He's her ironic husband. Like, "Oh, hi guys....this is my "husband"..." It's the ultimate in hipster lifestyle.

But the articles were of substance. Regardless, they don't need to be cutting-edge journalism; what was important was that they were legit, they were quality, they had names attached to them, and they often had social relevance and high standards, which gave the publication a type of legitimacy that few if any nudie…

That's kind of the equivalent of the "but of course not ALL women are superficial bitches, and that's not what I was trying to say," or "of course I'm not saying black people are intrinsically lazy," or whatever other bullshit gets a tiny disclaimer.

Devil's advocate: showing someone having sex or pooping is a reminder that we're all kind of gross animals. It's a great leveling tool of satire. And it's easier to photoshop a dick in someone's mouth than it is to shove a pussy in their face.

To be fair to Mr. Hef, Playboy actually has had extremely high-quality writers. Woody Allen wrote for it and they routinely scored candid, in-depth interviews with major figures - Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Jimmy Carter, etc. Part of what distinguished the magazine was its emphasis on high journalistic and…

Actually, I know a few people who were diagnosed with exhaustion - a doctor, a nonunion theatre technician (if he'd been union, that shit never woulda happened), quite a few single mothers. You hear about it more with celebrities because, you know, they're celebrities. It doesn't even need to be code for rehab. It's…

Hey, I'm only doing it in kind. When every single comment on a thread takes issue with your language and finds it insulting, you might want to look for the common thread in there. I promise you it's not "people like insulting you."

I don't characterize you as a bible banger, I characterize you as extremely inconsiderate and displaying a casual anti-atheist bigotry.

I don't see how you can claim to know any more about God than that man does, unless you've got some amazing connections up there. Either way, pairing godless with evil the way you did pissed off a lot of people who feel similarly to you on issues of social justice, who are told on a fairly regular basis by our society…

Are godless people evil?

Think about it in business terms. He was put in charge of a division of the company, and in that division he failed to raise numbers while at the same time being the driving force behind both a number of public scandals that were bad for the network, particularly the Chevy Chase feud - which he handled about as poorly…

Because usually these studies control for those factors?

"Finding someone attractive" and "being attracted to someone" are very different things, and this fellow's being rather disingenuous or thick-headed if he's missing that point.

This is a classic case of "man accused of rambling does exactly that in response."

Here's a handy guide to why the term IS sexist in the "acknowledges gender" sense, but not sexist in the harmful sense. As men, we get tons of subtle social cues that make us feel generally more entitled to our opinions (and our right to talk over women, often about women). As a result, men have a behavior unique to…

It's not just a genre thing, it's a character/world approach thing. Joss writes great characters but he writes them in broad strokes and then puts them into unusual situations where they'll gain more depth through having to make enormous and strange decisions that define them. It's large scale. Writing on a small…

Joss is doing a different kind of writing, though. "So-and-so writes this!" isn't always applicable across the board. Different styles require different approaches to characterization. Art is complicated like that.

Aaron Sorkin and Woody Allen both write overwhelmingly white, well-to-do, WASPy and Jewish characters. Sorkin's broadened slightly, usually to mixed results. Allen's outright said he doesn't have many black people in his stories because he doesn't really know any black people and would feel weird and dishonest writing…

Not sure why people are so amazed that somebody living in NYC could have such limited exposure to POC. From some informal polling of my circle of friends and acquaintances - 20-something people living in Los Angeles or NYC and working in various fields in media, arts, engineering, etc, most of them have 15 or fewer…

You're right, it is pretty harmful to look at stasis and ask questions about it in the interest of reaching some conclusions or insights.