OK, this gifset defines the female gaze. Not just because Pine is a vulnerable, blue-lit fit as heck goofball in this scene (though it is true, he is fit and funny), but also because this movie has been out for a MONTH and this is the first gifset I’ve seen to focus exclusively on Pine’s above average physique.
In the meantime, fandom has been rightfully swooning over:
armored Amazons of all colors and sizes being badasses Etta Candy, adventure secretary Media representation of PTSD, racism, genocide of the Native American people and the horrid, brutal waste that is war Diana’s hero’s journey, and how her naivete and sheer delight in new things is never mocked Diana’s “bitch you thought” smirk and headshake before she smites Ares baby!Diana General Antiope (she can get it) Queen Hippolyta (she also can get it) (all the Amazons can get it) Diana and Steve’s romance being non-cheesy and plot-furthering, because Steve is an intelligent humanist and feminist
… and a bunch of other stuff.
None of those things is Naked Steve Trevor, but he also deserves his own meta.
Naked Steve Trevor doesn’t yell at Diana to get out, nor does he swagger because: masculinity.
Instead, he’s embarrassed and trying to save what he believes to be Diana’s modesty until he sees that she is merely curious and in the end, doesn’t care… at which point he seems to realize “eh, shame about nudity is a social construct, when in Themiscyra, whatever,” and gets on with the conversation.
He is also, incidentally, naked and handsome and fit as heck, but the real focus for me in this scene is him continuing the conversation Diana’s begun despite his initial discomfort, making eye contact with her and never ogling her despite her own (by Western standards) scanty attire.
Naked Steve Trevor matters, but not just for the obvious role reversal of Gratuitous Hollywood Female Nudity by having Pine be naked and in the best shape of his life. Naked Steve Trevor matters because of what doesn’t happen (sexytimes) immediately upon the interruption of his Naked Time. There is no sexual tension in this scene. That doesn’t happen until later, when they are both fully clothed, and even then it’s a fade to black before they (presumably) figure out if men are useful at pleasure after all. The sexual interest only happens after they’ve taken each other’s measure, and it’s never a distraction from the main story, which is about Diana’s journey.
Naked Steve Trevor matters, because his being naked doesn’t matter at all.
Rocio Fuentes weighed up the cost of getting some new sofas for her new apartment in Pasadena, Texas, and decided the family budget could just about stretch to it. Just one month after moving in, Hurricane Harvey swept through and the Fuenteses were left not only with the ruined furniture but also an ongoing rental demand for a dwelling they had to flee.
“At first we didn’t think it would be that bad, but then the water came through the wall and up through the carpet,” Fuentes said. “Once we saw the water wasn’t going to stop, we left.”
Fuentes, her husband Jaime and their five children, ages ranging from seven months to 14 years, were plucked from the floodwaters by her mother, who arrived in a truck. They are now crammed into her sister’s apartment and with no insurance have little idea where they will live next. Jaime is unable to earn money because his construction job has been paused due to the flooding.
But while everything has changed for this family, they are still expected to pay for their abandoned home.
“Our landlords say we have to pay rent and late fees and every day it is going up,” Fuentes said. “We are paying rent for somewhere we can’t live in. They said ‘you aren’t the only ones in this situation’, but what are we supposed to do? We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything.”
Capitalism is evil.
Like some of the other comments in this are saying, legally a lot of landlords can’t actually charge rent in a situation like this, so if you find yourself in this situation, you do have legal recourse.
In Texas, the tenant law dictates that you have a right to demand that the landlord repair any condition that materially affects your health and safety. Under Texas law, by renting you the property, the landlord guarantees that the unit will be a fit place to live.
So if it’s dangerously flooded and unhygienic THEY have to fix it, not you, and you can break your lease with no penalty or have the landlord court ordered to repair it. Most states have laws like this, so actually the landlords here are risking lawsuits and people legally nailing them to the wall by trying to charge on units that are unfit for habitation.
These landlords are really stupid because apartments that are flooded out and growing black mold are going to be impossible to prove as healthy and safe. They’re just trying to take advantage of people not knowing their tenants’ rights to eke rent out of them for as long as they can before the tenants realize they actually can’t do that.
They’re probably just counting on the tenants being too poor to afford lawyers.
Yep, this is a real problem. From a design stand point it saves fabric and time since you don’t have to add any darts or pockets, and they go with the premise that a flat square shape should fit everyone without having to make much changes to the pattern (except to make it bigger or smaller). This whole one-size-fits-all mentality in fashion is so flawed, and actually impractical, it really annoys me how teachers let it slide in college and how the apparel industry continues to spew it year after year.
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“In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in the bed of her lover, and set the room on fire to cover their escape”
PETITION TO MAKE A MOVIE/TV SERIES ABOUT JULIE D’AUBIGNY.
Are you willing to work weekends? Holidays? Through the birth of your child? Until you collapse?
It’s the hot new thing in job interviews: Testing whether candidates are willing to sacrifice everything — their home lives, their families, their health — for the good of their company.
The Muse recently wrote that we should be aware of “work-life balance ‘tests’” during interviews, highlighting the chief executive of Barstool Sports, Erika Nardini, who reportedly texts job applicants interviewing with the company on weekends. Nardini said she does this “just to see how fast you’ll respond,” in an interview with The New York Times. She expects to be contacted back “within three hours,” she elaborated. “It’s not that I’m going to bug you all weekend if you work for me, but I want you to be responsive. I think about work all the time,” Nardini said. “Other people don’t have to be working all the time, but I want people who are also always thinking.”
It was also reported recently that Vena Solutions CEO Don Mal asks candidates if they’d “leave [their] family at Disneyland to do something that was really important for the company?” He expects them to say yes.
Honestly they can fuck right off. I don’t want to work for a company with those expectations.
Saying “Fuck it” actually motivates me more than “You can do this”.
This is because there’s always a part of your brain that’s like, “But what if I CAN’T do this?” and you’ll still freeze.
But if you say “Fuck it,” you’re saying “You know, whatever happens, happens. If it’s not perfect, so what. I’m gonna try, and if I fail, then – fuck it.”
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