Yep, you have me figured based on a few comments on a pop culture web site. It's like you have a window into my very soul.

1) Thanks for assuming I'm white.

You da real MVP.

I really don't have the energy for this discussion in this forum, and I'm honestly perplexed as to why you've decided that I'm the person who has to answer for it. I didn't make the film. Racial bias and stereotyping: Bad. Better representation and more casting diversity: Good. Can I go eat my lunch, now?

I mean, if you want me to say I don't think that alignment is a good thing…it's true, I don't think that is a good thing. I wish they'd gone a different way, and it's disappointing, although part of that is predicated on the idea that being a subway worker is "lesser" than being an academic, and I have no idea if the…

I haven't seen the film, so I can't comment on that.

I think it's different than what you're talking about. It's not pressure to like things; it's pressure to either LOVE SOMETHING AND ZOMG IT IS THE SAVIOR OF ALL CULTURE, or HATE IT SO BAD ZOMG IT IS THE WORST THING EVER CREATED AND EVERYONE INVOLVED SHOULD SUFFER ETERNAL PAIN. All nuance is gone, and the idea that you…

I work in geek entertainment media, and the negativity around this movie has, after years of being a dedicated pop culture nerd, finally broken me. I have completely stopped giving a shit. It's. Just. A. Movie. The original Ghostbusters? Just. A. Movie. Maybe you love it, maybe it was something that spoke to you at a…

Counterpoint: Yes, he did.

I have no idea what "see you in the middle school lunchroom" means. Can you clarify?

No, people who boycott certain products aren't suckers wasting their time. But if they boycott certain products that are fundamentally flawed or corrupt while embracing or accepting others, and then turn around and tell the people who *don't* boycott the things they've chosen to shun that they're philosophically…

Well, given how much a presence athletic competition has been in human civilization, I'd argue as to its "optional" status. Sure, it's optional…but it's been an integral part of the human experience for centuries.

Show me something you like and I'll show you someone involved in it being an asshole, perhaps violently so. Seen a movie with Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp, Dudley Moore, Josh Brolin, Terence Howard, Billy Dee Williams? Ever listen to James Brown, Guns 'n' Roses, Public Enemy, Wilson Pickett? Domestic abuse…

The argument I'm countering is, "Sure, sports brings people together and does the things listed in the article, but there are also people getting trampled at soccer games!" *That* is a bad argument, and my point is, you could say that about anything. "Sure, physics is amazing and has opened up vast realms of knowledge…

Tell that to Kirk Cameron!

I see what you did there with the sarcasm, but yes, exactly. I mean, lookit, maybe I don't like Michael Bay films. You know what I do, then? I don't go see them. It's not my job to convince the world to do likewise. Life is short and full of hardships - what, exactly, am I going to get out of convincing someone else…

Can you name me a human endeavor that is perfect in all forms, with no negative outcomes involved?

See, but it's weird, because you say the problem with sportsball is that it's a blanket dismissal…then you make a blanket dismissal of the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the end. Honestly, I don't really have strong feelings about them one way or the other, but there are people for whom RHCP is their favorite band, and, you…

"The site doesn't publish articles about how anyone who likes music is shallow and dumb and conformist"

I was set up once on a date with a girl, and when I asked her what kind of music she was into, she said, "Oh, I don't really like music." This was followed by what felt like an eternity of dumbfounded staring by me. I just…yeah, I don't understand it. I can understand not liking *most* music, or something, but to be…