Most of the totalitarian systems of the 20th century developed from revolutions rooted in Socialist ideology, and one of its tenants is gender equality. In my formerly Socialist bloc country women went from having incomplete suffrage and severely limited job choices pre-1944 to being able to vote, study and work…

100,000 a month? Being a YouTube personality? What is this world we live in? And now I know I’m officially old

Chungking Express is fantastic. It’s really hard to pick favourites! I read Christopher Doyle’s journals during the making of Chungking Express and Happy Together and I was stunned how much of the screenplay and shooting was improvising on the spot. These men are geniuses.

I love you for not only mentioning Wong Kar Wai but mentioning THE two films of his that are my absolute favourite. And I’ve seen all of them. All.

As the article says, in many cases they do it for money.

Yeah, I think the writers have a very loose idea of what constitutes an antihero. The “hero” part has to be there too, and there needs to be some balance - like, a killer and torturer can’t be redeemed with a love for puppies, he needs something heftier than that.

What got me was how easily the shower-after-perm sealed things. Couldn’t she just have said she was having a shower without washing her hair? You know, with a bath cap?

She’s downright groundbreaking. Unapologetic about not wanting children? Having an abortion just because she doesn’t want children? Demonstrably and repeatedly picking her career over family and not getting punished for it? I don’t think this has ever been done on TV, before or since.

Yup, she said he was a 10 in bed as recently as this March. I can believe it.

When I was in kindergarten in Socialist Bulgaria, we had rhythmic gymnastics scouts coming in to inspect our ankles. I was told, at 3, that my ankles were too fat to be a rhythmic gymnast and given a crippling inferiority complex about my looks and by extension (because I’m a woman), my worth, that I was only able to…

A sexy Rosie the Riveter? Really?

I think that is the most American thing I’ve ever heard.

I do. I drink espresso with rich taste though, not the muddy water that’s Americano.

Europe has wildly diverse food.

What modern day people would prefer is irrelevant, of course most people would like to keep the conveniences they’ve grown up with. The correct question should be asked of the people who actually endured the “discovery” and should be phrased as, would you put up with being tortured, murdered and looted en masse if it…

“the teacher, assuming they knew how to use the weapon, which hopefully they would”

Basically all rapists go for the easiest victims. The jumping from the bushes brute who assaults a virtuous virgin or wife is a myth. The Madonna/whore dychotomy is also a myth, and it’s put to very good used excusing rapists with the reputation of their victims.

If you really think 40+ women are lying about being raped just for kicks, you need to go out more, and communicate with actual human beings. Or stop being a mysoginystic prick.

I think you mean “expense”.

I think drug patents should be abolished too, and drug R&D should be left to state universities and institutes and funded with priority. But then I’m a communist who doesn’t believe in private property, so...