The moment of alternative truth

"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise," said the dysfunctional heroine of Margaret Atwood in "Cat's Eye," capturing my sentiments in the last one week of strong statements. In this post/alternative/non-truth world where opinions shape facts rather than the other way around, here are my politically incorrect alternative facts against Oscars, women's power, "no" campaigns, international relations and Istanbul dreams:

1. Didn't you just hate "La La Land?" It may actually be the only musical I have not liked since the age of 10, and my tastes are hardly high-brow. How the film, which is some form of musical nostalgia for people who never watched enough musicals to be nostalgic, was nominated for 14 Oscars is beyond my imagination.

2. "Jackie" sucks, too. The only good bit was the last 15 minutes, when Jackie Kennedy pushed her own headline (and the legacy) to the anonymous/hapless journalist by comparing the JFK time to "one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot." Again, I fail to understand why most critics are singing the praises of the film by Chilean director Pablo Lorrain, unless it is also some sort of nostalgia for Arthurian optimism.

3. Are you also fed up with the powder-pink, rose-scented slogans around the theme "if only women ruled the world" by people who post and repost the Women's March against Donald Trump? By all means, let us fight against injustice, gender discrimination and whatnot and do it with creativity and intelligence, but a Gezi-style public movement initiated by women at home and abroad seems like pure utopia to me… or literary affectation by those who read "Lysistrata" in high school. I might have been more positive on the whole thing had I not seen the women's brawl in our...