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Desígnio — Arco 38.

I. Maratonas.

I. Anos 1980.

Listas: IMDb; Wikipedia.

I. A — Parte 1.

Atração Mortal, de Michael Lehmann.

II. B — Parte 1.

Blade Runner — O Caçador de Androides, de Ridley Scott [Ler Androides Sonham com Ovelhas Elétricas?, de Philip K. Dick; Ler The Bladerunner, de Alan E. Nourse; Blade Runner 2049, de Denis Villeneuve; Poderá haver um terceiro filme; Haverá uma série, Blade Runner 2099, na Prime Video.].

III. C — Parte 1.

Conta Comigo, de Rob Reiner.

IV. E — Parte 1.

E.T. — O Extraterrestre, de Steven Spielberg. /

V. K — Parte 1.

Kagemusha — A Sombra de um Samurai, de Akira Kurosawa. / Karatê Kid — A Hora da Verdade, de John G. Avildsen.

VI. N — Parte 1.

Nascido para Matar, de Stanley Kubrick.

VII. O — Parte 1.

O Matador, de John Woo. / Os Fantasmas Se Divertem, de Tim Burton. / Os Gritos do Silêncio, de Roland Joffé. / Os Intocáveis, de Brian De Palma.

VIII. T — Parte 1.

Top Gun — Ases Indomáveis, de Tony Scott [Top Gun — Maverick, de Joseph Kosinski.].

II. Desmado.

I. A — Parte 1.

A Bela e a Fera, de Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise. / A Fuga das Galinhas, de Peter Lord & Nick Park. / Agência Secreta de Controle de Magias, de Alex Tsitsilin. / Akira, de Katsuhiro Otomo. / As Aventuras de Peter Pan, de Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske. /

II. B — Parte 1.

Branca de Neve e os Sete Anões, de William Cottrell, David Hand & Wilfred Jackson. /

III. C — Parte 1.

CyberWorld, de Colin Davies & Elaine Despins. /

IV. D — Parte 1.

Deu a Louca na Chapeuzinho, de Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards & Tony Leech. / Deu a Louca na Cinderela, de Paul Bolger, Yvette Kaplan & Greg Tiernan. / Dogão — Amigo pra Cachorro, de Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval & Frank Passingham. / Dumbo, de Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson & Wilfred Jackson. /

V. F — Parte 1.

Formiguinhaz, de Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson. /

VI. G — Parte 1.

Gato de Botas, de Chris Miller [Gato de Botas 2 — O Último Pedido, de Joel Crawford.].

VII. H — Parte 1.

Hotel Transilvânia, de Genndy Tartakovsky. /

VIII. I — Parte 1.

Igor, de Tony Leondis. /

IX. J — Parte 1.

Jimmy Neutron — O Menino Gênio, de John A. Davis. /

X. M — Parte 1.

Meu Amigo Totoro, de Hayao Miyazaki. /Miúda e o Guarda-chuva, de Amadeu Alban. / Monstros S.A., de Pete Docter, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich. /

XI. O — Parte 1.

O Galinho Chicken Little, de Mark Dindal. / O Príncipe do Egito, de Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner & Simon Wells. / O Rei Leão, de Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff. /

XII. P — Parte 1.

Pinóquio por Guillermo del Toro, de Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson.

XIII. R — Parte 1.

Robôs, de Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha. /

XIV. S — Parte 1.

Shrek, de Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson [Consultar todas as obras especiais da franquia; Shrek 2, de Andrew Adamson; Shrek Terceiro, de Chris Miller & Raman Hui; Shrek para Sempre, de Mike Mitchell.]. / Spirit — O Corcel Indomável, de Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook. / Super Mario Bros. — O Filme, de Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic. / Super Mario Bros. — Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!, de Masami Hata.

XV. T — Parte 1.

Toy Story, de John Lasseter [Toy Story 2, de John Lasseter, Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich.]. /

III. Horror.

A. A Casa dos Maus Espíritos, de William Castle [A Casa da Colina, de William Malone; De Volta à Casa da Colina, de Víctor Garcia.]. / A Órfã, de Jaume Collet-Serra [Órfã 2 — A Origem, de William Brent Bell.]. / A Última Casa da Rua, de Mark Tonderai. / Aniversário Macabro, de Wes Craven [A Última Casa, de Dennis Iliadis.]. / Apollo 18 — A Missão Proibida, de Gonzalo López-Gallego.

B. Brinquedo Assassino, de Tom Holland [Brinquedo Assassino 2, de John Lafia.]. / Brinquedos do Terror, de Nicholas Verso.

C. Convite Maldito, de Jessica M. Thompson.

D. Despertar dos Mortos, de David Keating. /Domicílio Alienígena, de Kelly Schwarze. /

E. Encurralada, de Toran Caudell. /

G. Gritos do Além, de Steven C. Miller.

I. Irmandade do Mal, de Todor Chapkanov.

N. Não! Não Olhe!, de Jordan Peele. / Noite das Bruxas Macabra, de Travis Baker.

O. O Iluminado, de Stanley Kubrick. / Oferenda ao Demônio, de Oliver Park. / Os Mensageiros, de Danny Pang & Oxide Chun Pang. /

P. Pânico, de Wes Craven [Pânico 2, de Wes Craven; Pânico 3, de Wes Craven; Pânico 4, de Wes Craven; Pânico, de Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett.]. / Possessão, de Ole Bornedal. / Premonição, de James Wong [Premonição 2, de David R. Ellis; Premonição 3, de James Wong; Premonição 4, de David R. Ellis; Premonição 5, de Steven Quale.]. / Psicose, de Alfred Hitchcock [Psicose 2, de Richard Franklin.].

S. Sexta-feira 13, de Sean S. Cunningham. / Sobrenatural, de James Wan [Sobrenatural: Capítulo 2, de James Wan; Sobrenatural — A Origem, de Leigh Whannell.].

U. Um Lugar Silencioso, de John Krasinski [Um Lugar Silencioso — Parte II, de John Krasinski.].

IV. Lisa Kudrow.

Listas: IMDb; JustWatch; Wikipedia.

1. America 3000, de David Engelbach. 2. L.A. on $5 a Day, de Todd Hughes. 3. O Bebê Maldito, de Rodman Flender. 4. Dance with Death, de Charles Philip Moore. 5. In the Heat of Passion, de Rodman Flender.

V. M. Night Shyamalan.

Listas: Wikipedia.

1. Praying with Anger [1992.]. 2. Olhos Abertos [1998.]. 3. Ela É Demais [1999.]. 4. O Sexto Sentido [1999.]. 5. O Pequeno Stuart Little [1999.]. 6. Corpo Fechado [2000.]. 7. Sinais [2002.]. 8. A Vila [2004.]. 9. A Dama na Água [2006.]. 10. Fim dos Tempos [2008.]. 11. O Último Mestre do Ar [2010.]. 12. Demônio [2010.]. 13. Depois da Terra [2013.]. 14. A Visita [2015.]. 15. Fragmentado [2016.]. 16. Vidro [2019.]. 17. Tempo [2021.]. 18. Batem à Porta [2023.].

VI. New Line Cinema.

Listas: IMDb.

1. Uma Página de Loucura, de Teinosuke Kinogasa. 2. The Pace That Kills, de William A. O'Connor. 3. A Porta da Loucura, de Louis J. Gasnier. 4. ...E o Vento Levou, de Victor Fleming, George Cukor & Sam Wood. 5. Os Amantes Crucificados, de Kenji Mizoguchi.

VII. Ubiquação.

Conteúdos: Claro video; Cindie; HBO Max; Recomendações; Netflix; SET; Wikipedia.

I. A — Parte 1.

A Lista de Schindler, de Steven Spielberg. / A Morte Lhe Cai Bem, de Robert Zemeckis. / A Múmia, de Stephen Sommers [O Retorno da Múmia, de Stephen Sommers.]. / A Onda, de Dennis Gansel. / A Paixão de Cristo, de Mel Gibson. / A Princesa Prometida, de Rob Reiner. / A Última Tentação de Cristo, de Martin Scorsese. / A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias, de Michael Anderson & John Farrow. / Ácido, de Aleksandr Gorchilin. / Adonis, de Scud. / Alien — O 8° Passageiro, de Ridley Scott. / Anfetamina, de Scud. / Anti-herói Americano, de Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini. / Apesar de Tudo, Shamim Sarif. / Aposta na Vingança, de Gábor Herendi. / Austin Powers — O Agente "Bond" Cama, de Jay Roach. /

II. B — Parte 1.

Babe — O Porquinho Atrapalhado, de Chris Noonan. / Bwoy, de John G. Young. /

III. C — Parte 1.

Capital Games, de Ilo Orleans. /Cazuza — O Tempo Não Pára, de . / Cidade de Deus. / Clube da Luta. / Consequências, de Darko Štante. / Consequências da Vida, de Daniel Armando. /

IV. D — Parte 1.

Desespero, de Gilles Coulier. / Diários de Motocicleta, de Walter Salles. / Dicionário de Cama. / Dirty Dancing. / Dogma, de Kevin Smith. / Dogville. / Domingo Sangrento, de. / Don Juan DeMarco. / Donnie Darko, de. /

E. E Sua Mãe Também, de Alfonso Cuarón. / Em uma Ilha Bem Distante, de Vanessa Jopp. / Emoções Reprimidas, de Jennifer Gerber. / Encantada, de Kevin Lima. / Encontros e Desencontros. / Esposa de Mentirinha, de Dennis Dugan. / Eu, Robô. /

G — Parte 1.

