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Roxane Gay is a Bad Feminist
Reading Roxane Gay&#;s Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, ) was a personally instructive trial. As a white, male reader with a pretty fat tire of privilege under my belt, it&#;s an often-excoriating, albeit hilarious, read. And while I would definitely have preferred it had Gay occasionally used the more contingent &#;some men&#; to portray the masculine influence on the cultural evils afflicting women today, I&#;m nonetheless convinced that the scale of the problem justifies the rhetoric. It&#;s not like I&#;m unaware of my own gender parochialism &#; none of this is news to me. But I sure am now questioning why I&#;m not that little bit, or even TEN TIMES better at checking myself and others on subjects that I know to be important when the moment arises. Instead, most of the time (to my shame) I&#;m more like the crowd at the Daniel Tosh set in the essay &#;Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others,&#; a crowd that fails to stand up and say, &#;Enough.&#; Bad Feminist is an excellent book for lots of reasons. Firstly, Roxane Gay&#;s really funny. &#;Whe
Quentin Tarantino Weighs in On the Debate Over Unbent Actors in Gay Roles
Casting characters in movies is something that's come under much more scrutiny in recent years. It's often controversial when actors participate characters who have a different ethnicity or sexual orientation, and this debate has been addressed by legendary film director Quentin Tarantino.
Tarantino, who has directed beloved films like Pulp Fiction, spoke about this kind of controversial casting in a new interview on the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast. He explained that he doesn't think movies from the past should be criticized this way, but with that said, he believes it's better to be mindful of the ethnicities of actors moving forward. Responding to how Tom Hanks has said he wouldn't play a gay role today appreciate he did in Philadelphia, Tarantino clarified that he doesn't see the obstacle in straight actors playing characters from the Diverse community.
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Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir
In the largely forgotten film Sleep with Me, Quentin Tarantino shows up for one scene to explain the queer subtext of Top Gun. “It’s a story about a man’s struggle with his own homosexuality,” he says, explaining that Maverick is torn between “the gay way”, represented by Val Kilmar and the fighter pilots, and heterosexuality, represented by Kelly McGillis. “The more he talks, the more plausible his theory sounds,” Roger Ebert wrote in his review. By the end of the scene, initially sceptical Todd Field is enthusiastically on-board.
Despite gay subtext’s lengthy history in literary studies, it’s recently gotten a bit of a poor rap, in part due to the over-extension of the term queerbaiting. Queerbaiting, a fandom-coined legal title, refers to media, usually in serial formats like TV shows, teasing characters as LGBT or forming same-gender relationships in order to pander to LGBT fans but with no intention to follow through. Queerbaiting is definitely a thing that has happened on occasion – the TV show Supernatural, mostly – but it’s a term without nuance or historical root, that requires
Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Take on the Casting of Queer Roles
Quentin Tarantino has distributed his take on direct actors playing gay roles, an opinion that will surely be added to his long list of controversial thoughts. When it comes to the acclaimed director's opinion, he believes that good acting should be enough.
However, his get on the subject goes further than straight or gay roles. During his interview with Bill Maher for the Club Random with Bill Maherpodcast, Tarantino shared his opinion on the sensitive debate about actors playing characters with a different sexual orientation. Still, he went further and weighed on ethnicity. The director made this blunt statement about legitimacy as the primary objective of casting:
"I have no problem with any player playing any type of another race role for anything that's happened gentle of up until now. Now, it's actually, I would ask the ask, 'Well, what, you couldn't find a Mexican to play this Mexican guy?' And, 'You couldn't uncover an American Indian, of all the people that exist