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Female authors tend to be told more often than male ones that their protagonists are "unsympathetic" or "unlikable" and that their books are therefore unlikable as well.
In fascists' paradigm, the so-called elites, all the people who try to use reason, they become the unlikable bureaucrats or the unlikable businessmen or whatever it is.
Her reason makes her so unlikable ... and so watchable.
She's uninspiring, she's unlikable and she's not exciting the base.
This, frankly, is an unlikable decision—one that shocks the conscience.
Instead, we get character sketches of two untrustworthy and unlikable candidates.
Layla is headstrong, passionate and if I'm honest, kind of unlikable.
Paul and Rubio (on Cruz being unlikable and inauthentic), Paul vs.
All work and no play makes for a very unlikable leader.
That's why the majority of Americans find him unlikable and unfit.
He's instantly unlikable, which makes him a tough character to root for.
" As for female presidential candidates in general, she said, "They're super unlikable.
" As for female presidential candidates in general, she said, "They're super unlikable.
It's the same stereotype that gets ambitious women tagged as unlikable bitches.
Women also tend to be viewed as unlikable based on their ambition.
In the play, he plays an unlikable character with a creepy handlebar mustache.
You're The Worst arrived at a time when unlikable protagonists were breaking out.
"I'll tell you why they say Ted is unlikable in Washington," Cruz said.
Gail: There's a disproportionate amount of "unlikable" going on with the Warren critics.
We must feel compassion for others, no matter how unlikable they might seem.
Fleabag definitely does bad things—did you set out to make her "unlikable"?
"She was the first woman who dared to be unlikable," Ms. Thomas said.
With the dour, unlikable Belichick as the coach, it was easy enough to believe.
And surveys suggest that even some Republicans find him unlikable and lacking in compassion.
"She liked me even when I thought of myself as unlikable," Harkness told me.
She is met with aversion, perceived as more hostile, irritable, less competent, and unlikable.
Throughout the seasons, Sherlock (Cumberbatch) behaved in the same destructive, unlikable ways again and again.
In doing so, it sought to soften the perception that she is untrustworthy and unlikable.
She once said, wryly, that it "hurts my feelings" to hear people find her unlikable.
The unlikable Veda in "Mildred Pierce" (1945) seems born to defy her self-sacrificing mother.
Was this disgruntled trio just unlucky, with a slew of particularly unlikable children between them?
"On the surface, these two characters seem like they might be incredibly unlikable," he says.
Many view Clinton is an unlikable, untrustworthy liar who will say anything to get elected.
Whereas Microsoft, it's changed with the Gates Foundation, but largely, loosely speaking, they were pretty unlikable.
Sure, you expect the prince of darkness to be unlikable, but not in an annoying way.
His approach has really been a reminder that Andy's biggest game flaw was just being unlikable.
That is to say, women may be viewed as unlikable when they ask for a raise.
Across early states, voters said they found them too angry or too unlikable or too inexperienced.
People are taking cues from you, and you become more unlikable the more negative you get.
The cougher was an unlikable retiree whom the neighbors referred to by his last name, Puldron.
He is thoroughly unlikable, and we sympathize with Sumac's resentment when he takes over her bedroom.
Ms McCarthy, in her first major dramatic role, renders Lee as both unlikable and, somehow, deeply sympathetic.
He has a way of making even the most unlikable characters seem relatable, if not actually likable.
None of the charm of the original series, and the characters were strident, shallow and generally unlikable.
Isn't it amazing how unlikable a woman becomes once she decides to go for the big prize?
Unlikable and conflicted characters, specifically female ones, are to be cherished so long as they have reason.
Sofman contrasted Cozmo with a precise but unlikable machine that can perform mechanical tasks like unloading dishes.
But I was not ready to hear my own thoughts, verbatim, coming out of the unlikable protagonist's mouth.
She embraced what she herself called her "bitch phase" — playing deeply unlikable characters, villains, and literal ice queens.
Elliot was too cold, standoffish and unlikable, Mr. Esmail concluded, and that was why no audition had clicked.
She knows it makes her unlikable, that people think she's a bad mother, that her husband is unhappy.
You're my worst case scenario for my career in 12 yrs: a pious, unlikable blowhard who lives alone.
The terminally unlikable Jonah (Timothy Simons) is trying to find friends in his new role as a congressman.
He reminded me, in a not entirely unlikable way, of an animal busy in carrion, like a jackal.
During production, Ms. Theron said, she fielded calls from a financier angry that her character was so unlikable.
I only want to write about somewhat unlikable Jewish women having really inappropriate ideas about life and sex.
Just think about it — you can be a brand if you want, or embrace the feminism of being unlikable.
