I know Hoover was a seal and not a Sea Lion, but if by "complex vocalizations" we're talking mimicry, which seems to correlate with rhythm, then maybe he's a counter to the counterexample?

How could people of privilege being told that they're the default people in society lead to them feeling entitled to take the lives of others?

Manhattan clam chowder isn't clam chowder, it's CLAM FUCKING SOUP.

It isn't a rape victim's job to make sure her rapists are punished. Pure and simple.

I don't know. Let's see if we can get it to twenty.

You support violent retaliation against people protesting a church and its support of an authoritarian. It's right there in your posts. No psychic powers needed.

And the rest of your post: really, adult?

I wasn't aware they'd said anything racist. Somehow I doubt they did. But if that's true, as you claim, that's worthy of critique, not literal violence.

One can literally only figuratively stomp on a religion.

Sadly, as all creatives know, you can't control how other people consume your art. Jonze, as a very rich and successful person with lots of amazing movies under his belt, should probably understand that by now.

She spent four years in prison and lives with what happened—both the murder of her roommate and her senseless persecution by the Italian legal system—daily. You, on the other hand, and anyone judging her from televised interviews amounting to an infinitesimal fraction of her ongoing ordeal—which includes those very…

I'm from Washington State. Didn't know it was a "mutual combat" state or that there was even such a thing. Weird.

Characters do dumb shit all the time. Humans are fallable. Read actual scientific history and rejoice in the idiocy, policy and accidents that propel civilization forward.

That's funny, because I wasn't criticizing the movie for having fallible characters, I was criticizing it for having stupid characters doing stupid things at the behest of a stupid script, and I was pretty clear about that. That puts your closing remark to me in the position effectively of arguing that scientific…

That's cute. You didn't even read what I wrote.

Absurd. Privileging of nicity as so rigid a category flirts with racism. Islam varies from culture to culture, even within a given culture (depending on your analysis), just as it serves as a guiding force for the cultures that practice it, because it is itself, in all its expressions, a product of and influence upon…

But why does having something as broadly conceived as race (or culture) in common give you the license to offer critique, while difference on the same broad terms forecloses on it? If you're coming from a place of critique (of other white people, of course!), whatever commonalities the shared category represents to…

Religion is a cultural item.

Have you considered: Zimmerman's past

Get it? She's calling him a girl. On her period. Because girls are weak.

Here is another cat who likes water.