Today

[seriousfic]

I helped a woman in a wheelchair carry her things and all I could think was "Barbara Gordon would not approve."

By the way, why is it that when an actor like James McAvoy says something like this: "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that Xavier and Magneto don’t, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends."

Everyone goes LIFE RUINER, LIFE RUINER!

But when an actress like Amanda Seyfried says something like this: "Sex scenes are great. A lot of my costars have been sexy guys my age, and so, why not? I’m not going to pretend it’s not fun. […] Jennifer’s Body is my favorite movie that I’ve done. It was overlooked in theaters, but it does have a DVD following. I can’t believe nobody wanted to see Megan Fox and me hitting it. They had an extreme close-up of our tongues, and I’m telling you, the thing about the scene is that it’s actually really sexy. For a young girl to say that about her own sex scene—it must be because it’s special."

Everyone goes “ugh, what an attention whore, she’s just playing up her sexuality for publicity.” No kidding, I chanced upon this quote at Jezebel (which I don't really go to, because I have my own feminist website) and they called her an exhibitionist.

I actually already posted this on my tumblr, it got a few likes, and one reblog by someone who answered that what McAvoy said was more "ambiguous." Because that's the best word to describe marriage. Ambiguous.

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[mcity.livejournal.com]

Specifically, they said it was ambiguous because they didn't actually have sex. Neither did Jen and Needy, at least not onscreen. Then again, I never saw the actual movie.

And then there's the sheer, brazen hypocrisy of writing oodles of fanfic about two close male friends that look at each other funny, but a woman enjoying making out with another woman is just pandering. Good job promoting equality by way of double standards, y'all!

Speaking of your Tumblr, it is very hard to make superhero costumes not look silly if you're portraying them realistically. Except Emma Frost, who could replace the tights with a pair of white slacks, lose whatever that "V" thing is, and look like a high-powered, take no prisoners executive at any point between 1984 and today.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Speaking of your Tumblr, it is very hard to make superhero costumes not look silly if you're portraying them realistically. Except Emma Frost, who could replace the tights with a pair of white slacks, lose whatever that "V" thing is, and look like a high-powered, take no prisoners executive at any point between 1984 and today.

As she should. You could even keep the corset top.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

>corset top.

That would be an entirely different type of executive.

I still find it amazing that the film managed to make Frost, a character whose costume direction is "resembles a prostitute", and made her look trashy.

Even for the 60s. Even by comparison to the actual stripper.