Our favorite new movie: "BLOCKERS" (video)

Crystal Quintero, Ananda M., Dhr. Seven (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly; FilmWeek (SCPR); Universal

Headless breasty chicken or exploited girl?

Blockers (Rotten Tomatoes) comes out today, a controversial film about female sexual agency. These crazy girls are trying to get laid...but not if their parents can stop them. Enter, male chicken blockers, the hair pulling parents to these rambunctious youngsters. It's not easy raising kids, and it's not easy dealing with parents. We were all kids, many of us will be parents, so whose side will we take? Let's watch. Will it be a summer blockbuster in the spring or a premature spring break classic coming too soon to get enough adolescents [donkeys] in cinema seats?

Losing my virginity: Blockers teen sex romp movie clips (2018)

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Teen sex sells tix.

(Universal Pictures) Blockers arrives in theaters on Friday, April 6, 2018. Website: blockersmovie.com. When three parents stumble upon their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
 

I directed this $exploitation.

Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, Suicide Squad), John Cena (Trainwreck, Sisters), and Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40) star in Blockers, the directorial debut of Kay Cannon (writer of the Pitch Perfect series).
 

This is a comedy about sexual misconduct, so calm down. It's not like it's killing...unless someone gets pregnant and ends up committing abortion, which is murder (thought the Morning After pill may or may not be, depending on how it really works. Look into that detail, which is not on the label, before use or risk becoming a manslaughterer, which is terrible karma). Blockers (IMDb)

• REVIEW: FilmWeek (4/6/18): A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick, 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's [I helped fake the U.S. moon landing] 2001: A Space Odyssey

Produced by [men like] Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, under their Point Grey Pictures banner (Neighbors, This Is the End), alongside Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (Harold & Kumar series) and DMG Entertainment’s Chris Fenton (47 Ronin). Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Joseph Drake (Don’t Breathe, Juno) executive produce with Chris Cowles (Collide) of DMG and Josh Fagen, Dave Stassen, and Jonathan McCoy. The film is written by brothers Brian and Jim Kehoe, Hurwitz and Schlossberg, and Eben Russell.

Sex? Maybe. Contraception? YES!

When my parents said, "We want to talk to you about sex," I answered, "Sure, what do you guys want to know?" thinking they had to know that I knew more about the subject than they probably did. They were mad and shamed me. We never talked about it again. :/

• Parent-child communication (Advocates for Youth) In a recent study, teens who benefited from perceived from parental guidance and who reportedly had a “good talk” with parents in the last year about sex, birth control, and the dangers of STDs were two times more likely to use condoms at the last time they had sex than teens who did not talk to their parents as often.
• Why parents should have the "Sex Talk" with their children (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Teen Sex Ed: Instead of promoting promiscuity, it delays first sex... (healthland.time.com)
• Basic requirements: Contraceptive knowledge and access (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books)
• How to? Tips for Talking to Kids About Sex (Planned Parenthood)

The surprising history of "Caucasian" (video)

Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; MTV News; FOM

(MTV News, Decoded April 27, 2016) The Surprisingly Racist History of the Term Caucasian

"Caucasian"?

Wisdom Quarterly (OPINION)

Facts presented in a fresh way -- concise, to the point, building up to support the thesis, exquisite! And who knew, right? Actually, readers may know this from a recent post about where the people Europeans enslaved in America came from. 

No, it's not Africa like we're all taught. Slaves came from America! Wow, they enslaved and raped mated with the natives, some of whom were black, all of which were called the "copper colored" races. America was the land of "reds" and "blacks."

Latin-American singer Christina Aguilera

See Dr. Joy DeGruy, who goes much deeper into the social construction of the idea of "white" as one race, which originally kept out the Irish, some of the lightest skinned people on the planet. It's amazing; there was no thinking, "We're all 'white'."

Now everyone in the U.S. and Europe takes it for granted, unless you're Latino/a. Then you can be as "white" as Christina Aguilera or Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, but have a drop of Spanish blood (which is all European and not at all native) or a Spanish surname and you're "brown." 
 

Latin-American Wonder Woman

Of course, our country suffers from more than just prejudice, racism, and implicit bias. We have colorism or shadism: the darker your skin, the worse treatment you get. 

