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to change how these soldiers are treated then you can move on to emad burnat and guy davidi s 5 broken cameras about a self described peasant in a small palestinian village who begins filming the israeli encroachments onto the land of his fellow townsmen backed up by the israeli military and allowed no recourse to protection the settlements continue to come and when the palestinians protest the israelis burn their olive trees their sole source of income and when burnat shows up to film the actions they destroy his cameras one by one this film is so heartbreaking because at the same time burnat shows his youngest son s earliest years a child growing up angry watching this world closely asking his father questions about the violence it took me 2 viewings to finish this one i just got so angry after the first 45 minutes that i wasn t sure i could continue but it gets more compelling and nuanced in its later minutes an amazing document and finally there s how to survive a plague david france s brilliantly curated trove of footage from act up s early actions and activism during the most grim years of the aids crisis roughly 1987 to 1995 for most of those years as the bodies of dead aids sufferers continued to pile up the us government and international drug companies acted as if ignoring it might make it go away this is a plague larry kramer booms out during one particularly difficult moment in the film you cannot watch this film without thinking about the first time you screamed the whole world is watching the whole world is watching at a rally and you really believed it and you really believed that the officials you were screaming at would believe it too you can t watch without remembering the first person you saw with a ks spot on his face or the first friend who died or the time you realized how massive the aids quilt would be and hence its impact the only thing that allowed me to watch this all in one go was the fact that this is a film about fighting back so yeah sugar man was a film that was a pleasure to watch these films are impossible enraging i totally get it something we just want to feel good at the end of a film but i m sorry members of the academy the category of best documentary is designed to reward exceptional journalism or storytelling about real life events and in comparison sugar man looks like a puff piece a great central question with weak journalism surrounding it these films are hard to watch get over it one of them should have won for best documentary to acknowledge that all is not right with the world posted by didion filed in 2010s films female directors film awards and prizes rape the curious case of women in film why feminism matters now tags aids crisis david france emad burnat guy davidi how to survive a plague 5 broken cameras the invisible war kirby dick larry kramer palestinian crisis rape in the military searching for sugar man 8 comments because it s not like football has a rape problem or anything 9 january 2013 not long into the bcs national championship game between the university of alabama and notre dame the camera cut to a view of the stands where the alabama quarterback s girlfriend was standing with his family katherine webb is a very pretty girl obviously she is miss alabama you quarterbacks you get all the good looking women commentator brent musberger said and the camera just kept lingering lasciviously the camera lingered on webb long enough to creep all of us out and musberger took just way too much time telling viewers to go out and practice their throws to get good looking women like this all so much that audiences audibly gagged and espn offered an apology but that doesn t stop the post from doubling down on the creep does it even as it also reports another athlete s alleged sexual assault and rape culture continues posted by didion filed in female athletes and our gender sex issues rape the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now tags brent musberger is a creep espn feminism feminism in sports katherine webb miss alabama rape culture 4 comments yeah because rape charges are a matter of opinion public opinion 28 november 2012 here s a radical suggestion let s keep all the details of rape charges private and out of the media until they have been resolved by the legal system because if there s anything worse than a legal system trying to figure out the details of rape cases within the usually male dominated sphere of the police and the law it s the overtly sexist media trying a rape case without any fucking evidence stop me if you ve heard this one before an athlete is charged with rape and a media outlet essentially pens a dramatic headline asking the public is this highland park baseball star a rapist hint no according to the story the real goal of the article is to say the girl is lying and that the male athlete is the real victim here if it s a case of impulsive teenage decisions remorse and guilt then no one suffers more than 18 year old ryan romo the article concludes using no evidence beyond her own gut feelings the article s author and culturemap managing editor claire st amant holds forth about how kids are supposed to mess up they lie they cheat they get caught they grow up you might think that st amant refers to both the alleged rapist and his accuser who is under the age of 16 but no apparently there s only one kind of kid who messes up girls a lot of people found this story problematic such that a defensive st amant posted a follow up story doubling down on her position then a freelance columnist for culturemap named dan solomon posted a critical assessment of the story on his independent tumblr because as he explains for xojane he d like to be the kind of guy with enough credibility to call out people who say or do fucked up things he wrote i m embarrassed right now that my name is associated with the culturemap brand i m really disappointed in st amant s judgment and of culturemap s choice to publish such offensive and stupid bullshit culturemap asked him to take it down solomon refused so they fired him is ryan romo guilty or innocent we don t know was the sex between him and this under 16 girl consensual we don t know that s for the legal system to figure out did his accuser lie we don t know of course we can all think of cases in which accusers have lied but that doesn t mean this one did that s for the legal system to figure out let it be said that regarding rape cases the legal system is the worst because it s very difficult to prove rape and the entire process drags the accuser through a series of hoops that frankly resemble rape scrutiny of her character her clothing her behavior her language and let s not forget the gynecological procedures that literally penetrate her in order to garner evidence then shoot photographs if you were younger than 16 and you had the least idea of all this invasion by the legal system would you accuse someone of rape if you were younger and 16 and had to be accompanied by a parent how would you feel going through this process how would your parent behave toward you throughout the process how much would you wonder whether they disbelieved you and that s only the start then there are the shoot from the hip assholes like claire st amant and culturemap who think it s fine to create yet another courtroom one without any facts at all and one in which the jury is whoever decides to log on to offer up their opinions online but if an employee says publicly that this isn t ahem cool well fire him her so that s why i ask for a moratorium on news about rape charges because the media have shown that they are incapable of behaving with any degree of journalistic integrity in reporting those charges to the contrary media outlets are now going out of their way to muddy the legal waters even more in the process they have the capacity to ruin the lives of the individuals involved and because hey they need all the decent journalists they can get 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