Are you kidding me? This is terrible news. Chris Pratt is a mediocre actor at best, and to cast him as Absolute Spirit in an adaptation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is an insult to the source material and to anyone who takes philosophy seriously.
Not only is Pratt completely miscast for the role, but the fact that Disney is even making a movie out of a complex philosophical text like the Phenomenology of Spirit shows how little they understand or care about the source material. This is just another example of Hollywood dumbing down intellectual content for mass consumption, rather than treating it with the respect and seriousness it deserves.
Furthermore, the casting of a straight, white, cisgender actor like Pratt as Absolute Spirit is just another example of Hollywood’s lack of diversity and inclusion. There are so many talented actors from marginalized communities who could bring a fresh perspective to this role, but instead we get yet another bland and unremarkable performance from a white guy.
Overall, I have zero interest in seeing Chris Pratt play Absolute Spirit in the Disney adaptation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This is a lazy and disrespectful cash-grab from an industry that cares more about profit than art.
So uh, what’s up with Nightwing? I liked his portrayal in one of the Arkham games, but all I know about him otherwise is he uses the escrima sticks and they keep drawing him to show off his ass. Who is he for? (“Readers who got really attached to one particular Robin” is also pretty gay.)
I had kinda thought of today as a scrub, but I did first prove the silk sheet washing/drying trivial AND triple the amount of sheepskin on my bedroom floor
for a real Lindy vibe, plus some other stuff, and hey it was raining off and on anyway
(and the sheets were much easier now that I’m actually trying to put the short side on the short side of the mattress)
Hm, okay, now that I’ve got iron addressed I tried to go down to 3 scoops creatine on waking and 2 before bed and that worked at first, but even not going out, past 7 as the 2 from last night wear off I’m too slumped
In retrospect it is flatly absurd that I figured that one out the day it started happening and had creatine on hand, so instead of years of crippling, maybe even life-threatening fatigue im just experiencing this as a magical weight loss program where I don’t have to do anything
Like, I was doing fine enough for myself in the world already that its particularly iffy how I appear to be like the human who won Covid, took two pretty serious shots at me but I frame-perfect parried them both
Hm, okay, now that I’ve got iron addressed I tried to go down to 3 scoops creatine on waking and 2 before bed and that worked at first, but even not going out, past 7 as the 2 from last night wear off I’m too slumped
Lol, I hadn’t considered this, after the Supreme Court let college athletes earn money the top earning female college athletes are mostly just random hot chicks:
Overall, of the top 5 in women’s collegiate earnings, four of the athletes are some variation of blonde, and yes the list skews attractive.
Small-sample-size alert, but there are implications here, implications oh-so-carefully broached in Kurt Streeter’s New York Times article, titled, “New Endorsements for College Athletes Resurface an Old Concern: Sex Sells.” Such a fraught topic gets the most wordy subhead imaginable, lest the NYT risk putting a foot wrong here. So after the title, it reads:
Female college athletes are making millions thanks to their large social media followings. But some who have fought for equity in women’s sports worry that their brand building is regressive.
That’s not the only concern, apparently. From Streeter:
Race cannot be ignored as part of the dynamic. A majority of the most successful female moneymakers are white. Sexual orientation can’t be ignored, either. Few of the top earners openly identify as gay, and many post suggestive images of themselves that seem to cater to the male gaze.
Like or hate the demographic outcomes (we at HoS are neutral on such matters), there’s no conspiracy here. This is the free market, the one many high minded sports writers demanded that the college men have access to in the interest of fairness. This same set just didn’t anticipate free market results on the women’s side that they’d regard as unfair. Women’s sports, from the perspective of the prestige sports writer, was about a greater quest for equality that managed to highlight marginalized groups. Now, all of a sudden, it’s about….hot blondes getting paid?
Men have their general preferences, preferences that are reflected in the dating market, and now, apparently, the NIL market. It’s a touchy subject, but certain groups do better on the dating apps than other groups. Short guys can attest that life isn’t exactly fair in this space.
As observed in dating site statistics and also in common sense noticing, a large cohort of men show more interest in a slender straight-presenting blonde than in some other sorts of women. These men also show more interest in women who appear available to the intentions of guys. These average revealed preferences are uncomfortable for some to deal with, and here comes the NIL revolution, making it all so salient, putting a number to what’s been suspected.
NIL legalized a market that was always there, one sports media barely considered while hyperfocusing on what this revolution meant for big-time college football. Men, who comprise not just the majority of sports fans overall but the majority of sports fans who watch women’s sports, had the collective capacity to upend the incentive structure of collegiate female athletics. We just didn’t see it because the status quo had NCAA women’s sports high on prestige (from winning competitions) but low on monetary compensation (scholarships). Now that compensation is allowed, the system finds itself scrambling to reckon with what gets rewarded.
we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is caused by ghosts, and that’s bad. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s good. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s bad.
we must advance the thought that homosexuality is caused by ghosts and supernatural influence, and that’s good, for symmetry if nothing else.
Home Alone where instead of the house having a laundry chute Kevin uses to get to the basement it has a built-in-vacuum in the walls that he sucks his insides out with and dies
Just strung a clothesline for the first time, so now I just gotta wake up to the cock-a-doodle-doo of a rooster and throw a boot out the window at a yowling cat
