The Voyeurs review – Amazon’s fun and sexy erotic thriller throwback.

Huh, an article that recognizes the weird increase in prudishness and that actually decries it.

Decades of chastened blockbuster heroes, their ascent at the expense of the mid-budget character pieces for grownups that have all but gone extinct, have estranged the public from the combination of maturity and libidinous fun that once made the erotic thriller a dominant industry force in Hollywood. We’re starved for touch, though perhaps it would be more accurate to say we’re thirsty. A dry, flavorless cinema has left viewers with a taste for the lurid parched.

Yep, want to see this film. “Erotic thriller” isn’t even really a category anymore, but there used to be dozens released a year.

I hope this movie makes many, many people angry. And even more than that, I hope it’s good.

Thomas Eakins, “Female nude kneeling on table” (ca. 1884).

This is the best mash-up I’ve ever heard in my life.

I don’t even like the song that much, but she’s just so fucking talented I don’t even care. Also, I like her shoes. She sounds better on a neutral mic live than she does on her album. I can’t even tell you how much talent that takes (but it’s a damn lot).

Sorry, but showing that actions have consequences is not "shaming". https://t.co/lLw8AmQTMi

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) September 7, 2021

Right the fuck on. If you die because you did not get vaccinated, it’s on you.

I will personally kick your fucking corpse into the grave. Fuck you.

Look, we have lots of problems, but this constant doom-and-gloom thing is just wearing thin. The health care system has not collapsed.https://t.co/v7GIJT6Q8d

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) September 8, 2021

Doom and gloom and the attempt to diminish expectations is all libs have got these days. Now get in your pod and hush!

I have never read The Dungeon Master, but I liked this bit from here.

To read The Dungeon Master now is to be thrown back to a freewheeling time when college students were reckless proto-adults and their daily lives simply weren’t the concern of administrators, when every crevice of a campus wasn’t monitored and mapped.

I remember the tail end of this time! Now, liberals want people — especially women — not to be treated like adults until they are 35, sometimes 40+ for women. So strange to me because I remember when it was vastly different and when someone hit 18, that was it. They were not considered a child any longer. Risk-taking was expected, even encouraged. Mistakes were tolerated. There were no wokesters dogging your every miscalculation and attempting to regulate who you should have a relationship with. (By the way, I think this is actually worse for women and doesn’t protect them at all, contrary to what the wokesters would have you believe, since their practices deny women any form of agency at all.)

It was a better, fairer and freer world then, even for many minorities that we’re “protecting” now.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

No specific incident in mind, but I’m always just completely shocked by just how very, very terrible people are at managing and assessing risk. Just shockingly bad. Is this related to our evolutionary history? Poor education? Both? More than these factors?

I don’t know. No one is completely rational and never will be, but very often I see people attempting to be “completely safe” and actually increasing their level of risk substantially. It’s puzzling. And sometimes infuriating.

As yet, however, I have not figured out any common pattern other than people are just completely terrible at this in nearly every way that is possible to be bad at something. It really was apparent during Covid, of course, but this lack of ability to assess and manage risk is just ubiquitous. It seems to be getting worse, too, though perhaps that is just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.