On the one hand, I understand that our politics and religious groups and the supreme court have made abortion into an issue of religious freedom and privacy, respectively, which makes the Satanic Temple’s approach understandable and productive on a certain level. But on the other hand, I don’t believe we will truly…

Agree! You articulated it much better than I could have!

While I’m sure most of the white people tacitly or overtly supporting white supremacy do see it this way, and though it obviously has been enacted and created on economic lines (redlining and the FHA), I see equality as a chance for greater growth and more resources for everyone. By holding down over half of our…

Ahh me too! My whole “watching HBO on Sundays” crew burst out laughing at that. It kind of got better as it went, and you have to kind of admire the bald-faced ridiculousness of it on some level. They definitely shouldn’t have cut to the song on that line though! So corny.

I see what you’re saying on the first point for sure. I said something similar in a re: to the author post. I think you also have a point on the second part, but you could also say the same thing about each character, male or female. The whole show is about sex, so that’s gonna come up it seems!

A lot of these points feel like a big reach to me. Why do we need to see the wife or know her version of the story about the rape? The main character of the show is CF, which is because the main story of the show is the crime they’re going to Truly Detect. Of course we only know about that incident from his…

My thoughts exactly. The whole point of that scene at the compound or whatever seemed to obviously be about portraying him as a phony with terrible ideas.

Given the nature of this creator/writer’s interests and style, I’m pretty sure this is all setting the table for “LA is a fucked up sexualized place and people are going to get used and abused” kinda approach. It takes two to tango and the power dynamics in each of your examples are different in each case. It would be…

Totally. Exception to the rule, but yes, it is great that there are compassionate, successful companies out there!

I think it’s not so much “really bad” as totally typical. They want crazy profits, right away. Someone commented below and said what I was trying to say much more clearly, so I don’t want to steal from them! But yeah, it’s a pretty gross system. More of the profits over people stuff. But at the same time I’m guessing…

While this is all a useful perspective and very illuminating, I’m having a hard time taking it seriously when human beings are referred to as “bodies” and “dead weight.”

Aw man, I just expressed the same sentiments above but with much less clarity and concision. Hats off to you!

I agree there are specifics that created the problem, from what this post conveys, but at the same time it reads as a small business being infused with venture cash and being transformed into a corporation. Tale as old as time. I’ve worked corporate jobs my whole adult life and the “after” story of this is just how it…

I love that she also had to throw Native American ancestry into the mix. Like she just couldn’t get enough co-opting of marginalized people’s stories. It’s interesting too because that stuff is so much more common. Any white person who has 1/16th native background (self-reported) automatically identifies as being…

Yeah, the sentence you quoted definitely implies existing employees, but then the later statements make it seem like replacements. So could just be a editing issue. Or maybe both are true, in which case, the complaint would still stand.

I think they’re saying that the jobs were filled by new hires, rather than absorbed by existing employees, which would negate the premise that the layoffs were related to “downsizing.”

This was a record-breaking crazy entry in the annals of BCO. The Psycho Santa escapade just erased my brain. But...why did LW1 go to dinner with his mother at all? Why wouldn’t you say, every time, “No mother, I will not dine out with you because you are incredibly rude and an embarrassment” and leave it at that?

Haha. It just popped into my head! But the prophecies Dany hears at that crazy temple in Quarth said something about the “dragon has three heads,” so it’s probably still the original theory of them fighting together :)

I keep thinking about how Sansa was raised to be a lady and did everything “right” and has been tortured and taken advantage of by maniacs, and Arya did everything “wrong” but was true to herself and is completely adrift and consumed by hatred. And on top of that you have Cersei, a really strong if demented woman who…

Toramund sex scene or GTFO Benioff & Weiss!