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The neighboring communities, no question. TWD isn’t really about the zombies. In another response I quoted Rick’s “we are the walking dead (lol)” line from the comics, which just beats the reader over the head with the fact that the threat is all other people. The feared other in TWD is the living.

Everything you say reminds me of the scholarship on Metropolis (Fritz Lang movie from 1927) and the socioeconomic situation in the Weimar Republic. So yeah, androids run amok is going to be the next big thing.

A lot of pop culture right now seems to be reflecting fear of ourselves or elements of society taking on godlike powers over others.

I think (who knows) that I’m suggesting a change in that specific area—we’re in a situation now where the democrats won by a very significant majority, but the republicans have taken power. The anxieties of the democrats (and accordingly the anxieties of the often-voiceless) seem to be steering the current national…

There was a study done that said the zombie genre as a whole tends to gain popularity when Republicans are in power and vampires gain popularity when Democrats are in power.

Exactly. Hey honey, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it isn’t accurate.

“You rarely see authentic portrayals of people of faith.”

Seven weeks ago, I came home from the hospital with a baby. During one of our sleepless nights in the weeks thereafter, my husband and I tuned in to watch a “documentary” on princess Kate on a cable channel we previously didn’t know we had. I am not exaggerating when I say that at least fifteen minutes of this two…

Teamwork!

He also married her because she got her ass knocked up. He has probably spent a lot of time thinking of Tiffany as what Marla used to blackmail him into marriage.

My baseless theory about her parents is that Trump never really loved her mother nor meant for it to be a serious relationship. She was just a “side piece” to him and Ivana found out and got really, publicly angry and he felt boxed into marrying Marla just to spite Ivana for standing up to him. And that’s why Tiffany…

Rape is still just a tool in this situation. In fiction, rape of female characters is often used simply to prove the morality/immorality of male characters. The victim doesn’t matter at all, only the heroes’ and villains’ feelings about and treatment of her. His use of rape to elevate the character he’s portraying…

Even the worst rape apologists tend to be vehemently opposed to what they considere “real” rape. It’s just that the only rape they consider real is the fictional variety.

I still can’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that two men who raped a woman then got together years later to write a scene where a woman is raped and traumatized, specifically crafted to evoke extreme sympathy and fury in both viewers and the main character himself.

Yup. I guarantee you 50% of Hillary’s strategy was seeing which buttons set him off when pushed. Watch what happens next time. She’s gonna hammer those motherfuckers like she’s playing Wack A Mole.

i am loading this into the cross stitch generator and putting this on a pillow or framed in the entryway to my house

My bf told me that guy was her husband, and a lot of things suddenly..... i don’t know if “made sense” is the phrase, but a lot of things suddenly made something.

Amy Allen is so frequently wrong though. Like the Cop guy will try and like “uhh yeah uhh someone kind of like that died in town sixty miles away...”