The examples I named aren't of women being "human," they are of women presenting the least flattering exaggeration of themselves, which is absolutely brave. It's also brave for, say, Nathan Fielder, but given that he's a dude and doesn't face the same kind of appearance-based expectation/judgment as a woman does, it's…

Yeah I like this take.

Co-sign

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how I implied pitchfork-wielding mobs were calling for Hibbert's elimination, but I'll take the L on that because enough people have framed it that way that I apparently miscommunicated.

We can disagree on the premise of the article, but Hibbert didn't exist at all until "Bart The Daredevil." The doctor character the episode calls for was originally a woman until the producers decided to make the doctor a Cliff Huxtable knock-off instead. They deepened the Cosby connection through subsequent…

The characters in The Simpsons aren't different races. They're different colors, but that bears no significance. Race isn't acknowledged directly in the show, which is a conscious decision by the producers to avoid an issue considered too thorny to address. To do Hibbert flashbacks required the writers to say "As a…

I'm not even sure what episode this is, but they couldn't have been more overt about it:

It's not a huge stretch if you're among the people who created the character specifically with the Cosby reference in mind, and now have to consider whether or not to use him in the future. Some viewers will see the connection and others won't, but for the producers who conceived the idea, Cosby and Hibbert are…

No kidding? I thought he was intolerable until season three.

We should circle back to this once you've had a chance to watch the show. I don't mean that to sound confrontational; I'd really like to know what you think of how the character is drawn. Also, for the record, I never made it to Sweden after the Stieg Larsson Tour I booked was canceled due to low interest. The travel…

That was amazing. If GIFs were made in a factory, all its workers would have gotten called in for mandatory overtime following that episode.

Yeah, that scene didn't work for me. Why would Lucious shoot Bunkie himself? For a successful businessman, Lucious' ability to delegate is sorely lacking.

I didn't see the second one! Nice catch.

I won't argue that it's insane to pay 40 bucks to have a pie shipped to me. But with regard to the environmental toll, the pie prevents me from having to purchase a brand new healthy-weight wardrobe, which would contribute to the massive carbon footprint of the fashion and textile industries. So one could argue I'm…

BERT! today, BERT! tomorrow, BERT! forever. Trophy Wife would have gotten great in season 2. <sniffle>

Nope, nothing that isn't already common knowledge.

I get all of this, except for the comparison with how men in Hollywood are treated. I just don't think that bears out. I recall reading a profile of Mandy Patinkin in which he talks about how he was told he would never work in television after pulling out of Criminal Minds because he found the material exploitative…

The "B" means what you think it means. To be clear, I don't think it's fair that the focus has shifted from her work to her personal behavior, but that's the tricky part of celebrity. As far as the word "bitch" and its connotation, I don't think Heigl's bad reputation comes from being demanding or forthright (though…

This is absolutely a key point in the timeline. If you watch her, you can see her discussing it with Kyle Chandler. I think it was a fair complaint, I'm just not sure it was appropriate to make it from the stage. The ol' "praise in public, correct in private" concept.

You'd be very, very surprised.