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Yeah, I agree with Jake - BOTH Frost and Lynch have vociferously worked on this in the meantime (scripts) and Lynch has had his fingers around the rights to this stuff for a long time, he'd never let them go at this point in the game. So I'm suspecting Showtime of getting cold feet or dirty pool, more than the idea that Lynch just wanted out.

I guess I am not hip to Hollywood in that I cannot imagine why Showtime wouldn't just, as early interviews suggested, "sign the checks" and let Lynch do what he wants. But I also don't believe people who are speculating that Lynch never wanted in on the project because Showtime begged him to come on board - because if he didn't want on the project, why would he just not do the project? I cannot imagine Lynch feeling "pressured" to work on something he didn't want to. It's not like the guy is hurting for notoriety or money.

I'm really crushed right now.

I was just coming here to post this.

yeah nope, I actually have a really intense fear of heights.

I personally feel like it's not men's place at all to tell women how to deal with internalized misogyny, but whatever. I don't tell black people how to deal with internalized racism because it's a product of a system I still benefit from. This is feels like a sticking point with a lot of you so I'm not going to push it further.

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Chobitcoin posted a pic of herself with an assault rifle in the #TransDayofVisibility and joked about making it #TransDayofRemembrance , not to put too fine a point on it.

Internalized misogyny comes from women internalizing messages about their gender by a sexist society. Chastising women for internalizing harmful messages about themselves is not the place where I think men should step in. Are women able to promote sexist ideas? Yes. But I don't feel like men can really "step away" far enough to wag their fingers at women for believing harmful shit about their gender without looking like giant assholes. Men talking to other men about sexism is a good idea, but that's because there's definitely ways you can work on critiquing and improving your behavior and thinking but a man stepping in to basically tell a woman to stop being affected by sexist messages about their own gender is fucking shitty. Disagree if you want but that's how I see it.

I was really hoping to hear "This episode aired February 9th of 1991 fame."

Oh my gosh, this looks GREAT, thank you.

Honestly, the idea of men stepping in to chastise women on internalized misogyny makes my teeth fucking itch because there's no way you're not still kinda complicit in the culture that creates it. It's ideally best left to other women to talk to, since it's essentially an intra-community issue.

Blowing most of my tax refund treating myself to a mini-vacation in Chicago next weekend. Staying in a nice hotel, getting room service, going to the French Market, seeing friends, going to eat some great food and drink some amazing wine. I have no other ideas as to what I should do though.

Any of the Chicago Thumbs want to hang out? I'm heading there April 10th for the weekend.

I sorta get what you're saying but I think a lot of it is meant to still be titillating, as I've seen posts postulating what Liara's sweat tastes like, all the way out to people making machinima porn of Lara Croft that treads so close to the actual game that it's fucking terrifying. I don't think it's so far removed or abstracted from what people want or think they want even if it's fictional. Or, I guess to agree with you, it DOES have an impact on how some men perceive women, however. It shapes, even if it's not a 1:1.

1.) Zarya is actually not based on a Blizzard employee, it's a fun rumor but not true (I saw the tweet that was circulating that.) 2.) Internalized misogyny is absolutely a thing you will see VERY quickly if you were a woman who went through the same, trust me on this one. A lot of women, especially those of us who grew up fairly nerdy or on the internet, spent a lot of time believing men's opinions of us are extremely important, that was reinforced by "you're not like other girls!" and "you're chill/cool" for basically pretending we're not affected by sexism, but those same men will turn on you in a heartbeat. For me, it was when none of my male friends in Warcraft thought it was a big deal to make jokey threats about rape to me, unbeknownst that I was a rape victim and it straight up triggered me. They eventually got very chilly when I made a fuss, and I realized it was a bigger deal to me than I had initially anticipated. That's kind when the shell cracked in half and I started realizing that maybe feminism was a real thing. There are women out there who absolutely will shove other women under the bus if it means that men will like them better. It's a sad fact but it's true, so Jenn and Argobot are correct. I saw the same comments on the Anita video and it was really sad. A lot of women prior to getting into feminism believed that sexism was over, that feminism was a sham, etc. Trust me, if you folks knew me around 2007, you'd not think I was the same person. As an addendum, as a queer woman, a lot of conceptualizations of sexualized women are still incredibly alienating and are completely designed with a solely straight male audience in mind. How women are portrayed in a "sexual way" are also still made in a way to empower men's interest in them, power over them, not to make me feel attracted to them or make ME feel great about myself.

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NatureBox 3D Snack Printer: http://blog.naturebox.com/posts/naturebox-3d-snack-printer

I double-majored in mage-ing AND wizardry, how dare you

I had word limits so I didn't get to dig as deep as I wanted to but: 1.) Fight Club absolutely was enjoyed on a way different level than what Fincher or Palahniuk intended, even though it was explicitly shown as such. (So I agree on this point.) 2.) Hotline Miami says very little, but it attempts to say something and borrows heavily from filmic pieces like Fight Club or Drive but doesn't dig into what either film attempts with consequences or personal responsibility. 3.) A lot of people don't think a lot about any of those three things because they still very slickly make violence voyeuristically cool, and cool to a very specific subset of people 4.) That subset of people tends to be guys, more often guys who think they are profoundly deep or emotional but still want to secretly enjoy violence without thinking about it. 5.) All of the above are still somewhat alienating to me 6.) HLM 1 and 2 are very much products of the time, which is why theory to why 2 was so much more disappointing, just beyond the mechanical failures, it attempts to cash back in on something it barely attempted in the first place narratively or aesthetically, making the franchise as a whole pretty terrible. I am going to do a post-mortem on this piece expanding on some things that lead me to writing this in the first place so that might give some better coverage to what people disagreed with. HLM was successful because it was a shorter indie game that hearkened back to an earlier time in a lot of young men's lives with 80s style/flair and tight beat-em-up sensibilities with a banging soundtrack. I don't think it went much more beyond that and I daresay it wouldn't have worked as perhaps even a AAA game, in that sense.

As a wizard, I can attest to this being true.

I commend you Christopher but if that's how you want to use your free time, go for it. I could not even come close to being assed to go onto Reddit given the site's penchant for subreddits that also fondly like to talk about how to abuse women.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/hotline-miami-maybe-it-wasnt-as-great-as-we-all-th.html My piece on Hotline Miami and masculinity, nostalgia just went up on Paste Games.

Episode with Danielle and Patricia is up: http://justicepoints.com/ I am linking our main site because for some reason our streaming bars have disappeared from single episode pages and we're looking into getting that fixed.