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by JOKER 09/13/2019, 11:02pm PDT |
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If everyone were as smart and gently empathetic as you and me and tranny mcgee, we could all say whatever we want and nobody would get offended. But we live in a society where you can't even publish an article about bitches without some bitch piping up to say "not all assertive women". No shit, not all assertive women! If it doesn't apply to you, just shut your mouth and let the rest of us finish reviewing Captain Marvel for the Guardian. Only this time, I was the assertive woman interrupting the film critic. So I'm going to let her finish.
In Joker, Joaquin Phoenix’s unhinged Arthur Fleck is in every sense a loser – and perhaps in all but self-identification, an incel. He is friendless aside from his mother, works as a party clown, and his paralysing tendency to burst into peals of maniacal laughter unnerves everyone he meets. And when, like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (obsessed by Betsy), he becomes romantically intrigued by Sophie (Zazie Beetz), a pretty girl he barely knows, his fantasies go into overdrive.
If this woman didn't call Travis Bickle a repressed homosexual 40 years ago, it's only because she wasn't born yet. I guess I can't grasp the sophisticated nuance between using the word incel to dehumanize an entire type of person, and using words like chad or stacie to do the same thing. But I haven't really scrutinized incel culture, so let's do that now.
This image is like the incel Rosetta Stone. If I were to look for these archetypes in my favourite straight movie, The Poseidon Adventure, I would probably peg Gene Hackman as the chad, Red Buttons as the virgin, and Ernest Borgnine as the everyman with a whore for a wife. But if you remember how that movie played out, Gene Hackman ended up giving his life to close a steam valve (just like his hero, Jesus Christ), while Red Buttons climbed to freedom with his arm around an uncomfortably young blonde. In a Neil LaBute movie, there would've been an epilogue where Red Buttons showed up on her doorstep afterwards, screaming "YOU OWE ME". In the Company of Poseidon Adventures, maybe. |
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Joker trailer by Ulrachi 08/31/2019, 10:36am PDT
*Joker's trailer by Vested Id 08/31/2019, 2:24pm PDT
JOKER SAYS INCEL RIGHTS by JOKER 09/13/2019, 2:22am PDT
Above post has a great payoff ;) NT by John Gulp 09/13/2019, 6:30am PDT
Great author / title synergy by Rafiki 09/13/2019, 9:36am PDT
Incels aren't real by Vested Id 09/13/2019, 12:53pm PDT
"The only unnatural sexual behaviour is none at all." by JOKER 09/13/2019, 2:04pm PDT
"Incels" refers to a specific online community, not any old unhappy virgin. by Mischief Maker 09/13/2019, 3:48pm PDT
For better or worse, that's not how words work. by JOKER 09/13/2019, 4:54pm PDT
I thought the incel thing was defined by the online community by Not ready to post with my main acc 09/13/2019, 7:57pm PDT
It's fake by Vested Id 09/13/2019, 6:01pm PDT
11 NT by MM posting Contrapoints Counter 09/13/2019, 6:12pm PDT
I watched the video. It was pretty good. by JOKER 09/13/2019, 11:02pm PDT
Not gonna lie, she's a looker. NT by Not ready to post with my main acc 09/13/2019, 7:55pm PDT
That's pre-FFS. She just released a sequel to the incel video post-FFS. by Mischief Maker 09/14/2019, 6:36am PDT
12 NT by MM Posting Contrapoints Counter 09/20/2019, 7:46pm PDT
I was wrong about this btw by Vested Id 05/21/2020, 12:36pm PDT
This was the worst superhero movie in years. And I see all of them. by Brody Wilder 04/24/2020, 8:20pm PDT
What did you not like about V for Vendetta? NT by Jack Bauer 04/25/2020, 8:12am PDT
I thought it was really, really boring and kind of stupid. by Brody Wilder 04/25/2020, 5:05pm PDT
Did Denis Villeneuve rip off V for Vendetta when he made Incendies? by Brody Wilder 05/13/2020, 12:54pm PDT
Call me JOKER, Murray! by The Happiness Engine 04/25/2020, 1:08pm PDT
Hahaha NT by Auralnauts are great 04/25/2020, 1:11pm PDT
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