TIME Culture

This Woman Just Proved That Nobody Knows What ‘Slut’ Means

By asking people on social media to define the term

British YouTube star Hannah Witton made a video post last week about the responses she got when she asked users on various social media platforms to define the word “slut.”

The results actually say a lot about the user base of Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. Tumblr users were by far the “most progressive,” Witton says, and Facebook users were the least. But here are the best definitions of “slut” from each platform:

Tumblr: a (patriarchal) social construct used to hold women to a stricter set of standards than the ones men are held to”

Twitter: “a human affected by double standards”

Facebook: “a woman who has sex with countless amounts of men”

Winston also points out that men often hurl the insult at women who refuse to sleep with them, which begs the question: “so, if you do sleep with him, you’re a slut, and if you don’t sleep with him you’re also a slut. Great. You can’t win.”

(h/t Mic)

 

 

TIME space

Orbital Sciences CEO Gives Reason for Antares Rocket Explosion

A failure may have occurred in the rocket's engine

Investigators believe they know what made the Antares rocket explode just seconds after it lifted off from a Virginia launch pad. Orbital Sciences’ president and CEO David Thompson said one of two main engines used to launch the rocket failed.

Thompson also said Orbital Sciences plans on continuing with its nearly $2 billion contract with NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The failed AJ26 engine will no longer be used to launch the rocket.

TIME movies

Exclusive: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in The Imitation Game

Cracking codes, taking numbers

Benedict Cumberbatch, revered in the wide world for his work on Sherlock as well as his recent old-school engagement announcement, is starring as math genius and father of modern computing Alan Turing in the new biopic The Imitation Game, out Nov. 28. Here, Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley) impresses Turing with her crossword puzzling skills.

TIME movies

Watch the No-Nudity New Teaser for 50 Shades of Grey

The film, based on E.L. James' novel, releases Valentine's Day 2015

Actor Jamie Dornan dropped a truth bomb this week when he revealed that he will not appear fully nude as businessman-by-day-bedroom-S&M-dabbler-by-night Christian Grey in the much-anticipated film adaptation of bestseller 50 Shades of Grey.

“There were contracts in place that said that viewers wouldn’t be seeing my, um… yeah, my todger,” Dornan said in a Guardian interview. Dornan stars as the sexy corporate suit who seduces a young journalist and teaches her many a thing about life in the bedroom… and beyond.

While the first trailer had many excited–and some confused–this new teaser is pretty much just that: a complete tease. What we do find out: There will be suits. And wine. In a glass.

The movie will star Dakota Johnson as Steele and Jamie Dornan (of ABC’s Once Upon a Time) as Grey, with the novel’s author E.L. James working as a producer for the hotly anticipated film.

TIME viral

A Supercut of Fake Ads From Movies

Watch mock ads from Ghostbusters to Toy Story to Happy Gilmore

If you want to visit Big Al’s Toy Barn, have a sip (or a slug) of a Dunk-A-Cino or order in some ghostbusting, you’ll want to watch a new supercut of fake ads from real movies.

The new video from Screen Junkies showcases the ads used in movies to sell a product like Al Pacino’s Dunkin Donuts coffee drink, remind viewers to tune in at 6 to catch Anchorman‘s Channel 4 news, erase memories with Lacuna Inc, or buy a Buzz Lightyear doll at the local toy shop.

The video features ads from movies like Lost in Translation, The Wolf of Wall Street, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Beetlejuice.

Pour yourself a glass of Suntory whiskey and watch.

TIME movies

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Trailer Has Just About Every Tolkien Actor In It

Middle-Earth is going to war... again

How do you stretch a short book into three films? By adding dozens of characters, of course.

If the new trailer for the final film in The Hobbit trilogy is any indication, pretty much every character from the last two Hobbit films, plus plenty of Lord of the Rings characters who never show up in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (looking at you, Legolas), will make an appearance in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. They’ll all come together for a 45-minute battle scene that’s bound to get fans who yearned for the good old days of Return of the King after watching that endless barrel fighting scene in last year’s The Desolation of Smaug excited.

Oh right, and Benedict Cumberbatch’s dragon still hasn’t been slayed, so Bilbo will have to deal with that, too.

TIME

This Ad for Totino’s Pizza Rolls Is Disturbing in the Best Possible Way

"Pizza freaks unite"

Tim and Eric’s new ad for Totino’s Pizza Rolls is a little bit like an art house film from which you need to flee after 10 minutes. It’s a little bit like a nightmare in which the creepiest characters from Pee Wee Herman’s Adventure and American Horror Story commandeer your brain’s control center and threaten never to return you to normalcy. And it’s certainly… different.

The comedy duo, whose shows Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Bedtime Stories have appeared on Adult Swim, made an ad that can only be described as having sprung forth from the collective sensibility of two people who are seriously disturbed in all the best ways. It follows their recent ad for General Electric, in which Jeff Goldblum sported gold chains and a questionable ’70s wig to sell light bulbs.

An effective ad leaves viewers salivating and halfway out the door to buy whatever good it’s hawking. Hunger is not exactly the feeling this ad inspires. But if the goal is to produce terror at the mere sight of a pizza roll, then it’s definitely done its job.

TIME

Kacey Musgraves Is the First Guest to Appear on Jimmy Kimmel via Hologram

“I’m feeling very futuristic right now.”

Kacey Musgraves had a big night at the Country Music Awards last night. She won Song of the Year, performed with Loretta Lynn and became a trending topic on Twitter thanks to her Priscilla Presley-inspired hairstyle. In between all of this, she made time to give an interview with Jimmy Kimmel — via hologram.

Musgraves beamed into Hollywood from Nashville, greeting Kimmel with a virtual high-five. She spoke about performing with her idol, keeping it a secret from her grandmother and experiencing an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction moments before taking the stage.

Holography has been used in recent years in decidedly creepier ways: Both Tupac Shakur and Michael Jackson were virtually resurrected to perform at Coachella and the Billboard Music Awards, respectively. It remains to be seen whether the technology will catch on. If nothing else, it certainly saves money on airfare.

TIME The Brief

#TheBrief: Why Even Red States Want a Higher Minimum Wage

The first minimum wage was $0.25. Today, that’s $4.22

San Francisco and Oakland voted Tuesday to increase their minimum wages, and so did four states that roundly backed Republicans. Rising standards of living and inflation may be what triggered this increase, but is paying workers more the one issue we can all agree on?

Watch #TheBrief to find out what’s driving the push to pay their workers more.

TIME movies

Watch the Trailer for Indie Dramedy Goodbye to All That

The film, out Dec. 17, is Angus MacLachlan's directorial debut

Almost a decade after screenwriter Angus MacLachlan helped launch Amy Adams’ career with Junebug, the filmmaker makes his directorial debut with Goodbye to All That. The movie (no relation to the Joan Didion essay of the same title) debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, where Paul Schneider won an award for Best Actor.

In the film, Schneider plays Otto Wall, a somewhat irresponsible but generally decent husband and father whose marriage unexpectedly dissolves. The movie follows Otto as he adjusts to his post-marriage life, rebounding on the dating scene and undergoing something of a sexual reawakening, all while trying to remain a good father to his precocious 9-year-old daughter Eddie.

Indiewire’s Rodrigo Perez praised the film for its credible depiction of devastation and resilience. “As an astute and empathetic portrait of human crisis, resolve and survival,” he wrote, “it’s a wonderfully authentic and perfectly touching one.”

In addition to Schneider, the film stars Melanie Lynskey, Amy Sedaris and Heather Graham. Goodbye to All That hits select theaters on Dec. 17.

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