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Kyle XY!

But it's notable that Cameron shows total social competence before her surprise reveal as a Terminator, yet becomes totally childlike and naive once she's part of the team. That doesn't even make logical sense, which suggests that there is a male interest in "strong and sexy women who are socially incompetent and need

From my experience, it's more that one side says "I like x but I really don't like y aspect of x", which leads x's fans to respond "How can you not like x wholly and unconditionally? Clearly you must really hate x/you're not a true fan/you're just hopping on a bandwagon/you don't even go here".

Conservatives don't complain about films that offend them? Doth we already forget "The Lego Movie is communist", or, more recently, "Beauty and the Beast is gay propaganda"? Conservatives don't support opposing viewpoints; they just consider films which promote tolerance to be a greater crime than films which promote

The premise is sound, even if some of the examples aren't.

Oh, this better not be the lead-up to some "But how can the male gaze be a problem when Magic Mike exists?" bullshit.

Sci-fi consistently misinterprets "strong women characters" as "women who are physically strong" rather than "women who aren't dependent on the male lead".

What other opinion would Sam Barsanti have but Sam Barsanti's opinion?

Again, it's neither brave nor notable for a game to exclude LGBT viewpoints. It is - sadly - quite the opposite. My interpretation of rebelliousness would be to buck the conservative trend, not reinforce it.

How exactly is it 'rebellious' for a game to rehash dominant stereotypes against a maligned minority?

"I swear, the lgbt community was better off BEFORE all this sjw troupe fiasco."

The advertisers pulled out of O'Reilly (phrasing!), but they didn't pull out of Fox.

They do have to be funny, though.

There is still a chance that she could be redeemed - Aja didn't exactly cover herself in glory with her "Linda Evangelista" soliloquy, but she made up for it. But between Alexis' Untucked behaviour and her editing in the show, villain arc seems inevitable now.

Alexis really stuck in my grill earlier in the season. Her whole 'den mother' shtick in Untucked just struck me as really artificial, like she was strategically setting herself up as the nice, supportive queen so as to build herself a shield of friends. And telling Aja that she should've won in Episode 3 for her

I actually really enjoyed her Senator Amidala realness last week, with the Black Swan makeup and slick hair, even if she was wearing a blanket.

It still wasn't much more than a series of tongue pops.

I don't think "hot dogs are phallic" is an ivory-tower concept, to be honest. If anything, it was too obvious a joke to justify the belaboured execution.

Oh, it's not a question of fairness, it's just a question of interest.

Call me completely out of it, but I had no idea that Gigi Gorgeous was the "gurl, it's fucking pink" guy from Willam's Beatdown. Between her, Peppermint's coming out and Trinity's Amanda Lepore, this was a good episode for trans awareness.