But isn’t that the point? The children themselves are part of the work of art—their carefee lives are made possible by the blood spilled. Or, at least that they are carefree and oblivious to the blood spilled.

Well, you don’t seem to give a shit about art at all—which is the problem. People like you are spouting off at the mouth without understanding anything about art history or theory—and not realizing that overreaching like this has serious ramifications. But whatever. Keep calling people losers and saying you don’t…

The story is not about American Indians—it’s about America. There’s an important distinction there. And the interesting thing about stories is that they can be told from many different perspectives. There are two main parties in this story—those who were hanged and those who performed the hanging. The story being told…

I completely agree. And as I responded to someone else, it is irrelevant if the artist is OK with removing the installation. Once an artist creates a work, their opinion should no longer matter. There are tons of examples of artists who “regretted” some of the greatest works in history.

They’ll be denied federal and state money that helps support them. No one’s going to descend on the city. They’re going to blockade it—and starve the sanctuary cities into submission.

So what? Once art is created, it no longer belongs to the artist, so the artist’s feelings don’t matter. There are scores of great works that the artist reversed positions on—The Birth of Venus, for instance—one of the greatest and most famous pieces of western art. Botticelli (because of a Savonarola, a…

No. I agree with you. This is art. It’s supposed to stir and hurt. This is an exploration of the blood spilled in the name of the US government and law—and that’s a legitimate expression that has to do with American identity, not American Indian identity. The art museum shouldn’t have capitulated, imo. This…

Yeah, I don’t understand where they got that—if you look at the table, it says 85%, which seems more realistic.

Golden Girls was a genuinely well-written show. To compare it to Alf is insane. It bucked ideas about women and sex, about ageism, about dependence on men in ways that have never been attempted again (plus it featured shows about interracial relationships and LGBT concerns long before other shows dared to).

Jesus. I don’t think that’s what the comment is saying at all. It was an honest query—Yes. Conway is full of shit. We’re all on board for that. Yes. We love Anderson Cooper. He’s the best. And, yes. We all agree that the eyeroll was fully justified.

His bizarre obsession with the plastic bag ban is truly insane.

Seriously. One of Abbot’s first legislation attempts after becoming governor—this is not a joke—was to try to pass a law that cities couldn’t ban use of plastic bags at retailers. Austin (where Abbot lives) has had a ban in place for years—and apparently Abbot always forgets to bring his canvas bags to the grocery…

You know, I just responded and said that the article didn’t necessarily call for an apology—but your comment is a genuinely good criticism. Instead of just grabbing a clatch of hacker buds, they could’ve found another way to frame the entire article—because it’s not clear from the article what makes the guys profiled…

The problem with your argument is that it’s not just an article about “up and coming tech whizzes.” It’s an article about a particular group of tech savvy whizzes at Northeastern University. Just because that group—which if you read the article you learn that it formed by itself (potentially it has all men because…

I did this too. Otherwise I would go literally weeks without touching my phone, and people in my life kept complaining. This helped me get a handle on it big time.

I actually disagree. I went to a therapist once who told me anxiety was normal, and I felt so un-heard and minimized that I never went back and didn’t get treatment for my anxiety for another 4 years or so.

Yep. Totally agree. Also, whether we loathe those men as individuals or not, there is enduring artistic value in those separate things that they created. There just is. It’s difficult to accept, but it’s true. Bill Cosby is a serial rapist. He also created Fat Albert and the Cosby Show, which literally changed the…

Word. My company did several rounds of layoffs last year—we must’ve gotten more than 10 emails like this.

Regarding the whiteness of Buffy—

Nope—W. was truly Pro-Life. He was Evangelical—and very sincere about it. His wife, otoh, was Pro-Choice (as was his father, mother, and daughters).