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I still think my most favorite Out of nowhere Outrage comments was about Superman. I made the mistake of saying something like, 'This is America, Why Can't Superman say Truth, Justice and the American Way anymore?' I woke up the next morning and someone got all in a fuss about my saying 'this is america' when he was reading the post in finland or some place outside of america. smh. sometimes you can predict how people will react to things, other times it's 100% completely off the wall or overboard. I really do wish I could give up the internet sometimes. it's far too much of a headache. |
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It's always ironic when people talk about privilege when they live in a first world country.
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12-30-2017, 08:16 PM | #24 | |
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I'd LOVE to be able to give up message boards, since over reacting sensationalism and intentional trolling has migrated to them as well. but SOMETIMES the extra strife helps distract the mind from things I KNOW I don't need to worry about. Like if that bump in the road was a person i just ran over...ugh. Life sure is fun, isn't it? |
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01-03-2018, 11:18 PM | #25 |
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As a whole, the world's society is outdated, at least in terms of its social, cultural, economical, and moral aspects.
It's a shame, really. I believe that human beings have the potential to analyze and reflect on both themselves and society at large. I'm undoubtedly sure that they have the potential to change themselves, at least somewhat, socially, economically, technologically, mentally, morally, etc. I also believe that they could/can change others' perspectives on life, at least to some extent. But, realistically, as a result of many societal, environmental, economical, and even personal factors, we don't. Most people try to be as progressive/ open-minded as humanly possible. However, there are some aspects that human beings just don't want to get rid of, either because of having society's biases ingrained within them, having the consequence of negativity affecting their own environment, raising the issue of possibly regressing their socioeconomic/monetary status/value, or because it would affect their point of view/comfort area. (There are other factors to consider as well.) In addition, society tends to morph itself through complex situations that create different phenomena/trends. The affects/effects can have a complication that results in an impact that's overall dynamic and ever-changing culturally socially, etc. With those affects/effects, said society can either develop, regress, or stagnate. Unfortunately, most people would rather choose to stagnate rather than evolve, or even taking risks. It just seems safer for them. Generally, human beings are afraid of changes and they are afraid of adapting to those changes. They even fear that they themselves might change in some way, shape, or form. Huh, I guess we're all somewhat conservative, at least in some ways. |
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Nicely written piece, Papenbrook.
I absolutely believe in moral absolutes, but that doesn't mean that I won't be willing to analyze their reasoning. I'm not one of those people to tell people to shut up of they something outrageous, even if i percieve them to be wrong. I might never agree with them, but I want to hear their side of the story
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01-07-2018, 06:35 PM | #27 |
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wasnt' sure where to put this. but was watching a little of the golden globes mess at my grandmothers before i put football on elsewhere.
did it seem like debroah messing was just reading off bullet points someone just handed to her off screen? she read it in such a robotic way, it's like she didn't even care about what she was saying, just that she was expected to say it. made me think of the age of outrage thread... equal pay being the latest platform for hollywood to rant about.. |
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Adults over the age of 25 actually watch the Golden Globes? In a completely unironic way?
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i could barely stand 5 minutes of E! red carpet nonsense before i had to get out of the room if that counts.
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01-08-2018, 10:40 AM | #31 |
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I guess Natalie Portman made a stink about there being no female directors in the Best Director category?
I'm looking at the list of movies in that category and no 2017 films by female directors come to mind as being more deserving of making that list. Or does Portman mean that the Golden Globes needs some kind of affirmative action, that women directors need to be there regardless of quality of films? http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/golde...=sharebutton-b
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It's a tough one too, because it seems like Hollywood big-shots prefer to hire directors that remind them of themselves. Plucky upstarts who make a big splash with a short film or an indi, and wear a baseball cap and glasses. So a woman has to not only get through the sexist stuff, and the industry inertia, and convince the money-men to take a risk altering the formulaic way they make decisions - but then there's the same nepotism that everyone has to deal with on top of that. Maybe the handful of women who have crowbarred their way into the big time need to give nepotism a try. Nepotism isn't fair, but it will leave a couple of doors open.
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She described the all-male list of nominees as All-Male, and for some reason people are taking that accurate description as an insult. Here, have a .gif of the one word inclusion that's giving people the vapors: (spoiler tagged for your safety.) Spoiler:
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Maybe it is because, jury had appreciated movie based on their quality?
Or they should definitely include female directors, just because they have made some movies, regardless of their quality? Or have a special "participation" award? I'd say both things are insulting to women. |
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Truth is, they're just not out there. There's more every year, but not at a fast enough pace to please the angry mob with their mob mentality about it all. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/wo...ra-1201626691/ As of 2017, women comprised 13% of the active directors working, meaning 87% of them are male. Should 13% of the active women directors out there be given disproportionately 37% more work... just because of their genitals/gender identity? Just because, over better-qualified and far more numerous male directors? That's insanity. You want more female directors, go and inspire more women to be directors. It's not a conspiracy. Oh, stop. You know exactly what she was doing. She was using her platform to "bring attention to an important issue," ala Meryl Streep, et al, and you know it.
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