Category Archives: Popular Culture

Am I Racist?

A rare review of the movie.

Looks like both this and Reagan are worth going to a theater for.

[Tuesday-morning update]

Another one:

[Early-afternoon update]

[Mid-afternoon update]

The Cat-Eating Issue

Why the Democrats are f**ked (finally) on the immigration issue, and I’m totally down with it.

Who cares about murder, rape, job loss, ingrates on welfare, fentanyl, hundreds of thousand of kids in sexual slavery? But eat a cat, and now we’re mad.

[Update a few minutes later]

Speaking of f**king themselves, the Democrats’ tolerance of anti-Semitism is probably going to catch up with them in Michigan.

Barbie’s Final Joke

It may have spurred women to seek out gynecological health.

But I’m not sure I agree with this: “In the film’s final scene, after deciding to leave Barbieland for the real world, Barbie enthusiastically tells a receptionist, “I’m here to see my gynecologist,” a joke that could be based either on her supposed lack of genitals or her evident excitement for care many women find unpleasant.” Sénéchal and colleagues write in their paper.

I finally saw the flick on the plane to Miami last week, and that wasn’t my interpretation (spoiler alert). She had just talked to her creator, who told her that she could live in the real world if she wished to. I took her visit to the gyno to mean that, like Pinocchio, she had finally become a real woman. FWIW, I did find the movie an interesting commentary on gender and new-wave feminism and the modern relationship between American (or western) men and women.