#lena dunham scandal

[missegyptiana]

Why don’t we like Lena Dunham

i would look it up cause it’s a long story but here’s some of it

[midnightsslut]

funniest scandal episode: lena dunham writing a book about her sexcapades with political figures

fun fact: I didn’t recognize her when I first watched the show. i was so surprised to see her in the credits while rewatching. we also saw carlos from desperate housewives, meemaw & mary cooper from young sheldon, and a ton of grey’s characters. mary cooper was possibly the worst part of the show.

[deathcation]

As a reproductive Justice worker I do believe whole heartedly that women have the right to bitch and moan in a manner that causes tangible disturbance when our own bodies are being held prisoner to a fucked up medical system. But as an immigrant, as a women of color, as an indigenous woman. I wish white women who talk about how hard it is to get a hysterectomy (Lena Dunham) or tubal ligation would loudly included into that, the context that part of the reason it’s so involved (needing multiple appointments, long waiting periods, many consent forms) is not simply medical paternalism but also linked to activism led by women of color in the 70s in the fight against forced sterilization & the resurgence of eugenics. Ever since the ICE scandal broke a couple of years ago forced sterilization has been heavy on my mind and heart. I just found out for example that in the 70s between 25-45% of native women who accessed health care through Indian Heath Services were subject to it.

[sophialunablogs]

Lena Dunham: Exploring The Actress And Writer Beyond The Spotlight

Lena Dunhan is an American writer, producer, actress and director. She was born on May 13, 1986 in New York city. She is writer, star and creator of HBO TV series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received two Golden Globe Awards and several Emmy Awards nominations. Lena Dunham became the first female to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing — Comedy Series and she directed several episodes of TV series Girls. Lena also directed,starred and wrote the semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010) and for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, she wrote this before the TV series Girls. In 2022 her second featured film Sharp Stick was released, which she wrote and directed. Catherine Called Birdy, Lena’s third film, premiered worldwide on September 12, 2022 at the Toronto International Film Festival. On 23 september 2022 it was released in a limited series by Amazon Studios, before streaming on Amazon Prime on October 7, 2022. Lena Dunham was added to the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2013 and she released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She���s “Learned” in 2014. Dunham created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter along with Girls showrunnerJenni Konner in 2015. Lena appeared in films like Supporting Characters and This Is 40 (both 2012) and Happy Christmas (2014). In the 2016 film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea she voiced Mary and it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lena Dunham also has played guest roles in Scandal and The Simpsons (both 2015).

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[iheartquestionmarkjkitstswift]

happiness is literally based on a powerpoint pres and i will prove it

okay just HEAR ME OUT. i have a hard hitting theory about happiness and i need to put it out in the universe! 

as we all know, its sad af. but what storyline does it coincide with? why the sudden gatsby references? green light? beautiful fool? seven years in heaven? sure, we can easily assume this is an ode to jay gatsby. 

BUT, may i PLEASE call your attention to a particularly hard hitting and culturally imperative powerpoint presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFJuHw8zQ0iBkcYQNr6FABPvW0Rm4RW2/view

happiness is about..... JACK ANTONOFF AND LORDE’S SPICY LOVE AFFAIR FROM THE POV OF A HEARTBROKEN LENA DUNHAM. 

YUP I SAID IT AND NO IM NOT SORRY. stupid, maybe. but never sorry.

[i-am-very-very-tired]

In the wake of Tuesday’s shocking New Yorker exposé, several more actresses came forward with harrowing stories of sexual harassment and assault at the hands of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. One of these brave women was Angelina Jolie, who said the predatory studio executive had made unwanted advances to her in a hotel room around the release of 1998’s Playing by Heart, which was distributed by Weinstein-owned Miramax Films. “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” she told The New York Times. Another was Gwyneth Paltrow, who alleged that, prior to shooting what would prove to be her breakthrough role in 1996’s Emma, Weinstein approached the then-22-year-old actress in a Beverly Hills hotel suite, put his hands on her shoulders, and intimated that they move to the bedroom for “massages.” She immediately left, disgusted. “I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she recalled to the Times. The testimonies of Jolie and Paltrow proved particularly disturbing because they proved that Weinstein had the power and influence to silence anyone—even Hollywood royalty. Jolie, after all, is the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, and Paltrow the progeny of director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, and the goddaughter of Steven Spielberg. Another thing these two talented women have in common is their proximity to the actor Brad Pitt. Paltrow dated Pitt from 1994-1997 before breaking off their engagement, while Jolie was Pitt’s partner from 2005-2016. Their divorce is still pending. In the Times piece, Paltrow said that she’d confided in Pitt about the Weinstein episode, and that the actor proceeded to confront Weinstein at a film premiere and warn him to never do anything like that to his girlfriend again. (Pitt confirmed as much to the Times.)“Brad threatened Harvey. He got right in his face, poked him in the chest, and said, ‘You will not ever do this to Gwyneth ever again,’” a source told People, adding that if Weinstein did try anything again, the Springfield native told the portly New Yorker he’d get a good “Missouri whooping.” Many online were quick to praise Pitt, then a rising star, for giving a studio bigwig like Weinstein the business—something that precious few Hollywood men felt compelled to do both during the mogul’s three-decade reign of terror and after the sickening revelations came to light. But why, then, did Pitt continue to work with Weinstein not once, but twice: on 2009’s Inglourious Basterds and 2012’s Killing Them Softly? The Weinstein allegations have led to a broader discussion of Hollywood complicity—the power brokers who were not only aware of his despicable behavior but may have helped facilitate his hotel liaisons with a bevy of up-and-coming actresses. Paltrow told the Times that her hotel “meeting” with Weinstein was listed “on a schedule from her agents,” while the actress Rose McGowan, who reportedly agreed to a $100,000 settlement with Weinstein after a 1997 hotel incident during the Sundance Film Festival, tweeted out an alleged email sent from an agent to the actress Lindsay Lohan requesting a hotel “meeting” with Weinstein at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, the site of many an alleged Weinstein attack, for a cameo in an unnamed Scream sequel. The tweet has since been deleted.

