
Since it’s the weekend (finally), you’re probably going to spend some time talking to friends. Maybe, you’ll bring controversy into the chatter and engage in a few verbal brawls. If you plan on hosting your own McGregor vs. Mayweather match this weekend, here’s everything you need to know — words only, of course.
THE STORY: The aesthetic for Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” video, which will drop at Sunday’s MMVAs, seems strikingly similar to Beyonce’s 2016 visual album “Lemonade.”
THE REACTION:
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: Taylor must have known the kind of response this imagery would evoke. Let’s not forget, Taylor’s reputation problem all started with comparisons to Beyonce: Swift’s infamous feud with Kanye West all started at the 2009 VMAs when Kanye thought Queen Bey deserved the best album award over Taylor (which *cough*, she did). Mimicking Bey’s surprise album could be some kind of weird form of dark artistic expression? We’ll have to wait until we see the whole thing.
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THE STORY: Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has long been celebrated for his strong female characters. Then his ex-wife, Kai Cole, wrote a blog post revealing that Whedon had numerous affairs during their marriage, labelling him as “a hypocrite preaching feminist ideals.”
THE REACTION:
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: Is fidelity a pre-requisite for being a feminist? Not really. Good people do bad things, and shitty people can still champion gender equality. He wasn’t bad to his wife because she was a woman, he was bad to his wife because he was a bad husband. Still, this news sucked.
HOW WE FEEL: ??
THE STORY: A Twitter user named @iluvbutts247 shared a screenshot from the 2007 movie Valkyrie earlier this week, and in it Tom Cruise is crawling with his butt facing the camera. “hello, please, i present the theory that for one single shot in Valkyrie (2008), at 5:12, tom cruise wears a fake butt, observe.”
THE REACTION:
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: This is the most important conspiracy theory on the Internet right now, and it’s the only thing you should be arguing about this weekend.
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THE STORY: In an interview with The Guardian, James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of Titanic, condemned “the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing” over Wonder Woman. The top-grossing, highly applauded feminist film didn’t impress Cameron: “She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing!”
THE REACTION:
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: In the wise words of Patty Jenkins: “James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman.”
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