Happy Friday, Toasties! I finally watched Zootopia last night and am still processing. Why did none of you tell me about the distinctly human-like breasts on all the female animals?? Seems like the sort of thing SOMEONE* should have mentioned.
(* every reviewer)
Speaking of Zootopia, this week we had Sulagna’s If Jason Bateman Were Your Boyfriend
“Perhaps it’s best if you go after all, Jeremy.”
Mallory’s rewritten Bible verses keep getting better and better, as do the deleted comments.
I Kissed Dating Goodbye roundtable
ABBEY FENBERT IS A TREASURE: “What’s the Past got? Plague, feudalism, no Netflix. Medicine is bugs eating you and/or ‘the robed man frowns.’ Birth control options that range from ‘convent’ to ‘death.’ Some Johnny Rufflesleeves mansplaining the luminiferous aether.”
Rosanna Beatrice on the pain, diagnosis, and unsatisfactory treatment of endometriosis is a must-read:
Patiently, politely, I had participated in months of reckless, hopeful subservience: of lying down while doctors tested and palpated and examined and queried, but never wholly explained their method — or my disease. It had been like watching slabs of ice slip past on a waking river. And now the tremor resurged and the river swelled to meet me. I began to shiver with anger at the prospect of decades of reckless and hopeful subservience: altering the course of my life by having a child, or going mad with medication, or spending my time sitting through support group meetings and specialist appointments for a barely believable disease.
Leah Reich’s tribute to Oz:
A human has needs beyond fresh air, decent food, and freedom. But a human also needs friendship, affection, trust, non-violent physical touch. Oz is about life on the inside, so it allows you to consider a lifetime of literally having to live inside—inside your own self, a place deep within you that you try to protect at all costs because everything and everyone wants to break it and you.
Oz creates artistic freedom through the virtue of constraint: It closes its characters in, and so it allows them to open up in very small, real ways.
Please, someone, pay Mo Moulton a lot of money to write a whole book about Dorothy L. Sayers.
Mallory is getting nostalgic. I’m not quite ready.
I hope you all have a delightful weekend! This is the first relatively chill no-plans weekend I’ve had in a solid eight weeks, and if I do not spend much of it in my pajamas + no bra I will consider it a loss.
PJs + no bra weekends are best weekends
Hmmmm, I only remember noticing the weird animated animal breasts when the pop singer/gazelle character was on screen. I must have missed the others. Michael Bluth’s voice is very distracting.
Whaaaaaat? I remember watching the movie and going “haha, wow, thank god they didn’t put tits on the female animals for this one”. Like… Gazelle’s outfit implies breasts, but there’s no actual cleavage. Though… alright, yeah, I guess there’s more curvature than there’d be from ribcage alone.
<s>did they put high heels on her to avoid committing to… uh, unguligrade?… without explicitly and ridiculously giving her plantigrade legs/feet?</s>
ETA: OH NO THEY GAVE BELLWETHER PLANTIGRADE FEET OH NO–and the other sheep, and Bogo–actually I think they might’ve done that with everyone? but it looks especially weird on hooved animals. IDK I guess it’s probably so they can all be bipedal so they could have them use their front feet as hands and/or be more anthropomorphized, but it still looks really weird when you look at it.
Wow. Man, I JUST rewatched Zootopia with my fam LAST NIGHT.
This Has Been Yet Another Installment of: The Toast Being Creepily Timely to Increasingly Specific Details in My Life
Also WHY DOES NO ONE MENTION SHE IS THE FIRST FEMALE COP when she is? Just that she’s the first bunny cop. Even the police receptionist is a guy.
Oh–she’s not. The elephant officer in the bullpen scene is female. Her name’s “Francine” and you can JUST hear her voice, she says “oh yeah?” or something. Also at least one person figures the tiger cop who doesn’t have any lines is female, poooooossibly because she’s got eyeshadow (apparently there’s also a game she’s in? Maybe there’s some indication in that).
And there’s the drill instructor, if she counts.
It’s just that all the other cops who have significant lines are all apparently male and practically none of the background cops are specifically, noticeably coded female.
Hmm, I guess you’re right. Still weirdly non-evident.
Yeah, the fact that they managed to give the impression that Judy might be the only female cop says they could have tried a little harder there….
Unrelated, but I thought Hamilton-obsessed Toasties might like this: http://www.epbot.com/2016/06/hamilton-fans-you-mu…
I just saw the news about the Orlando shooting and I am numb. All I can think is that this is not how we’re supposed to celebrate Pride. What a horrible, horrible thing.
My husband asked for a hug before he told me the news – I think he’s as shaken as I am. I feel so devastated because my people have been attacked. It does help that my straight cis male husband is upset both on my behalf and also as a human being.
I just saw the news about the Orlando shooting and I am numb. All I can think is that this is not how we're supposed to celebrate Pride. What a horrible, horrible thing.
My husband asked for a hug before he told me the news – I think he's as shaken as I am. I feel so devastated because my people have been attacked. It does help that my straight cis male husband is upset both on my behalf and also as a human being.
The whole premise of predators and their prey being best of buddies left me flat. Probably because this spring the fox and coyotes ate almost all the bunnies that used to mow my lawn for me. If enough survived they will reproduce but I miss them and I am pissed.