Democrats lost the presidential election because they nominated an unlikable, entrenched bureaucrat who was knee-deep in damning scandals.
Meanwhile, as Weiner points out, "unlikable" characters can easily become as parodic and one-dimensional as their sympathetic counterparts.
Mr. de Blasio has always dismissed the criticisms that he is too earnest, too arrogant, too unlikable, too aloof.
Her humble origins did not save her from the elitist air that has made her so unlikable to many.
"He has to admit he lied," and could be viewed as an unlikable figure by the jury, she said.
Trump has also been saying Cruz is unlikable, so the moderators pointed out no senators have endorsed Cruz's campaign.
Both star a terminally unlikable character and offer players a huge, open playground full of incredibly dull things to do.
J. D. Callahan is working to elect an establishment politician — an unlikable, icy candidate — facing off against a xenophobic governor.
As a screenwriter, Ms. Morgan is nimble with glib conversation, and she is fearless at playing an often unlikable character.
Clinton, for her part, struggled with persistent claims that there was just something unlikable, something grating, something shrill about her.
Alas, her main character, Dr. Samantha James, is so unlikable, so relentlessly awful, that it's impossible to care about her.
Within hours of her tweet, she was "battling the ghosts of Hillary Clinton" to avoid being written off as unlikable.
And does she – or any other female candidate, for that matter – stand to lose votes because she is perceived as unlikable?
And it especially doesn't want too many stories from too many crass, ugly, selfish, unlikable (read: loud, real, driven, complex) women.
The point of this subplot seems to be to make Marilyn an unlikable, selfish, and unprofessional jerk, so that was effective.
The problem with making yourself as unlikable as Mr. Clay does here is that 30-minute doses are quite long enough.
Branding a character as unlikable shuts off so much interesting conversation, and it gets applied to women way more than men.
The fear of alienating audiences, or of being "unlikable" in any way, is perhaps why more female celebrities aren't similarly bold.
He is so unlikable, we're meant to think, that even his own social worker doesn't want to deal with him anymore.
And keep an eye out for Alan Cumming doing his best sneer as the hilariously unlikable Mr. Elton, Emma's least favorite suitor.
She gave us a woman who was prickly and sarcastic and unlikable, and she told us that Jane deserved our respect anyway.
It's not made any easier by the fact that her F.B.I. handler (Warren Kole) is an unlikable fellow with a stalkerlike aura.
That's a great comparison, because they both just go fully in with their characters, even if they're unlikable or silly or whatever.
Two things, though, remain constant: First, Donald Trump remains one of the most unlikely, unlikable and unprepared candidates to run for president.
This TV show allows me to take my dreams about unlikable Jewish people, queer folk, trans folk, and make them the heroes.
Theron has excelled at playing complicated and even unlikable characters — she won an Oscar in 2004 for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
In fact, the same qualities that make Hillary Clinton an unlikable candidate are likely those that would make her an effective governor.
" After a screening of the show on the Sony lot last year, a male agent said, "I find Sally a little unlikable.
"But I thought if I was going to play someone that unlikable, I would need to justify it to myself," she said.
This might be because when women are assertive in the workplace, they're viewed as unlikable or demanding, according to a 2016 study.
His previous novel, "The Story of My Purity" (2013), was about earnest and unlikable young Catholics facing real-world temptations in Rome.
The film, directed by Craig Zobel, whose credits include the well-reviewed 2015 thriller "Z for Zachariah," then introduces the unlikable elites.
This raises the very Carrie Bradshaw-esque question: In a world that runs on likes, is it even possible to be unlikable?
"Just because I'm trying to evict you doesn't mean I have to be" unlikable, Mr. Silverbush said, using a far saltier descriptor.
Before Bridget Jones's Diary debuted, it's not like I'd never seen a romantic comedy with a stereotypically unlikable woman at its center.
First, she's deemed unlikable; then she faces increasing amounts of crude sexism that are treated as largely acceptable by the news media.
NYTFridgeScreenshot: TwitterThe blocker: Pseudonymous, pretentious, and thoroughly unlikable self-proclaimed media critic NYTFridge, which was briefly a subject of insufferable gossip in 2015.
Some of the stuff I sent them when I first starting writing there was like, 'Hey, how's this for an unlikable female narrator?
During an early screening of the series, a man in the audience labeled Sally "unlikable" for her narcissism, her portrayer Goldberg told Elle.
Of course, it also means that people who read these books sometimes abandon them 50 pages in, because Quentin's such an unlikable git.
She likes to draw out recessive characters—the unhappy, the untrustworthy, or the downright unlikable—and bring them, however uncertainly, into the light.