Gladiador, de Ridley Scott. / Guerra nas Estrelas, de. [Star Wars — Episódio I — A Ameaça Fantasma, de George Lucas. /

H. Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, de Alfonso Cuarón. / Histeria, de John Blanchard. / Homem-Aranha 2, de Sam Raimi. /

I. Identidade. /

K. Kill Bill Vol. 1, de Quentin Tarantino. /

L — Parte 1.

Lady Peacock — De Salto para o Amor, de Jana (AJ) Mattioli. / Lara Croft — Tomb Raider, de Simon West. / Looney Tunes — De Volta a Ação. / Loucuras na Madrugada, de. /

M — Parte 1.

Madrugada dos Mortos, de. / Matrix, de The Wachowski Brothers. / Mentiras e Traições, de Mitu Misra. / Mestre dos Mares. / Missão de Honra, de David Blair. / Monstros, de Gareth Edwards.

N. No Amor e na Guerra. / Nos Becos de São Francisco, de Thales Corrêa. /

O. O Caçador, de Marco Berger. / O Dia Depois de Amanhã, de Roland Emmerich. / O Preço de Aleksander, de Pau Masó. / O Seminarista, de Joshua Lim. / O Silêncio dos Inocentes, de. / O Turbilhão, de Eusebio Pastrana. / O Último Samurai. / Os Condenados, de Scott Wiper. / Os Irmãos Marx no Circo, de Irmãos Marx. /

P. Paixão Mortal, de Malik Bader. / Party Monster. / Pearl Harbor, de Michael Bay. / Pedro Coelho 2 — O Fugitivo, de Will Gluck. / Peixe Grande. / Preso no Gancho da Vida, de Max Emerson. /

R. Recomeço de uma Paixão, de Tim Kirkman. / Regras da Atração. / Réquiem para um Sonho, de . / Resident Evil, de. /

S. Santa de Casa. / Senta a Pua!. / Sobre Meninos e Lobos. / Super Mario Bros., de Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton.

T. The Falls — O Amor Não É Pecado, de Jon Garcia [The Falls — Testamento do Amor, de Jon Garcia; The Falls — O Pacto da Graça, de Jon Garcia.]. / Tróia. /

U. Um Dia nas Corridas, de Irmãos Marx. / Uma Grande Loja no Tempo do Onça, de Irmãos Marx. / Uma Mente Brilhante, de Ron Howard. / Uma Noite em Casablanca, de Irmãos Marx. / Uma Noite na Ópera, de Irmãos Marx. / Uma Noiva e Tanto, de Thomas Schlamme. / Underworld, de. /

V. Van Helsing, de. / Vingança à Sangue Frio, de Frédéric Petitjean. /

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Army Drill Sergeant Found Dead in Texas: Jessica Mitchell Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Obituary, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Fast Facts

Jessica Mitchell Biography — Wiki Jessica Mitchell is a U.S. Army drill sergeant in Texas who was found in her car, shot multiple times, died early New Year’s Day, according to reports. Mitchell was on holiday leave when she was found around 3 a.m. Friday along Interstate 10 in San Antonio, the Army said, according to FOX 29 in San Antonio. Mitchell was assigned as a dental specialist to the…

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beca-mitchell · 4 years

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Beca and the Intern (1/1)

Summary: Beca doesn't have a wandering eye. Fluff. No angst.

Word Count: 1,674

This is really short, but I wanted to share with you guys. Part of the now i see daylight universe. Could potentially be read as a quick standalone too.

Read below or on AO3.

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February Los Angeles Age: 35

Some people might say that Beca Mitchell has a problem. The problem being that she has blinders on whenever it comes to her and her family.

It’s not her fault, it really isn’t. Her family is just kind of her number one priority, which she assumes must be some weird blip in Hollywood or maybe Los Angeles at large.

But still.

It’s not a problem.

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“So...what do you do around here?” the intern—Jane or Jenny or Jessica—asks, leaning over Beca’s shoulder as she fiddles with controls. It’s not quite enough that their bodies are touching and Beca’s just a bit too distracted to notice just how close she’s standing.

Also, the audacity of the question itself—as if Beca Mitchell, world-reknown artist had simply “things” to do “around here”.

It’s a set up.

One that Beca doesn’t notice or perhaps she just chooses not to care enough to notice.

Josh seems to notice, however, and coughs behind his hand, tapering off into a snicker. Beca cuts a glance at him. “What is it?”

“Sorry,” he mutters. Beca raises an eyebrow, but he simply shrugs, going back to his laptop.

Opting to ignore her favorite co-producer’s weird antics, Beca returns to the task at hand. The task being that she volunteers to introduce new interns at Epic Records to the ins and outs of recording and producing. It surprises most people because of her continuously-growing celebrity status and how easily this could all go downhill, but Beca has been doing it for a few years now and she likes the drive she sees in most interns.

It reminds her of where she once was.

“So this is where I do most of my recording,” Beca explains, straightening her back as she turns to smile at the intern. “I guess you’ll be shadowing me here and there during your time here.” She tries to offer a grin. “It’s a lot more boring than it sounds, I promise. I’m mostly done with most of my tracks.” Beca’s brow furrows. “Sorry, what was your name again?”

Her intern’s eyes seem to light up. “Jen.”

Beca snaps her fingers. “I’ll do my best to remember that. Sorry, I’m really bad with names. Better with faces.”

For whatever reason, Jen seems to brighten even more at that, offering Beca a megawatt smile that hurts Beca’s eyes just by virtue of looking at it.

Interns seem to get younger and weirder, Beca muses.

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“And...that’s it!” Beca says, gesturing at Jen to shut off the recording session. She’s impressed when Jen does so with ease, fingers seemingly flying across the soundboard. She exits the booth, nodding approvingly. “What did you think?”

“Your voice is...amazing,” Jen says breathlessly. “You just make it look so easy, I swear.” She clasps her hands and looks up at Beca. “That was a lot of fun. Will we get to do it again?” Her eyes cut to Josh. “Would you be able to show me more things? T-techniques, I mean. Just the two of us?”

Josh coughs again.

Beca is scrolling through her phone, distracted already.

“Beca?”

She smiles apologetically at her intern. “Wait, you have to see this. You just reminded me of something my daughter did.”

Jen’s smile freezes. “Daughter?”

Josh snickers, fully this time. “Didn’t you know that the famous Beca Mitchell is completely domesticized? Two kids and a high school sweetheart of a wife. Pretty sure that exact line is on her Wikipedia page.”

Beca blushes, still distracted as she searches for the video she’s looking for. “That...was a joke line that Chloe put up. I took it down.”

“After a week,” Josh quips back.

“Right,” Jen says. “I knew that. Your family is super cute. It must be hard though, being away from them so often. You must get lonely...” Jen trails off, clearly noticing that Beca is too fixated on her phone to really be responsive to her words.

Josh’s eyes cut to Jen again, completely bemused at the sheer amount of literal hearts shooting out of her eyes.

And the fact Beca still has yet to notice. In fact, Beca barely seems to have noticed that Jen had been speaking to her, undertones of something more clipping into her tone.

“Oh my God,” Beca exclaims finally once she pulls herself away from photos of Chloe and their babies. “Here, look. This is Emma. She’s five now.” Her smile is blinding as she hands the phone to Jen, immediately bending over her shoulder to watch as well. “I brought her into the studio one day on a weekend and she just...went to town on this thing.” Beca puts her hands over her chest. “She’s already so musical.”

Jen hands the phone back. “That’s great—you and your family...your family sounds lovely.”

Beca beams. “Thank you.”

She doesn't notice the longing on Jen's face.

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“You’re unbelievable,” Josh says once Jen is carted off to another department for the rest of her tour of the label.

“What?”

“What do you mean what? That poor girl was about two seconds away from literally jumping you.”

Beca chokes on the sip of water she had been taking. “What? No she wasn’t.”

“Yes she was. What would Chloe have to say about this?”

Beca panics briefly at the thought of Chloe storming through the office. “I didn’t do anything.”

Josh grins and kicks her chair gently. “I know, I was just kidding. It’s not like you even noticed when she was undressing you with her eyes.”