While a parade of agents, executives, producers, and assistants were no doubt aware) October 10, 2017 @benaffleck “GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT” you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.

George Clooney, a work friend of Pitt’s, claimed to The Daily Beast that he and many of his high-profile actor friends in Hollywood were unaware of Weinstein’s purported penchant for sexually harassing and assaulting women. “If you’re asking if I knew that someone who was very powerful had a tendency to hit on young, beautiful women, sure. But I had no idea that it had gone to the level of having to pay off eight women for their silence, and that these women were threatened and victimized,” he offered. But Brad Pitt knew. By his own admission, Paltrow informed him that Weinstein had sexually harassed her all the way back in 1996. While Paltrow explained to the Times how she felt she had to “suppress the experience” of being attacked by Weinstein, and, after being threatened by the exec, went on to act in several other Weinstein-shepherded films (including an Oscar-winning turn in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love), by the late-Aughts Pitt had the power to affect change. He was, as Clooney told Esquire, “the biggest movie star in the world… he’s bigger than me, bigger than DiCaprio.” He ran a successful production company in Plan B Entertainment, responsible for hits like The Departed. And yet, he opted to star in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, which was distributed by The Weinstein Company. A source close to Pitt confirms to The Daily Beast that Pitt knew of the Paltrow incident with Weinstein but that “Quentin went to him directly to bring him into the project, and Brad did it because of the relationship and the contact. Interaction with Harvey was very limited.” The source, however, went on to explain that since every Tarantino project has been distributed by Weinstein, Pitt understood that Inglourious would be as well. They could not confirm whether Pitt knew at the time of his then-girlfriend Jolie’s alleged incident with Weinstein, and representatives for Jolie and Pitt would not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story. And, while Pitt’s interactions with Weinstein may have been limited, the exec’s involvement in the project was anything but. Weinstein, who’s earned the nickname “Harvey Scissorhands” for his tendency to demand film edits, usually shies away from meddling with Tarantino movies but was rumored to have demanded that its initial three-hour running time be cut down by at least a half-hour (its final running time: 153 minutes). Weinstein also launched aggressive Oscar campaigns for the film and Pitt, fresh off a Best Actor nod the previous year for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, doing interview after interview touting their credentials and flooding Academy voters with cheap, non-watermarked DVD screeners. You see, there was a lot riding on Inglourious Basterds. The Weinstein Company was in dire financial straits, having recently hired a high-powered financial advisory firm to restructure after incurring heavy debt. The film’s ultimate success, earning eight Academy Award nominations and grossing over $321 million worldwide, helped keep the company afloat. Following the release of Inglourious, Pitt agreed to star in and produce an adaptation of the book Cogan’s Trade, directed by Andrew Dominik and developed by Plan B. After a heated bidding war, the of Weinstein’s appalling behavior, it’s not entirely clear how many actors were—particularly big-name male actors who had, as Lena Dunham so eloquently wrote in the Times, “the least to lose and the most power to shift the narrative, and are probably not dealing with the same level of collective and personal trauma around these allegations.”

McGowan charged on Twitter that the actor/filmmaker Ben Affleck, who dated Paltrow from 1997-2000, knew full well about Weinstein’s reputation (McGowan starred alongside Affleck in Phantoms, released by Miramax one year after her alleged hotel incident with Weinstein). — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan distribution rights to the film were sold to The Weinstein Company, who promised a $20 million ad spend. The film, ultimately titled Killing Them Softly, was released in 2012 by Pitt and Weinstein, earning a meager $15 million stateside. Our source in Pitt’s camp said that they were “unable to provide any context” about exactly why Pitt chose to collaborate with Weinstein again on the crime drama (and in a much more involved capacity) despite his ex-fiancée telling him that she’d been accosted by the exec, and that he’d allegedly—perhaps unbeknownst to Pitt, perhaps not—attacked his then-partner Jolie. The Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal has not only underscored the remarkable courage of the women who chose to come forward, but the cowardice and complicity of the myriad men in power who didn’t. As Lena Dunham wrote, “Hollywood’s silence, particularly that of men who worked closely with Mr. Weinstein, only reinforces the culture that keeps women from speaking. When we stay silent, we gag the victims. When we stay silent, we condone behavior that none of us could possibly believe is O.K. (unless you do). When we stay silent, we stay on the same path that led us here. Making noise is making change. Making change is why we tell stories. We don’t want to have to tell stories like this one again and again. Speak louder.”

[starrywisdomsect]

The Eldritch Horror of Shattered Ignorance: A #Cancellation of Robert M. Price

Are you one of those H.P. Lovecraft fans that gets all drooly and frantic when a new anthology of Lovecraftian tales is released? It’s okay, me too. I just long for the magic words of “Featuring Stories by Laird Barron, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kim Newman, Brian Lumley…” and so on and so forth.

Truly, I never really paid much attention to the “edited by” credit, unless it mentioned S.T. Joshi, who is like a gold-standard among Lovecraft scholars.

However. The editor responsible for the Chaosium “Call of Cthulhu Fiction” Anthologies, Robert M. Price, has recently come to my attention as a ranting lunatic with harmful and bigoted viewpoints. (That’s one way to emulate ol’ H.P. I suppose…) Now, before we proceed further, we must establish one thing…

Can “Lovecraft Fans” cancel anyone? We like a racist asshole’s fiction, after all. True. We are all eternally and often daily conflicted about this, and calling myself a “Lovecraft Fan” is usually accompanied by a small sigh indicating I should have made better life choices. That being said, Lovecraft was eventually cancelled by that big-trending-hashtag in the sky, namely, his own mortality. So that is well and good, I suppose.

