Chuck Tingle’s thing is pure performance art tongue in cheek shtick. The Hugo nomination was actually because the right-wing assholes who hate that sci-fi is getting more diverse and less “white people conquering backwards races” decided to band together and nominate him in order to make fun of the awards. He…

Co-opting? Marginalizing? Hate crime?

Yeah, and just think if Sophia were a dude, she’d be on her millionth Transformers movie by now!

A lot of orchestras hold “blind auditions”: hopefuls play behind a screen, with the process arranged so that no hint of their gender presentation or race reaches the panel. These orchestras suddenly found themselves hiring people other than white men - even though they’d honestly believed they hired on merit alone.

It’s interesting how she framed these remarks in terms of the impact of watching 20 films in a short period of time. I was on the jury for a film festival a few years back (a small, local festival, basically the opposite of Cannes), and the process made me realize how much violence against women is a default narrative…

Let’s get the killer’s friends to patrol the city with guns. Great idea!

I feel like this whole thing would have been cooler if Macron hadn’t said anything, if he just acted like “what? big deal we just shook hands whatevs”

Harder than you think. I’m actively spray painting a bald eagle silver as I type this and I JUST CAN’T STOP DOING IT!

I think people who tell where our nuclear submarines are should be hung but sure it’s the leakers causing the real danger.

That’s why I avoid talking to anyone that voted republican. It really saves your sanity.

Are you me? Swingtime is fab, by the way.

He is literally everything the GOP claims to hate.

And you’d know all about pussies wouldn’t you Ms Slocombe.

This is it. We are officially living in a full-blown Idiocracy. I give it 2 years until we start trying to water our crops with Gatorade.

Quite. That’s JUST what the people of the UK need right now: the primary school playground utterances of a lint-covered abandoned roadside hamhock 🙄

Just so we can get it out of the way and move on to other commentary:
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If any animal wants to follow this elephant’s example with Ted Nugent, I would totally be in support if it.

Yes, excuse me for not feeling bad knowing he went home and cried on his pile of money.

Can you imagine shelling out all that money and working that hard just for PENCE to be the speaker? Huge slap in the face.

The Sure, s/he’s a horrific person, but they’re so nice to me! is a social psychological phenomenon I’ve had to fight against before. I wonder if there’s a (non-German) name and clinical understanding of it.