“Stop saying that!” Beca exclaims, covering her face with her hands. “Oh my God, these interns are so young and weird. Why do I even agree to do this?”

“Because you’re a good person,” Josh chirps, laughing when Beca has yet to remove her hands from her face. “And so, so humble,” he mocks, kicking her chair again. “Okay miss Grammy Award winner.”

Beca scowls, peeking at him. “Shut up.” She glances around the empty room. “I feel like I should call Chloe. I should do that, right? Like. Just a feeling.”

“Why?” he asks, laughing again. “Like you said, you didn’t do anything. And really, you didn’t. You weren’t even encouraging her. You were just like...obsessed with your kid. Again.”

Beca chooses to ignore that last part. “I’m scared. What if she corners me.”

Josh snorts before bursting into full-blown laughter.

“Help me!” Beca exclaims. “I’m—I’m so bad at—Hey, where are you going!”

Josh’s laughter haunts her as he exits the room, laptop tucked under his arm.

Beca waits until she’s totally alone and picks up her phone.

Beca Mitchell Chlo?

Chloe Beale yes? what did you do?

Beca Mitchell Want to bring Grace and Emma by work today so we can grab dinner after?

Chloe Beale ...again. what did you do now? Also yes. :) i love you and i was kidding...i know you didn't do anything

Beca Mitchell stop that Love you too

And she means it. She really does.

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Chloe pokes her head around the corner of the door to Beca’s favorite studio. It pretty much doubles as her own personal workspace with how often she uses it compared to other artists and producers. Chloe’s lanyard and visitor’s pass clicks against the door and she smiles sheepishly when Beca turns in her chair, clearly startled.

“Hi,” Chloe greets. It’s all she can get out before Emma is squealing excitedly and pushing past Chloe’s legs to throw herself against Beca’s knees.

Beca gasps, mimicking Emma’s excitement as she picks up her child (doing her best not to wince as she does so, marvelling at how big Emma’s gotten already) and presses kisses against her face. “You came to visit me!” Chloe steps into the room, nudging the door but not closing it completely. Beca’s heart pounds at the sight of Chloe carrying their (almost) two-year-old, Grace, in her arms.

It is a sight that will never get old.

Additionally, Chloe is smiling at Beca in that specific way that makes Beca’s knees weak—the smile that Beca knows is representative of how much Chloe loves her and adores her.

And how much Chloe loves and adores their little family. It makes Beca feel less crazy, knowing how obsessed Chloe is with documenting literally every aspect of their life together.

“We came to visit you!” Emma shouts, bringing Beca right back to the present, stopping her from being lost completely in her wife’s eyes. At five, Emma has developed a penchant for yelling at the top of her lungs, regardless of her emotion.

“Emma, indoor voice,” Beca hushes.

“Hello wifey,” Chloe murmurs, leaning in to greet Beca herself. Between them, Grace is contentedly resting her head against Chloe’s shoulder, clearly still tired from the short drive over. Beca can’t blame her. And Emma—Emma is giggling happily as Beca steals a quick kiss from Chloe. “Dinner plans?” Chloe questions. “That was sudden of you.”

Beca is about to respond, but she notices Jen poking her head around the corner of the door at that exact moment. She fumbles and presses her lips to Chloe’s again, mindful of their babies between them.

Chloe gasps against her mouth, clearly surprised, but she lets Beca take the lead, clearly interested in where this goes.

“Not that I’m complaining,” Chloe says slowly when they part. Emma giggles between them like she knows exactly why Beca is so frazzled. She probably does, the rascal. Beca wonders if she can bring her kids into work more often...or at least spend more time at home. She smiles, nuzzling Emma's rosy cheek before leaning over to tickle Grace. Chloe clears her throat, eyes shining with mirth, but mostly love and affection. “But what was that for?”

Beca clears her throat and makes a mental note to not stop by Josh’s desk on the way out. “It’s a long story.”

But it’s not a problem because Beca has her family and she wouldn’t change any of this for the world.

fin.

*see more of this universe—now i see daylight.*

#bechloe #pitch perfect #fanfiction #now i see daylight #mine #my fanfic

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robertogreco · 5 years

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Varsity Blues and the Destructive Myth of Meritocracy

In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal that made news on March 12, 2019, I wrote (mildly edited here with more character space and one grammatical correction):

It’s not just a matter of who “should“ get in or not and graduate from where or not. “Elite” educations aren’t really cultivating better critical thinkers — otherwise the graduates would’ve dismantled them by now rather than flashing degrees to lift themselves and justify their advantages.

We need to give up on the notion of “earn” and “deserve,” and make sure our collective resources and wealth are spread (redistributed) evenly, that everyone is taken care of, and that we don’t wreck the planet (reverse the wrecking).

Then I found many other great reminders about the lie of meritocracy and its assistance in building inequality and maintaining the system. I have collected them here.

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Dana Goldstein:

When rich and famous people allegedly buy their children admission to elite colleges, you have to wonder what terrible fate they believe will befall their incredibly privileged offspring if they don't attend such schools.

What drives the anxiety? Fears of downward mobility? Name brand obsession? Has the education gospel anxiety traveled this far up the economic ladder? Paging @tressiemcphd!

Tressie McMillan Cottom responds:

Yes, I like Shamus Khan and Mitchell Stevens here. It is hard to completely process if it isn't your culture but there is no such thing as "enough" for elite status groups. Their anxiety feels as real to them as the objectively more real risk of failure feels to poor families

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Jessica Valenti:

What I don't really get about this college scheme is that these kids were gonna be FINE and RICH no matter what. Who cares if they got into some college?

My only explanation - somewhat supported by the totally bananas court document - is that the parents wanted their kids (who were unaware of the fraud) to feel smart. That's some next level shit

Tressie McMillan Cottom responds:

Again, it's hard to explain but the social reproduction of privilege requires this kind of anxiety.

Nadirah Farah Foley adds:

yes — and this is where Khan's distinction between privilege and entitlement is so crucial. an elite degree legitimates advantage as earned rather than inherited, which is essential for status under the meritocratic logics & ideals that dominate US society.

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Nana Kwame:

So you mean rich people cheat the system to get their kids in.. in an institution that artificially creates a perception of scarcity regarding a resource that is not scare in order to drive extraordinary costs up which in turn perpetuates mass inequality at all levels of society?

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Antonio García Martínez:

What's funniest about the college bribery scandal is that the privileged, unbright scions of celebrity wealth felt they needed the imprimatur of prestige schools to justify their rank in life, to bolster the charade. A false meritocratic standard is worse than no standard at all.

It's worth recalling that the word 'meritocracy' was coined as a satirical slur in a dystopic novel by a sociologist. Bizarrely, it was ingested by the culture as a universal good that it would be offensive to even question. link to Wikipedia page for meritocracy

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

I also hate to see us reinforce the idea that the metrics/standards by which we determine deservingness of access to a high-quality education are objectively good/right measures of "merit." and there's a LOT of that implicitly going on in statements about this scandal.

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Clint Smith:

The very idea of our society, higher-ed or otherwise, being a "meritocracy" is something that was made up to justify & reify existing social hierarchies. It's not real. What's real is how wealth & race combine to give ppl things that they tell themselves they inherently deserve.

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

there's so many angles to this admissions scandal, but I just keep coming back to the fact that stuff like this probably wouldn't happen if we didn't have a super stratified & unequal system in which attending an elite school comes with such outsized material & symbolic benefits.

that, and we might not have such a stratified system of education if we weren't so wedded to the idea that meritocracy is a good system for meting out just inequalities, and education is the way to administer that system.

it doesn't have to be like this, though.

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Shamus Khan:

My worry is that it will recede into a discussion about "merit" where we basically say, "oh... we just need to get back to a 'true' meritocracy and then it's all good" rather than asking ourselves what kinds of communities we want to create and what our social responsibilies are.

Nadirah Farah Foley responds:

this. so much of the discourse today is reinforcing the idea that the process is basically about merit except when it's corrupted via bribery or nepotism. the question of what a "true meritocracy" would look like — and whether that's even desirable — is an essential one, imo.

the question of what a "true meritocracy" looks like requires digging into what merit means; the question of whether it's desirable calls for interrogating whether just inequality can exist, or whether inequality in & of itself is unjust/to be avoided. those are tough questions.

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Anand Giridharadas:

They were the kind of liberals who want to change the world as long as that doesn't mean their world having to change. Much of what appears to be reform in our time is in fact the defense of stasis. These are in fact conservatives who fly stealth under the shield of liberalism.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein:

The problem at these schools isn’t these singular bribes. The problem is the tax-free donations they get which literally cut the tax base for public universities. The problem is the large number of legacies they admit who think they got there through hard work.

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Reclaim UC:

Has anyone done a study about how increased access to higher education has coincided with dramatically worsening economic inequality in the United States? I.e “access” doesn’t mean what it once meant during the postwar boom.