Amy Jellicoe was as unlikable as heroines got on TV in 2011: a high-strung, self-obsessed do-gooder who exudes weaponized optimism.
" I had such a defensive, visceral response—I said "Tell me a single thing that's unlikable about her, because I don't find any.
But that dichotomy between "serious, literary, unlikable" and "commercial, breezy, likable" characters fundamentally glosses over the best of what great literature can accomplish.
We must learn to become invested in the journeys of whole, complete people, who are, like all human beings, both likable and unlikable.
Highly successful people are careful to avoid the most unlikable behaviors, which include humblebragging, being dramatic, needing constant validation, and giving shallow compliments.
The things that are criticized or seen as unlikable in women, you know, that assertiveness … those are seen as leaderly qualities in men.
But it's a testament to the appeal of Zuckerman's algorithmic subjects that readers will find themselves saying: enough with these weird, unlikable, humans.
Once again, the show's premise revolves around the idea that everyone wants to fuck Noah, even though he's a highly unlikable, self-centered jerk.
Sierra and Jamey may get their happy ending, but it is not fully earned because the plot forces Sierra to become unlikable and helpless.
I think girls, in particular, are scared because we're always told to not be unlikable, and not to be difficult, and to be perfect.
But Eugene has become so unlikable over the course of the story that it became an irritant every single time he appeared on-screen.
Women who seek power are seen as less "likable" — and Clinton can't seem to escape the conventional wisdom that she is unlikable or untrustworthy.
My thing is, people watch Taxi Driver, and they all say they love the character of Travis Bickle, even though he's an unlikable character.
At least one top official in the Trump administration is worried about the 2018 Senate race in Texas — because Ted Cruz is so unlikable.
Nor would the Dallas-based company take down the profile right away, even though Ms. Jarensky believed the unlikable profile could cost her clients.
VICE: A lot of writers have characterized Fleabag as "unlikable," which is a trendy way to talk about female characters who do bad things.
During a recent conversation with Brad Pitt, which was filmed for Variety , Sandler conceded that Howard might sometimes be "unlikable," but Pitt stopped him.
As likable as Cruz is unlikable, he projects unrelenting positivity that tells Texans of all types politically "you're in the right place" at his rallies.
Young Adult is unusual in that its heroine is the most unlikable character on the screen, corrupting nearly everyone she meets with her selfish scheming.
All right, Nick, I think this is going to -- what if you are an annoying unlikable person and people are relieved that you&aposre dead.
He has repeatedly come under attack from Donald J. Trump and other rivals as being eminently unlikable, having antagonized even members of his own party.
She has already been faced with a story focused on whether she risked being viewed as "too unlikable," gamely parlaying it into a fundraising tool.
Selina's narcissism in this scene is really a beautiful thing to behold, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives her character the breadth to be so unlikable.
There are a parade of unlikable people; the titular character in "Dolly" strikes me as one of the most complex and unpleasant I've ever met.
"Blame Booze and Melville" (season 5, episode 21) When Rory decides to steal a yacht because she feels sad, she is at her most unlikable.
And yet what I find most amazing — it's a fairly unlikable thing that this person is doing — is just the real faith in show business.
His proscribed role for the weekend is unlikable and he can't even do that quite right ("right-wing ogre, at your service," he says, pleadingly).
In addition, the article ignores the fact that Hillary Clinton, the "unlikable" female candidate, actually won the popular vote, getting more votes than the man.
And as expected, when Elizabeth Warren began running, her obvious intellect was reported as a liability -- it could make her unrelatable, school-marmish, the dreaded unlikable.
My congratulations to Kepner for maintaining her status as most unlikable character on Grey's and still talking a high school girl into not being a jackass.
In other words, Trump would always be an unlikable president, who said uncomfortable, unpresidential things, but it would allow the Republican Party to get things done.
Liberals lost the White House because of a corrupt, untrustworthy, and unlikable candidate, and a media that would go to any length to cover for her.
The only character who falls flat is Lisa's two-faced friend Janis — an unlikable fly in Lisa's soup, depositing just enough bacteria to do intestinal damage.
Even if film and television still struggle with the concept of likable vs unlikable women to this day, people involved were at least having the conversation.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in mid-January, Hillary Clinton said she considered Bernie Sanders unaccomplished and unlikable, with few friends on Capitol Hill.
It seems fitting that this Emma is allowed to be a little nastier, at a time when unlikable, self-absorbed, privileged women are being celebrated onscreen.
But this one takes things a step further, particularly with Molly, who shifts from being a frustrating (albeit engaging) character to one who is downright unlikable.