Now, this is not when I should have taken first notice of Mr. Price’s vileness. Apparently he gave an interview in 2016, which, had I read or heard it, would have clued me into a lot of his transphobic and sexist attitudes, and stopped me from attempting to collect his “Cycle” anthologies for Chaosium. However, the tattered veil was wrenched from my eyes this fine morning in 2020, when I read of many authors withdrawing their fiction from a sword-and-sorcery anthology (Lin Carter's Flashing Swords!) that Price had edited.

The cause? A single page of Price’s introduction to the anthology was made visible on the Amazon “look inside” preview.

“Sports and games must no longer be based on competition, lest someone feel dejected because of his mediocrity. Poor little flowers! This, in case you hadn't noticed, is no way to prepare young men (or women!) for adult life in a free market economy and in a world full of powerful national enemies.

The continuous false rape accusations serve the same end, seeking to make masculinity, even the natural male interest in women, into a "rape culture." Of course, such wolf-crying works against women because soon it will become habitual to dismiss every rape accusation as the shrill lying of yet another Lena Dunham. (Am I thus suggesting we ease up on rapists? No; you don't want to know what I think ought to be done with those bastards.) Nor is it only the self-defeating futility of crying "Wolf!" There's more at work here. It smacks of an ideology of man-hating.

I have long been puzzled at the feminist hatred of pornography. "It reduces women to sex objects!" Absurd. It is simply a highlighting of a particular aspect of beautiful women. It is no different from fashion modeling. Does that reduce fashion models to animated mannequins? If I were a sports fan, it would not occur to me to think of the athletes as no more than exploited cattle. There is much more to all such public people. But what we do not see of their lives is none of our business. This is why our society's voyeuristic curiosity about the private lives and scandals of celebrities is so pathetically sick.

So then I have to wonder: Are these feminists really protesting male sexual interest in women per se? A woman may be a "sex object," if that's what you want to call it, without being a "mere" sex object. But when feminists refuse to draw such a line, I start thinking of Jill Johnson's book Lesbian Nation, in which she argues that all feminism is at bottom lesbianism.

In some schools boys are encouraged to play with dolls, girls with trucks. Many "progressives" want to replace "he," "she," "his," "her," "him," with "gender-neutral" language so as to promote the illusion that gender is a matter of "social construction." No wonder we are observing a sudden epidemic of transgendered youth. They are responding to the propaganda which suffuses our society like clouds of mosquito poison pumped out of trucks coming down the street.”

 This is of course, in a word, repugnant. Furthermore, it has no goddamn place in an introduction to an anthology of sword-and-sorcery stories.

So what can Lovecraft fans do? Simple. I, for one, can end my quest to collect the “Cycle” anthologies edited by this waste of humanity. We can stop shelling out money for back-issues of “Crypt of Cthulhu,” on which he served as editor. Additionally, we can email Chaosium and Titan Books, two important publishers of Lovecraftian fiction, and request that they end associations with this nut-job. And finally, we can stick to buying anthologies by S.T. Joshi, Stephen Jones and Ellen Datlow.

[supersonicstarblazer]

i.e. we don‘t meet. Or? - by supersonicstarblazer

[duchessofostergotlands]

if you were given the opportunity to pick the women featured on the cover for being forces of change, who would you pick? I loved several of the ladies especially Yara Shahidi, who is around my age. She does so much that it makes me ashamed but also proud of her/my generation lol.

Gosh, I don’t even know. The thing is that women who inspire me personally may not be the same as women who are forces for change. Those are different things. I guess these are a handful of women I think are changing the world or have changed the world (although I’d say something different next week haha). Also these are not all necessarily royally appropriate:

I would keep Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which is probably of no surprise to anyone given that I keep gushing about her. She has brought a whole generation of young girls and women into feminism with her TED talk and her essays, with her work on feminism being shared across whole nations as part of government run female empowerment projects. She also centres African women in her work, discussing the intersections between race, class and gender. 

I would also probably keep Jacinda. Her decision to have NZ focus on wellbeing over GDP is groundbreaking. She has gone back to the drawing board on how a country should operate and is fundamentally rethinking the way government cares for its people. Plus she made history with her decision to have a child and take maternity leave as sort of Head of State (I know it’s HM but it’s basically her who does all the stuff). In the UK, female politicians still have to turn up to vote even if they’re heavily pregnant so it’s refreshing to see a female politician smashing those entrenched views 

I would also have to agree on one more, Greta! She has changed the conversation around the environment from one of mild concern to urgent action. Although her words weren’t new, she has managed to express them in a succinct and personal way that has connected with people from all over the world. She has the weight of the world on her shoulders- literally- and has been bullied by grown men for her autism but she has been unfailing in her commitment. She is also encouraging a wave of youth activism as a peer rather than as an adult who can often be patronising or overly simplistic:

Malala Yousafzai- Education and gender equality activist. She has changed discourse around girl’s education- especially in traditional societies- and has spoken truth to power with bravery and conviction. The Malala Fund has since become a global force, attracting the support of some of the most powerful people in the world 

Hannah Gadsby- Stand up comedian. Her comedy special Nanette is perhaps the greatest stand up routine ever written. For the first time that I’m aware of someone exposed and deconstructed their routine and how it impacts on them away from the stage, and in the process touched on homophobia and mental illness in such sensitive ways. She’s reinvented a whole form of expression 

Leyla Hussein- Anti-FGM activist and co-founder of Daughters of Eve. She is a survivor of FGM herself. She has been instrumental in raising awareness of what’s generally a secretive practice and pushing for change for young girls. If it wasn’t for her we would probably never have seen anyone in power discussing FGM, let alone people being arrested for it.  

Phoebe Waller Bridge- It would be easy for someone who hasn’t seen any of Phoebe’s work to think that she’s over hyped.  She isn’t. She’s been such a fresh voice on screen, bringing stories of real women with messy lives in to the public eye without straying in to the “insufferably privileged” Lena Dunham school of writing.  

Caroline Criado-Perez- One of the most intelligent voices in feminist activism. She has led several successful campaigns to ensure women’s representation, including the push for a woman on bank notes and a statue of Millicent Fawcett. But her expertise is in data and she has opened up a groundbreaking conversation about the gender gap in data. Data is going to be the future of our society and if we aren’t recognising these gaps now then the future is going to continue to be inherently biased so her work could have huge ramifications. 

