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Perfect. And when the original commercial came out, I didn't even notice anything "different" until I saw the story about all the YouTube loony toons on the news. Just made me want to have another bowl of cereal for dinner that night.

Anyone else see the stairs and the headline and immediately think of Christian Bale running out naked and throwing a chainsaw down the stairwell?

Jeyne didn't die! That's unique to the show. In the books, Robb was smart enough not to take her to parade in front of Frey ;)

Having read the books years ago, I find it hilarious that people are freaking out. Some are all but demanding that he go back and re-write it. It's done, people. Robb is dead. Jeyne/Talisa is dead. Caitlyn is... well, let's just say she's dead.

Or if, like me, you plan to die at an early age due to your refusal to go to the hospital for anything other than most dire of things (bone breaking through the skin, etc), after step 6:

No way in hell is he pushing 30. Why are you lying, Internet?

Funny that these guys, who are so quick to self-bill as "the smartest guys in the room" - who claim to be fully about the quants, the hard data, the crunching numbers, the hard truths, and that emotions get in the way of this process - will then say something completely asinine and factless like:

Sounds like Montgomery Burns to me

It's kind of frustrating, it's like watching someone walk right up to the edge of feminism, listening to them explain how women are disproportionately expected to do the childcare and family grunt work, and then instead of him realizing, "Well here's a problem: when men have kids it doesn't seem to impact their work,

Pfft, there's no logic in patriarchyland! If there were, we'd have to confront the problem of believing that men are savage, uncontrollable rape-machines incapable of self-control at the mere flash of a bare female ankle AND YET they are the most rational and best-suited to run everything.

EXACTLY. They like to trot out that piece of benevolent sexism until there actually is a threat of a woman possibly having power. Then they're all "OH NO WHAT IF HILLARY IS PMSING AND HITS THE RED BUTTON AND DESTROYS IRAN WITH HER LADY BRAINS."

I just realized that this whole If women ran the world there'd be no wars-thing is in direct conflict with the women be havin' their periods and gettin' all bitchy-thing. So what is it, then? Are we all gentle, peaceful mothers or are we PMS rage-whores?

My mom likes to say that dogs have a sense about the character of a person, that they like good people and will growl or bark at bad people. My dog is not only a racist, but he hates my sweetest-guy-ever boyfriend and nearly strangles himself trying to get a pet from the guy who hangs out by the gas station and says

You don't see a problem with telling the world (including psycho MRAs) her phone number and where they can find her? You don't think that's designed to intimidate? You don't think that would make other women physically afraid for their lives about reporting rapes?

The idea that the trans-community wanted to make these ads about the trans-men who decide to get pregnant (ala the Pregnant Man, from about five years ago now) is verging on communal narcissism. I'm not saying someone can't mistakenly insult or offend someone, but these Chicago ads are not meant to shame trans-men or

Can someone explain how that Milwaukee ad is offensive to transgender people?

It has indeed been done in many different ways, and yet it's still such a huge problem! I almost wish I had never heard of that test, because now I'm so much more aware of how pitifully bad the roles for women are. Ignorance was (comparative) bliss...

As a female nerd, I have no complaints. I %&$*ing hate rom-coms. A little romance in my superhero movie? I suppose I'm fine with that, so long as they don't screw it up.