Um, how many zillion Hollywood movies are about dumpy older men winning over conventionally beautiful women? Either with their humor and grace, or if not that, their dogged perseverance and patheticness?

Nope, not even close. I agree, it's a weird idea. And the apparently common perception that it should work, at least some of the time, is bizarre.

That was awesome. Emma Fitzpatrick also had nice comments to make about Anne Hathaway's performance: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/hollyworld/anne-hathaway-parody-les-miserables-emma-fitzpatrick

Not in many poor/immigrant/black communities. In some places it's pretty damn obvious what a police state means.

It's called the Violence Against Women Act, but it provides federal grants to all kinds of domestic abuse agencies, as well as federal laws and resources for domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking. The name of the law doesn't define everything that's in it.

Okay but you're completely conflating the state legislature with the federal legislature. You realize that, right?

You can tell them you don't consent to searches.

Slavery was also in the Constitution.

I think four of those six minutes were explosions and destruction.

If Obamacare is a tax, per the Supreme Court, then I don't see how anyone gets a religious exemption at all. I don't get to not pay my taxes because my religion opposes something the government does with that tax money.

I see, Republicans have finally found an immigration talking point they feel solid on: heterosexual marriage = the answer to all social problems.

It's good, but I think it's off the mark. Anti-gay/homophobic people generally want gay people not to be gay, or not to be allowed to be gay. White supremacists don't want people of color not to have color, they just don't want them to have any power. Those are related, for sure, but Straight Supremacist is in that…

Oops, I meant to write "All Real Humans are White Men."

The Onion: Ultimate Bastion of Constant Sexism, Where All Real Humans Are Men and All Women Are Psycho and/or Bitches

Me neither.

Inappropriate, not really. But highly significant that beauty is never a compliment for boys.

My question is what the hell is with that costume? Is Lady Gaga suddenly trying to make statements about Islam? And has she thought about that... at all?

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I wouldn't say his sexism is anything extraordinary, but his female characters are AWFUL. First, of course, there are hardly any of them, and second, they have no purpose, agency, or character other than to be there gratifying or titillating men. So the Hobbit metaphor he creates really just piles onto his overall…

It looks like they don't blank out "bixesual quotes" but bisexual is still blank. Weird.