Laura Bates- Founder of the Everyday Sexism project. The site gave a platform for hundreds of thousands of women to share the small acts of sexism they deal with every day, bringing these previously “harmless” acts in to the open. Laura’s work has sparked new conversations in feminist thought, linking the small daily experiences women go through to the more extreme acts of gender motivated violence and oppression. 

Munroe Bergdorf- A highly controversial figure but it’s part of why I think she’s changing the world. As a trans woman of colour she has refused to be silent about trans rights, white supremacy, misogyny, and the areas where they intersect. She has become a lightning rod for public opinions on trans rights, losing or walking away from a series of high profile positions due to the increase in transphobia in the UK. Her voice is powerful, and that scares people

Nadia Murad- Nobel Peace Prize winner. After dealing with kidnapping and sexual violence as a young woman in Iraq, she became a committed activist raising awareness of the way violence against women is used as a weapon of conflict. She has spoken to the UN Security Council on human trafficking- the first time that has been done- and has since met with everyone from Trump to the Pope to discuss her life and her vision for the future. Her groundbreaking work has been a huge force for putting sexual violence and human trafficking in conflict on the world agenda 

Carole Cadwalladr- Another one who could never be included if I was a royal. We are on the precipice of never being able to have a free and fair election again and Carole is one of the people leading the global fight back. Her investigative journalism has broken scandals on electoral law violations in the US and the UK and exposed the link between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica 

Loujain al-Hathloul- Currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. She publicly defied the ban on women driving and travelling without male companions and was instrumental in placing pressure on the Saudi government to change the law. Despite Saudi Arabia allowing women to drive, she was arrested and has been tortured. She is still in prison. 

Amika George- Only 18 years old but she has already changed the landscape for girls in the UK through her campaigning around menstruation. She has been instrumental in campaigns to end the tax on menstrual hygiene products, provide tampons and pads freely in schools to prevent period poverty, and teach young boys about menstruation to prevent stigma in future generations. Her work has changed government policy and she’s just getting started

Zubaida Bai- Childbirth is still one of the biggest killers of women in the developing world. Zubaida has created a low cost, accessible healthy birth kit after experiencing an infection after giving birth. The item was launched in her home country, India, and has now spread to other countries. It has improved outcomes for 1.5 million mothers and babies and has the potential to transform maternal health. Most importantly she is considering the structural context and part of her work involves training up health care professionals so there’s no need for the birth kits! 

[josiebelladonna]

randomly spilling the tea on some things because I feel like it

Twitter is a joke now. When I first joined back in 2012 on my old, old account (@down_undershoe), the biggest thing there was One Direction and “Jelena”. Now you either have to be political or a “stan” to get attention and it’s pathetic.

Jerry Cantrell has a point when he says there are two things you should never get into a conversation about, religion and politics, and apparently nobody in the late 2010s got the memo.

The word “stan” comes from the Eminem song Stan, wherein the titular character gets so obsessed with Em, that he kills himself, his girlfriend, and his unborn baby all because he ran out of patience. It’s a portmanteau of “stalker” and “fan”. All of you fans of Kpop, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, whomever, calling yourself a “stan” are not only clueless (at least I hope you are) but do your research ffs. I mean, really, it’s one thing when I call myself a whore because I like a lot of people but at least I know the meaning behind it.

I’ve noticed Metallica fans who hate on Lars are often the most negative bastards you will ever encounter, like you read their words and they have this vibe to them that just makes you wanna slap them.

Speaking of Lars, Jessica is a bimbo and a gold-digger, and he’s a fool for marrying her, and you’re all fools for admiring her, and that is the hill I will die on.

And Lars is actually a very good drummer, y’all are just jealous.

He’s a sweetheart, too!

And even though he’s the kind of guy who can wear his hair in any fashion and look cute, he peaked in the early 90s with that long hair and the beard. He was so sexy, like everything I want in a boyfriend

And speaking of Metallica, they’re not overrated. They were just at the right place at the right time, and James just so happens to write well enough, and Lars just so happens to be good with words.

Greta Van Fleet is not a Zeppelin ripoff. Y’all are just close minded.

Anthrax shot themselves in the foot big time getting rid of Joey in ‘92 AND THAT IS THE HILL I WILL DIE ON!

Speaking of Anthrax, I will never understand why everyone wants to kick them out of the Big Four. Yeah, they’re kind of the odd ones—take your pick from being New Yorkers to being a quintet, but why, tho?

Grunge is a fabricated word that... doesn’t really tell you anything. None of them sound alike, and while we’re on the subject, you guys know Seattle was more than just Nirvana and Pearl Jam, right? Go out and look under the veil of media attention at some of the more obscure bands like Green River, My Sister’s Machine, Truly, and Hater.

The #noonesingslikeyouanymore hashtag needs to die. Not only does it make the song unbearable but it’s a Vicky-ism: I don’t want to give that manipulative bitch any more attention.

Of all the conspiracy theories out there, the one about the moon landing being a hoax is probably the best one, just from the sheer ridiculousness of it. Why would NASA go to all of that trouble of testing, and designing, and building, and recruiting astronauts, and everything, spending millions of dollars, only to say “lmao jk we made the whole thing up”? Not to mention, all it tells me is you failed at science and that depresses me. Honestly, who cares about media coverage or what the government thinks: you did poor in SCIENCE!

Feminism. Ah, feminism. A once noble cause, progressive and powerful, now relegated to a pile of dog shit by bigots and misandrists with an axe to grind. All trends have a shelf life and there will come a day more people like me suffering from weltschmerz will see how counterproductive it’s become.

Y’all need to cut Lena Dunham some slack. Sure she’s done some scandalous things in the past... yeah, like none of us have any dirty laundry. She had a critically acclaimed show, for god’s sake.

