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By: I just snorted a little… « random babble…

I just snorted a little… « random babble… — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:35:12 +0000

[...] But then these are the same people who think the Godfather movies are good examples of “family values“. [...]

By: a rant on anti-choicers « random babble…

a rant on anti-choicers « random babble… — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:05:38 +0000

[...] why they feel that way. now i try to avoid her blog b/c it is full of hate and bile, but this feministe post about a recent blog of hers really pissed me off…and thank-you to them for posting [...]

By: Friday Feminism on the run: Nice Guys (TM) redux and what makes an ideal husband and father at Hoyden About Town

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:15:55 +0000

[...] at Feministe, Jill dissects a particularly loopy column/movie review from Jill Stanek (dialled up several notches even from her [...]

By: HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » This Week in Bullshit

HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » This Week in Bullshit — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:16 +0000

[...] The scene in The Godfather II where Michael beats up Kate after she tells him she had an abortion is apparently inspirational to [...]

By: Choice Words » Blog Archive » Murderous Characters Praised for Pro-Life Views

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:00:21 +0000

[...] Hat tip to Feministe. [...]

By: Cecily

Cecily — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:44:55 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this, and it seems to me that the core of this is that Stanek can’t believe that others don’t share her political opinions, not only in direction, but in magnitude. If she made a movie that mentioned abortion, the abortion would be a big deal that acted as the litmus test for goodness in all the characters. She can’t imagine that for the film maker, the abortion served some other purpose and was for the plot, not for politics.

Whereas I don’t know about you guys, but I accept that, for instance, there’s not going to be a reasonable, mature discussion of abortion in Knocked Up because A: it’s a fairly immature comedy and B: the plot would be completely and utterly destroyed by abortion, so abortion has to be thrown out the window immediately. So the only characters who suggest abortion are completely repellant, and I roll my eyes, but I see why they did it that way. Because I don’t think every filmmaker is trying to make a political point, and I don’t have to twist every film into being ideologically pure in order to watch it.

By: Stanek Family Values » Comments from Left Field

Stanek Family Values » Comments from Left Field — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:14:37 +0000

[...] A pro-life serial killer; domestic (mob) violence portrayed as virtuous (hey, he was doin’ … [...]

By: Halfmad

Halfmad — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:40:45 +0000

WOW!!! WTF!!! I have finally read something SO completely crazy, I cannot even comprehend that these people are serious!!! My mouth is hanging open!

They didn’t get that 1) Diane Keaton’s character was utterly appalled at the immorality of the Corleones and was going to get her children out of there and 2) Michael Corleone reacted in the way that he and his family reacted to everything, violence, threats, and utter control? To what was the obvious detriment of the children? and that the model of the “good wife” was the silent, cooking grandmother?

Wait — am I really having to try to explain this to people?!?!?!?

Oh my GOD.

By: bastard.logic

bastard.logic — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:24:52 +0000

Stanek Family Values…

by matttbastard
A pro-life serial killer; domestic (mob) violence portrayed as virtuous (hey, he was doin’ it for teh unbornz!)
Jeebus.
Are fetus-fetishizing conservatwits entirely allergic to irony? Much as I’m loathe to utilize the…

By: aimai

aimai — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:07:04 +0000

And that luca brasi! what a he man *he* was! He loved his Irish whore so much he forced the midwife to throw her baby in the furnace. Michael’s comment “some story! some luca!”

aimai