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Hoodqueer:

your kid's "spot" doesn't exist. admission to elite american universities is a highly strategic, profit-driven affair. the university gets something out of every student it admits. if it's not money, it's reputation,"diversity," or free labor. your kid's "spot" doesn't exist.

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Hari Ziyad

Plot twist: the “legitimate” criteria for acceptance into elite schools are all white supremacist bullshit too. SAT scores. Grades. Extra curriculars. None of them make a person smart or special. They all show you’re willing to play their game tho, which is all you need to do.

My hope was that “legacy” was an obvious enough example, but it’s important to mention because all of these things are connected. You can’t have “elite” schools without being rigged for the elite, in big and small ways.

And you can’t have POC complaining about how they were assumed to be accepted into elite schools because of affirmative action without reinforcing this bullshit either. If you did not get accepted due to aff action you did it by perfecting their rules.

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David J. Leonard:

Derrick Bell made it all too clear in 2002: “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”

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Tyler Reinhard (posted previously):

Ivy diplomas are luxury goods, not qualifications. If they had any real value — some educational secret sauce —they would scale it. Instead they do the opposite by offering something “exclusive”, just like every other luxury brand.

Update: 13 March 2019 (same day as post): I have added many more below and will likely continue to do so.

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Anand Giridharadas (See the full interview here.):

In this college scandal, we haven't heard much from the kids themselves.

But I found a glimpse of how they processed their inflated scores in the indictment.

And it offers a vital lesson: rigging things doesn't make the beneficiaries insecure, but rather unduly self-confident. [video embedded]

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Talila Lewis:

So many thoughts on #CollegeAdmissionsScandal / #CollegeCheatingScandal.

The true injustice is that with all the cause célèbre, we're missing a prime opportunity to name & address that the US "education" system has since time immemorial been at least racist, classist & ableist.

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

or, counterpoint: maybe college admissions is a meritocracy! but maybe meritocracy is bad —a system that legitimates inequality and rewards privilege while mischaracterizing it as "ability" and "talent"meritocracy killjoy added,

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Tamara K. Nopper

So if everybody worked as hard as many who are sharing their stories, all without the extreme wealth and connections and lying we would still have a problem. Cuz people shouldn’t have to be working so damn hard and the stakes shouldn’t be so onerous to gain access to higher ed.

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

I keep hearing people say bribery is different from donating a building because “bribery is a crime,” but I think it’s important we not lose sight of the fact that legality and morality don’t always overlap. something not being a “crime” doesn’t make it okay.

I’m not saying bribery isn’t a particularly extreme manifestation of leveraging wealth to gain access, but if the only reason you draw the line at bribery is because it happens to be designated a crime...I think it’s worth interrogating why.

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Eric Levitz:

The real scandal isn’t all the unethical shit rich parents will do to keep their failsons and faildaughters from tumbling down the socioeconomic ladder — it’s that we use adolescents’ test scores to ration economic security in the first place. [link to “All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal”]

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Nadirah Farah Foley:

I always find "X is not a meritocracy" takes interesting, because they seem to imply that something else is, or could be, a meritocracy. I really wonder about that, though.

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Anand Giridharadas:

The college bribery scam is not a college bribery scam. It is a master class in how America — governed by a cheater, ruled by rule breakers, managed by a class that confuses its privilege for merit — functions. [with link to “The College Bribery Scam Reveals How Rich People Use 'Charity' to Cheat: Anand Giridharadas explains how alleged payoffs to test takers and athletic coaches are part of a larger ecosystem of elite hypocrisy.”]

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Anand Giridharadas:

America is being revealed right now as it hasn't been in my lifetime.

Jamil Smith responds:

This, for me, is pretty much the only way that the Trump presidency has been useful—at least in terms of its influence on our politics and culture. The nation’s institutional faults, holes, and past errors are being laid bare in a particularly conspicuous way.

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John Keogh responding to one of Nadirah Farah Foley’s remarks above:

I find it telling that most people who preach most ardently about the virtues of meritocracy take it as a given they’ll be the ones to win.

Take away that certainty and they find meritocracy a whole lot less attractive.

Nadirah Farah Foley responds:

something that’s surprised me is finding out that while the winners in a meritocratic system may believe in meritocracy more strongly, even those disadvantaged under such a system cling pretty tightly to meritocratic ideals.

@L1vY responds:

We all internalize it because it's the only way to imagine we might end up having some control over it. Socio-economic victim-blaming works like every other type of victim-blaming.

#college admissions #meritocracy #inequality #elitism #capitalism #us #colleges #universities #society #wealth #education #schooling #schooliness #testing #sats #sorting

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The Adult Industry Medical Associates P.C. (formerly Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation), also known simply as AIM or AIM Medical, was a non-profit organization devoted to STD testing of pornographic actors for HIV and other STDs on a scheduled basis. Founded in 1998 by former pornographic film actress, Sharon Mitchell, AIM went out of business in 2011 after licensing issues, and a data breach and lawsuit regarding the violation of patient privacy.

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1History

2SxCheck

3Patient database breach

4See also

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History[edit]

Since the 1980s, outbreaks of HIV/AIDS within the community of erotic actors caused a number of deaths. In response to this threat AIM was founded in 1998 by former pornographic film actress, Sharon Mitchell, who had left the industry in 1996 to pursue credentials in public health counseling and sexology.[1][2]

The Foundation helped set up a system in the U.S. wherein erotic actors in the adult film industry are tested for AIDS every 30 days. All on-camera sexual contact is logged, and a positive test result triggers the contacting and re-testing of all sexual partners during the previous three to six months. The Foundation provided secure means of sharing results via their web servers so that results cannot be forged. Prior to AIM, there had been STD testing programs in lifestyle communities, including Kerista Commune, More University, and Rajneeshpuram. These approaches had mixed results and were less systematic and regular.

Tests for the sex industry actors were done at the Foundation's offices in San Fernando Valley, Sherman Oaks, and Granada Hills.[3] Each month, about 1,200 actors were tested for HIV, with results as early as 14 days after infection. This test is effective 10 days after potential infection, and anytime thereafter (HIV-1 DNA, by PCR) as compared to the alternative HIV test (HIV ELISA) which requires a six-month waiting period to be effective.[4] The center also tested for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.[5]

It was in 2004 that AIM assisted in the sex-film-industry shutdown, a quarantine that lasted fewer than 60 days.[3] A male performer, Darren James, had tested positive for HIV in April and, to prevent another HIV outbreak, an urgent search was initiated for his potentially infected partners.[1] A total of four more performers, Bianca Biaggi, Jessica Dee, Lara Roxx, and Miss Arroyo were diagnosed with the virus by the end of the testing rounds, including one unrelated case in New York.[6] James had apparently had contact with 12 women since his initial negative HIV test in March upon his return from a Brazilian film shoot.[7][8]

In 2009, the Los Angeles Public Health department and the Los Angeles Times claimed there were 16 unreported cases of HIV among adult film actors.[9] AIM Health Care Foundation reported that these cases were actually members of the general public or people applying to work in the adult film industry that had not yet actually worked in films due to their initial test being positive.[10]

On October 12, 2010, the Foundation reported that an actor or actress had been infected with HIV. The name and gender of the person was not released to the public.[11] Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures shut down porn production temporarily to avoid spreading of the virus. Although Wicked Pictures has a mandatory condom policy, the company shut down to wait for the quarantine list.[12]

In early 2011, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation publicly raised questions about AIM clinics' licensing situation, resulting in a shutdown. Later that year, the foundation reopened under private ownership, but this was short-lived.[13]

SxCheck[edit]

In 2006, AIM started offering online services for selecting, scheduling, and paying for tests in affiliation with local clinics and laboratories in many cities via the SxCheck (alternatively AIM Check) website.[14] With secure online access to test results, faking of paper test results was prevented, and workers could select to privately share the results with others online, by email, or by SMS.[15]

Patient database breach[edit]

AIM Medical's patient database was the source of a massive 2011 data leak containing confidential personal information, including the real names of over 12,000 pornographic actors and their STD test results, which was distributed via the Porn Wikileaks website[16] AIM closed its offices and filed for bankruptcy in May 2011 as a result of a privacy lawsuit challenging AIM's handling of the patient records.[17][18][19]

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random faceclaim suggestions :

since our group requires faceclaims of 30+, and because almost every group i’ve ever seen has had a ‘would this faceclaim work for _____’ or ‘what fcs do you see for this character?’ questions come in, we’ve compiled a short list of potential faceclaims for your character ! separated into male, female and nonbinary, this is merely a small selection of potential faceclaims thrown together in absolutely no order whatsoever.

this is by no means an all-inclusive list ! i merely lurked some celebrity based blogs, wikipedias and rphs for the suggestions below. we also reblogged THIS and THIS to our inspo blog with more suggestions / resources linked !

