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Jonathan McIntosh

4 months

In this video essay I use the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what Patriarchy actually is and why it’s bad for men too.

Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

This video essay uses the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including...

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Jonathan McIntosh

@radicalbytes

5 years

It isn’t just that her scenes were cut, it’s that Abrams wrote her out of the script. He created new undeveloped characters to do and say what Rose should have. Worst of all, when Rose does speak she literally rejects the call to adventure. It’s clear capitulation to angry nerds.

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Kelly Marie Tran Was Excited For Rose and Rey to Interact in #StarWars , but Those Scenes Don’t Exist

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6 years

A handful of The Last Jedi haters in my mentions are offering up a fascinating misreading of the final showdown between Luke and Vader in RotJ. I think it's worth taking a moment to discuss because it may help explain why these guys hate Luke’s character so much in Episode VIII.

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It was a war crime. They made a video game where you play the side committing a real life war crime.

IGN

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4 years

Get your first official look at gameplay from Six Days in Fallujah, the tactical first-person shooter based on the real-life Second Battle for Fallujah in the Iraq War.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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The fact that an iconic figure like Luke Skywalker was explicitly framed as *weak* for fighting a murderous villain like Darth Vader is a pretty subversive message, especially for a male hero in Hollywood. And it’s something that, 35 years later, some fans still refuse to accept.

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Once a social movement becomes powerful enough, the powerful will join you and pretend they were on your side all along. It might be an opportunistic move on their part but it doesn't matter because it’s a very clear sign the movement is winning.

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Luke’s arc in the original trilogy ends with him not only refusing to kill the bad guy, but refusing to even fight a worse villain. This is why Luke’s force projection standoff with Kylo in The Last Jedi is so perfect. It's the ultimate expression of everything Luke has learned.

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What really happened: Luke tries to avoid fighting but gives into anger. As he bests Vader in combat, Luke realizes his great mistake, winning this fight means losing his soul to the Dark Side. The battle itself is corrupting him, understanding this Luke throws away his weapon.

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The University of Washington tried to wash it away but the message remains...

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6 years

Notice that the misreading (above) reframes Luke as a badass warrior and reframes his refusal to kill Vader as an act of mercy stemming from a position of power. This is significant because Luke beating Vader in combat is explicitly depicted as a moment of weakness NOT strength.

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6 years

The desire of some fans to re-imagine Luke as a powerful warrior who spares the bad guy out of benevolence is consistent with the way male heroes are often represented. It’s the way Batman is framed when he doesn't kill The Joker. But Luke Skywalker isn’t the typical action hero.

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6 years

The misreading: Luke Skywalker uses his great warrior skills to defeat Darth Vader. Once he’s proven himself in combat and stands victorious, Luke does the honorable thing by showing mercy and sparing his enemy. Thereby saving himself from corruption and redeeming his father.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Mass shootings are overwhelmingly committed by straight men. We must interrogate how our culture links violence to ideas about masculinity.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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8 years

For those sharing images of Leia as a slave, the search term you are looking for is "General Organa."

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9 years

Which future do you want? The choice seems clear.

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6 years

My Born Sexy Yesterday video essay is now available with Japanese subtitles.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

Misogony wins again in the US court system

BBC Breaking News

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2 years

Johnny Depp has won his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, who he sued over claims of domestic abuse

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Jonathan McIntosh

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4 years

I’m about to do a critical rewatch of all 23 Marvel movies (in chronological order) looking at negative patterns in how masculinity is presented. This is part of my neverending quest to be super popular with fans ;)

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

The Onion officially throws in the towel and just starts reporting the news as it happens.

The Onion

@TheOnion

7 years

Trump Blasts Critics Who Judge Neo-Nazi Groups By Most Extreme Members

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Jonathan McIntosh

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4 years

People are not overreacting. One $2000 survival check (which was promised after the $600 went out btw) is bare minimum table scraps. It should be $2000 a month retroactively. People are fucking starving and getting evicted out there.

