Points of Exclamation

vernacular-manslaughter:

octospider:

Gwendoline Christie is the actress for Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. She stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall and took swordfighting, horseriding, and stagefighting lessons for her part, as well as gaining 14 pounds of muscle, to accurately portray Brienne. (x)

She was also terrified of cutting her hair because she’d spent her life believing it was one of the only things that would make people see her as feminine despite her height. In an interview with TV Guide she said:

I struggled for a long time with [cutting] my hair, but then I’m grateful for the opportunity to realize that femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance, So, that’s been exciting actually. I can’t speak with any kind of authority whatsoever because I’m just an actor and I only have my opinions, but I do think it’s really refreshing to have a woman depicted on a mainstream TV show that doesn’t obey typical aesthetics of females and the way they have been portrayed in the past. And I’m really excited to be portraying one of those women. And I hope that her popularity signals a greater expansion of people’s views about men and women and that gender types can be more flexible.

(via thoughtsbattlewords)

this fuckin’ guy

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agentotter:

cristheweirdo:

Objectification and…Men?

by Jimquisition

For any guy that responds to women’s objectification in any media (yes, this video pertains to video games specifically, but it still applies to all other forms of media.) with “well men are objectified too!”, sit the fuck down and watch.

Seriously perfect explanation of why the “equal objectification” argument is 100% bullshit. This applies not just to games but to movies and other media, too. Immediately brings to mind the Star Trek: Into Darkness debacle (don’t worry, I’ll specify which one, there were SO MANY) over whether it constitutes “equal objectification” for a female character to be blatantly and completely gratuitously objectified if we also saw male characters partially disrobed. The answer is no, because again, objectified versus idealized. Kirk isn’t shown in bed with two naked girls so that the audience will ogle him, it’s so they can envy him and his apparently incredible game. (Protip: When a guy is being shown sleeping with two girls at once, that isn’t for the benefit of female audience members, so we can imagine ourselves and presumably our smoking-hot sisters or BFFs forming a glorious Kirk sandwich with us. It’s so the guys in the audience can cheer him on for being so awesome that he’s nailing two girls at once. That scene was meant to be character-building because JJ Abrams keeps insisting Kirk is a womanizer and showing him as a love ‘em and leave ‘em and fuck ‘em while in bed with their twin kind of guy is a pretty effective shorthand for that. Reimagine that scene as Kirk in bed with a girl and a guy, and now try to guess how many decades it’s going to be before you’ll get to see something like that anywhere other than your imagination.)

Cumberbatch’s cut shower scene wasn’t shot in a way that was titillating; god knows what it was supposed to accomplish in its original context… we’ll never know since this example of “equality” was cut from the film as apparently non-essential, while Kirk staring at a woman in her underwear against her express wishes was clearly vital to the plot. But it looked like it was primarily meant to show that he was physically formidable as well as mentally. (He didn’t turn out to be either but WHATEVER.) They had Cumberbatch working out prior to filming expressly for that purpose. It looked to me like it was meant to give the audience an appreciation for Khan’s power and fury and strength as a character, which is sort of the opposite of objectification. Plus it gave Benedict a great opportunity to do his impression of a cat in a bath, I guess. MY GOD HE’S AMAZING AT EVERY ACTING ROLE. EVEN THE CAT ONES.

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pokememizado:

AiWa-sensei [ tumblr / deviantART ]

IS THIS WATSON’S ARCANINE BECAUSE I’M SO INTO IT

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fuckyeahfeminists:

so necessary when disagreeing with people online

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