Modern art is pretentious with a capital P. Really, when did we go from concepts from the Salon in Paris and movements like surrealism and Impressionism and just having a sense of community to splattering shit on a canvas and calling it good and looking down your nose at other artists all the while?

The whole “red nose” thing with character art here on Tumblr has gone too far—looking at Loish and any artist clogging the art tags on here. There’s nothing cute or beautiful about having a character look like they just came down with the flu or broke out in hives, and all the while, have their bodies look like they’re made of rubber.

“Millennial pink” whatever it’s called, goes great with rich colors or as an overtone, like I’ve used it and other pastels in my digital drawings as an accent, but I’m sorry: that color with creamsicle orange or baby blue? God, no. And it’s at the point of overkill now that yes, it will go out of style.

I’m all for fanfic writing—shit, my biggest piece of writing atm is a fanfic, Painted in a Corner—but I have to admit it: Fifty Shades killed the vibe. I have read (and written) sexier pieces of writing that deserve bucketloads of praise. E.L. James used to work in television so she knows how to market (read: she didn’t revolutionize sex, just made it commercial) and she has the gall to act all surprised about it, like you’re not fooling anyone with that, gtfo with that

[crazycoke-addict]

Cancel Culture is a myth

I feel like at this point where everybody knows what cancel culture is. If you don’t know well it’s when a celebrity gets called out for something they said or done whether it be from the past or just recently, that person is cancelled or are they really? Cancel Culture is a myth that people use to justify a person’s actions by how we shouldn’t judge a person by their mistakes they made in the past and make that don’t get hold accountable. Cancel Culture is apparently suppose to ruin a person’s life to the point where people say that Cancel Culture has become toxic. However when you look at list of celebrities who have been in controversy in their times, those celebrities still have their jobs intact despite saying or doing unforgivable things.

Louis C.K was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women and even admitted to doing so. When the news broke out, HBO removes his stand-up specials like Lucky Louie was removed and his film, I love you daddy was shelved. Louis C.k even disappeared for a while until he returned on the stage by performing at the Greenwich Village’s comedy cellar. Louis C.K was also on the news for quite sometime because of jokes he made that were offensive including when he mocked parkland school shooting survivors by saying:

“They’re testifying in front of congress. You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I’ve got to listen to you talking?”.

Lena Dunham whom is the ultimate white feminists and has been a lot of controversy including when she wrote about molesting her own sister, defended an alleged rapist and even tried to silence the victim despite saying that the only thing saying that women don’t lie about rape. Despite all of this and should’ve been cancelled when GIRLs came out. Lena Dunham is still working on future projects and is commission to write a script for a film about a Syrian refugee who was stranded. Tucker Carlson was exposed for defending cult leader, Warren Jeffs who was convicted for child sexual abuse. He also been known for saying misogynistic, racist and even said white supremacy doesn’t exist in America. But despite all of that, Tucker Carlson is still working on Fox News And gets to saying problematic things like how the El Paso shooter was mentally ill and not a white supremacist who drove to a city where 83% of the population are Hispanics. The race that the shooter was targeting because of trump. Scarlett Johansson also has fair share of controversy herself from playing an Asian character to openly supporting Woody Allen. This hasn’t stopped Scarlett Johansson from getting roles for future projects.

The list goes on and on. But as you can see from those examples I told you, Cancel Culture doesn’t exist nor does it ruins lives. A celebrity or even a politician will be in a scandal, they’ll say they were sorry and disappeared for a while only to make comeback. One of those people whom many believe had become a victim of cancel culture is Carson King. Carson King made a racists tweets back when he was 16. Those tweets included him comparing black mothers to gorillas and made jokes about black people getting killed in the holocaust. People came to Carson’s defense by saying how those tweets were mistakes and he just 16 when he made those tweets. They also mentioned how we should forgive him because he sincerely apologise. Even though he apologised and has been doing good things, doesn’t mean every single person should forgive especially from the black community. The people who say that we should forgive him are mainly white people. Of course you would forgive him because those tweets weren’t targeted by you. Even if he disappeared for a while, an article might get published of him making a comeback by doing a good-deed.

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The Bryan Awards - The Best of the Last Decade (The 2010s)

With only two weeks left in the decade, I took a thorough look back at the last ten Bryan Awards (with the last nine of them being recorded as annual podcasts for WCRS FM), and picked the Best of the Best since the 2010 Bryan Awards (or programs that aired since January 1, 2010, and airing up until the cut-off for this September’s Bryan Awards, which was May 31, which would eliminate the likes of Mrs. Fletcher, Season 2 of Big Little Lies, plus newbies like On Becoming A God in Central Florida, Perfect Harmony, the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and this week’s A Christmas Carol).

Here are the Guidelines Chosen for both this and the Silver Garbage Awards Worst of the Decade: - Eligibility Period is January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019. - Glee is being entered for New Series of the Decade, because it won the 2010 Bryan Award in that race, despite it debuted in 2009. - Younger Acting will be merged through the genres: Daytime, Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series.  And if an actor turned 26 doesn't really matter, as long as 50% of their nominations were before they were 26. - Big Little Lies (Season 1), Orange Is the New Black, and Downton Abbey are Dramas.  Shameless is a Comedy.  True Detective is a Longform, as is American Horror Story, and ALL seasons will be lumped into one for Anthology Stories. - Sherlock and Sharknado are being entered for ALL of their movies, ditto for Black Mirror episodes, in the Longform races. - There will be separate Lead and Supporting Acting races for Comedy and Drama Bryan Awards, but NOT for Silver Garbage. Apologies for the Length of this Post, but without further ado...

