'Walking vomit' is now my new favourite insult. I hope you don't mind my borrowing it once in a while. There's an awful creepy man at the park near my gym that likes to harass me and I'd like to use it on him.

I wish I could recommend this comment a lot more than just once.
The article completely missed the point of the movie.

And that's exactly it. My parents never graduated from University, but my mother focused so much on my upbringing and emphasised education a LOT. I became the first person in my whole extended family to graduate University, and in return, because of the way she brought me up I intend to support my future children as…

Yes! I saw both educated and uneducated in the movie as being mocked and shown as idiots. Obviously people forgot the first bit of the movie and jumped straight along to righteous indignation over the rest of it.

Again, this is simplifying the issue. It's not about genetics so much as it is about socio-economic entrapment through many,many ways. You could have a high IQ but if you're stuck in three menial jobs making ends meet because you weren't educated enough on matters of sexual reproduction, (possibly because your own…

THANK YOU.

See this is where I disagree. It's not about genetics, its about the socio-economic structure in which the poor in the movie are trapped in, without access to proper healthcare and education which results in most them as 'making stupid decisions' like unsafe sex, etc which leads to multiple pregnancies, teen…

EXACTLY!! I didn't even see the eugenics side of it until this article, which leads me to truly worry about people who see that stand out first and foremost while ignoring the bigger message put across by the movie which is brilliant and hilarious. I mean, media saturated by reality TV shows, mindless cat videos (of…

I guess the difference is in Wall-E the humans were given much more sympathetic treatment by the writers and animation.

*in a person's life, yikes. Shouldn't get on the internet before my morning coffee and make a grammatical error in a thread full of grammar nazis....

The cycle within poverty, lack of education and higher numbers of children had at lower ages is incredibly interconnected, and simplifying it isn't going to result in…

Not to mention when education is given an emphasis on a person's life, often they /choose/ to put off having kids to further their education as well.
I liked Idiocracy for what it said about mega-corporations and the media, but I think this article was a little too simplistic in its treatment of the whole 'poor people…

Ripley is the reason I became a feminist, without even truly knowing I was since I didn't know what the meaning of the word was, at the age of 6. I just was at a panel with the entire Aliens cast for Calgary's Comic Expo, and Weaver and Henn were talking about how the movie was so ahead of its time for women and I…

My childhood fantasies of him have doubled after reading this comment.

Your grandmother sounds lovely, not being from Singapore and yet being such a great tour guide speaks volumes of a person. Is she unable to get a Singaporean citizenship or PR at least? That's horrible. Man, I don't agree with many of the immigration policies of Singapore. She sounds like someone SG should treasure. I…

Malaysian food and Singaporean food have minor differences, but no, not significantly so. They cut up their prata and call it something else, we have them in whole pieces - stuff like that, haha.

Thank you!!!

I am by no means saying Singapore is the best country or anything, but I find a lot of foreigners come to Asia expecting this while 'rough and tumble' scene, like some mecca for self-reflection, amongst the romanticised Asians living 'off the land' and then they see Singapore and think we're boring for not…

See, that's what I mean. Most of us who grew up there consider Lau Pa Sat overrated overpriced and really touristy. It used to be amazing! Like, a decade ago. Nowadays it's more catered to the expats and tourists. Over the last 5-7 years literally the only times any of my friends and I have been there is to bring our…

You can't have seen the real side of Singapore then! We do have amazing things. I yearn for the hawker centres on a daily basis, for one. It's the expat's life that's sterile there, whenever my friends from overseas visited I always brought them to local haunts. Obviously all this is in line with the government's need…

You think this is bad, the National Library just pulped - PULPED, mind you - three childrens' books for not being 'pro-family' according to the govenment's stance and the 'silent majority'.
Sometimes I feel embarassed to say I'm from Singapore. There are fabulous things about my home country, don't get me wrong, but…

This. Is. Perfect.