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Well to give you a basic rundown… men’s existence is to be guy being dude (and spin block in head), women’s existence is to manipulate guy being dude (and remember olive oil), gay and trans people’s existence is to confuse evolutionary psychologists, David Buss’s student surveys are totally accurate, hypergamy has...
Matt Baume has a look at the film classic “Rebel without a cause” from 1955, starring James Dean. It was the quintessential teen movie of its time and was highly influential. Baume uncovers the queer subtext - that was not entirely coincidental.
Rebecca Watson takes on the pop-history bestseller “Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond. A recent study debunks most of Diamond’s hypotheses
Natalie Wynn, AKA Contrapoints analyzes the “Twilight” vampire romance books by Stephenie Meyer and their influence on pop culture
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/24458300...
A video by Laura Kate Dale from her series “Access-Ability”: She discusses the advantages and shortcomings of the accessibility controllers for the PS5, the Switch and the Xbox. This brings her to the Cronus Zen, a device which enables to use controllers from the other two platforms on the PS5. This was a potential boon for...
Jack Saint dismantles a recent episode of “South Park” that somehow manages to be even more garbled nonsense than usual. It’s the starting point for his explanation of the endless cycle of reactionary outrage over vaguely left-ish media (or whatever conservatives, fascists and their ilk think that is) and how 2014’s...
No, it’s not James Somerton!...
Article by Bleeding Cool making fun of Fox Business’ attempts to create outrage around Green Day’s performance at New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
While Steven Seagal is treated as something of a joke and a political dupe nowadays, he was a somewhat prominent actor in action films for a long time. His skill in Aikido secured him roles for as long as Hollywood valued hyper-masculine fighters, but afterwards he quickly dropped out of the limelight and into direct-to-video...
Each attempting to gain representation clout from young and old people who have been socialized for generations to view the company as synonymous with universality. Now, this criticism of Soul and Princess and the Frog, or really any polarizing BIPOC animated creation does not dismiss the feelings of those who may feel...
Another video covering the unfolding scandal around the Youtuber James Somerton. Somerton had attracted attention as a critical voice covering queer content and stories, but it turned out that most of his videos had heavily plagiarized other people’s research....
In his new, almost 4 hour long video essay, Hbomberguy talks about Youtuber who rip off other Youtubers
A short video essay by Youtuber The Kavernacle which assess the latest transphobic output of right-wing news network, The Daily Wire. The “”“comedy”“” is mishmash of various transphobic and homophobic tropes, with lots of racism added for good measure....
The video essay uses the movie “The Whale” and Brendan Fraser’s award winning performance in it as a starting point to delve into fatphobia and how it manifests in our society. It discusses how director Darren Aronofsky fell short of doing the topic justice by rather chasing after a smug moral message....
Abigail Thorn (aka Philosophy Tube) takes on the AI hype and dismantles the AI companies’ arguments in the process...
Video by Some More News: The video dives into the economics of the current movie business and why it results in bland storytelling and a better-safe-than-sorry approach to filmmaking in general.
Video by Laura Kate Dale: She covers the shortcomings of the Nintendo Switch in regards to accessibility and how a potential successor can be improved, particularly because other consoles have made massive strides to improve accessibility in the last few years.
A video essay by Noah Caldwell-Gervais: It is a tour through several states in the western US, exploring how real-life places inspired locations in the Fallout games made by Bethesda, while also reflecting on the political and historical dimension of them.
Video essay by Jessie Gender: She covers the recently released new “Spiderverse” movie and its allusions to trans issues and goes on to cover the more openly queer movie “Nimona”. Her essay explores the subject of how Hollywood tends to adopt seemingly successful elements and commodifies them for profit, which will -...