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@ZenOfDesign

4 years

The bill clearly does what Biden & team intended (turn the original $600 check into a $2000 check) as well is a wish list of other progressive initiatives such as increasing the minimum wage. People who are reacting this way are looking for reasons to be pissed off.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

I'm not exactly a fan of James Gunn's movies or their messages. And making jokes about sexual abuse is harmful because it contributes to rape culture. However, it's imperative we allow people space to grow and change! It appears Gunn has sincerely learned from his past mistakes.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

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Disney has brought James Gunn back as director-writer of "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3" after firing him last summer over offensive, years-old social media posts.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

If mass shootings were mostly committed by women, everyone would be asking why women were killing people. Because it’s men, we get silence.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

Masculinity is the common thread in mass shootings. 99% of school shootings are committed by men. Yes, gun accessibility is a huge problem. Yes, inaccessibility of mental healthcare is a huge problem. But women live in the same society and don't commit 50% of school shootings.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Terry Crews on sexual harassment in Hollywood: "It’s like cutting a tree down by the leaves. Once that leaf is gone, the root is still there. We have got to battle at the root.”

Terry Crews details alleged sexual assault by Hollywood talent agent

"Back in February 2016, I was assaulted by Adam Venit," Crews told ABC News. "I did not know this man. I have never had a conversation with him, ever."

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

Avengers 4: *sigh*

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

Feminists have been talking about how patriarchy harms men forever. The “solution” Peterson offers is for men to double down on misogyny and male entitlement. The real solution is for men to reject patriarchy and re-discover our own humanity. That’s what feminism offers men.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

6 years

Hate on Jordan Peterson all you want, but he's tapping into frustration that feminists shouldn't ignore. If feminists don’t like his message, maybe they should offer a better one. (via @latimesopinion )

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

The idea that violence is redemptive, restorative, and regenerative for men is a central pillar of fascism.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

@RVAwonk

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"It was a really fun night, and overall I cannot recommend violence enough. It is a really effective way to solve problems.” -Gavin McGinnes, founder of Proud Boys (Feb. 2017).

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6 years

I’d be more excited for Endgame if Thanos’ entire motivation wasn’t a bunch of ham-fisted apolitical nonsense. An eternal super-being should know the root problem isn’t scarcity of resources, it’s the wildly uneven allocation of available resources. Kinda ruined the MCU for me.

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3 years

Bill Gates has done more to prevent other nations from manufacturing life-saving vaccines than any other single person in history. Evil isn't a strong enough word to describe his actions.

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@means_tv

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Oxford University planned to release its COVID-19 vaccine for free but was urged to reconsider by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Instead, they engineered an exclusive deal with AstraZeneca, with no price controls. Hope your divorce sucks, assholes!

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Our society teaches men to be obsessed with control as a marker of manhood - especially control *over* others. The consequences are tragic.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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It’s critical to remember that male violence is NOT inevitable. Violence is taught and learned. We can stop teaching it. We can unlearn it.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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3 years

This is exactly how most media is put together. There is no deep lore for 95% of what you see. And sorry super fans but that’s a good thing. Lore is just filler for when there’s no meaningful story left to tell.

Star Wars Holocron

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George Lucas on how Anakin got his scar: “I don’t know. I just put it there. I think Anakin got it slipping in the bathtub, but of course, he’s not going to tell anybody that.”

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

The ways men and boys are socialized to engage in an endless competition for dominance is dangerous and harmful for everyone in our society.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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3 years

Sharing life-saving vaccine technology with the world is good for humanity but bad for the market. That should tell you everything you need to know about the market.

CNBC Now

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3 years

Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, Moderna shares plunge to session lows after U.S. backs waiving patent protections on Covid vaccines

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Jonathan McIntosh

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10 years

3 faces in the #StarWars trailer are those of a black man, white woman & latino man piloting a X-Wing. That matters more than you may think.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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4 years

Whenever I think about leaving twitter I remember this interaction and decide to stick around a bit longer

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@PopCrave @Twitter

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

The treatment of Amber Heard is familiar • Extreme scrutiny of every word and mannerism • Spreading of doctored or misleading memes • Unhinged conspiracy theories + charts • Sexualization of her image used as mockery • Gamification of harassment It’s the gamergate playbook

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Jonathan McIntosh

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10 years

Let's take moment to consider the fact that the 1st trailer for the biggest most anticipated movie of the decade features zero white dudes.

