Recent content by Sandwichboy

Adding another vote to Grave of the Fireflies and adding Barefoot Gen. Both are true "horrors of war" stories through the eyes of children, and there are absolutely no punches pulled. If you can get through Grave without tearing up, I'm pretty sure you're an emotional cripple.

Well, at least we know they're making something contemporary, not like those boring old strategy games that no one buys.

BODY OF CHRIST!

House, by Nobuhiko Obayashi. It's a haunted house film with characters named Gorgeous, Mac, Fantasy and Kung Fu. Even more of an insane drug trip than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

When posting while fired up over us poor mens having our rights trampled on, I guess so. Y'know, if the recent feminism related threads are any indication... While I can't speak for evilthecat, I certainly share his frustration with a lot of the mens rights right's groups and how quickly and...

That is not even remotely what he's saying. Read it again.

This really really is the last thing I'm going to say on this damned cartoon as I was happy that I thought we'd moved past it. It's obvious what the intent of the image is. But for some people it's also obvious that the artist didn't think about the potential implications of some of the...

The problems of lack of support structure for the areas that society fails men is NOT the fault of feminism. Feminism is not bringing us down or holding us back, WE are every time we buy into bullshit stereotypes of masculinity that encourage us to feel shame over needing any sort of emotional...

You are mistaken. An opinion on something as subjective as the arts is and always will be inherently personal, and therefor cannot be factually wrong. You're free to disagree with it and think me weird for having particular opinion, but you have no right to tell me it's wrong. IN YOUR OPINION...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thank you. And to avoid confusion, I'm not talking about schools of art criticism, but the general reaction to the arts by the public. All arts, not just visual. Edit: this is in reference to krispykrackle. Editing quoted posts on a smartphone is annoying.

When an artist creates something and puts it forth into the public domain for analysis, they implicitly hand over control of how the message is received and interpreted. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if people look at your creation in a way you didn't intend them to...tough. It...

Yes, actually, it does. That's the POINT of art. It's a conversation using a language full of words that mean different things to everyone. You don't get to tell someone that they're wrong to be offended by something or wrong to interpret something subjective in a way you disagree with...

Those stereotyped can and do frequently reinforce their own stereotypes consciously or otherwise. I'm not saying it's wrong for her to have made the colour choices she did, or that it's a bad thing at all, just that it had implications for some beyond what you think she intended. Again...

Yes, sexism works both ways. And in many ways men are far less emotionally equipped (thanks NA society!) to deal with a lot of the really damaging stuff because we have just as many screwed up, unrealistic and fundamentally damaging expectations dumped on our shoulders, but practically no group...

I'm not going to bother trying to keep up with the new and fascinating directions this discussion keeps branching off into with posts directed at each one, so here's all of them at once. @Hagi: Nothing is *just* anything. Stories, pictures, words, etc. have the meaning that are attached to...