But Dowd isn't interested in entering any of her characters—even the more forgivably flawed ones—into the never-ending discourse on "unlikable" women on television.
Voters are being asked to choose between overheated gibberish merchant Donald Trump, unlikable evangelist Ted Cruz, talking point robot Marco Rubio, and sleepy free associator Ben Carson.
It's not uncommon for dramas nowadays to be led by an unlikable protagonist—an ornery or despicable individual whose motivations are bad and whose behavior is worse.
Unlikable characters, casual sexism, and a plot completely bent to the main character's progression — far beyond the usual flex I allow in any Frodo-inspired fantasy novel.
In Warren's case especially, the answer felt like a response to criticisms that she is "angry" or "unlikable" — criticisms male candidates haven't faced in the same way.
Band-Aid Nose Man is sinister and apparently very smelly, but he's not exactly scary, and his targets, while maybe not deserving of death, are selfish and unlikable.
And fault-ridden Meg Murry — spiky, unlikable Meg Murry, who feels like a monster in her glasses and braces — is what makes the whole thing work so well.
Unlike other office shows that include a range of tenderness and sympathy for its characters (The Office, 30 Rock, Enlightened), Corporate serves up characters that are hyperbolically unlikable.
When the team is bad, it's a lot more fun to direct some righteous indignation toward the unlikable nerds in charge than bunkering down for a long rebuild.
And in large part, that's thanks to its heroine: prickly, sarcastic, unlikable Jane, who is furious with the world and furious with herself and who nevertheless demands respect.
Fiction helps us cultivate our ability to love the unlikable, to care about those whose circumstances and characters and choices have put them outside the boundaries of care.
And as people have pointed out, a lot of people who are currently saying Elizabeth Warren is unlikable, said that she was the likable alternative to Hillary Clinton.
Otherwise, there's little appeal to this romantic comedy's protagonist, a man so unlikable the movie opens with an M.P.A.A.-style warning for the character's sexism, homophobia and machismo.
From mob dads to terrorist heartthrobs This success should not surprise us; characters who are unlikable but emotionally relatable have long been the heart and soul of popular culture.
And by the way, not with the very unlikable Hillary Clinton with no vision and how many reports do we need to now show that no votes were impacted?
It's all very awkward, and the sole adults — Burt (David Anders) and Vicky (Kandyse McClure) — are so unlikable that you're really just waiting for the kids to sacrifice them.
Though likability can play a role in workplace success -- typically, though certainly not always, with female bosses -- studies show that the unlikable often find great success in their fields.
But given the uniqueness of this presidential election -- coupled with a bureaucratic, unlikable opponent -- Trump very well may shock the political experts like he did in the Republican Primary.
But more importantly, studies have shown women who succeed in male-dominated fields, like politics, are seen as unlikable — and that's exactly what Clinton is up against in Iowa.
Over all, according to Oliver, Pence is much more unlikable than his pet rabbit, "Marlon Bundo," which it kills Oliver to note is an objectively good name for a bunny.
Eugene clearly sussed out that this person was Dwight — and what happened next might end up being the beginning of the show's attempt to redeem this messy, infinitely unlikable character.
The demonic, terrifyingly uncanny children of "The Exorcist" (1973) and "The Omen" (20193) exploit maternal fears of finding a child alien and unlikable, and test the concept of unconditional love.
It's a show that makes viewers care about its screwed-up, unlikable leads, and it depicts teenage misanthropy and being on the cusp of adulthood in a thought-provoking way.
I think that a woman not giving a shit about what people think in a certain moment—being undercutting or self-aware—weirdly means that she's a profoundly unlikable person.
Clinton unlikable — and what does it mean that the charged question of likability has become a fixture of the discussion about the first female presidential nominee from a major party?
When she first materialized on screen 20 years ago this week, audiences had never been faced with a female lead who was so unlikable, so frustrating, and ultimately, so watchable.
But what's astonishing about Jane is that despite her profound, ingrained belief that she is fundamentally unlikable, she holds just as fast to the idea that she deserves to be respected.
The notion that Cruz is unlikable stems from the fact that he is virtually friendless in the Senate, and that he inspires deep-seated annoyance in Republican bigwigs like Bob Dole.
The same day that Elizabeth Warren announced she's exploring a run for president, a debate emerged over whether she's vulnerable to the same criticisms Clinton faced — that she's cold and unlikable.
But in the Senate, he became infamously unlikable, known for being smarmy and condescending; he wasted time with dead-end legislative proposals and, true to his debater roots, loved to grandstand.
Other critics have talked about how unlikable the characters are, or how confused the series feels when it comes to balancing its many elements and tones (which I'll get to below).