( male )

rahul kohli ( 34 ), oliver jackson-cohen ( 33 ), andy samberg ( 42 ), michael trevino ( 35 ), robert pattinson ( 34 ), jake johnson ( 42 ), chris evans ( 39 ), chiwetel ejiofor ( 43 ), sebastian stan ( 38 ), tom ellis ( 41 ), dev patel ( 30 ), justin h. min ( 30 ), david harbour ( 45 ), sterling k. brown ( 44 ), penn badgley ( 33 ), lamorne morris ( 37 ).

( female )

dianne guerrero ( 34 ), megan fox ( 34 ), natalie dormer ( 38 ), shay mitchell ( 33 ), nathalie kelley ( 35 ), lily collins ( 31 ), eliza dushku ( 39 ), kat graham ( 31 ), zoe kravitz ( 31 ), dakota johnson ( 31 ), tessa thompson ( 37 ), heather hemmens ( 36 ), emily vancamp ( 34 ), jessica parker kennedy ( 36 ), emily blunt ( 37 ), linda cardellini ( 45 ).

( nonbinary )

sara ramirez ( 45 ), asia kate dillon ( 35 ), nico tortorella ( 32 ), ruby rose ( 34 ).

suggestions are always welcome and this post will be updated as players list their own preferences over time !

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hi! i'm 16 n used to id as bi but i worked through a lot of comp het and i'm still not happy/proud about my identity but i think i'm a lesbian. i've only ever met one lesbian irl and she's so much older than me, and all the ones i've seen on tv are just so?? ugly??? like they're never the pretty girl or the girl with lots of friends or anything like that. i'm just scared no one will love me.

Hey! So I kinda get where you’re coming from. You’re worried that no one will love you. But I don’t agree with what you’re saying.

‘Ugly’ is a social construct. And yes, the media will paint lesbians as ugly, man-hating, jerks. We don’t get a lot of happy endings the movies or tv shows - even ones made by and marketed at LGBT people. So yeah - you’re gonna be shown the shittiest, ugliest, villainous, and/or evil characters as lesbians. Its Lesbophobia 101. The world hates us, whats new?

But lets talk about some of those ‘ugly’ lesbians, shall we?

Even in conservative areas people know her. She’s been out and proud since 1997. Ellen DeGeneres. The first lesbian most people hear about. I mean, as an 18 year old who is interested in more feminine girls near my age - I don’t find her attractive at all. And if you just google ‘ellen degeneres ugly’ you’ll see a lot of people think she’s ugly. And you can stop there if you want. You can move on and continue your search for lesbians who are worthy in your eyes. Or you can take a glance at her wikipedia page. Nominated for 45 Daytime Emmy awards, Elen DeGeneres has won 29. Shes been nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards and 2 Grammys. She has 20 People’s Choice Awards. And that’s not all. She was named Special envoy for Global AIDs awareness. She advocates for a Transcendental Meditation program to reach at-risk populations prone to high-stress and anxiety. She has been married to her wife Portia since 2008 and has given many lesbians (and other wlw) a wonderful example of a loving marriage.

Or we could talk about Rachel Maddow. The first known lesbian to host a major prime-time news program in the US. Certainly not conforming to societies beauty standards. She has a PhD in Political Science. Regardless of whether or not you agree with her politically, you cannot disagree with how successful shes been. She has an Emmy Award and received a Proclamation of Honor for the California State Senate. She has been vocal about her personal struggle with clinical depression.

Or Wanda Sykes, Cynthia Nixon, or the so many other older openly lesbian icons who have been openly themselves in the media.

Or what about some younger people? Easier to relate to right?

Maybe Ellen Page? Who came out in 2014 and has since then advocated for visibility and acceptance of LGBT individuals.

Maybe Jessica Clark? She’s openly lesbian and a successful model for names such as Vogue and Marie Claire.

Or lesbians in our movies and tv shows?

As for as mainstream pretty goes - Emily Fields (played by Shay Mitchell) is an openly lesbian character on Pretty Little Liars and is very attractive. She also plays a ‘normal’ teenager (until ya know - the serial stalker ‘A’ destroys her and her clique’s lives).

There’s also Santana Lopez (played by Naya Rivera) from Glee who gets her happy ending and marries her best friend and girlfriend on the show.

There are so many people I didn’t include because I know this was getting a bit lengthy, but I wanted to make a point.

There is a lot of beauty and success in lesbian culture. We don’t all look one way, or act one way. We can be happy and loved no matter how we appear. It seems like you’re struggling a lot with internalized lesbophobia (and misogyny for that matter - basing a woman’s worthiness of love on her appearance). My advice - learn to love the word lesbian, stop cringing every time its said. Follow a bunch of lesbian blogs (not just positivity blogs - just those cheesy blogs that post pictures of cute lesbian couples). Watch lesbian youtubers you think are pretty or funny or both (I recommend Rose and Rosie, Amy Ordman, and Ally Hills - you’ll see a lot of happy lesbians there and Rose and Rosie actually helped me when I was struggling with internalized lesbophobia). Immerse yourself in lesbian culture. Interact with us. Talk to us. Be our friend. Then tell us if you think being a lesbian is an ugly thing.

- Mod Abby

#mod abby #internalized lesbophobia #lesbian culture #lesbian role models #Anonymous

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We Used the Old-Age Filter on 15 Retro Photos of Celebs and Compared Them With Their Modern Pics (You’d Never Recognize Keanu Reeves)

Recently our social network feeds have started to look like a nursing home — a mobile app called FaceApp created a filter that shows what you’ll look like when you get old, and this has absolutely taken over the online community — people are taking selfies, pics of their pets, and even putting photos of favorite movie characters in the old-age filter and sharing them with the world. Famous actors and singers were no exception. Here at Bright Side we really liked this trend and decided to do an experiment — we put this old age filter on pics of celebrities in their younger years and compared them with their recent photos. Some celebs look just like their “app copies” and some differ dramatically. Take a look!

1. Tom Hanks, 63

2. Keanu Reeves, 54

3. Meryl Streep, 70

4. Bill Murray, 68

5. Sigourney Weaver, 69

6. Madonna, 60

7. Susan Sarandon, 72

8. Richard Gere, 69

9. Harrison Ford, 77

10. Pierce Brosnan, 66

11. Jim Carrey, 57

12. Anthony Hopkins, 81

13. Jack Nicholson, 82

14. Jessica Lange, 70

15. Sean Connery, 88

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[TASK 028: MAGIC] ✨✨

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 100+ faceclaims with magical resources categorised by gender with their ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

SOME ADVICE FROM US:

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make some faceless magical resources! A masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims you’d like to see used for muses with magical powers. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics relating to magic that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on different practices of magic. BE CREATIVE!

LINKS:

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

Information:

Magic - Wikipedia

List of fictional witches - Wikipedia

Female:

Lana Parrilla (OUAT) Puerto Rican / Sicilian Italian.

Rebecca Mader (OUAT)

Emma Caulfield (OUAT)

Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures)

Julie Walters (Harry Potter)

Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter)

Emma Watson (Harry Potter)

Helen McCrory (Harry Potter)

Emma Thompson (Harry Potter)

Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter)

Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter)

Maggie Smith (Harry Potter)

Dove Cameron (Descendants)

Rutina Wesley (True Blood) African-American.

Lauren Bowles (True Blood)

Anna Paquin (True Blood)

Fiona Shaw (True Blood)

Fiona Dourif (True Blood)

Lauren Bowles (True Blood)

Alexandra Breckenridge (True Blood)

Paola Turbay (True Blood) Lebanese.

Britt Robertson (The Secret Circle)

Shelley Hennig (The Secret Circle)

Bianca Lawson (Witches of East End) African-American, Creole, Italian, Native American, Portuguese.

Jenna Dewan (Witches of East End)

Mädchen Amick (Witches of East End)

Julia Ormond (Witches of East End)

Rachel Boston (Witches of East End)

Virginia Madsen (Witches of East End)

Rachel Nichols (Witches of East End)

Renee Victor (Witches of East End)

Michelle Hurd (Witches of East End) Irish, German, Jamaican.

Holly Marie Combs (Charmed)

Alyssa Milano (Charmed)

Rose McGowan (Charmed)

Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries) Americo-Liberian / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Janina Gavankar (The Vampire Diaries) Indian, Dutch.

Alice Evans (The Vampire Diaries)

Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries)

Danielle Campbell (The Originals)

Yasmine Al-Bustami (The Originals) Emirati.

Daniella Pineda (The Originals)

Riley Voelkel (The Originals)

Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Elizabeth Anne Allen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Charlize Theron (Snow White And The Huntsman)

Serinda Swan (Smallville)

Kristin Kreuk (Smallville)

Rachel True (The Craft) Ashkenazi Jewish / African-American.

