Link to
his apology over his Wonder Woman review. I'm Harpoon.
Harpoon:
You might be genuine about the "mouthiness," but wasn't
something like this applied recently to Hillary Clinton, to her great
disadvantage?... surely you must be aware of this. She was a pant-suited
warrior who took no one's guff, and a lot of people saw a visage like the
overwhelming mother of their childhoods, and fled to Bernie or to the vicious
man -- that is, Gloria Steinem's take. Strikes me that in explaining how to you
the term expresses only clear-cut admiration, you're expunging some things from
memory that can't be all THAT repressed, given the nearness of the election, so
you don't find you've trespassed into the unforgivable -- demonstrated
unconscious fear of the castrating woman. I sensed your own dis-ease, not just
your admiration, here.
There is S&M though, isn't there? Chris Pine's in a chair,
wrapped around in rope, powerless to do anything but comply. That's pretty much
him and his army mates the whole movie. She's the "S," and they and
much of the male audience are the "M," enjoying their uselessness in
comparison to the phallic woman, who, joyously!, has seen enough good in them
to decide to serve as their all-powerful protector.
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margot101:
David, just because you're a liberal who believes in women's
equality and understands some basic principles of feminism doesn't mean you're
never culpable for problematic behavior.
Also, people aren't just upset about this review, but your whole
history of describing women and actresses in your reviews. Remember when you
described 10-year-old Emma Watson as thus? "The prepubescent Watson is
absurdly alluring to those of us who always went for bossy girls; when she
fixed her sharp brown eyes on Radcliffe and said, “Harreh, do be keh-ful,” my
heart did about five somersaults." Jesus.
@margot101 Culpable? Who the hell is going to admit
to being culpable when it means admitting to finding a prepubescent alluring.
What's the standing judgment awaiting people who admit to that? Isn't the idea
better to create, therapeutic trust, rather than encourage more active
self-censoring?
margot101:
@Harpoon Super hot idea: Have NYMag editors actually do
their job and stop letting him get away with this stuff. There's a whole
editorial staff that could vet his reviews, advise him not to publicly admit
his attraction to a child, take out all of that "lively" stuff about
what actresses he finds bangable, recommend therapy. Novel, isn't it?
@margot101 @Harpoon LOL this is what a born cop
sounds like.
margot101:
I can't believe my suggestion that critics stay away from
sexualizing children is receiving objections in the Vulture comment section
Harpoon:
@margot101 Hillary
Clinton was right that most of America is suffering from serious disorders, but
not so great in seeing it only as something they're all culpable for --
end the loser beasts! The liberal ability to explore what are genuine
psychological disorders rather than character defects/inner evils, is being
trumped by some intrinsic need to smash people down. Jessa Crispin suggested
that we're using them as "sh*t containers" we can dump anything we don't
like about ourselves into, that can't defend themselves or rebound back at us
because THEY ARE psychically deplorable -- so surely this isn't in fact what
we're doing! Which too is a pathology that needs remedying.
You weren't suggesting, you were admonishing, attacking...
character-destroying -- that's what I personally objected to. In such an
environment, which is everywhere now, no one is going to visit their therapist
about their weird fascination with bossy 10-year-old girls and overwhelming militant
women. It'll never gain conscious recognition, but in some sublimated, perhaps
collectively shared (how many men found bossy, 12-year-old Hermione alluring?),
public way, gratification will be found.
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