Additionally, the boy's mother, Janet Arvizo, testified against Jackson, alleging the singer had held her family captive at Neverland Ranch, although the jury found her unlikable and combative, the outlet reported.
It's harder for women to traffic in anger without being punished, because we're conditioned to avoid being publicly angry, and we're told from birth that anger makes us unlikable and unserious.
Recently we've heard much about the price Hillary Clinton paid for being labeled cold, ambitious and unlikable, and the criticisms leveled at powerful women that can become fatal to their careers.
As is often the case at Sundance, the presence of multidimensional, difficult, sometimes flat-out unlikable women remains very welcome, especially given the larger mainstream picture (where male characters outnumber female).
" Strong's verdict is similar: "I hear from a lot of people how unlikeable these characters are, and I find that so interesting, as if a character is either likable or unlikable.
Because Tom ends up being an ultimately unlikable character, it's up to Lucy to take on a victim-to-hero role as Tom crumbles under the responsibility that comes with his powers.
His relative silence on the matter is a bitter reminder that a man can be unlikable but cloak himself in genius while a woman's fame is often unforgivably pinned to her personality.
Season 3, episode 3 "Little Bo Bleep" After a newspaper describes Claire as "angry and unlikable," Phil and the kids stage a mock debate to prepare her for her city council run.
In terms of literature, the British writer Martin Amis and the French writer Michel Houellebecq have been buttressing my love for unlikable narrators, dark humor, accessible literary fiction, and satire for years.
Antoinette Conway, the wonderfully prickly and hardboiled cop who narrates The Trespasser, has the power of the state behind her, but that power makes her unlikable to many of her male colleagues.
His campaign, his surrogates, his supporters, and the candidate himself leaned into characterizations of Clinton as unlikable, corrupt, untrustworthy, establishment (though Sanders did admonish some of the rankest sexism from his supporters).
As unlikable as he seems on paper, Stark was beloved by fans (2013's Iron Man 43, Stark's final solo movie, is one of Marvel's top box office performers of all time).
"This TV show allows me to take my dreams about unlikable jewish folk, queer folk, trans folk, and make them the heroes," Soloway, 50, said while accepting her trophy for the Amazon series.
TWD has made the audience painfully aware that the Saviors have to be fought, so why does it keep wasting our time on a pitifully unlikable character's journey toward that same, tired conclusion?
She's as likable as unlikable protagonists get, a prickly loner who never met a person she couldn't quell with a scathingly hilarious insult, but whose judgmental nature is clearly hiding a wounded core.
Like Cohen's collection, Flattery's "Show Them a Good Time" is populated with unlikable women, or at least ones with gaping, gnawing flaws, ones who live and observe their lives in off-kilter ways.
"My Dead Boyfriend" desperately tries to look and sound like a quirky indie hit, but that's not an achievable goal when you have an unlikable lead character indifferently rendered by a name star.
For while we have seen many comics skewer themselves in ways that slyly let themselves off the hook, Mr. Michael goes further than most to make himself unlikable and his arguments ring hollow.
A marked departure from Carrey's wacky and cringy-but- lovable characters from the 103 films, The Cable Guy was perhaps the first time an audience witnessed Carrey in an unlikable and malevolent role.
Segments won't write themselves like they do in an era of Trump or Clinton, two of the most untrustworthy, unlikable and therefore target-rich candidates to run for the highest office in the land.
When female stars take on physically transformative roles that are also aggressively unlikable, it's sometimes called brave (Charlize Theron in "Monster"); when male stars do the same, it's called acting (Christian Bale in "Vice").
There was his evisceration at the hands of Elizabeth Warren, a few good jokes about how short and unlikable he is, a renewed sense of interest in his racist and misogynist past and present.
Plus, my least favorite character on this show full of unlikable characters gets violently beaten to death, and I won't lie, in that moment, I bumped the show's rating up a full half a point.
Lowrey in particular is hotheaded in a way that would be troubling if he were played by anyone other than Will Smith: bloodthirsty, reckless, and self-interested to the point where he's almost entirely unlikable.
I turn back to the rails and find that if anything, my delusion has been strengthened by this exchange, which has made me feel ugly and unlikable and in more need than ever of transformation.
I think there are a lot of shows like this—I don't want to single anyone out, but Californication, for example—where you have this kind of unlikable, asshole character, but he's also, like, really cool.
Unlikable, irredeemable female narrators have long been underrepresented in mainstream fiction, yet Moshfegh and Broder do fall into a lineage of women authors like Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus who have written about difficult, transgressive women.
The song is inspired by a night on edibles that turned her into a motormouth and the fine folks who loved her even when she was her most Tahani on The Good Place (read: unlikable!) self.
