The headline (and the author) seriously misstated what the scientific study says. The study didn’t conclude that “CEOs are bullshit,” it concluded that having certain physical features that are routinely associated with competence is helpful when interviewing for CEO positions, particularly if you come from outside of…

I agree, and I don’t understand why so many people on this website will go through all kinds of mental gymnastics to try to make Taylor Swift the villain. Kanye’s lyric is unacceptable in any context and any situation, and anyone who calls themselves a feminist should be upset about it. If he had said that about one…

How is that hypocritical? If that’s hypocritical, then so is speaking out against poverty unless you give everything above the barest minimum to survive to those less fortunate than you. It’s not hypocritical to want better schooling for kids in places like St. Louis while simultaneously making a choice to not put…

That’s what has me confused by the Poe/Finn shippers. I personally am team wait-for-the-next-movie-and-see-what-happens, but one of my friends who is passionately Poe/Finn shared a picture on facebook of their hug with the caption “Would two straight guys ever hug like this?” To that I give a resounding yes. My best…

It’s completely unrelated to the Irish slaves things (which they weren’t), but you know that jumping the broom originated as a British thing, right? It was made popular by the Romani people in Wales (who weren’t white, but who also were not slaves). It has only experienced a Renaissance in the African American…

Jennifer Lawrence earned the SAG minimum for her Oscar winning performance in Winter’s Bone, and Barkhad Abdi only made $65,000 for his Oscar nominated performance in Captain Philips. All of the contracts are negotiated before filming, so it isn’t at all unusual for an actor to make a relatively small amount of money…

I don’t think (and clearly Sony doesn’t think) the bad PR is actually going to affect anything though. It’s a horrible situation all around, and it would be the moral thing to do for Sony to release her from her contract, but if they don’t, it’s not like people aren’t going to buy the next Beyonce album or Shakira…

One thing to remember is that moving in together puts a lot of one-sided financial strain on the relationship. Unless you guys make almost the exact same amount of money and split everything evenly, then someone is always going to end up making more of a financial sacrifice. It can create all kinds of uncomfortable…

The show is absolutely hilarious. Have you watched the first two episodes? This song made me cry from laughter:

Where did you see that he said so before the movie? The only interview with Andy Weir I saw where he said he imagined the character as Korean-American is from May, which is when the movie production was already wrapping up. The only reason he mentioned it is because someone specifically asked him about the casting of…

I agree with you, but Mindy Park wasn’t written Asian. It was discussed back when the casting was announced — nowhere in the book is the character’s race mentioned at all. Park is most commonly a Korean last name, but there are also a lot of British and Scottish Parks, so it’s not 100% clear just from the name.

Why does that make you torn? Punching someone in the face is also terrible...

Scrubs is easily one of the best tv comedies of all time, and anyone who disagrees is just in denial. This scene leaves me an emotional wreck every time:

I actually think you have that backwards. Male celebrities assaulting other men tends to not make the headlines very much, since it’s a much less sensational crime, but it happens a lot more than you’d think, and the punishment is usually even less than 15 days in jail. There are pretty good databases for athletes…

Minor nitpick: he actually hid in the wheel well of an airplane, and then his body fell out when the wheel well opened to deploy the landing gear as the plane approached Heathrow Airport. It’s not humanly possible to cling to the outside of a jet plane as it takes off, despite the fact that you may have seen Tom…

Clearly the point of the article is that white people are underrepresented in American cinema.

All your other tips are very good, and I’m glad that the upgrade situation worked out for you, but you have to understand that getting that comp upgrade on an international flight is literally a once in a lifetime freak occurrence. Being nice to gate agents is ALWAYS good advice, but no one should really expect that a…

One of my high school friends is a pale, 5 foot tall, 100 pound strawberry blonde who did a public health study abroad in rural South Africa (where she could not possibly have looked less like a local), and she made it out just fine! She did have to go to the bathroom in outhouses, which sounds like hell on earth to…

Cis male lives only count as 50% of a real life. Half the X chromosome count, half the value.

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