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She’s A Big Girl, But A Looker

December 12, 2022 95 Comments

Because it’s Monday, that’s why:

“When we dress a cow, it’s not like pulling pants on, on a regular person.”

Dawn Luebbe’s short documentary about the Dress A Cow event at Ohio’s Canfield County Fair.

 

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Ephemera

Friday Ephemera (657)

December 9, 2022 63 Comments

Incoming. || If you have one, you should comb it. || A sound map of forests from around the world. (h/t, Things) || Some balloons, they said. || They were bigger back then. || Cannabis-infused gummies, chocolate, and gravy. || Gift idea #72. || Demon vehicle detected. || And not entirely unrelated. || More joys of public transport. || The progressive retail experience, part 450. || It can “correctly identify a particular excretory event 98% of the time.” || An interactive text-based game about nineteenth-century surgery. || Being a teacher, she tries to undermine it. || Another educator speaks. || Vintage music radio. || A.I. imagines Wes Anderson’s Avengers. It still can’t do hands. || The wheels you’ve always wanted. || It’s probably a spider. || Purely for science. || And finally, I’m not entirely sure, but I think this may be flirting.

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Film The Deep Wisdom of Celebrities

Never Before Attempted

December 8, 2022 38 Comments

Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course:

Lawrence… said, “I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”

She continued, “And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies. To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.”

Jennifer Lawrence confirms bint status.

Apparently, hugely popular films of the last fifty years aren’t Ms Lawrence’s area of expertise. Still, there’s something almost charming about an attempt to publicly self-inflate having such a different – and seemingly unforeseen – effect.

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Anthropology Film Free-For-All Science

A Brief Sense Of Proportion

December 7, 2022 52 Comments

As respite from our usual programming, and because some newcomers may have missed it, I thought I’d repost this short film by Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet.

 

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Academia Anthropology Media Politics

An Inexplicable Dislike

December 4, 2022 77 Comments

At Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, a panel of journalists and media professionals declare their priorities. 

The full two-and-a-half-hour video, which begins with a land acknowledgement and rumblings about “settlers” and their “racial guilt,” and “white supremacist colonial mindsets which we have internalised both collectively and individually,” can be endured here. 

Following this lengthy declaration of innate racial wrongness, the panellists begin to ruminate on “how best to confront the corrosive force of online hate targeted at journalists.” Being a journalist on Twitter, where the public can talk back, sometimes bluntly, is equated with surviving in an active warzone and other “hostile physical environments,” with women, the majority of the panel, apparently hardest hit. Journalists, we’re told, are “exposed to danger in the digital world” and consequently suffer high rates of “anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic distress.” As a result of being mocked or disagreed with on Twitter. “We don’t want our journalists to be killed,” says Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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