Hey Caitlin, I appreciate the way you wrote up the Melissa Benoist blurb. Seems like a lot of the internet is focused on identifying her partner at that time (which I gather is pretty obvious), but I can’t help but think that she didn’t name him because that’s not the takeaway she wanted for us.  Thanks for staying on…

Pretty sure these two articles are going to break a record for the most dismissed comments ever.

The Superman actors are a wonderful coincidence, but Bass Reeves was an actual person.  

I agree. Ronan Farrow did hero’s work, so did Twohey and Cantor. But given that this is EXACTLY what we’re all begging men to do (blow the whistle on other men’s bad behavior, even when it might cost you something) I’m not getting fussed about any accolade heaped on Farrow. Go ahead and lionize that man. Maybe the…

Shut up.

See also: stand-up comics over 40

Angela, came to respectfully query and critique the provenance of this God-awful phrase Afro-Brit? Have been seeing it pop up on The Root over the last couple of years, and simply cannot trace its origin. 30 something years of inhabiting this black body in the UK and I have never heard a Black British person or a UK me…

Do people seriously not realize that if this cut of the film was remotely watchable then WB probably wouldn’t have hired a new director to do a major overhaul?

I dunno, but I’m definitely at comments-like-this burnout.

Would that it even were a good line.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker aren't Canadian.

not two cis white guys from Canada

“I ain’t gonna let my daughter grow up to be like the women I cheat on my wife with!” - T.I. probably

Humiliated, embarrassed... Let’s not play semantics here.

This is true. No amount of indian or asian people in these companies will ever side with black people. Most of them are completely ignorant of america’s racial past and treatment of blacks. The bay area is filled with asians and indians who don’t care about diversity and treating black people as equals because 1. They…

“My books were not intended to be instruction manuals, my dudes.”

That kind of courtesy is for reserved White people who might be able to get you fired, apparently

We live in a country where cops can start arresting you for no reason, then arrest you for resisting arrest when you ask why. I wonder what Franz Kafka would say if he was still alive. 

If it’s just a violation, couldn’t the officer have said “Eating is prohibited in this area, would you mind putting that away?” Easy, right? Nope! They’re always packed and ready to go on their power trip.