>>214273820

Small. It's a big step to go from Music Videos to other media. Not saying it's impossible but what I've seen from her direction just look like long form music videos. And not very good ones. Nothing "pops" visually in terms of arrangement, it uses aspect ratio and color to make-up for the clumsy editing and lackluster composition.

Not saying she's a bad artist or director, it's just that you expect less from Music Videos than from other visual media and even then her stuff is lackluster. If you were shown a Taylor Swift MV with a different artist, you'd be like "whatever, it's okay I guess..." That's why no artist has ever asked her to work on their MVs with her as a director. Her name/music carries the weight of her work.

Compare this with Spike Jonze, Kendrick Lamar, George Michael, Beyonce, Madonna, etc. who artists would KILL to get their MV directed by. You see their MVs and compare them to Swift's and her videos just fall flat.

It's hard to have creativity when all your songs are about luxury; Oh, if I was a man, oh if I could pick the right guy, oh if I could have him call me back, Oh I didn't really need him, all her topics are just vapid "1st world problems". Not saying there isn't a market for that niche but, it's not going to be high art. No one gives a fuck about posh white women who have "anxieties" about everything, outside of that demographic.

Women will probably go see it if she sticks to her niche. If she deviates are tries to create any higher art, it will fall flat.

tl;dr She's a white woman with no kino experience, so probably not.

>>514144549

A person is prohibited from buying or possessing firearms if they have been “adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to a mental institution.”

Except most institutions have worked double-time to declare troons as not being mentally ill, even though they often have whole clusters of other problems; such as BPD, Schizophrenia, Delirium Tremens, Mania, Psychosis, AGP, and other shit. I haven't met a single troon that wasn't taking some kind of anti-psychotic/anti-anxiety medication.

Not one.

No one will commit or adjudicate these freaks as mentally ill (which they are). Suddenly, being mentally ill is no longer a disability to be addressed with compassion and empathy, it becomes a slur and thus is "transphobic". The same people will that stand up for troons will speak out of both sides of their mouth on this topic, using one category when it suits their interest and the other when they feel they're under attack.

Yet, it doesn't change the fact that troons are mentally ill. Nothing wrong with having something up with your brain you can't readily control; one of my friends is straight up schizophrenic but takes his meds and is fairly well adjusted, even though he needs help with complex stuff and has to be monitored when he's about to have an episode.

I wouldn't trust him with a gun but that doesn't mean he isn't a human being (and a pretty chill dude otherwise).

Queer activism has done so much damage to troons and how they're viewed that it will probably take another 30-50 years for us to respond to it in a normal and healthy way. It's too politicized right now and that's not just sad, it's infuriating.

I give up.

Hi /pol/. You don't know me, and I don't know you, but I've been trying to counter you chuds for what feels like my entire life on the internet. I have several advanced degrees, as do most of the people I know. We're smart, we're progressive, and you're just a bunch of stupid chud bros being edgy on the internet for the lulz. You don't care what the consequences for spreading your hate and vitriol online are. Your attacks on women, minorities, the most vulnerable marginalized people--I've spent every year since gamergate doing what I can to mitigate the damage your toxic ideology could do to our societies.

It all started with GamerGate. I hate to admit it. It sounds corny and cringe as fuck, but that was really the opening salvo. That was the point where it wasn't just le shock le edgy meme culture anymore. There was a real, serious, deep seeded misogyny and antisemitism, and I've been taught my whole life that there's nothing worse than that kind of atavistic hate, that history will always judge you by whether you were on the side of inclusion, empathy, etc, or the side of hate, ignorance, whatever. All the way up until the end I believed these things. I believed I was on the right side of history, that you hateful bigots would eventually LOSE.

I never imagined the Trump would win in 2016, must like many of my progressive friends and colleagues. We were shocked when he won the primaries, but we were sure he'd lose nationally. Then he won the general election. It hurt, but the pain only ignited a fire in us, a resolve to fight for progress, for what's right. All that came to a head again in 2020, where it was more important than ever to defend those who are weakest among us from a deadly virus, and then also, with BLM, the intersectional nature of these struggles to protect the weak and the marginalized with the fight against systemic racism, misogyny, etc. It all seemed to make so much sense...

>>716214078
To me, it only cemented it because i thought the game was somewhat tame compared to some other stuff i've seen.