Comments on: Friday fluff: Go fluff yourself

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:39:12 +0000

Does anyone else think that MTV just left this girl out because she was fat?

and because it involved a romance with a “typically good looking guy”?

By: viv

viv — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:59:38 +0000

I just expect sexism, racism, & other ism with movies based on older comic books. But as Stephanie mentioned, it’s sorta hard to have a primarily white country be a terrorist hole. I’m Korean and it is annoying to constantly now see the N Koreans(Norks) as the bad guys for some of the Rambo type movies.

But they do make pretty good villains with their nuclear weapons posturing, their ‘leaders’ maniacal permed hair, and the people’s absolute(forced) worship of this pint sized dictator.

The sexism does also annoy me but I try to tune it out. I didn’t understand the ‘trash’ part to the very capable female reporter from Gweneth.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:44:20 +0000

I’m going with teensy bunny. I have some cats though, so perhaps I’m so used to seeing them behave like kitties in love, I’ve been somewhat desensitized to the cute. I mean, I still think it’s cute, but a pocket-sized bunny, that’s hard to beat.

By: Caralyn

Caralyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:26:45 +0000

Stephanie – isn’t that what aliens are for!? :-)

We could have Iron Man fight a band of blood-thirsty, war-hungry green aliens … with Americans accents who don’t seem to notice someone welding person-shaped pieces of metal together.

Iron Man could then fall madly in love with one of the “whores” … because she is comfortable with her sexuality/body and he thinks that’s cool. He’s also amazed with her killer science and math skills when she saves his ass from the bad guy in the big metal outfit.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:36 +0000

Caralyn Was no one else bothered by all the sexism and racism in Iron Man? The sexism, yeah, definitely bothered me. The racism, too, a bit (I'm white and female, so sexism gets to me before racism, yes, my own bias), but I'm not 100% sure of a good way to remake it without racism. Getting kidnapped by a fictional country made up primarily of white people? I'm sure there IS a way; I'm just not thinking hard enough to come up with one.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:42:47 +0000

I’m now properly on moderation. Wheeee! I’m piercing EVERYTHING.

Starting next month, I’ll be working (well, interning) at Disney World in Orlando. I get to take care of all the fishies and sea turtles and such at The Seas in Epcot. I’ll say hi to all of them for you!

*dies of envious joy*

By: random6x7

random6x7 — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:17:38 +0000

The findings were really interesting, fisticuffer. Sorry, the state of science reporting is one of my pet peeves. Science writer people, I know that it is hard to acknowledge your biases and correct for them, but it is not _that_ hard. I would be interested to see the follow-up. I’d also like to see the studies finding out if the number of fat cells you have is affected by behavior during childhood or if it’s predetermined, and if the volume of those cells is something that’s predetermined. The fact that that article made assumptions about those things really, really irritated me.

I just started watching TV again in the mornings, and I forgot how awful it is. I just spent way too long with some dude crowing about how he lost 35 pounds on Nutrisystem. He looked pretty much the same as his before picture, only now he had a tighter shirt on. I also didn’t believe him that the frozen, prepackaged meatloaf was good. Women’s magazines, though, have manipulation and abuse down to a science.

By: Caralyn

Caralyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:33:01 +0000

Was no one else bothered by all the sexism and racism in Iron Man? I mean, I liked the action and I thought RDJ was hot but … still. The fact that there were only two types of women in the movie (virgin and whores) and that the whores were equated with trash really got to me. I know hollywood action movies are all about enforcing gender roles (don’t get me started on the nationalism!) but for whatever reason, this movie just pissed me off more then normal. That’ll teach me for going to see hollywood action movies! :-)

Even though my weekend is almost over, I did a lot of cycling. It was good. My legs hurt.

By: Daine

Daine — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:35:16 +0000

Time Machine, Caitlin, and phledge: Starting next month, I’ll be working (well, interning) at Disney World in Orlando. I get to take care of all the fishies and sea turtles and such at The Seas in Epcot. I’ll say hi to all of them for you! :-D :-D

By: aw, fisticuffer

aw, fisticuffer — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:25:28 +0000

I actually thought it was interesting because it seemed to show that once you got through the bs part, that there is not much you can do about weight.