Ice age is so much dunker if you imagine every single character is a gay man. Small ugly annoying twink pisses off gym gays who try to beat him up, forcing gruff old bear to take action. Twink is obsessed with bear. Meanwhile ex-military traditionally handsome gay is enaged in cagey action with his buds. Cannibalism! This shit is like moses! She puts her baby in the river! Twunk boss is a Donald Trump. Save the baby! Wasn’t mannys family killed by people? HA gruff cynical bear forced to adopt baby with ugly twink. Ellie is 100% a lesbian. This twunk wants to commit cannibalism. But oddball gay couple does not want the twunk to commit cannibalism. Twunk is like weirdly into ugly twink? “Stop swinging that thing around””I ain’t exactly lactatingright now” . The twink is playing football for his son!!! THEY COMMITED GENOCIDE TO FEED THEIR SON. THEY KILLED THE DODOS AND TOOK THEIR RESOURCES. twink wants bear to kiss him goodnight ahhhh.

Why is Diego in a cannabalism cult? How did he get involved in that? I guess the us really doesn’t support their veterans. THE SLOTHS HAVE HEART SHAPED BOOBS. Syd really . The baby’s people murder mannys family, but manny is helping the baby anyways . THE SONG. Oh now twunk and bear the dad’s and they have a baby and a baby gay. Baby gay can Ice skate . The small foreign man wants his nuts. Sometimes a family is three gay men, a baby, and the “send me on my way” song. Taffy tongue . Syd stumbles along a museum of mummified human remains. This movie is about a race war.

A post apocalyptic race war. It’s the Romeo and Juliet of our ages. Manny has a savior complex. What is ice age if not a metaphor for homosexuality. Everybody wants to eat manny. Syd lord of the flame. Iconic throuples. Final hot take, they should have kept the kid. The next 5 movies would be about them raising the kid. It could be a sitcom.

Actually a movie about the kid post movie would be cool. Like yeah my mom died but these three gay dudes rescued me from a cannibal cult. They thanks the bear by giving him a necklace made from the bones of your people

GIRLS OWN THE VOID

Around the mid ‘10s, the “hot girl” vein of post-internet art was trending enough to be a theme at @artbasel 2015. Rachel White wrote a @vice article about it -- “Hailed as the ‘Feminist Basel’, the annual art fair in Miami Beach was rife with strippers and nude selfies.” (Full article at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xkzyj/hot-girl-art-turns-heads-at-art-basel-miami .) It concluded with, “Hot Girl Art at Miami Basel, and elsewhere, doesn't feel like defiance. Though, in an environment when ‘feminist’ has become so much of a buzzword to almost be rendered meaningless, maybe Hot Girl Art just reflects our cultural reality back at us.” I remember when the trend died out. Presumably because it was met with a lot of criticism along the lines of ‘how is showing us the same bodies that meet the beauty ideal, and dominate mass media, in any way institutionally critical?’ I was in dialogue with some of the artists making “hot girl art” back during the mid ‘10’s, (shoutout the @motherboardvice journalist who tried to interview me on this + cyberfeminism and then never followed up, lol). A lot of these artists wrote about how their art, typically involving their own bodies, was a kind of reclamation of the gaze—in a world where they were constantly objectified, to self-objectify felt like committing a kind of pre-emptive political Harakiri. 

Leftist cultural values are somewhat in line with this kind of third wave rhetoric, but what is missing, and why, I think, this trend fell short, is objectification culture is innately intertwined with the desire to comply with the beauty ideal of our era. This however, does not mean that this kind of self-objectifying work is not valid, but rather that it reaches the apex of it’s ameliorative potential when 1) paired simultaneously with the active work of clearing our perceptual lens of the imprint of colonialist beauty and 2) while acknowledging the psychological trauma inherent in that state, that void, existing deep in the subconscious, that causes women to feel bludgeoned into acquiescence (see above, meme art work by #sadgirltheory artist #audreywollen) and also, the addictive nature of the objectification energy for giver + receiver (a vitalistic feeding frenzy! esoteric cannabalism!) These three things are key for the unabashed wielding of "hotness" as a part of emancipatory politics—without them, we’re showing one side of the story (the power of this kind of art and feminist theory lies in the combination of these aspects, presented in tandem with each other). Armed with them, the trend of work that reclaims female beauty from a patriarchal world that has taught us it cannot exist without being owned by their lens of violence and subjugation, is powerful. It exists as a medicine for a culture still living in a Christian puritanical hangover that both violently covets and demonizes beauty because of it’s potential power, and draws awareness to the notion of beauty as some kind of consolation prize for the absence of male intelligence. Resurrecting beauty from this ontological dimension is not only valid, but necessary, revolutionary, and critical to collective emancipation.

Image: 1. 'Controlled Response', single-channel video and found object installation, color, 00:28, 2016 2. Audrey Wollen