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The Strange Ascendance of The Descendants
You’ll like the Descendants if you are 50 years old and think that by virtue of achieving such a high score in orbiting the sun, you’re entitled to burden the rest of society with the cliched wisdom you’ve accumulated from decades of daytime TV and self help books. For the rest of us, it’s the two hour version of… Read the rest
When your son asks to dress as a girl, it means you failed as a parent.
You read that right.
A question posed on one of the stupidest websites on the internet, Today.com, asks “Is it OK for little boys to dress up as girls?” This is the answer that ends the article:
“I applaud you for letting your child be unique, imaginative and free from the constraints of our closed society,” one poster
What if Male Superheroes Posed Like Female Superheroes?
This is the cover of Justice League #1. If you are shocked and appalled by this, I should point out that this is what comic book covers have looked like for most of the last ninety billion years:
Then someone decided to point out how stupid Wonder woman looked by drawing all the male character in similar… Read the rest
Guess Who Dies in Green Lantern.
We do love our superhero movies, don’t we. I’ve had something of a pet theory for a few years now that says that all superhero comic book mythologies are little more than the superego punishing the id in a celebration of a superficially Nietzschean, almost fascist worldview. What is much more interesting is why audiences find these stories so… Read the rest
The Fast and the Fatherless
When you watch most action movies, it’s easy to get caught up in the car chases, explosions, and hot chicks that define them. But when you look beyond those, beyond the trite dialogue, beyond the contrived plots, is there anything there? In most action films, there isn’t. So they don’t last beyond a single picture. But the The Fast… Read the rest
April 29, 2011
Tagged cars, father, film, freudian, men, movies, oedipal, postmodernism, psychiatry, psychology
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Tide Knows Dad Better Than He Knows Himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpGlzsx2rk
This is a new Tide detergent commercial showing how Tide undermines Dad’s attempt to control his daughter’s sexuality. Dad is a central character in the ad, and all the action revolves around him. But the ad is not targeted at fathers. Women still do most of the family shopping, so we should read the ad as addressing moms.… Read the rest
March 28, 2011
Tagged ads, advertising, anxiety, commercials, ego, father, freudian, id, media, postmodernism, sex, sexuality, subaru, supergo, T-mobile, tide, women
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