Yeah, I didn't mean to seem like I was shutting you down for asking the question or anything! Discussions like these on the AV Club tend to put me on the defensive, though, because there are a lot of well meaning (and not so well meaning) male commenters who can get ugly when they feel like women here are being mean…

There is a lot of literature from black women rejecting the label of "feminism" because of the long history of exclusion of black women/women of color in general that has occurred in the movement, but I have a feeling that's not what you're alluding to. Mostly, I don't know, and I think that labeling things as…

The social justice warriors are tarnishing the good name of Walt Disney!

I decided to rewatch the clip of the racist cats because I hadn't seen it since I was a child, and holy shit, there are gongs and everything. AND BUCK TEETH.

My first time playing, so let's see how this goes.

Yeah, I actually liked season one Tara. Then it became very clear that were never, ever going to know what to do with her. They even wasted James Frain on her awful vampire stalker storyline.

It hurt a lot of people.

Russell is the best villain the show ever had but I really hated so much of what happened around him (Alcide's trashy werewolf family, Eric being isolated from basically all of the other characters, Sam's stupid family) and I was still definitely engaged in season 4 despite all the stupid, stupid shit that went on.

The first season is pretty decent. The second season is my favorite, as they didn't have too many characters yet and had some wonderful moments of absurdity. It was mostly downhill from there, though season 3 had some okay moments. The last season is one of the worst final seasons I've ever watched.

A family friend of mine was a producer on Hemlock Grove and told me it was the one production he has ever been personally ashamed to have been a part of.

Women as sexual aggressors in general are seen as something either comical or sexy—victims of female-on-female sexual assault aren't exactly treated with a lot of empathy, either.

If I can't forget them then NO ONE WILL.

The werepanthers might have been the worst storyline in a show full of bad storylines that other shows could only dream of.

I'm pretty sure Jason Stackhouse got raped by various werepanthers (ugh) in season 4 of True Blood. And it was a typically terrible True Blood storyline but I think at the very least it was treated as something horrible, though I might just be misremembering, as I have repressed most of True Blood.

Yeah, I don't know if "magnified" is necessarily the right term. It's just…different. Some things are more difficult, some things are easier, on both sides. It's okay to acknowledge that male-on-male rape is a huge problem that needs more attention; I think people get wary because there are a lot of people out there…

It must have helped to have been child actors surrounded by tons of other children instead of just the lone kid in a sea of adults. Proper socialization is key!

So much of HBP the book consists of awkward teenage interludes that I think the sixth movie was the first time they actually had the space to explore some of that instead of just shoving it to the sidelines. And Daniel Radcliffe finally got to be charming instead of just very sad or angry—I always liked the Felix…

Umbridge was too horrible to be enjoyable for me. I probably would have liked her a lot more if it hadn't turned out in the end that she was actually totally okay with the Dark Arts and wanted to use evil curses on students and whatnot. She might have been my favorite if she had just been a horrible bureaucrat who was…

I was going to make this exact comment, except about OOTP instead of GOT. I actually like OOTP quite a bit, but I find Umbridge to be the worst plot device JKR ever came up with: tedious, time-consuming, and frustrating! But the final battle in the Department of Mysteries was always my favorite. I really just wanted…

I only saw DH2 once and I spent most of it hysterically sobbing so my knowledge of it is not spectacular, but I definitely think that both the Deathly Hallows movies are the best made. Unfortunately, I was so disappointed by the seventh book that the movies were never going to be my favorite, no matter how good they…