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Roxane Gay is a Bad Feminist
Reading Roxane Gay‘s Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014) was a personally instructive encounter. As a pale, male reader with a pretty chubby tire of privilege under my belt, it’s an often-excoriating, albeit hilarious, study. And while I would definitely contain preferred it had Gay occasionally used the more contingent “some men” to describe 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 unknowing of my control 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 place in the essay “Some Jokes Are Funnier Than Others,” a crowd that fails to remain up and express, “Enough.” Bad Feminist is an marvelous book for lots of reasons. Firstly, Roxane Gay’s really funny. “When I was called a feminist,”
Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Get on the Casting of Gay Roles
Quentin Tarantino has common his take on straight actors playing gay roles, an opinion that will surely be added to his lengthy list of controversial thoughts. When it comes to the acclaimed director's belief, he believes that good acting should be enough.
However, his take 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 distinct sexual orientation. Still, he went further and weighed on ethnicity. The director made this blunt-edged statement about realness as the principal objective of casting:
"I have no difficulty with any star playing any type of another race role for anything that's happened caring of up until now. Now, it's actually, I would ask the doubt, 'Well, what, you couldn't find a Mexican to compete this Mexican guy?' And, 'You couldn't find an American Indian, of all the people that exist, you can't find [one]?' But I even undergo, I don't long for to see some American do a phony F
In the largely forgotten 1994 movie Sleep with Me, Quentin Tarantino shows up for one scene to explain the gay subtext of Top Gun. “It’s a story about a man’s strife 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 long history in literary studies, it’s recently gotten a bit of a bad rap, in part due to the over-extension of the term queerbaiting. Queerbaiting, a fandom-coined term, 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 both projecting intent on the creators and flattening the relationship between subtext and tex
Quentin Tarantino Weighs in On the Debate Over Direct 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 perform 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 Homosexual community.
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