Tim is obviously the bad guy, but it's hard to argue that Gregg is the good guy, because every time you want to get behind him he also does something that makes him kind of unlikable.
The transition team has scoffed at assertions from the Clinton campaign that Comey was responsible for her loss, arguing that Democrats are sore losers who are unwilling to admit that they rallied behind an unlikable candidate.
If the supposedly unlikable Hillary Clinton didn't break the highest, hardest glass ceiling in 2016, she made enough cracks in it to encourage others to try again: Six women are competing for the Democratic nomination today.
In this case, we have Morgan, an unlikable and somewhat unhinged character who thinks pacifism is a viable strategy in the post-apocalypse, earning redemption because his actions inadvertently convince Ezekiel that it's time to fight back.
With both main candidates struggling with record high unfavorable ratings, nothing can come too late to affect millions of voters who could finally find one candidate or the other simply too unlikable to bother to vote for.
But what he brought from his first main television appearance as an L.P. standard-bearer was the distinct impression, requiring constant walkback, that he was actively fond of his unlikable opponent, and in this race for himself.
He had to win without being too cocky and coming across as unlikable, or being too aggressive and coming across as a bad guy, or being ashamed of his goals and coming across as a tepid hero.
Whether he's playing an unlikable protagonist or intentionally leaning on sloppy filming and editing techniques, Heidecker's cultivated an audience who give themselves to the subtle, immature, and often thought-provoking humor he and his collaborators have created.
Yet the series quickly takes on a life of its own, with an assortment of eccentric, almost uniformly unlikable characters, recalling that on TV, anyway, great wealth tends to breed a lot of high-class, outlandish problems.
It isn't that Mortensen is unlikable as Tony (I mean, he is, but that shouldn't affect an acting award); it's that he's so much at all times, and it dampens some of the film's more powerful moments.
Rooney's book tells the story of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), two high school students who share an illicit romance from across a social divide — Connell a popular athlete while Marianne's an unlikable outcast.
There's Helen, Max's elusive love interest; Nina the brainy publisher and her stay-at-home husband, Lars; Rosie, a jewelry designer, and her unlikable husband, Hugo; and Max's friend Eddie brings a young, bikini-clad girlfriend, Beth.
It showed the series to be bold enough to have its characters be unlikable, to show their feminism as contradictory and to highlight a very real problem within the black community that pop culture rarely reckons with.
When he spoke, she sat listening, almost never interrupting him, even when he lied; a painful sacrifice Clinton has decided she must make in order not to be seen as "pushy," or "unlikable," or some other "unfeminine" trait.
Barlog: There's always that possibility, but I think what's interesting [as a storyteller] is to be able to take a character all the way to the brink, to take a character to the point where they're wholly unlikable.
I don't know, man... Iggy is, as has been proven, a terrible rapper, and it's true that she's given a few obnoxious, unlikable interviews that have made it easier to pile on her for her lack of musical prowess.
Hillary Clinton is the sad blonde antagonist on a WB soap opera, and that is part of why people find her unlikable and scary: because that's the type of story we've been trained to tell about women like her.
A University of Massachusetts study found that managers were willing to accept an auditor's argument with no supporting evidence if he or she was likable, and Jack Zenger found that just one in 2000 unlikable leaders are considered effective.
Biden's strategy capitalizes on Clinton's successful effort to brand Sanders as more unlikable than Biden among women, who favored the former vice president by 12 percentage points during his 10-state romp Super Tuesday, according to exit poll averages.
Targeted online harassment against women had been occurring for years, across numerous communities, from men who spent years harassing one woman who complained of getting hit on at a professional conference to harassment of actors for playing unlikable women.
Here's what we're left with: a dystopia that has no political statement to make; a flat world built around a single, flimsy plot device that can't support it; and a character study of a dull and unlikable one-note character.
Just two months earlier, the same magazine asked whether Warren is "unlikable" — a framing that off the bat ignored that voters could potentially connect with the life story and policy proposals of the two-time senator and former Harvard professor.
The lesson is that women who act aggressively on their own behalf should beware the social backlash, which could come in the form of being seen as unlikable or less capable, as research has suggested to be the case, Amanatullah said.
So not only are Warren allies pushing back on the idea that she is "unlikable" à la Clinton in a recent Politico article, Warren herself is out there on social media showing how likable she is—she even drinks beer!
Warren brushed off Trump's comments when asked about them by reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill but responded to a Politico story, which explored soon after her announcement the notion that she might be unlikable, with a cheeky tweet and fundraising email.