Robin Tunney (The Craft)

Fairuza Balk (The Craft)

Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story: Coven)

Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story: Coven)

Frances Conroy (American Horror Story: Coven)

Lily Rabe (American Horror Story: Coven)

Kathy Bates (American Horror Story: Coven)

Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Coven)

Jamie Brewer (American Horror Story: Coven)

Frances Conroy (American Horror Story: Coven)

Gabourey Sidibe (American Horror Story: Coven) Senegalese / African-American.

Angela Bassett (American Horror Story: Coven) African-American.

Claire Coffee (Grimm)

Hannah R. Loyd (Grimm)

Louise Lombard (Grimm)

Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm)

Garcelle Beauvais (Grimm) Haitian.

Mary Ann Jarou (Grimm) Unknown ethnicity.

Jessica Tuck (Grimm)

Linn Bjornland (Grimm)

Shohreh Aghdashloo (Grimm) Iranian.

Mila Kunis (Oz The Great And Powerful 2013 Film)

Rachel Weisz (Oz The Great And Powerful 2013 Film)

Michelle Williams (Oz The Great And Powerful 2013 Film)

Melanie Hill (Stardust)

Michelle Pfeiffer (Stardust and The Witches Of Eastwick)

Meryl Streep (The Witch in Into The Woods)

Famke Janssen (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)

Eva Green (Dark Shadows and The Golden Compass)

Nicole Kidman (Bewitched 2005 Film)

Sandra Bullock (Practical Magic)

Naomie Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean) Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Trinidadian.

Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place) Mexican, Italian.

Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee)

Olivia Taylor Dudley (The Magicians)

Stella Maeve (The Magicians)

Jade Tailor (The Magicians)

Summer Bishil (The Magicians) Indian / English, Scottish, French, German, Mexican, Cherokee.

Male:

Harry Shum Jr. (Shadowhunters) Chinese.

Godfrey Gao (The Mortal Instruments) Taiwanese, Malaysian.

Robert Carlyle (OUAT)

Chris Wood (The Vampire Diaries)

Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story: Coven)

Eric Winter (Witches of East End)

Daniel DiTomasso (Witches of East End)

Steven Berkoff (Witches of East End)

Joel Gretsch (Witches of East End)

Christian Cooke (Witches of East End)

Matthew Del Negro (Witches of East End)

Callard Harris (Witches of East End)

James Marsters (Witches of East End)

Eric Winter (Witches of East End)

Eddie McClintock (Witches of East End)

Zak Santiago (Witches of East End)

Neil Hopkins (Witches of East End)

Matt Frewer (Witches of East End)

Sasha Roiz (Grimm)

Mary McDonald-Lewis (Grimm)

Shaun Toub (Grimm)

Kevin Alejandro (True Blood)

Nelsan Ellis (True Blood) African-American.

Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries)

Jason Ralph (The Magicians)

Hale Appleman (The Magicians)

Rick Worthy (The Magicians) Unknown ethnicity.

Arjun Gupta (The Magicians) Indian.

Transgender:

N/A.

Non-Binary:

N/A

Use at your own discretion:

Emma Roberts (American Horror Story: Coven) abuse.

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Four Days of Elia Kazan: Day Three A Streetcar Named Desire.

Elia Kazan faced a daunting challenge when the famous playwright Tennessee Williams asked him to direct the film A Streetcar Named Desire. Kazan had already been directing the Broadway version of the play by the same name, and it had had a highly successful four-year run. Having only one film under his belt, the leading young actor, Marlon Brando, was a huge hit on the Broadway stage. Kazan was not sure that he could keep this success going on the screen, but he was ready for the challenge.

One thing that did help him was that Vivien Leigh was brought in to replace the Broadway star Jessica Tandy in the role of Blanche DuBois. Although Kazan had been very happy with Tandy’s stage performance, it occurred to him “that a fresh presence on the set, giving him fresh problems to face, might rekindle his interest in a way that Tandy would not.” (Schickel pg 211) Leigh also had the advantage of being a large screen star, and even though the Broadway play had been a huge success, the actors were not really that well know in the film world. Kazan felt bad that Tandy was the only one of the Broadway principal cast that would not be used in the film version, but as Karl Malden, Harold “Mitch” Mitchell in the production, said, “If Jessica had played it, I wouldn’t have been in the movie, and neither would Kim Hunter. Because Jessica was no star, and neither was Brando. But Vivien, who after Gone with the Wind was the biggest thing you ever saw – she could carry us all.”(Schickel pg 210) The decision proved to be a good one. The film was a huge success for Kazan, garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Director, and it catapulted the young Marlon Brando into film stardom, with critical acclaim resulting in his Oscar nomination for the movie, and with the movie theaters filling with hordes of young Americans obsessed with his brooding good looks.

A Streetcar Named Desire, the adaptation of the classic Tennessee Williams play, is about the fading southern belle Blanche DuBois as she moves in with her sister Stella and Stella’s sensual husband Stanley in their French Quarters New Orleans apartment. After learning that Blanche has lost the family plantation on which he had put so much score, Stanley is determined to bring down Stella’s and Blanche’s old world Southern values as brutishly and violently as he can.

One of the oft-discussed themes about this story is old South versus new South, with Blanche representing the old South. It is interesting that Vivien Leigh is cast as the southern belle Blanche DuBois, because Scarlett O’Hara, the character she played in Gone with the Wind, is the celebration of the southern belle, but Blanche proves to be more of the southern belle’s demise, and keeping with her is a depressing aspect. Blanche, representing the old South, was a specifically defined person meant to only live where she had been living, whereas Stanley, Blanche’s sister Stella’s husband, is meant to represent the new South, which is not farm based, but is heavily industrial. Blanche has a line that shows what the old South has become: “Now that all but us are in the grave.” That is an interesting way to describe living in the past; it very much exists only in the grave.

Both of these roles brought her an Academy Award. “Miss Leigh won the first Oscar in 1940 for her portrayal of Scarlett. She won the second Oscar 12 years later for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire.”(LAtimes) She appeared as the stunning young beauty Scarlett in Gone With the Wind, and she was still a beautiful woman when she played Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, but her looks had started to fade, and this was exactly what the role called for. Did she find Brando irresistibly handsome as did most other women at the time? Probably, and this added to the realism of the film, as it can be noted that her back story was that when she discovered her husband to be gay she started seeking solace in her young male students, a scandal that lost her her job and led her to come to stay with her sister in New Orleans.

It becomes clear quite early on that Blanche is a tortured soul. When talking to Stanley originally, she mentions rather quietly that “a boy died,” referring to her son’s death. Then when Stella is asking Brando to be nice to Blanche, she asks him “not to mention the baby”, as she thinks her pregnancy would bring up sad feelings for Blanche.

It is clear also from this first meeting that Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, has laid great stock in his wife Stella owning part of a plantation. When Stella tells him that Blanche has informed her that they no longer own it he talks about the Napoleonic Code in Louisiana which would give him equal ownership of anything his wife owns. With Blanche having lost the plantation, Stanley has lost almost everything that he had counted on. This is probably the base for the grudge that Stanley now has towards Stella.

In the original play Stanley was supposed to be an older man, a drunk, who was angry because life screwed him over, but when they cast Brando that changed. Both Kazan and Williams were enthralled with Brando, and Williams had no problem at all accepting Kazan’s choice of the young handsome Brando to play Stanley’s role. Marlon Brando was typical of the actors that Kazan liked to cast. He thought James Dean was a good pick; Dean acted similar to Brando, and in one of his later movies he cast Warren Beatty, another similar actor, in a leading role. He had a very clear type of man that he liked. He liked dark, brooding men who society was against. Kazan probably saw himself a little bit as Brando, or at least Brando was the sort of person he wanted to be. Brando also had a hard-nosed, domineering father, just as did Kazan. In his book Elia Kazan: A Life, Elia tells of his father’s response when he decided to go to the Yale Drama School: “Didn’t you look in the mirror?”(Kazan) Brando and Kazan definitely were a good fit for each other.

There is a line that demonstrates that Stanley had originally been meant to be an older, out-of-shape man, and it is interesting that it had been left in with the new, fit young actor playing the role. The line is: “When you’re exercising hard, like bowling.” In the original interpretation this was probably meant as a sly joke on Stanley, because to an overweight, out-of-shape guy, bowling is exercise. Even though Brando did not fit what Tennessee Williams originally had in mind for Stanley, he was thrilled with having Brando play Stanley. Brando, however, never really came to terms with the character of Stanley; he said that he was the complete opposite of everything Brando himself was. He resented that Stanley turned into a sex symbol. A dichotomy had arisen with the choice of Brando to play Stanley; Stanley still had the character of the brute as written by Tennessee Williams, but this was overlain with the idealism of the young, incredibly handsome and fit Brando.

