...and I could swear that I saw this at Lem's or at TOP or at Troop's a couple few years ago. Please throw me a link to one of those places after you stop smirking..
I started watching Thelma & Louise last night, after reading a NY Post 20th Anniversary review via Instapundit.
"As a feminist film, ‘Thelma & Louise’ fails miserably."
Even on its own terms, as a bluntly obvious feminist parable, the movie is a self-contradictory failure. Its regrettably schematic screenplay (which writer Callie Khouri won an Oscar for) shouts its points in the manner of a freshperson term paper from an only intermittently coherent Womyn’s Studies major.
You may recall the movie as a date-rape revenge saga wrapped up in a freewheeling outlaw adventure, but really it’s a story of two idiotic hysterics who make a series of daft decisions that are nobody’s fault but their own. Stupidity and hot tempers, not entrenched sexism, are the causes of their problems. . . . It’s as if Khouri is trying to paint feminists as given to hysterical overreaction. Teachable moments get garbled — just days after learning that being alone with a strange man is not a great idea, Thelma picks up a hitchhiker, who turns out to be a criminal, simply because he’s Brad Pitt, suggesting the lesson for women is “Be careful of men you don’t know, except the cute ones.”
The movie works better if you just think of it as a misogynist tale about unbelievably ditzy women who lose what remains of their reason under pressure and suffer the ultimate punishment.
It was kind of funny in a how-to-shop-for-a-wife sort of way but he labeled it as "all you need to know about women". I suspect he's scared shitless of women. That hot redhead stripper who calls herself Tiffany must have done a number on him.
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You are not imagining it. I had it back in August 2014 (the video link is now bad) I thought Lem had it too.
I've never seen that before. I would have remembered.
Specially the unicorn part.
Wiminz who speak their minds with 'pinions are crazy. When men do it, it's just... oh that's not crazy at all!
I started watching Thelma & Louise last night, after reading a NY Post 20th Anniversary review via Instapundit.
"As a feminist film, ‘Thelma & Louise’ fails miserably."
Even on its own terms, as a bluntly obvious feminist parable, the movie is a self-contradictory failure. Its regrettably schematic screenplay (which writer Callie Khouri won an Oscar for) shouts its points in the manner of a freshperson term paper from an only intermittently coherent Womyn’s Studies major.
You may recall the movie as a date-rape revenge saga wrapped up in a freewheeling outlaw adventure, but really it’s a story of two idiotic hysterics who make a series of daft decisions that are nobody’s fault but their own. Stupidity and hot tempers, not entrenched sexism, are the causes of their problems. . . . It’s as if Khouri is trying to paint feminists as given to hysterical overreaction. Teachable moments get garbled — just days after learning that being alone with a strange man is not a great idea, Thelma picks up a hitchhiker, who turns out to be a criminal, simply because he’s Brad Pitt, suggesting the lesson for women is “Be careful of men you don’t know, except the cute ones.”
The movie works better if you just think of it as a misogynist tale about unbelievably ditzy women who lose what remains of their reason under pressure and suffer the ultimate punishment.
"Above an 8 hot?" He wishes.
"Redheads, Strippers ... anyone named Tiffany. "
Below the Unicorn is the crying game.
It was kind of funny in a how-to-shop-for-a-wife sort of way but he labeled it as "all you need to know about women". I suspect he's scared shitless of women. That hot redhead stripper who calls herself Tiffany must have done a number on him.
The tables weren't turned at the end, chickelit. A different table was presented.
The counterpart to the crazy behavior on the y/why? axis in women is controlling behavior in men.
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