I just want to rant a little about "manic pixie dream girl," first described by the yucky Nathan Rabin, and subject of this much yuckier video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBNss2PMj60
"The cause of the manic pixie dream girl is still little understood. Although my own theory is severe retardation of the brain."Like I could say a lot of shit about this but I'm just going to say it's pesky. All those movies where they magic some creative type out of a funk, sure, it's played ººº but extending it to IRL I guess anyone with bangs and glasses is just too precious (=stupid?) to go on?
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I certainly don't believe that but it's the thesis of this video.
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
pesky sounds about right.
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
entire point of the stereotype is that it's a ridiculous reductive character type often written by men. using it as a stereotype for a real person makes no sense!
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
the sketch isn't about about actual people, though. it's a "what if?" gag that strands a common fantasy character type as a fish out of water in the real world. kind of like enchanted, but less forgiving. the point is that the fantasy is more irritating than charming, or would be in real life. unfortunately, it winds up being more sexist than trenchant, especially with that "severe retardation of the brain" bit at the end. shitty comedy is shitty.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
P sure it's supposed to be about real coocoo ladies
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get all the Goldie Hawn hate.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
xp
does drift in that direction at the end with the craft table conversation, which is just "lol, lib chicks say stupid shit"
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
prior to that it seemed to be mocking the fantasy
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
using it as a stereotype for a real person makes no sense!
I know an IRL mpdg. She's super manic -- super happy, skipping everywhere, singing to herself, etc. most of the time -- and then when something crosses her she switches in an instant to slamming doors, drama, etc. One weekend she spent all day blowing bubbles on the sidewalk, waiting for people to walk by and then in a fit of whimsy waving bubbles all around them. The weekend before that she set out sidewalk chalk and got all these strangers to draw on the sidewalk and on the road. She's an art student and doesn't have to pay rent and is living the outgoing eccentric pipe-dream.
It's annoying as hell most of the time, unless I'm in an extremely good mood, which I hardly am ever.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
That's not a personality, that's a mental disorder or personality disorder!
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Guilty laugh that this p much nails my reaction to an absurdly large number of behavior.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
I too have known some v mpdgish g's. Also otm re: Rabin; I was reading a bunch of those My Year of Flops and it was so horribly written! Like just super-obvious community college school paper arts section-quality "humor" but peppered with offensive throwaway jokes/generalizations
― Drew Careymore (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 July 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
lol, one of the "related videos" on Abbbottt's link is Zooey D on Kimmel.
Anyway, some observations I've made on the MPDG's I've known that don't get translated into the movies:
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
"real MPDG" sounds kind of like "real Stepin Fetchit"
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is happening here
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 July 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
just make something up and flip out about it
― xlr to hard drive adaptor (electricsound), Thursday, 5 July 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
It's suddenly a slow time for sexism in America.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 July 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=123877
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
? buncha ppl complaining about automatic subscriber renewal on a dating site?
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna link geek2geek but figured this was an easier way
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/pixies.jpg
undoubtedly sexist
― contenderizer, Thursday, 5 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
how can a site as big as Buzzfeed get away with this?
http://i.imgur.com/gMrbp.png
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
This is like one of the biggest sites on the internet with like advertisers in like a legit, non-Chan/non-Reddit capacity right? Or do i have my understanding of Buzzfeed wrong?
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
I thought buzzfeed was mostly goofy videos and list articles?
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
fucking internet
― goole, Friday, 20 July 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
don't those guys own spin now?
― Mordy, Friday, 20 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Is Mordy circling the drain?
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Did Anyone See Mordy's List of Definitive Hardcore Albums?
anyway, I used buzzfeed for a while but they kinda have no quality control at all for some reason. I got tired of reading articles by bigoted idiots that had gotten buzzed up somehow.
― Ring brother, ring for me! (Viceroy), Monday, 23 July 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/227954449191153665
― goole, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
That guy, and most of the people responding affirmatively to him, are disgusting.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
lmao he actually describes it as a "challenging tweet"
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure about sexist but it's misogynistic all right.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
"challenging twit" obvs
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, I didn't mean to say that, I was thinking of something else. Obvs it is sexist as several fucks.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
just saw the 'camry' ad
http://toyotagoodmove.com/
what in the fuck
― goole, Sunday, 5 August 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
uh.jpg
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Sunday, 5 August 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Good thing he chose to marry that car
― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Sunday, 5 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
is that sexist?
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
camry couldnt afford kristin wiig so they made a composite of four of her characters & then got a gifted class 7th grader to put the word "cheese" in it
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
pfft gifted class 7th graders would know better
― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
More of an "Is this sexist?" than a "this is sexist":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hJfBM2sRkQ
I ask because, although I find this fairly amusing, I can't help the feeling that BMW expects us to laugh at the little woman -- when in fact pretty much anyone without significant motorsport experience would freaking out at least that hard.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
Well, they're both pretty little.
― die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
Well, the guy wasn't being an arse, he was informative and never once tried the "This'll make her scream if i do THIS!" biz.
Rule of thumb: "Top Gear" would not do this, it's not 'sexist' enough.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
Guess where I found the video, Mark.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
Youtube.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bmw-racer-takes-wife-around-nurburgring-2012-09-26
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP9DIablJb0
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
It burns, don't it?
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
I was playing a "School" themed TOTP2 to the girls, I've mentioned a couple of tracks' responses in other threads. Yesterday, this one came up and Alice was all "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww......"
This morning, she found the above and we all laughed a bit. Then she found the original and played it in full, and we were all "can you stop now or we leave the room?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link