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i wish people would stop trying to launder their moral/aesthetic offense as legitimate feminist criticism. if you were serious, you’d engage with the film as a whole and just not this picture of tits you keep sending. oh no, we can see their dirty pillows!
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i genuinely think much of the backlash towards the devils is rooted in people’s discomfort with seeing naked women on screen in a non-pornographic setting. to these people, the female body itself is a pornographic display.
hey so i just want to go on record stating my strong opposition to the gender essentialism of “edgy art bad when men but good when women” and publicly call for a return of feminist criticism that actually engages with art instead of just trying to police it.
yes, father what’s his face is tortured and burned at the stake while the nuns are not. you’d know that, if you’d actually ever seen the film.
okay but i am laughing at the idea of a stalker romance where both the guy and the girl are stalking each other. that’s true love baby.
i’m so tired of natalie wynn posting obvious ragebait and then acting dense when people react. but what i can’t figure out is if it’s just pure engagement farming bc rent is due, or if she has some psychosexual fixation and gets off imagining herself as a victim of an angry mob.
I want to help people interpret this tweet because many are struggling. When I say “worse than I thought” I’m proposing a counterfactual situation: what I expected Trump 2 to be. I was expecting Hitler. Trump 2 is very bad, but not Hitler bad. I therefore am massively relieved that it’s not Hitler bad. So, although it is bad, though millions have died (as expected), the situation is much less bad than my expectation of how bad it was going to be. The fact that my expectations of how bad it was going to be are worse than what it is, does not imply that what it is, is not bad. Merely that it is less bad than the counterfactual situation—that is, less bad than my expectations.
counterargument: ebert was embarrassed by his early career foray into sexploitation filmmaking. his script for beyond the valley of the dolls includes multiple rapes, murderous queers, and a sleeping woman being forced to fellate a gun before her brains are blown out.
sister jeanne laughs in madeline’s face when the girl says the nuns are there bc they love god,
correcting her that they’re there because they’re women who are unwanted by society. its painful to watch people try to wokescold a movie that already knows and
addresses your point!
this is a very shallow, very reactionary interpretation of the devils and embarrasses me as someone who likes ethel cain. was i wrong to assume she had something going on upstairs? im surprised how unwilling she is to engage with the movie/how deeply she misunderstands it
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dude, her humanity was never in question and you’re the one who brought it up while trying to temper your own seeming belief that she’s a genius 😭
look, i’m sorry i expressed mild disappointment in ethel cain’s shallow film analysis but i think
we’re all going to live.
ethel cain’s complaint about the devils is ironic to me bc *my* biggest complaint about the devils is that there isn’t enough focus on the nuns! no offense to oliver reed, but i am MUCH more interested in vanessa redgrave’s sister jeanne than i am in father grandier.
the children are not the future
Illuminating exchange with a 19 year old voter in Detroit, worried about @AbdulElSayed’s name. @AJEnglish #Midterms2026 #Michigan
