[Crossposted from Facebook] Unlike other conservative-leaning folks, I believe that it exists. However, a lot of the confusion comes from its poor name. Toxic masculinity is what results when boys aren’t trained to channel their masculinity as they mature. Aggression, competitiveness etc. are instinctive traits more common (or common in greater strength) among human males…

Christmas Dress (2016) – It’s based on a true story about a comfortably well-off father and son who went out of their way to make sure that Christmas reached a destitute family during the Depression.  Everyone involved wanted to make a fine, uplifting short film (27 minutes) for the LDS audience.  However, the script is…

(Skipped a day for Christmas.)

The Undefeated (1969) – At the end of the Civil War, northerner John Wayne is happy to take the remaining cavalrymen who followed him into war out West to catch wild horses to sell to the Army.  Southern officer and gentlemen Rock Hudson, meanwhile, burns his plantation house rather than let it fall into northern…

Deep Blue Sea (1999) – At least this movie proposes a reason for breeding super-smart sharks that isn’t the standard “EE-vil military uses” one: Because shark brains show no deterioration due to age, this research project in the middle of the ocean is conducting experiments to see how those effects can hold true in more…