The perilous new direction of the slacker-striver genre reduces the role of women to vehicles. Their only real function is to make the men grow up.
Rather than being equals and trying to reach understanding, new rom-coms mainly focus on men and leave women marginalized and as motivation rather than characters
The way Ben lives with his friends is tremendous fun; it’s also as close to paralysis as you can get and continue breathing. Apatow, of course, has it both ways. He squeezes the pink-eyed doofuses for every laugh he can get out of them, but at the same time he suggests that the very thing he’s celebrating is sick, crazy, and dysfunctional. The situation has to end. Boys have to grow up or life ceases.
Growing up as related to relationships, particularly with your friends rather than with a lover
Achieving balance between a man and a woman
Goal of romantic comedy
The screwball movies, at their peak, defined certain ideal qualities of insouciance, a fineness of romantic temper in which men and women could be aggressive but not coarse, angry but not rancorous, silly but not shamed, melancholy but not ravaged. It was the temper of American happiness.
Slightly off from reality in how much it doesn't show, but nonetheless fits with American society.
She wants to pull him into some sort of ridiculous adventure. She has to grow up, and he has to get loose—the opposite of the current pattern.
Direct comparison, shows what's different
Their characters undergo a painful process of disillusionment, and then keep going. The disappointment they encounter — the grit with which they face it, the grace with which it is conveyed — becomes, for the audience, a kind of exhilaration. What happens at the end of a dream? You wake up.
Kind of arguing that escapism and realism both have a place in coping with trauma. Escapism helps ease the pain by improving mood, but can lack substance and can stall growth if used alone. Realism brings you back from escapism and helps you move on.
transparency, immediacy and a sense of immersion in life are not the automatic results of turning on a camera but rather effects achieved through the painstaking application of craft.
Arguing that neorealism also has artistic value in how difficult it is to pull off. Already had value as a better alternative to escapism, but now we know it's also artistically satisfying and worth seeing/studying for that.
Though these stories end in disappointment, they are somehow the opposite of depressing. Neorealism rests equally on the acknowledgment that life is hard and the recognition that life goes on, that there is something in human nature that will persist in the face of defeat.
Moment: arguing that resilience in the face of depressing reality is an uplifting and comforting sentiment, more realistic and more helpful than escapism
I did hear that governor of Rhode Island said they will recognize same sex…
Impact
Civil marriage is an esteemed institution and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self definition.
Repeated from earlier
Senator Marian Walsh now has to face real action in her socially conservative legislative district.
Geographical context (in a district that doesn't support gay marriage)
We are residence of the commonwealth over the age of 18 and qualified in all respects, we've waited 24 years for this stay and our friends and family are gathered here from all over the country to be a part of our marriage celebration today if the court grants us this waver.
Talk about themselves without drawing attention to their sexuality. Choose to present themselves as no different than any other couple trying to get a marriage license.
Do you want to be Wardall Farbis (ph) or George Wallace standing from the school house door saying they can come in.
Historical reference
There was much more Jewish spent to them, this year when I've gotten in the past. It was much more not just you know miserable dyke but now it was kike also trying it.
Connection being drawn between anti-gay and antisemitism
hat we don’t want
Sign that says "Haven't we been through this? Separate is never equal". References Civil Rights movement.
since a third person is always needed to have children
Or a sperm donor. Like, if some one is gay, they aren't into the opposite sex, so they wouldn't have someone like that in their relationship. Are you serious?
We were just not able to get the truth out to our people.
That's not the truth.
connection between married life and having and raising children.
Say that gay marriage can't happen because it would threaten marriage, children's lives. Gay people can still have children, just not with each other, and they can still raise them, though the argument is that they aren't good at it.
The salient feature of a household, in which you have two mothers raising a child is that there is no father, now if that’s not dramatic enough statement, the most salient feature of the household in which there are two fathers raising a child, is that there’s no mother
What does that even mean? It's not that there is a missing father/mother, it's that there's two fathers/mothers. In what way do different gendered parents have to contribute different things, that missing one would somehow mean missing out on a huge amount of knowledge?
Pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ellen Perrin has reviewed three decades of research on children raised by gay and lesbian parents, she says there are no reliable data that suggest children growing up with same sex parents are at risk.