Russell does some of her best acting yet in this episode, and she has quite the task: This is our sympathetic heroine doing something unsympathetic and unlikable, kissing her best friend's barely-ex-boyfriend while her own almost-boyfriend is oblivious.
But his bland inscription opens a door that will lead him to the borderland of love, death, time and a devastating kind of transcendence, leaving Kadare's unlikable hero, Rudian Stefa, half-mad, mumbling broken phrases of Latin and archaic Albanian.
But whether agonizing over the Bible or flirting with Buddhism (in the form of a cute young Buddhist named Nico), Michael comes across as a thoroughly unlikable hypocrite, spouting hateful religious rhetoric one minute and ogling young men the next.
They're populated by jilted lovers and spurned mothers; moody armed teenagers; desperate working stiffs; irritable babies; even a woman who is "becoming a thoroughly unlikable person" — in short, people on the brink of emotional, physical, psychological and/or financial ruin.
Velvet Buzzsaw is about greed, narcissism, and posturing in the world of contemporary art, filtered through the eyes of resolutely unlikable people, and while it doesn't really add up to much, it's darkly enjoyable as long as you're into all that.
"I actually heard so often that people didn't like her and she was unlikable that I started to think, 'I don't know if I really like her so much,'" Heather Pasqualino Weirich, a Democrat from Phoenixville, Pa., said of Mrs.
In episode 5, The Young Pope is once again a study in the dual nature of the title character — in fact, this episode shows the pope as both the most likable and most unlikable as we've seen in the series thus far.
It's an honestly messy possibility, a submerging of toes into a deep, unlikable side of the character — one that Mr. St. Germain doesn't explore, leaving Ms. Wise to rely on her own, very good instincts, and her tuned-in connection to Mr. Schmidt.
Several of season one's storylines come directly from his experience, with Jericho borrowing from Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Fawlty Towers to turn this version of him into an unlikable asshole lacking entirely in self-awareness and heavy on Lead Singer's Disease.
It's one of the bitterest ironies in television that it was at Fox News, network of blond bombshells and chronic sexual harassment, that Ms. Kelly was given the breathing room to become that most unusual of unicorns: an unlikable woman on television.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' Tensions between McConnell and Schumer run high as trial gains momentum Sanders wants one-on-one fight with Biden MORE (I-Vt.), with the president saying he believes she's unlikable.
In the hands of anyone else that character would be extremely unlikable and grating because she's the quintessential unwanted guest, but he is so adept at getting into and playing these characters even if they're totally unlikeable that by the end you're rooting for them.
"The internet mob determines the severity of a crime based on subjective factors, such as how unlikable they find the alleged criminal to be, how likable they find the victim, and the degree to which the alleged crime fits into their preconceived beliefs," Fisher wrote.
This high-concept cult show, in which Andy Daly plays a critic who reviews extreme aspects of ordinary life (making a sex tape, road rage) for television, has many of the hallmarks of the genre: an unlikable protagonist, a documentary conceit and unbearably pregnant pauses.
Look no further than the fact that it is seen as a positive for Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE that he is irascible and unlikable.
Women in positions of power are often forced to carefully calibrate their behavior to avoid being perceived as too authoritative and therefore "unlikable," Joan C. Williams, a law professor and expert on gender in the workplace, wrote at the New York Times last year.
In terms of the performances, it's a somewhat easier lift for Rockwell, a master of playing unlikable characters with roguish qualities, than Williams, who wrestles with Verdon's distinctive voice -- an element that serves as a bit of a distraction before settling into a deeper portrait.
It is all the things about Meg that are most unlikable, that our culture teaches girls to reject — her anger, her prickliness, her inability to perform social pleasantness — that make her a formidable opponent to IT, ultimately able to defeat IT where her beloved father failed.
The show never absolves him of blame for his actions—he's an unlikable lead who keeps failing to get better or to fix the problems he causes—but in the sixth episode of its new season, the show tries something new: letting us inside of BoJack's head.
COLLINS-HUGHES Martyna Majok's "Ironbound" is another one — although she told me that when she was developing it, before she was sure whether the central character, Darja, would have a child, audiences found Darja unlikable when she was aggressively trying to survive just for her own benefit.
So the thoroughly unlikable Texan, who has proved he will do or say nearly anything to win, has been raising weak ballot challenges aimed at disqualifying Mr. Kasich from various state contests, and fanning rumors that Mr. Kasich is angling to be a Trump vice president.
Sometimes the characters do something that's homophobic, but when that happens, I try to put things into perspective by acknowledging that I'm a person who's spent the past ten hours binge rewatching a sitcom about unlikable straight people that's been off the air for over a decade.
