Man I hate that new episode of Star Trek where the character gets turned into a weird object and even has holes put in them, then it turns out to have all been a dream of the autistic-coded nonhuman character working through some emotions…

So like, in the Xfiles reboot, Joel McHale is Alex Jones but he knows conspiracies that are real but sells ones that are lies…. I’m not entirely sure how to process that one. Also… zero reference to Doggett and Reyes? Like not even an offhanded thing? I loved Doggett, man was a human puppy dog.

I know there’s a movie between but damn the shift between the end of the original Xfiles run and the new season are jarring.

Just watched the original run of the X-Files revival. The finale is a bit of a “well here’s everything laid out for you as easily as possible with some cameos for fun” but honestly where they end it with Mulder and Scully isn’t wholly unsatisfying… now on to the revival seasons…

"You cannot separate the art from the artist when the art is literally bankrolling the artist's hate campaign" - @jessiegender.bsky.social 100% this. Rowling is an enemy to all us trans folk who just want to live our lives in peace. You cannot claim to be my ally & still support her trash.

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in less than 9 minutes @jessiegender.bsky.social summarizes my feelings on the Hairy Poophands reference in Lanterns — from the shattering of immersion to the fact that both are WB properties and they're probs using the one to launder the other

So the Brady Bunch episode of X-Files is basically a trans affirming, happier version of I Saw the TV Glow.

in less than 9 minutes @jessiegender.bsky.social summarizes my feelings on the Hairy Poophands reference in Lanterns — from the shattering of immersion to the fact that both are WB properties and they're probs using the one to launder the other

How Hollywood Is Laundering Harry Potter

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Corporations are not “capitulating to facism” and we need to stop saying that. It lets them off the hook. They are complicit in enabling facism, as they know it moves the Overton window, giving them greater power over the state apparatus, even in future liberal governments.

For reference, I watched Jump the Shark (and yes I saw their spinoff).

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d ago

Doing my first X-Files watch ever and man…. Why’d they have to do the Lone Gunman like that?

Doing my first X-Files watch ever and man…. Why’d they have to do the Lone Gunman like that?

A quick essay about why Hollywood Is still laundering Harry Potter, and why writers need to stop using it as a supposedly neutral pop reference. www.patreon.com/jessiegender...

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I desperately need TV and movie writers to stop making Harry Potter references. Last night I watched HBO’s Lanterns premiere, and it was gre

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Need help with something. What are some movies or tv shows that have made Harry Potter references in the past year or so? Extra points if the show is made by Warner Bros or HBO, but doesn’t have to be exclusive to them.

Frak this Podcast continues with a classic "setting things up for the finale" style episode that manages to undermine one of things I recently said I appreciated and @jessiegender.bsky.social laugh at my pain. YouTube: youtu.be/iOzT_y2PFDQ Podcast: councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

Frak this Podcast Episode 78 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars

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Mildly annoyed they’re not showing Star Trek: Undiscovered Country in theaters like the rest of the TOS movies, when it’s by far the one I want to see in theaters the most. Hell I’d even rather see Generations for the first time in theaters then Wrath of Khan back in theaters for the tenth time.

This just reenforces bioessentialism around gender in sports. There are some sports where women beat men, where men beat women, some where it doesn't matter, frankly, people individually are distinct. The main reason we segregate on sex is to defund women's sports & reenforce bioessentialism.

Reverend Belleony Anne Cheese AntiFascist I'm a Blind Lip Reader@oldstuff.bsky.social · 4d ago

The intersexed are an extremely small subset of people who can be addressed individually. It's not one big trans basket. Women and men competing at the highest level in sports are physically different. That's not debatable.

For a quick exp, there are people who argue the solution is for trans ppl to be allowed in sports who have undergone 2 years of hrt; as a way to weed out liars. 1) this ignores that not all trans ppl can afford hrt and 2) not all trans ppl want to go on hrt. Shouldn’t they be allowed in sports too?

While I understand articles like this are sympathetic to trans athletes, I still bristle at the way liberals argue for trans inclusion - describing hrt as “chemical castration” instead of liberatory, or arguing for trans women inclusion because HRT makes us weaker like (implicit “real”) women.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."

So I watched the latest Jackass movie tonight… then went to watch an XFiles episode and entirely coincidentally is the episode where Aaron Paul guest stars doing a fake Jackass parody.

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Jessie Gender — Progressive Men’s 'Obsessive' Sex Doll Savior Complex

Why did so much progressive criticism of Obsession seem more interested in calling the movie misogynistic than listening to the many women who enjoyed the film?

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I'm curious to see how Ryan Coogler handles the reboot. On the one hand, the distrust of the government vibe will age well, I think. But then the "conspiracy theories are right," and the general sense that the government is competent enough to enact them has definitely not.

Everyone told me Season 8 and 9 of X-Files sucks (hell, that pretty much everything past Season 6 sucked), but while it's certainly not PEAK X-Files, it holds up better than I think folks remember. Tho I do have the reboot seasons to go...

Cary Elwes a recurring character in the X-Files?!

NEW VID on Patreon - "Progressive Men's 'Obsessive' Sex Doll Savior Complex'; a look at the history of sex/wish-fulfillment women in fiction and how these stories are a Rorschach test for the misogyny we are often better at naming in others than recognizing in ourselves. www.patreon.com/jessiegender

So I’m watching Xfiles for the first time and I’m on season 8; and is it a hot take to say I actually like Dogget and Reyes, and REALLY enjoy Scully’s arc of being forced to be the “believer” now that Mulder is gone, and I only wish the actual monster-of-the-week stories were stronger.

@jessiegender.bsky.social and @aranock.bsky.social have been talking this one up a lot, both for its quality and importance. Don’t miss it!

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW VID on Patreon - "Progressive Men's 'Obsessive' Sex Doll Savior Complex'; a look at the history of sex/wish-fulfillment women in fiction and how these stories are a Rorschach test for the misogyny we are often better at naming in others than recognizing in ourselves. www.patreon.com/jessiegender

"Everyone needs a little... SPACE" is the wildest tagline I've EVER seen for Star Trek.

Will Perkins@williamhperkins.bsky.social · last wk.

This completely unhinged WB promo for Deep Space Nine – an ill conceived attempt to make the most cerebral of Star Trek shows look “cool” – has got a screaming rock dude wailing over a shot of Captain Sisko watching his wife blow up:

NEW VID on Patreon - "Progressive Men's 'Obsessive' Sex Doll Savior Complex'; a look at the history of sex/wish-fulfillment women in fiction and how these stories are a Rorschach test for the misogyny we are often better at naming in others than recognizing in ourselves. www.patreon.com/jessiegender

Let’s just do Pet Cemetery in real life. God this is so fucking dystopian.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes give yourself AI psychosis instead of properly grieving

Sigh… well fuck Nicholas Hoult I guess.