I read an article once about how it was based out of a fear of women holding the power of life-and-death over potentially-male fetuses. So, essentially, they’re over-relating to the fetuses, imagining that women are going to deny them life. So that reading of the situation is pretty close to what you’re…

Agree about the Crate & Barrel recommendations. So useful. I might end up buying from them just because of them.

A few years back, they held “A Day Without a Mexican.” A lot of businesses had to close for the day—and a lot of wage workers stood their ground and participated in the strike. Are you proposing that most of those people had nothing to lose? That they were operating from a place of privilege? Because very few of…

I cry every single time at the Prom epidsode. Class protector award? Sob.

I rewatch Buffy pretty much once a year, from start to finish—except for the Body. It’s an amazing episode—it’s just too painful.

I rewatch Buffy pretty much once a year, from start to finish—except for the Body. It’s an amazing episode—it’s just too painful. And it’s painful, because like you said, it’s so, so realistic. Everything about that episode. The use of silence. The camera angles. It’s so elegantly done. It should’ve won an Emmy.

You’re acting like a child. Are you telling me that you’re gonna be better off under a Trump presidency? That any of us are? There was a choice between a status quo/moderately liberal candidate and a racist sociopath. By not making an adult choice, people allowed the stomach-churning element of the middle/upper…

You’re petulant for not choosing what is best for THE COUNTRY. This isn’t about you. Get over yourself. The only plausible, non-evil/baffoon candidate didn’t align exactly with your issues, so you said fuck it. Well, this is what happens. Soak it in. I hope your personal integrity provides you with comprehensive…

You are complicit. Don’t you see that? Because of the margin of voters who went for Johnson and Stein, Pennsylvania and Florida alone were lost and would’ve swung the election. Because of the election went to Trump, gay people are very, very likely to lose all the rights that they just got (that would not have…

I still say you’re petulant. You might not love her foreign policy—and that may be a fair point—but you weren’t given apples and apples to choose from. You were given an apple with a coherent (maybe flawed, but certainly not world-ending) policy and lots of policy experience and the respect of most of the world...…

Dude, when I said “uppity broad”—I was doing my impression of the Republicans in the 90s—I wasn’t putting words in your mouth.

Part of the problem with your scenario is that Clinton’s supposed controversies have pretty much all been inventions of the right, who have hated her since 1992. Whitewater? cleared. Benghazi? Nothing wrong. E-mails? cleared. E-mails AGAIN? cleared. She doesn’t actually have a controversial past at all. That’s the…

Thank you. I think a lot of the responses to this are missing the mark a bit. The guy isn’t wrong, exactly. We feminists have been observing and mocking the sexualized costume market for years now—and it sounds like Erickson’s got the same basic complaint. The problem is how he’s issuing that complaint: accusing…

Yep. My own personal theory on Buffy and Spike’s messed up dynamic is that it’s a metaphorical exploration of rape culture (how they start out with a “no means yes” situation—and it eventually progresses into actual violence)—but, hey, I’m a lit major, so I tend to read into things a bit!

Wow. This is so wrong. No. Spike says it outright in “Beneath You”—ep. 2 of Season 7: He went through the trials in order to get a soul in order to “be a better man” for Buffy. When he says at the end of Season 6 “Bitch is gonna get what she deserves”—it’s an intentional mislead by the writers. They’re setting up a…

Me too. My knee-jerk Buffy-protection reaction can be a little confusing for people who are a little more casual about the show than I am.

Yep. You’re exactly right. They resolution comes in “Beneath You”—which is the second episode of season 7.  

It was definitely not a retcon. It was a season-ending cliffhanger, and they provided the resolution the next season. The entire next season was built around the fact that Spike was seeking redemption. That would be a foolish thing to retcon—the basis for the ending of your entire series. Multiple writers, Joss…

No. You’re wrong. You need to rewatch it. Spike went through the trials to get a soul—it wasn’t a punishment—he sought it on purpose. This is stated outright in Angel Season 5 (and is strongly implied if not outright stated in Buffy Season 7).

Bullshit. Obama has been doing airstrikes this whole time. He hasn’t committed ground troops. Your entire argument is fallacious—nihlistic, really. Because some people have lied (or because some campaign promises went unfulfilled), then therefore, nothing anyone ever says can be trusted?