If you ask their critics: Kamala Harris was lucky enough to have a powerful boyfriend who helped her climb the ladder, Elizabeth Warren is as unlikable as Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand is responsible for the resignation of her former colleague over his own sexual misconduct allegations.
Where someone may be looked at as 'unlikable' by a certain male person of a certain age, there are probably many more millennials and Gen-Zers who believe it's okay to be flawed, it's okay to make mistakes, it's okay to see someone angry and hurt and freak out.
Personally I can't wait to see Corrine go, not because I don't like her but because I would rather we focused our time and meme-making energies on how deeply unlikable the Bachelor himself is, and how unbelievable it is that any of these women are actually into him.
I mean, look at how he handles this poor dude on a ledge: "I think what's interesting is to be able to take a character all the way to the brink, to take a character to the point where they're wholly unlikable," said Barlog to me at E3.
Throughout the film, Walker's character is so unlikable that I had to go back and re-read historical accounts of her life, which were filled with acts of kindness and philanthropic donations that showed a compassion for the black community and dedication to much more than becoming a millionaire.
I am an anxious person, basically well-intentioned and also constantly low-key terrified I'm actually a terrible person, and hours later, I'm still thinking about whether that desperate, screaming hitchhiker would have been OK after I chose to drive past her to protect my (deeply unlikable) fictional friends. 
" Speaking of sexism, titles and institutions of power, Meghan Markle may not aspire to be Madam President, but Kate Maltby urged us, in light of recent appalling attempted takedowns of the Duchess of Sussex as various kinds of (you guessed it) unlikable, to consider: "The problem isn't Meghan Markle.
At times, it can seem as if she had been deployed to test our claims that we adore disobedience, and that we prefer complicated, "unlikable" protagonists to predictable ones—or that we're sincerely invested in the global concerns and musical styles that she doggedly puts in front of us.
Not all of it is solidly believable — Tony Stark is so relentlessly unlikable in this film, and there's a battle sequence where Scarlet Witch could have wiped out an entire team — but there's a lot of fun to be had watching Earth's Mightiest Heroes go head to head.
I would like to, hopefully, be a force of change in that [and] show people that sometimes you have to be scary, and you have to be intimidating, and you have to be bold, and you have to be unlikable in order to protect yourself and to protect other people.
"* Russell credits Emmerich's direction with helping her understand a crucial point about playing Elizabeth, whose hard-line stances sometimes make it difficult for the actress to connect to her character: "[Elizabeth] can be tough or unlikable ... which is why I love my character; it's so much more interesting to play.
Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Former HUD secretary criticizes Bloomberg on housing policy Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism MORE (D-Mass.) would do better among Democrats, but her campaign is sputtering, mostly because she is so unlikable.
At one point, one of Carol's fellow Kree soldiers admits that she actually doesn't like Carol — but because we only get to know Carol through other people's assessments of her, it's hard to know if Carol actually has any traits — beyond the occasional snarky one-liner — that one would consider likable or unlikable.
Yet at the same time, the fawning press brings to mind a recent essay about the way art featuring complex, even supposedly unlikable straight white women artists and characters — like Lena Dunham's Girls or Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag — gets praised and universalized as representing larger truths about an entire generation in a way that is ultimately reductive.
"Historically, women have been taught they can't express anger; we've been taught to internalize anger, pain, shame, because anger in a women has equated to crazy, has equated to being unlikable and undesirable," said Erin Khar, whose sobriety memoir involving heroin, "Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me," will be published next year.
" He was so good in the role — or so thoroughly unlikable as an unfaithful husband whom Mr. Osborne had called "a disconcerting mixture of sincerity and cheerful malice" — that, as Mr. Haigh told The New Yorker in 1958, "some nights I was hissed, and other nights people would clap when my wife left me in the second act.
Her insights into her characters are often startling — both for their precision and for her willingness to pursue them, even at the risk of highlighting unsympathetic, sometimes unlikable traits: a husband's ranking of financial security above love; a wife's decision to deal with her brother's weight loss rather than her own troubled marriage; a mother's ambivalence about motherhood itself.
The president called Warren "a good debater," saying that she "destroyed" former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg campaign says it spent over 85033 million on anti-Trump ads, releases clips to public Biden rolls out over a dozen congressional endorsements after latest primary wins Biden takes command of Democratic race MORE on the debate stage, but also unlikable.
But instead, it was more akin to the 22020 election, which only featured historically unlikable candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonCNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting Trump says he'll debate eventual Democratic nominee Bull meets china shop: Roger Stone controversy follows a familiar pattern MORE and independent socialist Bernie SandersBernie SandersBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Limbaugh on Buttigieg: 'America's still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage' CNN announces Democratic town halls in Nevada MORE.

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