Ignore it and it might go away
Alternet is posting about porn again. The articles ask some questions, to which porn fans have a knee jerk reaction. Porn is made for men, because women never get stimulated by sights and sounds, apparently. Porn has also gotten more violent, apparently. Young boys are trying to get girls to do anal, this according to a friend of mine that worked with some teenage boys. I think boys have always been more obsessed with sex than girls, but now they're trying to see if they can stick their dicks in as many holes as possible. What is wrong with our culture that this is important to half of it?
Everything.
Whatever - the Carl's Jr. commercial insults me, but I don't eat at Carl's Jr. I don't eat fast food period. My money is where my mouth is, but that won't stop them from spewing crap. Whatever, I'm tired of it. Movies about men, for men, I'm not watching them. When Hollywood wants my $70k a year, they can make me something that is worth watching. Like the drama about the reign of maybe the best female player the patriarchy ever had, Elizabeth I. I'll watch that.
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Don't watch the newest Elizabeth. Justin and I went to go see it and it was horrible. It was totally inaccurate - I seriously doubt she had any kind of romantic relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh. Plus, the reason she didn't marry is because she knew she would have to share power and that wasn't something she wanted. Maybe her suiters weren't the best (she was proposed to by Ivan the Terrible for fuck's sake) but the reason she was the "virgin queen" wasn't because she couldn't find the right man or because she was obsessed with Sir Walter Raleigh. Things back then weren't like they are now, where if the queen marries the husband becomes the Royal Consort - Elizabeth's husband would have become king. The movie portrayed her as this indecisive whiny little bitch, which wasn't true at all. She was very shrewd and excellent at politics. In fact, she pretty much invented the whole spy business along with Sir Francis Drake in order to counter the Catholics. And defeating the Spanish Armada consolidated England's power, established their naval supremacy, and probably set the stage for the success of the British Empire. But at the end of the movie she was like "Gosh, I wish I had a baby!" Puke.
The part that was accurate was her reluctance to execute Mary Stuart. The burning of the Spanish Armada was probably also fine.
Too bad -- I wanted to see that movie.
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