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How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column)

feministdisney:

“Just after starting on “Cars 2,” I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all our weekly art department meetings because Lasseter “has a hard time controlling himself” around young women. I was crushed to have my participation in the filmmaking process –– and subsequently my career trajectory –– thwarted simply because I was female. It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me.”

Worth a read (I think most people know this now, but Disney owns Pixar, FYI). There’s also a link to the longer essay this was parsed down from at the bottom.

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column)

coffeefrenchandhistory:

These. 

These are two of the most powerful moments in the X-Men movies. This is how you define Magneto. A man scarred and impacted by what he endured in the camps. A man who endured the unendurable. 

I never saw him as a villain. I never saw him as a monster. I saw him as a man who wanted to do everything – to move heaven and earth – to keep his people safe. 

animatedamerican:

dog-of-ulthar:

the question of whether modern internet humor is dadaist is fascinating because sure on a surface level, it absolutely resembles dadaist art of the 1920′s but my question is…………..is it art?

the original dada movement emerged specifically to interact with that question, of whether an incoherent collage, or a gold-plated toilet seat, or poetry pulled out of a hat should be considered art

but internet humor?  it exists solely for us to entertain one another.  it doesn’t give a shit about what art is or isn’t, and comments like “this belongs in a museum” or “where’s her oscar” always come after the fact, and, more importantly, are made specifically to add entertainment value

so my take for today is that internet humor isn’t neo-dada, or post-dada, or even “e-dada” or “#dada”; as a mass movement concerned more with community participation than performance to an audience and wholly unconcerned with questions about higher meaning…………….this is folk dada

FOLK DADA