Brando had a touchiness that moviegoers found endearing. In his later movies he demonstrated this with the glove in On the Waterfront and with the cat in The Godfather, and here he shows it as he goes through the things in Blanche’s trunk with Stella while Blanche is having her hot bath in the other room. Although in On the Waterfront and in The Godfather it was not in the script, it probably was here. He points out to Stella the fur stoles, saying “Is this fox? Where is your fox fur?” showing that Blanche had money to buy these things whereas Stella did not. What is remarkable in this scene is that Brando so clearly is demonstrating anger, jealousy, and disgust, yet he does this without raising his voice or appearing over dramatic. This is likely an example of his Stanislavski training. “He is credited with bringing realism to film acting. He helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s.”(Wikipedia) Kazan was also a huge fan and was one of the early initiators of the method.

Kazan is known for his preference to use live shots rather than sets in his movies, and this caused some consternation for him when taking the highly successful Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire to the big screen. He wanted to maintain the intimacy of the play, for as Kazan said about the theater: “The characters were trapped right in front of you and you watch this terrible thing going on and you aren’t able to prevent it or do anything about it.”(Schickel pg 214 ) His solution was “not to open up his production, but rather confined its intense actions and tense dialogue in his claustrophobic set. He further intensified this mood with a heavy reliance on tight close ups.” (Schickel pg216)

Another interesting feature of Kazan’s movies is that there is often found a scene that the critics and movie goers talk about over and over, and no discussion of A Streetcar Named Desire could be complete without discussing the famous Stella scene. One thing that people don’t really talk about that much is that the scene has a very odd rhythm to it. The build up to the scene is that Stanley is having a poker game and Stella and Blanche keep talking, and eventually Blanche starts playing some music, and Stanley is getting angrier and angrier that they keep talking, and it turns into a great fight. What is interesting though is that it builds really well. It is almost paced like a thriller scene, or almost like a horror scene. It even has what in horror is called a jump scare, where a very sudden silent action occurs and he throws the radio through the window and the fight grows really violently. It is interesting to note that the whole thing of him calling up to his wife, “Stella, Stella,” actually works. When she is coming down at 42:56 she gets a very sexual air to her. It is a beautiful scene. Stella and Stanley seem to be two people entirely driven by emotions. There is no logic to them; they are emotional wrecks.

There is also another scene that shows the brilliance of Kazan’s directing. At 38:40 Blanche has Malden’s character put a paper lantern around a light bulb, and then she turns it on and turns on the radio. I was initially a bit critical of the directing choice here, and I was thinking you know what they should do, they should turn off the lights or something. But watching it a second time I love how the apartment looks in no way different, partly because it is in black and white, but also with it looking no way different after the paper lantern is placed, it gives a good indication that Blanche has very childlike sensitivities. An element that this scene shows is that Blanche, just like Stanley, has never grown up. They both are in a sort of preadolescence, and I thought it was an interesting choice to not really change any of the lighting structure at all in this scene. It underpins how non-romantic this whole situation between Blanche and Stanley is.

There are so many elements that make this an outstanding film. The music in the movie is amazing and helps set the atmosphere throughout the film. The lively jazz music in the opening scene at the streetcar platform gives us the incredibly realistic feel of being in New Orleans. The score was written by Alex North, and as with many of the other components of the film, he had to play homage to the censor board. The board forced them to add strings to their numbers to remove some of the provocative aspect, but even with this taken into account, the music is breathtaking.

The film was produced at a time when America was happy to be through with the Second World War, and young people just wanted to enjoy life. They enjoyed the wardrobes in the film, the gossamer, delicate, femine dresses worn by Blanche, and the t-shirt which Brando wore and which became a staple for young men everywhere. The movie theaters were crowded, as people just wanted to enjoy their freedom without the worry of a devastating war.

A Streetcar Named Desire was released in 1951 to an audience that was greatly anticipating it due to the amazing success of the Broadway production of the same name. It did not disappoint. It had a box office take of 8 million dollars in the U.S. with a budget of 1.8 million dollars.(imdb.business) It won 4 Oscars, including Best Actress in a Leading Role to Vivien Leigh, Best Actor in a Supporting Role to Karl Malden, Best Actress in a Supporting Role to Kim Hunter, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration to Richard Day and George James Hopkins, as well as Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Recording, and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Along with four other Oscar nominations Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role; Elia Kazan was nominated for Best Director; Tennessee Williams was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay; and Alex North was nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic of Comedy Picture. It also won numerous other prestigious awards. (imdb.awards)

It is clear in so many ways that this film, as well as the earlier theater production, was meant for greatness. Even the title A Streetcar Named Desire is mesmerizing, and many people think that it is a metaphor. In reality, though, there was a real streetcar line in New Orleans named Desire. An historical account states: “The Desire streetcar line gained widespread acclaim when Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," was published in 1947. By that time, New Orleanians were quite familiar with the Desire line--many of them probably taking it to work, home, or the market.”(Ramirez) Tennessee Williams had chosen his title well, and was adamant that he wanted Elia Kazan as the director for his masterpiece, and Kazan brilliantly rose to the occasion.

#Four Days of Elia Kazan #Elia Kazan #A Streetcar Named Desire #Tennessee Williams #Marlon Brando #Vivien Leig #Karl Malden

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Sexscapes: The Internet Gives a Voice to the Perverts of the World

Ever since it reached a level of general western-world ubiquity sometime in the 2000s, it has been widely accepted that the internet is one of humanity’s most ingenious inventions. The ways humans interact and connect with one another world-wide has been changed so fundamentally that to describe them would seem futuristic and absurd to twenty-year old incarnations of my now aged grandparents. Sites like Wikipedia, Google, and YouTube have not only entered the lexicon, but have also become invaluable research tools for the average individual curious to discover more about the world at large. Soon, it seems, it will be difficult even to find a cellular phone plan that doesn’t require paying for round-the-clock internet access as part of the basic contract.

For the first time in the history of our species, information and knowledge have become more or less democratized [though it can be argued that inherent class discrepancies lead to the fact that those who are unable to afford internet access, i.e. the bottom rung of the socioeconomic strata, now face more obstacles than ever when attempting upward social and economic mobility], and it would seem the average internet user has few excuses not to continue their education far past their formative school years.

But the human capacity for perversion should never be underestimated.

According to some not-so-groundbreaking research (mine), the internet, along with being one of the final bastions and troves of limitless, easily accessible knowledge available to an increasingly apathetic and dumbed-down populace, is used primarily for two main purposes: “trolling” (the sending of inflammatory or provocative messages purposefully crafted with the expectation that this initial message will elicit equally negative responses, or, if the troll is particularly lucky or adept, the commencement of an all out “flame-war”); and, of course, the viewing of pornography. Both of these purposes being symptoms of the altogether larger first-world problems of boredom and a general and ever growing inability to empathize with other sapient beings.

However stark and socially pertinent, none of this should come as particularly surprising or new information. Since pretty much its first widespread public use, the internet and perversion go together like cops and child molesters in prison (the metaphor, of course, falling short at the fact that, unlike prison, where police officers and pederasts meet up in protective custody—the smaller, secluded group of the prison at large—the perverts of the internet are the general population). Hell, one of my first experiences with the internet was when I was twelve and I didn’t have it, but my next door neighbor did, so every afternoon I’d go over to his house and, sitting in the side room of the garage where his family computer was kept, we’d burn through his AOL hours disc by logging onto AOL Instant Messenger and asking strangers if they “got pics?” Then, after inevitably getting bored with this game, searching for naked pictures of the girl from Seventh Heaven (no, not Jessica Biel, who actually had semi-nude photos published in Gear magazine around this time, but the slightly more homely Beverley Mitchell, for some reason).

But that was back in the Wild West frontier days of World Wide Web-based perversion and sexual curiosity. These days, perverts are no longer cloistered away to obscene chat sites. Instead, with the inception of so-called “porn 2.0”—tube sites such as Youjizz, YouPorn, PornoTube, PornTube (distinct from “PornoTube”—common mistake), FuckTube and BookpornTube (compelling name, I must admit, though surprisingly unliterary in the final analysis)—the perverted majority of the internet finally have a way to truly interconnect with one another: rubbing them out to the same videos as thousands of other horny people.

Someone, however, decided the perverts of the interweb weren’t connected enough by these shared masturbatory stimuli. Somewhere down the line, apparently, the question was asked at a pornographic video tube site board meeting: what happens when the trolls of the internet are given a medium with which they can broadcast far and wide to other trolls and pervert-trolls, just how they, as an individual and lonely troll caught in the vastness and potentially infinite wisdom of cyberspace, feel about a particular pornographic video? This led to the somewhat alarming decision to begin including “comments” sections for each video on many of the more popular tube sites.