COMEDY SERIES of the DECADE: Barry (HBO) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) black-ish (ABC) Girls (HBO) Glee (Fox) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Modern Family (ABC) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Transparent (Amazon Prime) Veep (HBO)

DRAMA SERIES of the DECADE: The Americans (F/X) Breaking Bad (AMC) Downton Abbey (PBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Homeland (Showtime) Mad Men (AMC) Stranger Things (Netflix) This Is Us (NBC)

LIMITED SERIES, TV MOVIE, or SPECIAL of the DECADE: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (F/X) Behind the Candelabra (HBO) Chernobyl (HBO) Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Game Change (HBO) Mildred Pierce (HBO) The Normal Heart (HBO) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) The People Versus O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (F/X) Temple Grandin (HBO)

DAYTIME SOAP OF THE DECADE: All My Children (ABC/TOLN) As the World Turns (CBS) The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Days of Our Lives (NBC) General Hospital (ABC) One Life to Live (ABC/TOLN) The Young and the Restless (CBS) 

VARIETY or TALK SHOW of the DECADE: The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Key & Peele (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) Saturday Night Live (NBC) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) New Series of the Decade: Glee (Fox; 2010 Winner) Boardwalk Empire (HBO; 2011 Winner) Homeland (Showtime; 2012 Winner) The Newsroom (HBO; 2013 Winner) Masters of Sex (Showtime; 2014 Winner) black-ish (ABC; 2015 Winner) Casual (Hulu; 2016 Winner) This Is Us (2017 Winner) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime; 2018 Winner) Succession (HBO; 2019 Winner)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Anthony Anderson - black-ish (ABC) Aziz Ansari - Master of None (Netflix) Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock (NBC) Don Cheadle - Black Monday & House of Lies (both Showtime) Johnny Galecki - The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Donald Glover - Atlanta (F/X) Bill Hader - Barry (HBO) William H. Macy - Shameless (Showtime) Matt LeBlanc - Episodes (Showtime) Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Kristen Bell - The Good Place (NBC) & House of Lies (Showtime) Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Rachel Brosnahan - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Zooey Deschanel - New Girl (Fox) Lena Dunham - Girls (HBO) Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie (Showtime) Allison Janney - Mom (CBS) Ellie Kemper - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep (HBO) Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation (NBC) 

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Louie Anderson - Baskets (F/X) Alec Baldwin - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Tituss Burgess - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Ty Burrell - Modern Family (ABC) Adam Driver - Girls (HBO) Tony Hale - Veep (HBO) Ed O’Neill - Modern Family (ABC) Tony Shalhoub - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family (ABC)

Henry Winkler - Barry (HBO) Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Alex Borstein - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Julie Bowen - Modern Family (ABC) Anna Chlumsky - Veep (HBO) Jane Krakowski - 30 Rock (NBC) & Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Jane Lynch - Glee (Fox) Kate McKinnon - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Kathleen Rose Perkins - Episodes (Showtime) Sofia Vergara - Modern Family (ABC) Betty White - Hot in Cleveland (TV Land) Kristen Wiig - Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Lead Actor in a Drama Series of the Decade: Sterling K. Brown - This Is Us (NBC) Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad (AMC) Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom (HBO) Jon Hamm - Mad Men (AMC) Rami Malek - Mr. Robot (USA) Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul (AMC) Billy Porter - Pose (F/X) Matthew Rhys - The Americans (F/X) Milo Ventimiglia - This Is Us (NBC)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series of the Decade: Claire Danes - Homeland (Showtime) Viola Davis - How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Michelle Dockery - Downton Abbey (PBS) Claire Foy - The Crown (Netflix) Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies (HBO) Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife (CBS) Elisabeth Moss - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) & Mad Men (AMC) Keri Russell - The Americans (F/X) Kerry Washington - Scandal (ABC) Robin Wright - House of Cards (Netflix) 

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series of the Decade: Jonathan Banks - Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad (both AMC) Jim Carter - Downton Abbey (PBS) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Game of Thrones (HBO) Alan Cumming - The Good Wife (CBS) Peter Dinklage - Game of Thrones (HBO) David Harbour - Stranger Things (Netflix) John Lithgow - The Crown (Netflix) Mandy Patinkin - Homeland (Showtime) Aaron Paul - Breaking Bad (AMC) John Slattery - Mad Men (AMC) 

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series of the Decade: Uzo Aduba - Orange Is The New Black (Netflix) Christine Baranski - The Good Wife (CBS) Alexis Bledel - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Laura Dern - Big Little Lies (HBO) Anna Gunn - Breaking Bad (AMC) Lena Headey - Game of Thrones (HBO) Christina Hendricks - Mad Men (AMC) Thandie Newton - Westworld (HBO) Monica Potter - Parenthood (NBC) Dame Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey (PBS)

Lead Actor in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Darren Criss - The Assassination of Gianni Versace (F/X) Benedict Cumberbatch - Parade’s End, Patrick Melrose, and Sherlock (HBO/Showtime/BBC America) Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra (HBO) Jared Harris - Chernobyl (HBO) Richard Jenkins - Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Matthew McConaughey - True Detective (HBO) Sam Rockwell - Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Mark Ruffalo - The Normal Heart (HBO) Billy Bob Thornton - Fargo (F/X) Courtney B. Vance - The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) 

Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Amy Adams - Sharp Objects (HBO)

Claire Danes - Temple Grandin (HBO) Kirsten Dunst - Fargo (F/X) Nicole Kidman - Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO) Jessica Lange - American Horror Story & Feud: Bette vs. Joan (both F/X) Frances McDormand - Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Julianne Moore - Game Change (HBO) Sarah Paulson - American Horror Story & The People versus O.J. Simpson (both F/X) Michelle Williams - Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce (HBO) 

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Matthew Bomer - The Normal Heart (HBO) Sterling K. Brown - The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) Martin Freeman - Sherlock (BBC America) Ed Harris - Game Change (HBO) Guy Pearce - Mildred Pierce (HBO) Jesse Plemons - Fargo (F/X) Edgar Ramirez - The Assassination of Gianni Versace (F/X) David Thewlis - Fargo (F/X) Ben Whishaw - A Very English Scandal (Amazon Prime) Bokeem Woodbine - Fargo (F/X) 

Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Patricia Arquette - The Act (Hulu) Angela Bassett - American Horror Story (F/X) Kathy Bates - American Horror Story (F/X) Patricia Clarkson - Sharp Objects (HBO) Regina King - American Crime (ABC) Melissa Leo - All the Way & Mildred Pierce (both HBO) Julia Ormond - Temple Grandin (HBO) Julia Roberts - The Normal Heart (HBO) Allison Tolman - Fargo (F/X) Evan Rachel Wood - Mildred Pierce (HBO)

Lead Actor in Daytime of the Decade: Maurice Benard - General Hospital (ABC) Peter Bergman - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Scott Clifton - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Doug Davidson - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Billy Flynn - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Anthony Geary - General Hospital (ABC) Christian LeBlanc - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Billy Miller - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) James Scott - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Jason Thompson - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Lead Actress in Daytime of the Decade: Eileen Davidson - Days of Our Lives (NBC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Susan Flannery - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Nancy Lee Grahn - General Hospital (ABC) Katherine Kelly Lang - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Debbi Morgan - All My Children (ABC) Gina Tognoni - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Heather Tom - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Maura West - As the World Turns (CBS) & General Hospital (ABC) Laura Wright - General Hospital (ABC) Colleen Zenk - As the World Turns (CBS)

Supporting Actor in Daytime of the Decade: Darin Brooks - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Steve Burton - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Trent Dawson - As the World Turns (CBS) Chad Duell - General Hospital (ABC) Jonathan Jackson - General Hospital (ABC) Bryton James - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Eric Martsolf - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Greg Rikaart - Days of Our Lives (NBC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Greg Vaughan - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Jacob Young - All My Children (ABC) & The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Supporting Actress in Daytime of the Decade: Julie Marie Berman - General Hospital (ABC) Jessica Collins - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Melissa Claire Egan - All My Children (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Jane Elliot - General Hospital (ABC) Genie Francis - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Amelia Heinle - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Elizabeth Hendrickson - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Michelle Stafford - General Hospital (ABC) Kirsten Storms - General Hospital (ABC) Arianne Zucker - Days of Our Lives (NBC) 

Younger Actor in a Series, Limited Series, or Daytime Soap of the Decade: Max Burkholder - Parenthood (NBC) Chris Colfer - Glee (Fox) Bryan Craig - General Hospital (ABC) Freddie Highmore - Bates Motel (A&E) Connor Jessup - American Crime (ABC) Chandler Massey - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Cameron Monaghan - Shameless (Showtime) Rico Rodriguez - Modern Family (ABC) Marcus Scribner - black-ish (ABC) Jeremy Allen White - Shameless (Showtime)

Younger Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Daytime Soap of the Decade: Kristen Alderson - General Hospital & One Life to Live (both ABC) Tara Lynne Barr - Casual (Hulu) Millie Bobby Brown - Stranger Things (Netflix) Hunter King - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Yara Shahidi - black-ish (ABC) Kiernan Shipka - Mad Men (AMC) Holly Taylor - The Americans (F/X) Sophie Turner - Game of Thrones (HBO) Mae Whitman - Parenthood (NBC) Maisie Williams - Game of Thrones (HBO) 

Talk/Variety Show Host of the Decade: Samantha Bee - Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS) Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) and The Late Show… (CBS) Jimmy Fallon - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon & The Tonight Show… (both NBC) Chelsea Handler - Chelsea Lately (E!) John Oliver - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Dr. Mehmet Oz - The Dr. Oz Show (Syndicated) Amy Schumer - Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Jon Stewart - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)  The Hosts of The Talk (CBS) The Hosts of The View (ABC) Game/Reality Host of the Decade: Ted Allen - Chopped (Food Network) RuPaul Charles - RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo/VH1) Carson Daly - The Voice (NBC) Steve Harvey - Family Feud (Syndicated) Phil Keoghan - The Amazing Race (CBS) Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn - Project Runway (Lifetime) Jane Lynch - Hollywood Game Night (NBC) Jeff Probst - Survivor (CBS) Ryan Seacrest - American Idol (ABC & Fox) Alex Trebek - Jeopardy (Syndicated)

Ensemble of the Decade: As the World Turns (CBS) Big Little Lies (HBO) Downton Abbey (PBS) General Hospital (ABC) Mad Men (AMC) Modern Family (ABC) The Normal Heart (HBO) The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) Saturday Night Live (NBC) This is Us (NBC) 

Episode of the Decade:

The Americans - “START” (F/X)

As the World Turns - “# 13,858” (CBS)

Breaking Bad - “Felina” (AMC)

Game of Thrones - “The Battle of the Bastards” (HBO)

Game of Thrones - “Mother’s Mercy” (HBO)

Glee - “The Quarterback” (Fox)

Mad Men - “Person to Person” (AMC)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - “Pilot” (Amazon Prime)

Saturday Night Live - “Betty White/Jay-Z” (NBC)

South Park - The “Black Friday” Trilogy (Comedy Central)

Sports Moment of the Decade:

American Pharoah Wins The Triple Crown (NBC)

The Big Comeback: The Atlanta Falcons blow a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI (Fox)

The Cubs Win The World Series - 2016 World Series (Fox)

The Fierce Five - U.S. Women’s Gymnastics, 2012 Summer Olympics (NBC)

Maximum Security Gets Disqualified from the Kentucky Derby (NBC)

Promise Fulfilled: The Cavs Win the 2016 NBA Finals (ABC)

The Shot ‘18: Michigan Beats Houston at the Buzzer - NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (TNT)

Spotgate: Barrett Was Short - “The Game: Michigan at Ohio State” (ABC)

Team USA Women Win the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup (Fox)

Undisputed: Ohio State Wins the College Football Playoff (ESPN)  

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the irony of lena dunham weighing in on the college cheating scandal...... when her parents funded her first movie..............