Who knew MTV (pronounced eMpTyV) was still around or ever doing anything good? We hear they want to bring music videos back, but that's just a rumor. It didn't pay enough the first time. Happy College Signing Day.

• Host Franchesca Ramsey: twitter.com/chescaleigh
• Benjamin O'Keefe: twitter.com/benjaminokeefe
• With love by: mtvother.com

A Natural Man in Court

Why was the judge so fearful? Because she understood the archaic language he was speaking as it pertains to laws still on the books the court system has done everything it can to circumvent by tacit agreement as it forces and dupes us into signing away our natural rights. We cannot emphasize the importance and significance of what this man accomplished on camera which the modern legal system wishes no one would ever know about.

• How ernie wayne ter telgte tertelgte did it, but you can't (but you could if you knew your rights)
• VIDEO: ernie, The Montana Living Natural Man, explains
• VIDEO: ernie ter telgte as Euro Native American
• In jail for contempt: bozemandailychronicle.com
  The Bozeman Chronicle editorial board released a statement objecting to WEST banning all recording and spectators from ernie's court proceedings: bozemandailychronicle.com

Surprising Mainstream Media Items

• AP wins Pulitzer stories on slavery in the seafood industry The AP won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables -- an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive slaves.
• AP reporter's story on the seafood slaves
• BingeEatingDisorder.com
• Trial of ex-reserve who fatally shot unarmed man
• Vatican: Sanders blasts "immoral" wealth inequality
• 2 officers shot man dead at Walmart in Phoenix
• Ohio community rattled by killing of family of 8
• Jennifer Lawrence went braless, Internet went crazy
• US to send 200+ troops, Apache helicopters to Iraq The U.S. gov't wants to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters to kill in a fight against the alleged Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, defense officials said.
• An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
• Pentagon misled lawmakers on military-sexual-assault rates The Pentagon misled Congress by using inaccurate or vague information about cases of sexual assault [homosexual and heterosexual rape of fellow troops] in an effort to blunt support for a Senate bill that would make a major change in how the military handles allegations of sexual misconduct, an AP investigation found.
• Style: 4 cute milkmaid-braids that only look complicated
• Ocean Vuong: famous Vietnamese-American poet's journey

Britney & Buddhist Celebrities

Coming back is hard to do
Britney Spears' concert goes up in smoke, and Lindsay Lohan nurses her broken heart and career.

• Details
• Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks disses Lohan: "Get a grip"

Top 10 Celebrity Buddhists (Wildmind.org)

When this list came together it seemed little more than a trivial distraction from all the news about disastrous wars, sordid economic-political scandals, and deep philosophical questions. But digging more deeply through the Web, there was inspiration. Reading about the practice of famous Buddhists, some of whom have had their trials, there is something to learn, be entertained and inspired by Wildmind’s Top 10 List of Celebrity Buddhists.

The criteria were simple. To be a Celebrity Buddhist a nominee has to be alive, a celebrity, and — wait for it — a Buddhist. The voting process was simplicity itself: counting the hits returned for an exact Google search on each name.

It’s not always easy working out if a celebrity Buddhist is actually a Buddhist. Lots of Websites say Keanu and Jennifer Lopez are practicing Buddhists. But the truth is far harder to pin down. A celebrity is a Buddhist only if s/he has said so. In fact some much lauded “celebrity Buddhists” have explicitly said that they are not Buddhist practitioners (e.g., Uma Thurman, “When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really,” and Keanu Reeves, “I’m not Buddhist.”)

Joining Keanu and J-Lo on the not-really-a-Buddhist list were martial arts actor Jackie Chan, and rocker/poet Patti Smith. Conversely, there are some serious practitioners whose celebrity status (as measured by a lack of Google hits) were avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson (1,110,000 hits), jazzman Wayne Shorter (1,100,000 hits), and REM frontman Michael Stipe (813,000 hits). So here they are in reverse order (with their hit totals):

1. Aung San Suu Kyi (1,170,000 hits)
2. Steven Seagal (1,340,000)
3. Kate Bosworth (1,390,000)
4. Richard Gere (1,560,000)
5. Herbie Hancock (1,590,000)
6. Leonard Cohen (1,620,000)
7. The Dalai Lama (1,640,000)
8. Tina Turner (1,710,000)
9. Orlando Bloom (3,710,000)
10. The Greatest Sports Figure (5,850,000)