Comments on: Diablo Cody sucks. A lot.

By: advertising, fairy tales and pornography | anti social butterfly

advertising, fairy tales and pornography | anti social butterfly — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:54:45 +0000

[...] Cody‘s main claim to fame is the 2007 film Juno. I could go all Bill Hicks here and call this movie out for what it [...]

By: Immir

Immir — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:05:35 +0000

“(Diablo Cody is)..an agent of patriarchal exploitation disguised as an advocate for women’s freedom and equality.”

Well put. I like what syndicalist702 said about her being an ‘Uncle Tom’.

And I liked what Alex said: “I hate anyone who uses the phrase “feminism is about choice” and rationalize everything.”
ME TOO! They use it for absolutely everything when they have run out of junk to say X)

Also- LOL @ Nine Deuce’s reaction to Jess

By: isme

isme — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:51:50 +0000

On a related note, am I the only one here who has seen “Jennifer’s Body”?

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:04:22 +0000

I think she should have changed her name to “El Diablo”. That would have been more fitting.

By: Nico_D

Nico_D — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:27:29 +0000

Fair enough. I come at the issue from an American perspective, and remember the bottom end of my high-school class shipping out as reluctant soldiers or, in rather surprising numbers, turning into strippers. It wasn’t, of course, a 50/50 split, I think mostly as we have an oddly constructed society that is a bit schizoid about anything sexual but is rather keen on violent mayhem. Still think the analogy between these generally last-ditch job stands for the most part, though.

By: isme

isme — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:39:27 +0000

Isn’t that just saying that all jobs are by some measure, exploitative?

And then, of course, the amount of people in the arming wanting to protect/serve their country is likely to be rather higher than the amount of strippers in their job for the same reason.

By: berryblade

berryblade — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:33:14 +0000

That’s actually pretty bloody brilliant. I’ve never thought of that before, but you’ve just given me another reason to hate the military.

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:56 +0000

S’a good point!

By: Nico_D

Nico_D — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:33:54 +0000

As a sort of a side note I’ve always kind of considered military service as sort of the male equivalent to becoming a stripper. Either capitalize on your body to become an object of lust or capitalize on your body to become a weapon of state violence. Granted, there are many women in the military and male strippers, but the numbers in either area are skewed. And in either area, there exists an implicit expectation that you set aside personal morality in pursuit of your environment’s goals (ie sexual stimulation/objectification or relatively indiscriminate slaughter), both fields recruit from the lower-class workforce, and both tend to throw people in the extreme of their respective sexual stereotype (over macho destruction machine or submissive sexual puppet). I dunno. Stray thought.

By: Nine Deuce

Nine Deuce — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:52:48 +0000

You cannot possibly be serious. When women make the same amount of money for the same job men do, when women aren’t saddled with children without paternal support in such large numbers, when women are able to secure jobs in the trades and are able to work those jobs without suffering serious harassment, then I’ll consider stripping an “additional option.” And let me break out my tiny violin over the fact that men don’t have the option of allowing themselves to be sexually exploited for money.