This is just immensely wonderful. hooks is amazing, and I'm just in awe of their intellect and ability to cut to the core of issues.

Christ, I'm hearing how black and white don't matter when we're all wage slaves. Fuck that, we're better than that as a society.

Dismissed. (Not you, oh elder god).

"Oriental" has a really shitty history of "othering" and creating immensely false, stereotypical narratives of the "difference" between the "Orient" and the "Occident". It was championed as a term by the actions of Marco Polo to Kipling, in each case "Orient" was employed as a means to degrade and show how "savage"…

Since it's a prototype, I highly doubt that's the final consumer packaging.

I DID NOT NEED THIS YOU JUST RUINED MY CHILDHOOD

And you're a supremely unfriendly and nasty person. Sorry, but I'm done with this. I'm not calling you names or insulting you. You're barely even remaining cogent in between the ragestrokes.

You're proving the underlying point. These are exactly the discursive attitudes that create partisan extremism. I'm certainly not anything like the stawperson you're assuming, and your assumptions are hinged on making those with whom you have disagreements into monsters.

Wow. You live in a fantasy world of immensely subjective rage and anger.

This is decidedly untrue and is really a result of one's own biases and not on any basic standard of evidence or critical thought. We certainly know that the right-wing in America is against a lot of stuff that blows the mind, but if you insist on assuming they're evil, faceless monsters you're doing the whole…

To be honest? At this point we declare a "win" to whomever has slung enough mud or whoever is in the majority of the braindead knee-jerk reaction.

The larger issue is that we''re not a society of individuals, overall. We're a society of various family units and as such the internal bits matter when it comes to a unit choosing how to best work for themselves.

Uh, a respect for canon?

If we desired to actually assist with this larger issue, we'd recognize the factor that previous abuse plays within power dynamics and sex.

Totally off-topic, but why are women's suits a choice between non-concealing and even more non-concealing?

I think it has a lot of promise, and working within the MU allows the production/writing team to have a lot more rope than Whedon's past few ventures in television post-Buffy. If you remember Dollhouse, the first half-season was pretty much all over the place and they never recovered from that. Here they're working…

You know, I'm a more-often-than-not recovering alcoholic (these days, go me!) and I have never, ever understood the whole "no romantic attachments" part of many programs. I've had a number of lenthy periods of sobriety and have accomplished a great deal over the last decade to really clean myself up, and I would have…

When the source of the reportage is biased and antagonistic for the sake of gaining pageviews, don't be surprised when those being targeted actually respond in kind. It isn't about "making games better", because if it were we'd be talking about not making the same game every year for a new $60-a-pop infusion or how…

Here's a great example. In choosing (even on a simplistic and basic level lacking deep critical engagement) to believe that there is a conspiracy against yourself and those who you stand with you (stereotypes perpetuated by the status quo) versus demonstrated and rather simple social dynamics (the demonstrated fact…

Good thing this is the spiritual successor!