Angry "Feminist" wants SPECTRE to be "feminist-friendly"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/05/spectre-casts-50-year-old-bond-girl-for-007-to-do-sex-to.html

This makes for a fun read. Certainly not to be taken seriously, and I'm sure our female members would agree. All two of them...

Without knowing a single thing about SPECTRE's story or characters, feminist writer Amy Zimmerman titled her article: "Spectre Casts 50-Year-Old Bond Girl For 007 to Do Sex To".

She's also written other brilliant articles for The Daily Beast, including: "The Beyonce Manifesto", "Beiber Made $80M Last Year? Yes, He Did" and "Deport The Miss America Pageant".

Someone send her a vibrator.

I blame Laura Bates.

Vesper wrote:

I blame Laura Bates.

Master Bates would suit her just fine.

She calls Bellucci a relative unknown in the US? She was in both Matrix sequels.
Horrendous features for sure, but I would say that more than one or two Americans saw them.

Insert Lazenby side-eye...

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The franchise is built around big name actors who are lauded for the ways in which they further develop and individualize the eternal spirit of James Bond. Being chosen to embody James Bond is a huge boon for any actor, and will continue to be a career-maker for many years and 007 eras to come.

Salomé wrote:

She calls Bellucci a relative unknown in the US?  She was in both Matrix sequels.
Horrendous features for sure, but I would say that more than one or two Americans saw them.

Monica is consistently in the Ask Men Top 100 sexiest women of the year.

She was also in The Passion of the Christ as Mary Magdalen.

I'd say she's far more known than this author, whose name I've forgotten already.

Always knew Spectre was evil but casting Monica Bellucci as someone to be sexed by Daniel Craig? Blofeld must really have it in for those feminists.

I like that she said Eve was "Bond’s glorified secretary-cum-booty call." I will now search for the Bond movie where they definitively show Moneypenny sleeping with Bond. Search Results = 0. Has this woman even seen a Bond film?

My head hurts from reading such drivel.

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I do love this comment though on the article:

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No need to don the hairshirt to be a perpetual , professional victim and martyr for the sisters.

JB and friends is a C+ grade story , with special effects, NOT a documentary.

It's like the feminists who accused GONE GIRL of being misogynist because Amy is an evil, manipulative shrew. But if we're going to have true gender equality, then feminists need to realise that the "women are just as good - if not better than - men at everything they do" argument extends to being evil, manipulative shrews and is not simply limited to socially-progressive, feminist-friendly areas like business, politics, law and medicine.

Western feminism is a hollow cause for the disenchanted and disatified. It's a cannibalising cause, that rather than tackle real issues of male-female inequality that still persist around the world (in Africa and the Middle-East in particular), would rather whinge about some bloke holding open a door for them or looking at them the wrong way.

Let them bitch amongst themselves and pay them no heed.

Vesper wrote:

Western feminism is a hollow cause for the disenchanted and disatified. It's a cannibalising cause, that rather than tackle real issues of male-female inequality that still persist around the world (in Africa and the Middle-East in particular), would rather whinge about some bloke holding open a door for them or looking at them the wrong way.

Let them bitch amongst themselves and pay them no heed.

Feminism was created by, and for, ugly white women.

This one makes a lot of sense:

Control wrote:

This one makes a lot of sense:

I finally picked up Lena Dunham's book today, NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL, and read the chapter called "Barry". Let's be clear about what Dunham represents: she IS the poster-child for the modern feminist movement who believe rape is anything she says it is. ANYTHING. Even if it was consensual at the time and regretted later, it's now rape. Dunham is the face, the total embodiment of modern feminist "thinking".

Rape has no definition anymore. It's relative to whomever the participants are.

A vagina IS beautiful but that big, ugly ass tattoo isn't.

But it does follow you around the room.

If your vagina is yellow and purple, I'd say you have bigger problems than your taste in tattoos.

Control wrote:

Oh God, not another Lena Dunham selfie. With all that back-fat, her bacon-strip is going to be getting bigger and bigger as she gets older.

Skimmed through the article. Basically a word-for-word copy of every frightbat (h/t Tim Blair) screed written prior to a new Bond film's release. At some point it just glides over you like a good pair of tits.

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You know Lena Dunham has done something wrong when feminists start to turn on her.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Dunham is the face, the total embodiment of modern feminist "thinking".

She is not, and just the mere fact that you believe this to be true does not make it so.

Makeshift Python wrote:

You know Lena Dunham has done something wrong when feminists start to turn on her.

Start to? I believe it was only ever a certain section of the press who took her seriously as a feminist.

To me, she is the worst kind of product of entitlement and privilege and it saddens me that she is one of the few female showrunners.