A Tribute to women. Wild, Bad Ass, sexy and FREE.

Also, there was nothing wrong with the "message" in Grease because if you recall Danny did the same thing, lettering in track and ditching the leather jacket to try to change for her. It was mutual, and Grease two they did the reverse.

Oh I agree. All I was saying is things like that tend to get over analyzed these days.

I myself have no problem with the movie.
 
Where's @ChloeTzang when you need her? This is right up her alley.
I suppose so, but just because I've got Italian ancestry on my father's side, doesn't mean I have any special insight into Italian history. ;) 121 years in America kind of dulls the instincts. Could I ask: does anyone know what Chloe's own story is?

I do like eggplant parm, however.
 
Marie Curie. Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 and the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1911 for her discoveries of radium and polonium and investigation into radiation. She had to overcome significant prejudice and misogyny to accomplish what she did. The only person ever to win two Nobel prizes in different scientific fields. The only woman to win more than one Nobel prize.

She died of aplastic anemia, probably she had exposed herself to so much radiation during her experiments.

Badass of the mind.
 
Oh I agree. All I was saying is things like that tend to get over analyzed these days.

I myself have no problem with the movie.
No argument there, I'm waiting for someone to come up with a reason "Good morning" shouldn't be said anymore.
 
Deep Purple's Burn all about a witch that burns everything around

Best version I've heard and with a great vid to match

 
Resident Evil, the tippy plot but awesome action series of guilty pleasure movies.
Milla Jovovich made this series

 
This goes back a ways, but I want to mention Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker. Of course, the movie is fictionalized and only partially overlaps with the real Bonnie. Also, both versions were criminals - well, that is a downside. Yet it's interesting that Bonnie drove the getaway cars (at least in the movie) and it appears that Dunaway had to learn to use a stick-shift to film the scenes she does. In this relatively quiet scene, Bonnie shows some attitude, but she can back it up with something - like the fact that she is physically brave counts for a lot with me.


Love those berets she wears.
 
One of my favorite movie intros of all time due the manic violence(says a lot about me)
Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killer

 
Not exactly role model material, but seeing how disgustingly glorified Manson, Bundy and others are, I'll drop this in. (and wish she'd killed more.)

 
Imagine being Venus....in any other time she would have dominated the sport, but instead she's stuck playing with her sister.
OTOH, I think Venus is prettier. I wouldn't mind either of them crush me between their firm solid thighs, but my preference would go to Venus.
 
Not exactly role model material, but seeing how disgustingly glorified Manson, Bundy and others are, I'll drop this in. (and wish she'd killed more.)

No, you don't wish she killed more. Our society is supposed to be based on the rule of law; vigilantes of any stripe are outside of that. It's not a perfect analogy, but notice how those three guys in Georgia got convicted for taking the law into "their own hands" for killing Ahmaud Arbery. You can't just say that Arbery was a "good guy" and that the ones Wuornos killed were "bad guys;" that's not how it works.
 
No, you don't wish she killed more. Our society is supposed to be based on the rule of law; vigilantes of any stripe are outside of that. It's not a perfect analogy, but notice how those three guys in Georgia got convicted for taking the law into "their own hands" for killing Ahmaud Arbery. You can't just say that Arbery was a "good guy" and that the ones Wuornos killed were "bad guys;" that's not how it works.
I prefer Karma to morality. The first is a bitch that gets it done, the second is a lie of convenience.
 
I prefer Karma to morality. The first is a bitch that gets it done, the second is a lie of convenience.
I don't think that was quite what I meant. I don't think the concept of Karma truly exists, something how like I no longer believe the Christian idea that we will be judged in the afterlife. Frankly, I don't have the slightest idea of what happens to us after we die, but that is a digression I don't want to get into here. I will offer as one alternative, that we simply and totally cease to exist.

I was mostly talking about how to handle the misdeeds of wrongdoers. The police and courts perhaps barely do a fair and competent job of it, although perhaps it's a bit worse in the United States than elsewhere. (I'd still rather be in the worst prison here rather than one in, say, Peru.)

In many times and places, people have appointed themselves as law enforcers. That still happens in some parts of the world. There may not even be a codified set of criminal laws. It's whatever these self-selected groups think it is. (Paul Theroux witnessed this during his travels in Africa.)

If I was accused of something, rightly or wrongly, I'd rather deal with the cops, as imperfect as they are, and have some shot at due process, however imperfect that is. The alternative is to be lynched by some random group who have probably already decided on my guilt. (That's what Theroux saw.)

As for Wuornos, she doesn't even qualify as a vigilante. She was mentally ill.
 
I don't think that was quite what I meant. I don't think the concept of Karma truly exists, something how like I no longer believe the Christian idea that we will be judged in the afterlife. Frankly, I don't have the slightest idea of what happens to us after we die, but that is a digression I don't want to get into here. I will offer as one alternative, that we simply and totally cease to exist.

I was mostly talking about how to handle the misdeeds of wrongdoers. The police and courts perhaps barely do a fair and competent job of it, although perhaps it's a bit worse in the United States than elsewhere. (I'd still rather be in the worst prison here rather than one in, say, Peru.)

In many times and places, people have appointed themselves as law enforcers. That still happens in some parts of the world. There may not even be a codified set of criminal laws. It's whatever these self-selected groups think it is. (Paul Theroux witnessed this during his travels in Africa.)

If I was accused of something, rightly or wrongly, I'd rather deal with the cops, as imperfect as they are, and have some shot at due process, however imperfect that is. The alternative is to be lynched by some random group who have probably already decided on my guilt. (That's what Theroux saw.)

As for Wuornos, she doesn't even qualify as a vigilante. She was mentally ill.
In Africa, certainly outside the cities, you're more likely to have to deal with the traditional authorities in the absence of the cops (which are frequently absent from rural zones) than with lynch mobs. Doesn't mean that lynch mobs don't exist of course.
 
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