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10 years

What is privilege? It’s hearing “Hey maybe think about how your words or art might impact other people” and reacting with angry indignation.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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10 years

A painful illustration as to why we desperately need statistics classes at every level of our educational system: http://t.co/cIL0nZDaZt

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Jonathan McIntosh

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5 years

I talk a bit about why Rose Tico is such a vital character for the Star Wars universe in this video essay:

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Jonathan McIntosh

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3 years

This one goes out to all the technophiles who insisted with great indignation that Boston Dynamics’ robots would never ever be used for warfare.

The Verge

@verge

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The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Pointing out that men are the ones committing massacres is obviously not a condemnation of men in general but men’s violence is an epidemic.

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7 years

This gendered sci-fi trope has bothered me for years but didn't have a name, so I gave it one: Born Sexy Yesterday.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

@rianjohnson So glad :) The pattern of representing male heroism as something based on dominating the bad guys (and then showing restraint from a position of power) is so pervasive that even when a piece of media explicitly subverts the expectation, it can be difficult for some to accept.

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4 years

Actual cyberpunk

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Stanford scientists saved drops of the COVID-19 vaccine destined for the garbage can, reverse engineered them, and have posted the mRNA sequence that powers the vaccine on GitHub for all to see.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

The competition for male dominance leaves many men and boys emotionally and physically broken. It perpetuates cycles of violence and abuse.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

The revisionism that’s going on around John McCain’s career right now is astounding. It’s possible to be sad that someone has died AND also to remember the harm that person did in life accurately. And John McCain did a tremendous amount of harm.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts much of the outrage directed at Elliot Page is because a bunch of these middle aged guys had a weird protective crush on him back when he played vulnerable feminine characters in movies. Absurdly, they now feel something has been taken away from them.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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4 years

Tony Stark is propaganda to make you believe that there can be good billionaire tech bros but it’s a lie.

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2 years

Ke Huy Quan's performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once was so damn good it legit made me cry in my seat at the theater

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5 years

Very well adjusted dudes are still mad about the Disney conspiracy to emasculate Nick Fury by having him… *checks notes* ...pet a cat.

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5 years

This is not okay. @Blizzard_Ent is forcing protesting users to send In copies of their government ID to delete their account. Never seen anything like this before. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my ID. #HongKongProtest

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

Weird, it’s almost as if popular media does indeed have a significant impact on people’s behaviors.

The A.V. Club

@TheAVClub

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Kate Bush streams jump 8,000 percent thanks to Stranger Things

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Jonathan McIntosh

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9 years

Violence is absolutely a gendered problem. Men commit: 85% of violent assault 85% of homicide 95% of mass shooting http://t.co/3F2VR5jvbo

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

The competition for male dominance is part of a social system called patriarchy. Social systems are not set in stone, they can be changed.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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8 years

Turns out Princess Leia's famous hair style was inspired by the women who fought in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).

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Jonathan McIntosh

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6 years

This idea that giving men "access to sex" will somehow reduce male violence is nauseating and also completely false. Intimate partner violence is already at epidemic levels because these men are NOT really looking for sex, they're looking for domination and control.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Guys, this is not complicated. If she says wait - STOP If she seems reluctant - STOP If you ask and she’s silent - STOP If she moves your hand away - STOP If she looks unhappy - STOP If she freezes - STOP If she’s not enthusiastic - STOP All parties should be enthusiastic!

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6 years

This naive “we go high” nonsense all but guarantees a Trump victory in 2020. Democrats need to stop bringing a chess set to a knife fight with a gang of fascists.

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Pelosi: “we are not going after Republicans the way they went after us”

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Jonathan McIntosh

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9 years

When media constantly portrays lack of emotional expression as a brave or even heroic trait it reinforces very harmful ideas about manhood.

