My theory is that dunking on Bloomberg accomplishes several things for EW:

Once again, the foxes protecting the hen house. Doctors should have lost their licenses for years, if not forever. They ruined a persons life, why should they get away with just a slap on the wrist? ‘Accidents’ such as this should not be swept under the table. Serious consequences should be forced upon these shameful,…

I’m reading it as a lack of a noun (proper or pro-) in the original text and was inserted for clarity. But they should be square brackets. 

Yes. He sucks in SO many ways but he’s:

Well, no; this is actually what he believes; we’ve seen example after example of this from him. This isn’t strategy.

“Real girls” is a truly shitty thing to say.

Trans girls are real girls.

Well said. I agree that it comes down to the facts and the facts are that males excel at various athletics bc of their biological composition being different in areas. It just - IS. Hence the separation of male/female athletics. I do understand their frustration as they are competing with a naturally born male who was…

What makes this such an insane take on a site that claims to be about women’s issues. Instead of doing a legitimate examination of the situation, no matter what side it lands on, the article instead goes full-on ‘Women be whiners’ attitude about a very legitimate complaint.

I don’t think comparing a short basketball player to a tall one is the same as comparing sprinters.

Your whole stance of “trans women are bigger, stronger and faster, so just deal” seems very dismissive.

I 100% believe these girls who were born as boys identify as female and are trans.

Polanski is yet another rapist that has escaped justice and continues to assault and rape. Don’t give him awards, don’t see his movies. Treat him like a pariah. And thanks Spike Lee for doing the same thing by honoring the Rapist Kobe Bryant at the oscars. Stop honoring rapists. They are pieces of shit that should be…

I wish this website would post the picture, not the twitter link. Some of us are reading on work computers and don’t have access to view the links, EVERY article is done this way. Please, just put the image in the article, I’m not even asking to get rid of the tweet!

This is such an interesting discussion, multilayered. At the highest level, I think that POC have been literally whitewashed from the arts and literature, not just because voices were silenced and work was undervalued, but because even WHEN characters “should” be POC they end up white- think JESUS!!!! So, reframing…

Agreed. Racial coding can be really subtle and requires a human with specific knowledge and training to recognize it in literature. Most white people can’t identify white-coding, which goes to the issue other commenters have raised that white is considered the “default” in American media. I think the idea of…

Not surprising his life reads very much like an adventure novel. 

Check this out! https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307382467

Some of them work and lead to interesting interpretations—I kind of like the idea of making Frankenstein’s monster black, as it highlights the themes the story is already telling.

It probably goes without saying, but AI is not a particularly good mechanism for identifying the race of characters.