Patti
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- "Would it have been better if the question had been framed in terms of cholesterol levels rather than calories?" I'd say that yes, it would have been much better. Because the focus would be on being healthy, not on being
(posted to Livejournal encouraging eating disorders?) - I saw these pictures earlier today on some other site with no accompanying text, and I honestly didn't notice anything "wrong". My first thought was "It's the boy? No, the boy is younger, it is Shiloh.", yes, but I didn't
(posted to What We Missed) - Giving people (especially young women) hope and confidence is never a bad thing. You can say that sometimes it's false hope, but the more confident the women feel when they see other women/girls succeed, the more likely it is that
(posted to Teen Vogue features pregnant covergirl, moral panic ensues) - Not really. She's saying that pregnancy/parenthood is difficult, not that it makes her unhappy.
(posted to Teen Vogue features pregnant covergirl, moral panic ensues) - Actually, he didn't. I ask if it is true that James Cameron called her Kate Weighs-a-lot on the set of Titanic. "No, absolutely not. That's the first time I ever heard that," Kate replies. Source: http://www.discoverkate.com/Articles/features/20040400_jane.html (Jane Magazine interview) Of
(posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
Responses to Comments from Patti
- There is nothing we know of that is more complex than the human brain. So women are complicated. (posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
- @ supremepizza and asseenontv I completely agree with you that women are complicated. To be human is to be complicated. What I gathered from Cameron's quote when he said "you can try your whole life and never understand them" is (posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
- If you expect all women to act the same way, then of course women are complicated. If you take the time to understand individual women for who they are and what they think/feel/believe/want/need, then you realize that knowing women can (posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
- forgive me beforehand for sounding condescending, as i can't understand why the hell you don't see a problem with exoticization and how it is harmful. exoticization is harmful to the people being exoticized. colored people, people of colonized countries, are (posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
- vanessa isn't overreaching at all. you seem not to know anything about oriantalism and how it is racism. portraying "placental mammals" with dreadlocked hair wearing loincloth is just another tiring representation of colored people being primitive. of course, the protagonists (posted to Asshat Interview of the Day, with Director James Cameron)