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6 years

Sexual assault of men played for comedy is so normalized in entertainment that you may not have even noticed it shows up everywhere. And I mean everywhere.

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@radicalbytes

4 years

Here’s a good thread from a game dev explaining a few of the many utterly atrocious aspects of this game:

Rami Ismail / رامي

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I watched the Six Days in Fallujah gameplay trailer so nobody else has to. Here's a quick video with live thoughts as I watched it, and more written out thoughts continue below:

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Jonathan McIntosh

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9 years

Women have equal access to guns & higher reported rates of mental illness. Funny thing though, women aren’t shooting up schools every week.

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6 years

I read this garbage so you don’t have to. The gist of the complaint is that Nick Fury isn’t portrayed as an unfeeling no-nonsense violent badass and is instead allowed moments of genuine humanity. In short, they’re mad Fury isn’t portrayed as 100% stereotypically hypermasculine.

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2 years

Ugh. Looks like Star Wars fans have mass reported my video essay about the Jedi Order and masculinity (from five years ago) and somehow got @YouTube to age-restrict it. There's absolutely nothing objectionable in the essay except that it's critical of their precious franchise.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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5 years

This is going to be a fun one :P

Pop Detective

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5 years

We’re working on a future video essay examining the media pattern wherein men achieve instant redemption through death, instead of struggling through personal transformation. We're including unsuccessful self-sacrifices and unexpected resurrections as well. Suggestions welcome!

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10 years

This is the kind of scary corporate/media/military collusion that should be at the top of any "gaming ethics" list. http://t.co/5Dz4ca06Rg

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Jonathan McIntosh

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8 years

One is designed as a sexual fantasy for straight men to desire. The other is designed as a power fantasy for straight men to identify with.

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7 years

In order to transform a social system like patriarchy we must understand how it works and how it shapes our ideas about men and masculinity.

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3 years

Chappelle isn’t just telling jokes. He’s effectively telling his audience that discrimination is okay and in so doing he’s actively harming trans folks and making the world a more dangerous place for them.

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@TheAVClub

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GLAAD condemns Dave Chappelle, Netflix for his latest set of transphobic jokes

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

What more do you really need to know? Unforgivable.

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5 years

The Last Jedi really is a perfect barometer. If someone hates it, you can safely ignore anything else they have to say about Star Wars, cinema, or politics.

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Favorite scene of men crying in media? Bonus points if his tears are not over death. Double bonus points if it's not supposed to be funny. Triple bonus points if another person is offering emotional support. Jackpot bonus points if that other person is another guy.

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Boys and men are taught to hide feelings and suppress emotions which can lead to trouble communicating or maintaining healthy relationships.

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6 years

After a week of angry Star Wars fanboys flooding my mentions, I’m more convinced than ever that many of their complaints can be boiled down to the fact that The Last Jedi challenges traditional Hollywood expectations of heroic manhood.

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Jonathan McIntosh

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2 years

Just in case you were somehow confused about the sides in this trial, here's the Republicans cheering on a domestic abuser.

House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Jonathan McIntosh

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10 years

So I wrote a popular article about sexism in gaming and strangely I have yet to receive any death or rape threats. #malegamerprivilege

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Jonathan McIntosh

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7 years

Hey Hollywood, here’s an idea... maybe stop letting sexual predators make movies, especially movies sympathetic to goddamn sexual predators.

IndieWire

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Report: Woody Allen’s New Film Includes a Sexual Relationship Between an Adult and a 15-Year-Old Girl

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Jonathan McIntosh

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Democrats, STOP offering "olive branches" to an avowed racist. STOP saying you "can work with" fascism. For fuck sake.

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3 years

I miss Star Trek episodes where the entire universe wasn’t threatened. Modern writers for genre TV are scared to death of small personal stories. Networks are terrified viewers will be board if the stakes aren't constantly as high as humanly possible. It’s fucking exhausting.

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3 years

The Last Jedi was BY FAR the most interesting piece of Star Wars media since Return of the Jedi in 1983. Nothing else is even in the same league.

