Director’s Cut

November 11, 2023

You Look Healthy: The Veiled and Wounding Culture of Body Shame in Urban South Asia

How cultural ideals of thin, fair, and lovely are wounding South Asian women.

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Director’s Cut: Full Design

This week, the Nass talks about movies, bodies, and movies about dog bodies.

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When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip

“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”

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11 Fall Break Movie Reviews

Yooo, fall break was a movie…

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The Head

“The ears had a pinkish color—a real lively color, like if The Head had stepped out in the cold of the previous night and come back in the morning. Simon marveled at the thought that El Chato had really killed this man with a saw.”

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Occupation of a Life

He put his hands in the pocket of his brown leather jacket, looking for a piece of paper. All he found was a small receipt he had got from the stationary store in exchange for a red pen, and he … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard during parents weekend

Friend, whispering: Okay, your dad’s good-looking but he’s not a smokeshow.

Overheard at lunch

General enthusiast, nodding: Big vibe for a big dawg.

Overheard at Charter

Good guy: Growing up in the Bay Area, they made us eat pronoun cookies and critical race pizza after school.

Overheard on Cannon Green

Wise junior: I need someone who would break up with me if I even considered going into consulting.

Overheard in Lecture

Professor: A while ago, I went with a Soviet research team to northeast Siberia. It was a little chaotic. Probably because the Soviet Union was collapsing at the time.

Overheard on a Thursday night

Friend 1, texting: Do you want me to bring the bong.

Friend 2: No, it’s all good.

Friend 1, arriving: Sorry, I didn’t see your text. I brought it anyway. I also brought my popcorn maker.

Overheard in lecture

Jeff Nunokawa: Your grandparents will remember this, if they're not dead

Jeff Nunokawa, later: Tell your grandparents this. They'll die

Overheard in TI

Fast fashion proponent: It's uncouth to wear the same thing everyday

Overheard outside McCosh

Woke Humanist: I was in the diversity seminar for English majors who didn't want to read Black authors – Irish Studies.

Overheard in lecture

Distracted student ignoring lecture, texting: *sends link to article on the risks of magic mushrooms* Well I guess we're sticking to edibles then

Overheard outside Firestone

Disillusioned campus conservative: I’m so done with this school. I should have just gone to PragerU.

Overheard in Forbes

Curious first year: What do you do in Sustainable Investments Club? Does anyone there actually care about sustainability?

Sold-out first year: I think sustainability's nice.

Overheard on Prospect

Frat-coded guy: Dude, are you a Gemini?

Overheard in Astro Lecture

Desperately relevant chem professor: Trigger Warning: Chemistry!