GQ: “Garrett talks about consent while bench-pressing. Why do you think audiences have responded so strongly to a male character who is confident, masculine and also emotionally articulate?”
BC: “Unfortunately, when it comes to masculine representation in media, the Garett of it all is pretty rare, which is a real bummer. I think the [cultural] ether has identified the struggle in that representation via Garrett and his story in Off Campus. The sad thing is we have a bit of a desert for men who contain multitudes in media. I was really grateful to get to play Garrett and to lend my sensibilities to the character, because I have a really high bar for men in my life, and Garrett is the type of guy that I would be friends with.”
“I think a lot of people have felt a little starved for somebody who is so comfortable in their masculinity that they're also comfortable in their femininity. And somebody who leads with empathy from a position of power – like in the dynamics at school and on the hockey team – is just refreshing for audiences to see. It's also important for audiences to see, for women to see — and for men, young men, to see as an example. It just struck the zeitgeist because the zeitgeist was asking for it.”https://t.co/dNnLSvO2Uv
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
Here’s what I will say as someone who has been vegetarian for 9 years and more or less vegan for 3-ish: It is pretty easy to reduce your animal product consumption by 80% if you’re the average westerner. Please at least do that.
i think a lot of leftists are so weirdly defensive about veganism because it’s the one thing they can’t be performative about as it requires actual habitual changes instead of just retweeting useless petitions on twitter dot com
by the way these numbers are no exaggerations. at any given moment there are ~35 billion chickens on earth. we cycle through that entire population every 5 months or so (compared to a lifespan of 5-10 years). a majority will never touch another living being or even see daylight
Eating meat would be totally fine ecologically if you hunted your own red deer once a week with stone-tipped spears and the global human population was also ~40 million, but that’s not the reality of how meat consumption works today, is it? So tired of this dumbass argument.
people are trying to argue with this and it’s literally the truth. a kilogram of beef requires over 15,000 litres of water to produce. a vegan who uses chatgpt every day is living a more sustainable lifestyle than someone who regularly eats beef while boycotting AI.