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hilarious how every time a new star wars thing comes out everyone just winds up talking about this movie again, almost like it's the only one disney's made that has any real staying power

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6 years

I’m seriously considering printing out and framing this reply.

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5 years

Researching a future video about politics in Star Wars. I keep coming back to the fact that Rose Tico is the most important figure in the entire canon in this regard because she’s the one who finally articulates exactly what the good guys are *fighting for* in concrete terms.

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I’m not. The Last Jedi was finally something new and interesting in the Star Wars universe. It was a breath of fresh air in a franchise famous for playing it safe and rehashing the same plot-beats (and even the same dialog) over and over ad nauseam.

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Rian Johnson is OK with the possibility of Star Wars Episode IX possibly retconning The Last Jedi

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Anyone who says they want to end abortion but is against comprehensive sex education, free contraceptives, free universal childcare, and free universal healthcare is a damn hypocrite. So that’s basically everyone on the anti-abortion side.

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2 years

Favorite piece of media where a man goes to therapy? Bonus points if it’s not ever treated as a joke. Gold star if the therapy is presented as actually helpful.

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6 years

I was recently asked to speak at a conference about video essays. After looking at the list of invited essayists and noticing it was all men, I responded with a list of women creators they should invite. Didn’t hear back after that but at least they have no excuse moving forward.

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2 years

As I was saying - completely unhinged levels of entitlement

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Just so we’re all clear on what’s happening here. Biden is effectively telling men that the very idea of respecting women’s personal space and getting consent before touching them is a joke. It’s enormously damaging.

ABC News

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At start of his address to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Joe Biden jokes, “I just want you to know, I had permission to hug Lonnie.”

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The Netflix show Sex Education features some really good messages. I was, however, disappointed to see the “homophobic bully is secretly gay” trope at play. Like in Glee, those narratives tend to end up muddying the water between sexual attraction and sexual assault.

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5 years

So we’re fostering two stray cats and they both had kittens within a few days of each other.

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10 years

Just so I'm clear on the insults, you're accusing me of both being gay and also of faking feminism to woo the ladies? http://t.co/CJ7lQj6CE4

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6 years

Post-apocalyptic wastelands are inherently political. Corporate dystopias are inherently political. Civil wars are inherently political. Military conflicts are inherently political. Any video game using any of these settings is by extension unavoidably political.

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7 years

It’s a good thing they just turned the Iron Giant into a killing machine and not into a female robot or there would already be a campaign to poison Ready Player One's score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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6 years

The article’s original title was "How Captain Marvel Castrates Nick Fury.” Things that castrate men apparently: • Having a sense of humor • Making jokes • Helping wash dishes after dinner • Working with powerful women • Letting women take the lead • Petting cats?

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Jonathan McIntosh

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4 years

Movie villain vs Actual villain

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Jonathan McIntosh

@radicalbytes

5 years

The most 1980s thing about #StrangersThings3 is how the borderline abusive relationship between an angry dude and his love interest is framed as "sexual tension.” Joyce and Hopper’s relationship is not cute or romantic, it's toxic and very unhealthy.

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Jonathan McIntosh

@radicalbytes

5 years

I’m always taken aback by all the fans who’ve convinced themselves that since there isn’t a direct 1-to-1 relationship between entertainment and violence, then media must have zero impact on cultural, beliefs, or actions. The history of mass media is a history of media influence.

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Jonathan McIntosh

@radicalbytes

5 years

Isn’t it weird how 90% of the harassment I get from gamer dudes is gendered in this very specific way? I guess it's just a huge coincidence. I’m sure the video games they're obsessed with don’t reinforce any negative messages about manhood or masculinity. Right?

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Jonathan McIntosh

@radicalbytes

4 years

Maybe one reason popular media fandoms have such a huge racism problem is because science fictional allegories for fascism keep sanitizing that ideology by intentionally leaving out the racism. Star Wars does it with The Empire and First Order. The MCU does it with Hydra, etc.

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