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It's not like JLaw and Amy Adams were unknowns at the time. Lawrence had already been nominated for 2 Oscars and Adams 4 times. JLaw won for Silver Linings and she was the star of The Hunger Games, the biggest movie in America at the time. Cooper was much closer to an unknown than either of the women and yet his salary was double that of the women.
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Because he is a good actor who plays his (admittedly limited range of) movie roles very well. In the movies of his that I have seen (Shooter, Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, Planet of the Apes - even that he movie was a pile of steaming excrement), his performances were pretty damned good. Put it this way... I'd have him over Nicholas Cage any day |
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Yeah but he's so damned ugly.
Plus he was also in The Happening. |
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It's not like JLaw has a history of spouting off without knowing what she's talking about...
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I'm sure there is some logic to the discrepancy. But I'm convinced that at the core, the issue is related to how women are valued in our society. The number of roles for women are less and they are much more easily discarded for a younger actress even as their popularity grows. A woman unless she's Meryl Streep reaches 35 and the available roles diminish significantly. They are quickly replaced by the young cheaper injenue only to see the pattern repeated.
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Check out "The Basketball Diaries" from when he and DiCaprio (sp?) were younger. It was made back in the 1990's. It was pre-Titanic for DiCaprio and not long after Marky-Mark and the Funky Bunch for Wahlberg. I though he was good in "The Perfect Storm" too.
I don't know about ugly. He was a Calvin Klein model back years ago. Besides. That said, not all people are perfect looking. I have no problem with a "real" looking actor. I'm not saying you have to like him, just suggesting that there are some things that could possibly give you a broader picture of his appeal. |
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Isn't an actor/actress's pay largely a function of what their particular presence in a film is likely to draw in profits?
Adam Sandler is, at this point, a terrible actor in terrible films. Yet films he is in make money. Basically any film actor or actress you can think of are more talented. Yet he makes more money than most. |
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Just one point is like to make.
Why don't you get an opinion? If a Christian tells you how persecuted they are, do you tale the same route? Honest question but where is the line of what we are "allowed" to have an opinion on? I can't see a way to actually follow your philosophy ( versus just do it wily nilly , which will tend to be the same thing one was doing before but branded different) without not being able to challenge people, or just being a hypocrite. What do I know of being a conspiracy theorist? Can't have an opinion. What do I know of being a ghost hunter? Can't have an opinion. Etc etc. For my two cents, I often just see people saying they follow this philosophy, but it only seems to come up in regards to acceptable groups. I have little faith in this philosophy for that very reason. Either one needs to take statements of hardship by groups they are not a part of at face value, or it is okay and beneficial to debate opinions with all groups. These are incompatible with each other as philosophical standpoints but I have never seen someone who professes to follow this philosophy actually use it beyond a way of saying "I'm inclusive". Tldr : why is this philosophy impossible to actually apply? I've never seen anyone apply it for anyone other than groups they support. |
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And when you add Geoffs it's even easier!!!!!
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Because comprehension is out of fashion and reading between the lines is wrong.
Who said anything about errors You saw problems with #starerape, I didn't. Perhaps that could be because you "honestly couldn't find any non-sarcastic examples after browsing through 30 or so tweets" YMMV |
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I'll lay out my case as clearly as I possibly can.
If you click here you will see every use of the #starerape hashtag on Twitter, organized by date. I looked at every single post over the past year. The vast majority of users are not being serious. Others are asking if "stare rape" is real. A handful of tweets are not in English (to be clear, I did not translate them, so I have no idea what they're actually saying). There is not a single accusation against another person of committing "stare rape." There is not a single instance of an individual claiming to be a victim of "stare rape." We must also consider the fact that the #metoo campaign started last year, so if there is any overlap on Twitter, we would have seen it in our search. From this, we can draw several conclusions: 1. #metoo has absolutely nothing to do with "stare rape." As such, nothing about "stare rape" can possibly indict the #metoo campaign. 2. Given that there are people who seem to be actually concerned that there are "stare rape" accusations, even though there are not, the concern heavily outweighs the object of the concern. It's essentially the same as people complaining that they're not allowed to say "Merry Christmas" any more. 3. Anyone stating that the existence of #starerape is a cause of concern is allowing their beliefs to be influenced by baseless rumor-mongering, in a most unskeptical fashion. If you find a flaw in any of my conclusions, please point it out. |
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Maybe victims don't report stare rape because they realize they will get dogpiled. I would not be surprised... I'd be right there dogpiling on them myself.
Who cares anyway? The fact remains that there are people drawing an inference that staring at a woman's cleavage is sexual abuse every bit a serious as rape and therefore should be considered to be the same thing. I despise this widening of the target zone to include such stuff, because it takes a away from the seriousness of REAL rape, you know, when a person uses their power, whether physical strength, or position of control and influence, to force another person to have a sexual encounter with them, whether it be actual intercourse or other sexual contact (keeping in mind, of course, that rape is not about sex so much as it is about power and control) These people cheapen and demean the experiences of real rape victims, and make it less likely that those victims will come forward. I applaud the #metoo and #timesup movements for doing what they have done in outing some real ratbags, but I hate what they have become thanks to SJW's and feminazi bandwagon jumpers turning a geniuine movement for change into a witch hunt. |
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Aw man, not Steven Seagal. Anyone but Steven Seagal. I just don't know what to believe in anymore. Shut it down. Just shut it all down.
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Dude, if I apologized to everyone I made uncomfortable I'd spend half my day saying sorry just walking through the mall wearing a misfits shirt.
But I'm gonna read the future and assume that fussy Christians are okay to bother in your book. Which isn't too say I don't think that, but I also don't hypocritically and arbitrarily decide groups that I do care if I offend. Personally I expect everyone, myself included to have the fortitude to put up with a bit of other people's ****. It's how society doesn't turn into the stumble **** of people being scared ******** over making minor social faux pas people like you seem to want. |
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It's one thing to not blame the woman with cleavage showing because some ass took it as an invitation. That's a given.
But why are women wearing cleavage revealing clothes if they don't want to be admired? |
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Because they only want to be admired by a specific subset of men. You see, men are supposed to be mind-readers; they are expected to know whether or not the display of knockers is targeted at them. If they are not in the privileged subset of men to which the display is directed, they are also supposed to know.
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