Bringing Back What's Stolen is LIVE!

I did! I used a bunch of footage for the Mama Bear trope. She fit that one pretty snugly.

Ian Danskin

Did you get a chance to watch Breaking In ? They wrote her not as the avenging feminine but as the avenging masculine. (Name, background, costume). That was interesting, but as you observed, it just turns into this trope.

Crissa Kentavr

Loved it, I think the breaks work fine even though I wanted one big video. I think you cleaned it up really well and added some new good points. I hope it gets you many views (= and also I hope we get our avenging feminine trope

AV

I loved it! I wasn't sure you had to go into the "I'm not kink-shaming you if you think this is sexy" bit -- it seemed like explaining the explanation -- but I presume you received some comments on here re: that vid that were like "THE WATER HAS PRESSED THEIR CLOTHING TO THEIR LUMINOUS SKIN" so ok. ;) There were a few other bits where I felt something was lost due to expansion / over-explanation, but that could well be because I am familiar with the original vids and already 'get' it. It's hard to do an edit of what you already know is an edit! Overall I think you've done something incredible here, and I'm incredibly fond of your work. Thank you for sharing with us!

Jaime Seltzer

Fantastic work! I'm glad to be supporting you :)

Alice

It's f-ing beautiful.

I've been holding off on watching the previews you posted over time for this because I wanted to see the finished version, and boy does it not disappoint! I absolutely love what you've done with this!

TalysAlankil

Really amazing job on this one - so glad we can finally see it in its complete, polished form!

Great vid, just a minor technical grievance: When watching this on a TV from a Google Chromecast, the names of the referenced movies at the bottom get halfway cut off from below. In my observation, other channels like Hank Green's SciShow have suffered from similar issues in the past, but not anymore. So I think this is a more widespread issue, and content creators figure out over time to keep titles out of the like 5%-10% outer boundary around the picture.

Stefan N.

She definitely says "snap."

Ian Danskin

Wonderful!

Esme

INCREDIBLE series! Loved every bit of it!

Rando third party here, but a few relevant thoughts: - I do not think we benefit from prohibiting people to comment on a world larger than themself. - I think the harm we find when men talk about women, when white people talk about people of color, when USians talk about events elsewhere in the world, when the well-to-do talk about poverty, etc. and so on, tends to come from two places: the relative ease with which people with privileges can obtain a platform, and the overwhelming ease with which people with privilege can be ignorant and misinformed. Given that this is a one-person videoessay channel and this video is about presenting in extended essay form his own take on a film, there's not a lot he can do about the former in <em>this</em> case - it would still be his authorial voice if someone else read it - and what he can do for the latter is, well, read the voices of others and solicit the feedback of others and incorporate what they can teach him into his work. - I'm pretty sure he has. If nothing else, we as patrons saw this happen with the rewriting of the Vasquez section between rough cut and final product. - And fundamentally, no-one has every experience. My experience as a trans person is one experience, and others will differ. I have some firsthand knowledge that may give me an advantage talking about Chevaliere d'Eon or whatever, but firsthand experience isn't a substitute for research, and research of experiences not your own is still possible.

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tiny typo note: at 5:42 in "The Avenging Feminine", the caption says "snap", and I'm pretty sure it should say "snipe".

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I see both the long version 56:54, and the 8 separate parts online now. Oh, but the long one gives just the message about it being blocked… Bummer!

Pavol Vaskovic

Love this essay series. Great work. And now I'm gonna ruin everything and ask the tough question: How do you, as someone who's aware of the patriarchy and that men mute women's voices and content by talking about things their perspective would be more relevant for, justify to talk about this very relevant women-focused topic while not being a woman (not making the experiences a woman makes, not watching movies while experiencing systemic sexism, not being aware how it feels like to identify with the tropes you talk about), while not even having a female perspective alongside, yourself?

Nikki

Makes sense! And woot, new videos!

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