I love how up-front this movie is about its symbolism: Superman is good, Christian America; we should feel okay using our strength for righteousness; we should absolutely kill bad guys without due process; unlike everyone else, our dad totally fucked our mom so his Real Man advice is always right.  
The real problem…

Christ almighty, that hand-held zoom shaky camera thing does more than anything else these days to draw me out of a movie.  All I can think about is that there's nowhere there for a goddamn cameraman to stand, so why are they pretending there's a cameraman there?

Best movies that were MSTed:

A proposal: This episode has a different kind of behind-the-scenes interloper, which actually DOES cause the people involved to question their assumptions. 
From what I've heard, this is the only movie MST3K ever did where the filmmakers knew about it and were in touch with the writers during the process.  Also, they…

Carmen Sandiego.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus I'm having a really hard time figuring out what you're saying, because on the one hand, it seems like your point is that he's not hurting bisexuals, but then you're also saying a bunch of stuff that's like "Whatever, fuck bisexuals, they're super-privileged compared to…

@avclub-0edf30a984c91fe16daa1a9d45f2e08f:disqus "I'm saying expecting anyone other than yourself or your loved ones to give a shit about your emotions is unrealistic."
Holy shit what an appalling little world you must live in.  Um yeah, empathy exists, and it's common.  Holding people to standards of basic human…

@avclub-0edf30a984c91fe16daa1a9d45f2e08f:disqus  I assumed that you have a hierarchy because you make up rather lame justifications for saying "It's not important to worry about what words to use when referring to transsexuals," and you act like being concerned with that somehow hurts young gay people.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus  Well, two things here, I think.  First, refusing to have sympathy for bisexuals is completely demeaning to their experience, and it's also ignoring the fact that high-profile, queer voices like, um, Dan Savage often go around completely demeaning their experience.  Yes,…

Oh, are we making up exchanges that are nothing like anything that has ever actually been said?  Fun!

@avclub-2329646941c7c8652f40bc9862514cc6:disqus  Narcissism is a personality trait; I've used it in my own research.  It's as if I said, "Dan Savage is a textbook extrovert!"  It has nothing to do with his abilities (the "lacks the ability" thing in the earlier post was a turn of a phrase; it really means he's just…

You should give more credit to the power of blank, white backgrounds. That blank, white background is AWESOME, dude.

@avclub-0edf30a984c91fe16daa1a9d45f2e08f:disqus  "Is [hypothetical gay boy] supposed to take solace while he contemplates suicide that somewhere in a New York grad school program, a mainstream gay rights activist is being chided for using the wrong term when referring to transexuals?"
There are transsexuals in high…

@avclub-7706d2dc2da6837340effd985dc620b6:disqus "Retarded" is an insult that hurts the feelings and dignity of an entire group of people which doesn't even include the person you're trying to insult, obviously.  Don't be petulant.
When I was growing up, the word retarded was heavily associated with certain obvious…

If Dan Savage read what you just said about lack of visual interest, tears would well up in his eyes and he would spend the rest of the night whispering confident but ultimately weak reassurances to his biceps.

The thing about Savage is that he's a narcissist.  Textbook.  He lacks the ability to understand that his own experiences can't stand in for everyone in the universe.  He was bisexual briefly before coming out as gay, so that's what bisexuality is.  Bing bang boom.

Except, um, one hurts people's feelings and the other doesn't?

He was an asshole about it for YEARS before apologizing, and he was actually an asshole WHILE apologizing too, so I think people can be forgiven for not letting it go.

GASP! She tells DIRTY JOKES, but she is a CUTIE PIE!!!!???!!!

Dude had a nice body, at least.