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" equality feels like oppression"- where's the equality in banning a gender? How does that even come close to applying here?

"It's at one theater"- so it's small scale in its discrimination, but it's still discrimination.

It's a small-scale ban, sure, but it's still a ban. It's less terrible than a wide ban would be, but it's still a bad thing.

So it's fine to be sexist, as long as you're only sexist temporarily? Would it be okay for someone to run a restaurant with the occasional "white people only" nights? Of course not.

Or just don't like being discriminated against.

"All because an appreciated theatre wanted to do something cool and have ONE screening for women"- I'm not sure I'd consider gender-based discrimination especially cool.

"That argument does, though, gloss over the fact that, while barging into a space you’ve been asked to stay out of just because that request made you feel briefly tiny and weak doesn’t make you a criminal, it does make you an insecure piece of shit"- really? He's an insecure piece of shit because when someone told him

We don't accept the Reverend's behavior as "normal", though. We consider it the actions of a crazy cult leader. Gretchen's the one who's considered normal, given how they were ready to pretty much let her go.

That said, if the two shows start to exist in the same universe that implies some really weird things about the world outside Litchfield. I'm not sure how I'd feel about people getting out of prison only to see the world is now full of robots.

"Kimmy Schmidt isn’t arguing that women can and should be able to do everything that men can but rather shining a light on the fact that men too easily get away with abusive behaviors and violence"- isn't that the opposite of what happened? Gretchen was upset because her being a woman meant the FBI was perfectly

" But later writers probably rationalized it away like that because, well, it really DOESN'T make sense"- it wasn't later writers, it was Loeb himself who gave the "Superman just holds back" explanation in Supergirl's solo.

I'm still more a fan of the showtune parodies, like Daddy's Boy and the Sondheim Pinocchio.

He went full Leland Palmer.

But that's the point. Half of Batman's role on the League is just "guy who's good at decisions", followed up by "gadgets" and "sneaking around". He's the second smartest man in the world, he's good at thinking.

" And they're ALL aquatic-themed, like water-ghosts and water-sasquatches and water-blobs and…?"- well, sure. He's a lifeguard, he deals with aquatic monsters. Leave the land monsters to the…. what's the land equivalent of a life guard, maybe a park ranger? An EMT?

Maybe it's just optimism, but when I heard about "Weird sex stuff" in the past, I just assumed it was lesbian experimentation in the bunker, like prison.

Zero Mostel, Mama Cass, crash diets have killed a surprising number of celebrities.

I mean, it's basically just a harsh quarantine.

"In 1906, she became the target of a citywide witch hunt after six members of the Warren household came down with a potentially deadly case of typhoid fever, a disease that loomed large in the minds of early 20th century New Yorkers"- is it really a witch hunt if she was actually the one responsible? "Witch hunt"

Didn't Pirates 4 make a little over a billion dollars? And those films really do revolve around Depp, who would see a Pirates movie with no Jack Sparrow?