EOD Roundup
EOD Roundup: What A Feminist Film Critic Has to Say About The Onion‘s Controversial Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet
6:30 pm, February 26th | by Colette McIntyre
In today’s EOD roundup, a feminist film critic defends The Onion‘s satirical tweet that called nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis the “c-word”: “What shocked me was how incisively it cut through the utter bulls*it about how women (and girls) are treated by our culture.”[Flickflisopher]
A guy named Lance Manion wants to start National Have Sex With An Ugly Person Day. …YUP. [Nerve]
A couple from the Isle of Jersey had a Shrek-themed wedding: the groom dressed as the film’s titular character while the bride dressed as Fiona, green face paint and all. There you go, Foreigner — you wanted to know what love is and I just showed you. [The Frisky]
International fashion magazine Número put a white model in blackface for an “African Queen” editorial because nothing is edgier or more avant garde than participating in a long history of racial objectification and commodification, right guys? Guys? Anna Wintour? Anybody? [Styleite]
Let’s end this roundup on a high note: David Bowie has recruited Tilda Swinton to play his onscreen wife in the video for his new single “The Stars (Are Out Tonight).” There’s only one way to describe this androgynous alien pairing — take it away, Fassbender. [Boing Boing]
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