Women are certainly a minority in late-night TV and in the entertainment industry generally.

Despite being a huge, huge HP (book) fan, I feel kind of sad that these incredibly accomplished British character actors are going to be primarily remembered, when they die, for minor roles in a series of okay-ish children’s films that they made at the end of their lives.

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In my head, it is perpetually the year 2000 because it’s just such an easy and convenient year to sort of frame your understanding of history by. It’s so weird that 1950 wasn’t a half-century ago.

It’s weird how similar all their faces look.

I’m pretty sure I had both a Phantom phase *and* a Les Miz phase as a preteen. I must have been unbearable. Not to even mention my teen Rent, Wicked and Spring Awakening phases.

I feel like third-wave feminism is filled with people who were so burned by the backlash to the Andrea Dworkin school of anti-porn feminism in the 80s/90s that they’ve become extremists in the opposite direction: from “porn is a hate crime that should be illegalized” to “all porn is amazing and empowering and great…

Same here. I put it down to being raised by immigrant parents. The idea of paying more than $30 for a thing you use to carry your tampons and make-up gives me an allergic reaction.

If you’re old enough to remember Color Me Badd, I’m assuming you’re not part of the target demographic.

I really don’t think Harry has Justin Timberlake-level prospects. He’s cute and he has nice hair but I don’t see any evidence that he’s a particularly good singer, he can’t dance and he doesn’t seem really all that interested in music.

They would be the ultimate archetypal boy band if they danced. Or if they didn’t manage to get so much of their personal drama, from unwanted pregnancies to drug usage, leaked to tabloids. I do think they were the perfect boy band for the social media era and it’s always interesting how the definitive boy bands of…

Most of the responses to the original “eat a cheeseburger” comment have been critical, so I don’t think you can reasonably claim there is a double-standard here. Also, there *is* a difference between shaming fat people for being fat and thin people for being thin. I don’t think either is a great thing to do but there…

I find it funny that Imgur/Reddit are so contemptuous of Tumblr, when extremes of behavior on both sites are pretty much mirror images of each other. It’s all just perpetually victimized 15-year olds who want to feel special.

Porn isn’t inherently degrading but it’s really blind to claim that the mainstream porn industry isn’t hugely exploitative of women. The vast majority of people who occupy any kind of managerial or creative power in the industry are men and not counting indie/feminist porn, which occupies a tiny portion of porn…

Or maybe you just don’t structure your social circles around level of caring about Star Wars.

Are those the only two options?

I think what the original commenter was saying is that people in their 20s, who would not have been born for a decade or more after the original films came out, may be less likely to be familiar with them than someone like you, who was alive when they came out. That doesn’t mean there are no twentysomething Star Wars…

I’m only seen the Star Wars movies once, when I was in my teens. I’m in my mid-twenties. I know plenty of people who’ve never seen them or only have really, really surface-level knowledge of them (i.e. lightsabers and Yoda)—in fact, I don’t think I know anyone who’s like a major fan who’s ever mentioned it to me. It’s…

Roald Dahl disliking kids is not surprising given how much glee he seems to take in putting them through the most gruesome and whimsical abuse.

I think that liberals who were previously on the Richard Dawkins-esque “Islamophobia isn’t racism because Islam isn’t a race” side of the fence are starting to wise up because it is so beyond obvious that this shit is race-baiting. Generally speaking, I think Islamophobia wasn’t an issue that most liberals (who…