I thought it would be obvious I was talking about my own experience and not all men. From the wording "I love it when..." Unless you think I've met and interacted with all men on earth, or decide I meant every single men I've talked to ever. None of those is true, for the record.

Maybe because you are living in a shitty, clichéd, unimaginative TV sitcom?

yeah, but Jamie she can't get away with wearing manly work boots with frilly girl dresses or vice versa.

Unfortunately, it depends on your audience. Some of the stricter fashion rules are getting relaxed as time goes by and society changes, but there are still plenty of folks who will look down their noses at you for wearing the "wrong" thing in certain situations. It's particularly problematic at events like dinner…

I've said this for a long time. Facts are just facts. It's the interpretation of facts where things get haywire. I have a friend who is a walking, talking database of facts. The guy reads constantly. But his extreme political views twist his interpretation of the facts into something...evil. If A and B are…

Animating women and girls is so hard.

Boys can feel but they're allowed to be ugly sometimes.

The point is that this isn't something innate and natural for men and women. It's entirely socially constructed. Men *might* generally truly feel that way, but it's because society tells them they should feel that in millions of conscious and subconscious ways. That's the entire point most feminists are making when…

The correct answer is ovaries, as in "That took a lot of ovaries". At least that's what a long ago ex and I decided during a particularly drunk version of this conversation.

I'm sorry, how does the fact that Neville was nearly the chosen one change what Harry does? Voldemort went after Harry because he thought he was the chosen one and so he became the chosen one, it's a philosophical tautology, nothing is changed. To say that he might not have done is to say that you or I might have been…

I feel like this parallels to Social Justice issues. You have people who hate group X and you have allies to group X. People who hate group X are likely to do/say bad things to members of Group X of course but allies to Group X tend to also say or do something stupid not because of intent but generally because of…

I think Walt's attempt to buy Hank's life is an illustration of the fact that he can't own up to the consequences of his own behavior. He's not strong enough to do that. I think like everything else in Walt's life his commitment to family is bullshit. Walt is somebody who has been walking around with a murderous rage…

No, no, no. Psychopaths are really like lions or bears. They don't really understand the consequences of what they're doing because they're incapable of empathy. Walter White is more monstrous than Jeoffrey precisely because he's capable of love and then eating his own. SPOILER: When Walter turned on Jesse completely…

I think Walt is worse than Tywin, Walt is a liar and self delusional to the point he still thinks he is a decent guy at the core fighting against a world who is his enemy. Tywin seems to acknowledge and own his cold ruthlessness very unapologetically. I respect Tywin if even if I thought he was a POS of a human…

I'd argue that that's what makes Walt worse - he does have redeeming qualities, so he should know better. Joffrey doesn't even know the difference between right and murdering hookers (maybe we should use him as an example of a kid who wasn't messed up by GTA 5?).

Well, that's just the point. Westeros is a psychopathic place, so you have to be pretty monstrous to stand out.

I was in 8th grade and doing a poor job of applying foundation to a hickey on my neck when a tough girl who always terrified me (she wasnt a bully, just scary) walked and handed me a temporary tattoo from a stack she kept in her purse for just these situations. It felt oddly...wonderful and motherly

This should have been Khan. As we know, one of the aspects of his character was his magnetism and sexuality, hence the ship's historian being so enamored of him, in the original story. This just felt out of place.

Late '60s objectification is not exactly the level of our current aspirations.

Is this too recent?