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'Catherine Called Birdy' review: Lena Dunham reveals her softer side for medieval coming-of-age comedy

‘Catherine Called Birdy’ review: Lena Dunham reveals her softer side for medieval coming-of-age comedy

A meteoric rise, a provocative hit TV show, a brash public persona, and a long list of scandals has made Lena Dunham a controversial figure, to say the least. Yet, her newest film may be her most shocking move yet as the self-deprecating spitfire behind Girls delivers a feel-good, coming-of-age comedy for kids. While going PG-13 might seem wildly off-brand for the polarizing provocateur,…

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“Je peux être tellement plus effrayante que j'en ai l'air.”

Soyez fière d’être une femme, soyez fière de votre corps, soyez fière de réclamer les mêmes droits que les hommes ! Isabelle Alonso, « tant qu'une seule femme sur la planète subira les effets du sexisme, la lutte des femmes sera légitime, et le féminisme nécessaire. » Vive le girl power ! L’écrivain espagnol Felix Lope de Vega a dit « Mettre un frein à la femme, c'est mettre une limite à la mer. » Cette phrase résume à merveille le caractère des femmes. Combien de fois par jour une femme entend des remarques désobligeantes sur sa tenue ou son comportement ? Trop souvent malheureusement.  Aucune femme ne devrait avoir honte de son corps et de ce qu’elle en fait. Lorsque l’on voit des chiffres affolants comme, par exemple, 27% des gens qui pensent qu’une femme habillée trop court est responsable de son viol, on se dit qu’il reste encore de gros progrès à faire.  Heureusement, il existe de nombreuses personnes qui luttent pour l’égalité des sexes et le droit des femmes à disposer d’elles-mêmes. Parmi elles, on retrouve aussi bien des célébrités comme Emma Watson, Lena Dunham ou encore Patricia Arquette, que des gens « lambdas ».  Le féminisme des temps modernes Certaines vont hurler au scandale, mais oui, il existe un féminisme 2.0. L'avantage de ce nouveau genre, c'est qu'il est accessible à un plus large public et qu'il se diffuse plus rapidement. Est-ce qu'il réussit à faire changer l'opinion des plus bornés d'entre nous ? Rien n'est moins sûr, mais l'idée est bel et bien là.  On a d'ailleurs beaucoup parlé de la newsletter de Lena Dunham qui invite des célébrités à partager leur vision du féminisme et à proposer des solutions. Ce qui est intéressant dans cette démarche, c'est qu'on peut voir que le sexisme touche toutes les femmes y compris les personnalités publiques comme Michelle Obama. Qu'on se rassure, à notre échelle aussi, les femmes se montrent créatives. Dernièrement, des jeunes étudiantes ont eu l’idée de tester les gens et leur ouverture d’esprit (ou plutôt leur absence d’ouverture d’esprit). Elles ont invité les gens à venir coller des post-it sur les femmes jugées provocantes. Résultat, ce sont les moins vêtues (on précise qu’elles n’étaient pas dénudées) qui se sont vues recouvertes de papiers colorés. Apparemment, il y en a que le harcèlement de rue ne dérange pas.  Honnêtement, nous sommes au XXIème siècle, devons-nous encore poser la question « cette femme mérite-t-elle d’être violée ? ». Non, on ne devrait pas ! Une femme doit pouvoir s’habiller comme elle le désire sans craindre de se faire agresser. Ces citations féministes qui nous boostent Même si nous savons que nous devons être fière de notre corps et de qui nous sommes, cela fait toujours du bien d'entendre et de lire des citations qui nous mettent en valeur. C'est un moyen de se rappeler que : oui, on peut s'habiller comme on veut, oui, on peut devenir ce que nous voulons (astronaute, ingénieur et même présidente).  Il est bon d'en finir avec les stéréotypes de genre et de tenir tête aux sexistes, car comme le dit Oscar WIlde : "Commencer par s'aimer soi-même c'est le début d'une longue histoire d'amour". Et il a entièrement raison. Avant d'être en couple avec quelqu'un, nous sommes avant tout en couple avec nous-même, et comment aimer quelqu'un lorsque l'on ne s'aime pas soi-même ? 

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Emma Thompson confronts nudity and aging in sex worker comedy

LOS ANGELES

Emma Thompson's naked scene in her new film about an older woman hiring a sex worker was "probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do," she told the Sundance film festival on Saturday.

The Oscar-winning actress, 62, stars in "Good Luck To You, Leo Grande" as a repressed former schoolteacher who pays a handsome male escort for the sexual adventures she regrets having shunned as a younger woman.

The heartfelt comedy set almost entirely in a hotel room addresses the ethics of sex work and taboos surrounding motherhood and aging -- and sees Thompson tackle several intimate and nude scenes.

The actors and director rehearsed "entirely nude" and played games that involved discussing their bodies on the scaled-down set in order to build trust.

Still, "it's very challenging to be nude at 62," said Thompson.

"I don't think I could've done it before the age that I am," she told an online panel. "And yet, of course the age that I am makes it extremely challenging because we aren't used to seeing untreated bodies on the screen."

In addition to sexual scenes with Daryl McCormack, 29, Thompson's character disrobes before a mirror and looks at her body "in a completely relaxed, un-judgmental way."

"I have never done that... She doesn't alter herself, lift herself up, suck her stomach in, turn around or try to alter what she sees," said Thompson.

Despite trusting the filmmakers, Thompson said she "still found it fantastically hard to do."

"Probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do really -- and that's interesting in itself. That tells the whole story of my life as a woman surrounded by impossible demands and images of bodies," she said.

"That's the great tragedy of the female body in the 20th and 21st centuries. And it's a narrative that we absolutely have to change."

Earlier Saturday at Sundance, new docuseries "We Need to Talk About Cosby" premiered.

It focusses on the gulf between Bill Cosby's decades-long status as "America's dad" and long-simmering allegations of serial sexual assault.

Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, but his conviction was overturned on a technicality last year and he is currently free.

The series, described by The Hollywood Reporter as a "provocative and important" attempt to spark conversation about the scandal, airs on U.S. network Showtime from Jan 30.

Also premiering at Sundance on Saturday was "Sharp Stick," the first new film in over a decade from "Girls" creator Lena Dunham.

The Sundance festival runs until Jan 30.