Yeah, they like to pretend that cowards, talkative fellows, and slight men who get by on sensitivity and charm (hello, Fred Astaire?) just magically appeared after the sexual revolution.

I never understood this shit. My dad and his men's team were OBSESSED with male archetypes. John Wayne this, Woody Allen that, Gregory Peck this, Alan Alda that. And they're always comparing comedians to dramatic actors in order to show the decline of masculinity.

Oh man, that power is the best! If I get a really responsive, well-behaved group, my ego can get out of control.

Actors with repertory experience and who've developed a lot of projects tend to be fantastically ego-less as far as creative types go.

KODY 2012?

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If they were talking about any other religious group that enforced male/female segregation, the word "bashing" would elicit chortles. We're so used to associating Judaism with secularism and the left, and so sensitive to slights on Jews, that criticism of the fundamentalist Jewish right is barely allowed to surface;…

I wouldn't call it self-hatey so much as dumb. And specifically because of the labels of anti-semite and self-hating Jew, secular liberals and liberal/less-observant Jews don't talk about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews the same way they talk about conservative Christians, even though there's still the codified sexism, the…

I dunno, the point seems to be "As a Secular Jew, I felt weird attending Orthodox services, and everything they stand for is anathema to everything I stand for." Could be better articulated, but hey, once you insert the thesis, the rest of the article seems to support it rather solidly.

It may promote safety among watchers, but among the people making the porn it can be hell on their bodies. Several actresses have stated that using condoms on shoots really fucks up their innerparts, as porn sex lasts MUCH longer under much less exciting condition than normal sex, and even lube doesn't help, while the…

He's not just fighting to protect himself; she's preventing him from even calling the police and behaving in a manner that's totally irrational and unpredictable (spitting, assaulting him, slapping the phone out of his hand). I think defining excessive force in a situation like this is unnecessary parsing; he had to…

The atrocious and repulsive thing is par for the course after surgery. He appears to know that, because he's not a romcom character. Just do it. He knows what you're like when you're non-repulsive, presumably.

Several descriptions of what happened report that he did attempt to call the cops, and that she knocked a phone out of his hands.

Considering that sources are reporting that she hit him, spat on him, and slapped a phone out of his hand while he attempted to call police (all while being responsible for driving other people), I don't think it's unreasonable to say that perhaps this isn't a cut-and-dry case of crazy-dude-abuses-woman? If when all…

They're also crazy mumblers, and reality shows typically have subtitles when it's hard to understand people, as they're sometimes dealing with untrained performers and poor on-location sound.

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Oh man, if any of my students did that to me I'd be delighted. Free acid trip at work, no blame on me.

It's like Jersey hate. We talk shit out of habit, and then whenever we're in Jersey or Philly we go "ooh, this is really neat, I like it here." And it's true, everyone in Philly is really nice, except for the marauding bands of criminal youths.

Everyone knows that he was just faking the breakdown so Skyler wouldn't find out about Tuco.

Regional dialects can be totally incomprehensible to people in other regions. There's the (possibly apocryphal, very believable) civil war story about the backwoods southerner and the maine union soldier who could only understand one another in Latin. And in my neighborhood, there are plenty of people who speak what…