In an effort to try and better understand the perverts of the internet (myself included), I decided, at great risk to my personal sanity and computer security, to browse through a varying array of these comment sections to see what I could glean from the pervert-trolls of the internet. Interestingly, the results actually managed to be profoundly disturbing in ways that superseded my already sordid expectations. With the hopes of not encouraging additional traffic to any of the sites, many of which are hosted in foreign countries, thus allowing the sites to avoid prosecution for the hosting of copyrighted material and in turn denying profit to the hardworking men and women of the pornographic industry (yes, that previous sentence was completely serious), I will be withholding the names of the sites in question, though I will be providing my notoriously stringent editor with URLs for all of the videos in question. Videos will be chosen the same way I choose which Wikipedia articles I’m going to read to kill time: I will start at the homepage and see what looks interesting until I’m inevitably led down a wormhole sticky with wasted-time and shame and regret.

Video One: “Retail Store Creampie”

The Video:

I’ll start first with what appears to be a short excerpt taken from a longer film. The video has seven comments and an overall rating of 88.50% with 554 “Good” votes, and 72 “Bad” votes. The video is four minutes and six seconds long and depicts a young woman in a green shirt getting plowed by a guy with a shitty tattoo on his ribs. Throughout the video she makes some fake moany noises and says things like “fuck me.” Also, she’s getting banged in a store on a clearance rack for some reason. Pretty standard porn territory.

The Comments:

Comments range from the coherent, if subject-ambiguous, “nice cock. Love his pussy pounding, wish it was me,” to people being pissed about false advertising in the title of the video, “not a creampie stupid,” and, “THAT WAS NOT A CREAMPIE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!” Then there is the somewhat baffling, “can’t stand those fake moans, quiet moans are hot, but not those fake-ass American-hoe ones. FUCK YOU AMERICAN ASSHOLES. WHITEPOWER!!!”

(Reader, take note that this last comment, left 07/31/2010 at 1:12 am, is a classic example of trolling. Notice how the comment doesn’t make sense, but implores others to reply defensively.)

What I learned:

The art of trolling is alive and well in porn comments. Also, if your video promises a creampie (sex act—you can look it up your damn self), you’d better deliver. Otherwise, people will call you names like “stooped.”

Video Two: “Barely Legal Casting”

The Video:

With a total of twenty-four comments, this video has 1,484 votes with an 86% positive rating and 1,714,761 views. It was added to this particular site eight months ago which means that this video is watched roughly 7,030 times per day. The video is part of the “Backroom Casting Couch” series of videos. It is a “reality” porn series, where a middle-aged dude, face always blurred out, has unprotected sex with women, many of them girls who appear to be amateurs and in their late teens. In this video the man asks a girl who claims to be eighteen, but could pass for fifteen, a whole bunch of awkward questions about sex, which she answers in a way that either highlights a strong history of character acting, or simply belies her actual sexual greenness. The man then proceeds to have her strip in front of the camera, ostensibly as part of a casting process. After sexing her up against a wall, he ejaculates on her face in a close-up that is really just creepy and left me feeling not aroused, as porn should, but rather cold inside.

The Comments:

Highlights include the somewhat racist, “have you ever done any black chicks? Or are you afraid that they’ll find out & shoot you? LOL” by someone named Bonezz_11 (his profile picture shows a shirtless dude with sunglasses and a visor blowing out some sort of smoke, and under “more info” he is listed as a twenty-two year old male who has been actively using this particular site for over two years and has watched 2,224 videos, giving him an average of three porn videos per day); the perverted, “daddys girl exploited, love it,” and, the misogynistic, “she looks hot with a dick in her mouth, but other than that, not so cute. too tiny,” by Freaknasty831, whose profile picture is an erect penis.

What I learned: (Besides how many porn videos Zach Bonezz_11 watches per day.)

That the American public education system is profoundly failing to teach its youngsters that riddling your text with comma splices makes you look like a total dumbass.

But, my porn comment research did lead me in an educational direction. Additional research into the authenticity of the Backroom Casting Couch series revealed that the male “star” of the videos is an Arizona man named Eric Whitaker, and that he totally has Herpes Simplex Virus Type I (he released proof through his Twitter account for some reason). The girls in the video are paid a flat fee up front, and are fully aware that they are entering Whitaker’s sleazy as hell Scottsdale office to have sex on camera, though apparently Whitaker has no qualms about knowingly spreading his Herpes, an offense which in the state of Arizona could possibly be considered aggravated assault.

Since June 2011, the greasy fuck Whitaker has been on the radar of sex crime detectives.

Next month Anderson continues to probe the porno-troll world and stumbles across a sex scandal involving a senator’s daughter.

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OFFSIDE: Jessica Butcher, Tanya-Loretta Dee and Daphne Kouma Photo by Lidia Crisafulli

The irony of a show about football lasting considerably less than 90 minutes, without an interval (or half-time break) was not lost on me. And what really are the chances of the England team (of whatever gender) winning a major international tournament? Delusions of grandeur aside (what number have we reached now in the men’s game – 51 ‘years of hurt’?), there doesn’t seem to be all that much to differentiate women’s football from men’s football, at least as it is portrayed in Offside. The pep talks are just as corny but just as inspirational, the dietary and fitness regimens just as stringent. But this play asserts that it is off the pitch that extra burdens are carried by women footballers. It isn’t often, if at all, that a microphone is shoved towards a male footballer immediately after a match, accompanied by a question from a journalist about his body shape or his domestic life. When asked by one reporter (Daphne Kouma, who doubles up as more characters than I can consciously remember) who inspires them, Mickey Adolay (Tanya-Loretta Dee) and Keeley Finnegan (Jessica Butcher) name Carrie Boustead and Lily Parr respectively. The reporter, perhaps with some justification – I say ‘perhaps’, my own knowledge of the history of football being quite rudimentary – looks utterly nonplussed. Is race as much of a discriminating factor as gender to this day? Probably: Parr has a Wikipedia page; Boustead, apparently the world’s first black woman footballer, does not.

The accompanying music and sound effects did not add much to the compelling performances from this trio, and eventually became more irritating than helpful. I was intrigued by the alignment posed in the play between the rise of women’s football and the wider fight to improve the rights of women in society at large. I am not wholly convinced the play was entirely successful in this assertion. It talks about the 1921 Football Association banning of women’s football from “all FA-affiliated grounds”. But this took women’s football in the opposite direction to, say, women’s suffrage in the UK. Parliament passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928, so that women voted on exactly the same terms as men in the 1929 General Election; the FA ban was not rescinded until 1971.

The text is nonetheless well written, more poetic than naturalistic, maximising dramatic effect. I rather enjoyed an amusing and satirical response to the FA ban, in which the idea is put forward that women should likewise be banned from domestic chores and childcare on similar grounds to them not being permitted to play football. That is to say, if it is unsuitable for the fairer sex to be exerting physical energy on a pitch, the same should apply in the home.

There’s a lot of description of events in the play. I should imagine people who enjoy football fixtures might have wanted more action than talking about matches. Their patience is eventually rewarded as some physical theatre takes place, and as I wondered how the play could achieve a quasi-realistic rendering of 22 women slugging it out on a football pitch, the play provides a solution. It is regretful that it doesn’t utilise the opportunity. At the end, in ‘stoppage time’ (so to speak), a video montage of key moments in women’s football plays. Unfortunately the images whizz by far too quickly to make much meaningful sense of any of it. I couldn’t see why video technology couldn’t have been used to better depict what it is like to “play for England”.

Backstories relating to both Mickey and Keeley’s families felt too rushed, making the resolutions to the challenges faced by the football stars too neat and pretty for a play that otherwise suggested that the fight for recognise women in football is far from over. Therefore, the show being less than a full-length football match would be isn’t so ironic after all. This is a determined attempt to tell an important story, but it needs a little more refining.

Review by Chris Omaweng

Inspired by the extraordinary experiences of real female footballers, OFFSIDE provides an untold commentary on the breakthroughs and limitations in women’s football, exploring wider themes of inequality, self-belief and empowerment.

It is 1881. It is 1921. It is 2017. Four women from across the centuries live, breathe, and play football. Whilst each of them face very different obstacles in pursuing their dream profession, the possibility that the beautiful game will change their futures – and the world – is tantalisingly close.

Offside is told through lyrical dialogue, poetry, and punchy prose, placing the audience on the touchline of the game of a lifetime.

The play explores the story of Carrie Bousted in Stirling, Scotland 1881 – the first black professional female footballer; Lily Parr of Dick Kerr Ladies and the introduction of the FA ban in 1921, preventing women from using FA pitches; and a fictional representation of the contemporary game, explored through two characters, Mickey and Keeley.

Creative Team Co-Writers: Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish Director: Caroline Bryant Designer: Beth Oppenheim Composer: Tom Adams Movement Director: Diane Alison-Mitchell Lighting Designer and Production Manager: Dylan Tate Assistant Director: Sophie Ellerby Dramaturgical Support from the Traverse Theatre 27th & 28th March 2017: OMNIBUS, London

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