Existing research on it, issue has existed, texts have been made and referenced
Genre context: Documentary
Despite what they said, there’s not a shred of evidence in the Massachusetts constitution that approves of this.
Based on what was stated from the decision earlier, they were arguing that there was nothing keeping gay marriage from happening, not that gay marriage was explicitly allowed
I said you know whatever you’ve been telling in the last several years I’d keep saying the same thing.
Political context (issue has existed for years, many politicians have been against it)
protect marriage.
Saying that allowing gay marriage would somehow affect all straight marriages, that marriage is somehow fragile and would lose meaning if gay people could do it. Moral context.
preserve the most sacred institution, traditional marriage.
Religious views against equality
Our marriage like all marriages will be about our commitment to one another and will allow us to protect our families in sickness and in health
Defining purpose of marriage.
Someone could be a rapist, a murderer a child abuser, he could have been someone who had three families of kids and abandoned all three of them, you love Britney Spears on a drunk just for the fun of it to marry someone that you learned divorced 24 hours later, you don’t care who marries. If you allow all those people to marry, explain to me please why do you draw the line at me?
Again, talking about sanctity of marriage but being more clear in how discriminatory the idea that gays are the only ones who can't marry is (worse than rapists, murderers, etc.)
Spends a lot of time showing people in opposition to gay marriage, trying to understand both sides
Civil rights should never go on the ballot this country was found that on the notion that the attorney of the majority should never be allowed to take away the rights of minority, any minority including the minority that he and she are in comfortable with that a fundamental premise of this nation, you don’t put people’s rights upon the ballot and say well if you like them vote eye, and they can keep their rights and if you don’t like them we’ll take them away.
But we must remind them with the rules of a government issued marriage license are substantially different from the rules that are involved in a faith community blessing a relationship. And let Larry King have seven marriage licenses, let Elizabeth Taylor have eight.
Arguing that sanctity of marriage isn't an issue if people can divorce and remarry with no consequences (which I think is not allowed in the Bible, but I could be wrong)
I’m not against homosexuals, I don’t like their practice, I know lot of people from their lifestyle. Any sex outside marriage is the sin
Saying that she isn't against homosexuals but that they're sinners (meaning they'll likely go to Hell) and she doesn't accept their practice. Hypocritical.
real man, marry woman.
Toxic masculinity at play. "You aren't a real man unless you're straight and have a wife". Makes gay men out to be something lesser than them.
national anti-gay marriage movement
social context (anti-gay marriage movement existed already)
the union of man or woman is the only definition the line has drawn history has drawn it,
Again, ignoring historical context. History has not drawn it, but Christianity and other religions certainly have.
It gives marriage another context that is never had, in most people cannot deal with that, they cannot deal with the fact that in some cases its repulsive to them and they don’t know how to express they say, please don’t let it happen, please don’t let it happen.
Gay marriage was already legal in other countries at this point, so it has definitely has had that context. It's already happened. Ignoring historical context.
As it has been throughout the nation's history, Massachusetts is in the center of the political storm that is dividing the country.
Historical context (common for Massachusetts to be where political issues come to a head)
I mean it was scary because I knew that my parents weren't going to like it and that… and I certainly knew enough to know that other people around me wouldn’t like it so I was in, there was a lot of inner turmoil I guess in the sense that I was really scared of people reacting badly to me and criticizing me.
Personal context (used to/expecting people to react negatively towards their sexuality, marriage)
Vermont-style civil unions
Legal context (the issue of whether gay people can marry has been addressed elsewhere before)
the words of a verse that of the Psalm floated in my mind which says in Psalm [11:3] says, "When the foundation are being destroyed what can the righteous do,"
Referenced textual context + religious connection
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They said "import". This transcript has a lot of errors.
Their so called marriage, can never be what more (inaudible ) marriage has been they can have sexual relationships until that they both cease to existing can never produce a child, the two of them together.
An important part of marriage is being able to have a child together, putting aside that there are plenty of people who choose to not have children and are still married
02:10 One man one women let the people go. Let the people go.
Well you know in Massachusetts , it's… it's not allowed.
Wasn't allowed anywhere at this point
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