainment!" and then that talentless Kristen "one-face-fits-all" Stewart showed up (I hadn't read the tags) and totally destroyed any budding desire I had to watch this film.
Hollywood, please kick that twat out asap, thank you.

Kristen Stewart school of acting:

1.) Shake head with every line

2.) Look down at the floor and back up again constantly

3.) Never, under any circumstances, close your lips.

4.) Profit!

>> ^gwiz665:

Booo
bs.
>> ^hpqp:
At first I was all like "yay light entertainment!" and then that talentless Kristen "one-face-fits-all" Stewart showed up (I hadn't read the tags) and totally destroyed any budding desire I had to watch this film.
Hollywood, please kick that twat out asap, thank you.

Booo

bs.
>> ^hpqp:

At first I was all like "yay light entertainment!" and then that talentless Kristen "one-face-fits-all" Stewart showed up (I hadn't read the tags) and totally destroyed any budding desire I had to watch this film.
Hollywood, please kick that twat out asap, thank you.

What else did she read to the?

Three Little Pigs
Little Red Riding Hoodlums
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Umm, I'm pretty sure she became a tax lawyer because her husband wanted her to. And I'm guessing she went to work for the IRS because that was the best opportunity at the time, i.e. they agreed to hire her.

Or...she joined the IRS in order to infiltrate the evil gubment ala Operation Snow white. This just in, Michelle Bachmann is a Scientologist!

Touched.. by tragedy?

What, a fucking, understatement. Given a choice between imprisonment or hormonal treatment? As if they can.. cure the gay away. Touched by tragedy doesn't even begin to describe the kind of stupidity exhibited in this case, by society, no less.

In January 1952, Turing met Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[48]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[49] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime for which Oscar Wilde had been convicted more than fifty years earlier.[50]

Turing was given a choice between imprisonment or probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.[51]

On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead; he had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide,[54] it is speculated that this was the means by which a fatal dose was delivered. An inquest determined that he had committed suicide, and he was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June 1954.[55] Turing's mother argued strenuously that the ingestion was accidental, caused by her son's careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Biographer Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing may have killed himself in an ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.[56] Others suggest that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 film Snow White, his favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch immerses her apple in the poisonous brew."[57]

Where have you been? The US haven't taken poor, tired or huddled masses in since Korea. Only rich, well educated and/or snow-white.
>> ^blankfist:
I don't want this to be a closed country where we no longer accept the tired, the poor, the huddled masses.

Six white Boomers, Snow White Boomers..., on their Australian run....

"There's mommy..., Bounding up and down....."

Cheers! Have a great one...

Wait... He has to be against reading the book... to be consistent... because it pushes an agenda?

If we were going to be consistent, we would not allow the reading of any heteronormative fairy tails? Somehow it's okay for a teacher to teach that being heterosexual is normal/desirable, but not to say the same about being homosexual ? If sexuality is off the table, then marriage, romance, etc are off the table, but people read snow white (which has serious race and sex issues) to first graders. Why can we tell stories that are offensive to progressive people, but not to conservatives?

I just can't believe people don't bring up Operation Snow White when talking about Scientology.

>> ^burdturgler:
I am actually on your side when it comes to legalizing prostitution, in fact I'm the one who brought it up in the thread .. but you have to turn it into something stupid like kids should be exposed to it.


I'll ignore the ad hominem attacks and just go right into what's important. If you go back and reread my comment, you'll see no instance where I said children "should be exposed" to prostitution. The issue is you're trying to expunge the world around you of anything you find objectionable for your kid, and that's a very popular yet dangerous attitude.

You're essentially saying you feel it's okay to police people's behavior. Think about that. Then think about same sex marriage bans and the war on drugs and any number of other violent affronts on people's personal and civil liberties throughout the course of human civilization. You are no different than those who didn't want 'colored people' going to the same schools as their pure, snow white, impressionable children.

It's a scary notion to have people like you and that cameraman feeling justified in dictating the morals we should abide by or else face violence. And all of this done for the sake of whatever fear-driven hyperbole they parade as a victim at that moment: children, family, homeland security, sanctity of marriage, etc.

Just look at the language of disdain you use when referring to prostitutes, burdy. Things like "slut" and "fat skank" are terms that show bigoted hatred, in my opinion.

^But your argument is in favor of regulating behavior, and that's the problem I have. I don't want your eight year old to have to watch "some slut negotiate for a blow job in front of Burger King", as you put it, but the truth is you're asking for the world around you to be the way you would like it to be and using the cliched child's innocence as the hyperbolic pawn to do so.

If you don't want your child to see someone negotiating a blow job in front of the Burger King then maybe you should consider never letting your child out of the house, because there are a lot of horny people and Burger Kings in the world.

And if your plan is to get men with guns to use violence against them all so your pure, snow white eight year old doesn't have to see some entrepreneurial woman in Daisy Dukes, then I think you need to stop telling people like griefer_queafer he has a lot of thinking to do, because I think maybe you do. Kisses.