I guess I see the point on vehement reactions, and there is always a gendered component to criticism of women on the internet, but I think it's a mistake to write off criticism of her as misogynistic. Lost in Translation was staggeringly dull and pretentious, and is one of the most overrated movies of last decade. …

You don't know why people think Sofia Coppola is a bad director? You're probably right—who could succeed in Hollywood without significant personal merit?

Are you kidding? It's a massive metaphor for female empowerment and its central relationship is a female friendship. It actively subverts the traditional "boy wins girl" narrative twice. I guess I can see arguing that because it's just a kids' movie, it's not a turning point, but that ignores the massive cultural…

We're not putting a man on the moon here. It's not as though each cast member has a quantifiable comedy potential—each is good for different sketches, and brings a different sensibility to the writing room. "Merit" presupposes a kind of objective metric where you put "the best" in a cast and expect the best result.

And, by the way, sitting at 3 likes, this post is clearly one of the underappreciated subtle puns of the 21st century.

The fact that these famously stainless steel cars (and the body is stainless) sit on top of a frame so prone to rust it's like a fucking science experiment on oxidization is one of the underappreciated ironies of the 1980s.

Come on, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is quality time-wasting.

I see what you're saying, but "the Academy" is literally about 6,000 show business people who have no necessary connection beyond their lines of work and the fact that they're all members of the Academy. You can't engage in a dialogue with that group, really. The board of governors, which you could talk to, doesn't…

My understanding is that most stand-ups work out their material well before putting it in the national arena. That's part of why you can see so many well-known stand-ups at places like Carolines or the Comedy Cellar without any promotion. A joke might be funny to Rock, and funny to his comedian friends, and then die…

That's okay, everyone can be wrong about things. Even when they're so wrong it threatens the fabric of the universe, like some kind of incipient singularity of wrongness.

AV Club commenters … ruin comment sections[.]

Kristen Schaal is pretty hit-or-miss generally. She's excellent on Bob's Burgers, but was middle-of-pack at best in terms of Daily Show correspondents and terrible on 30 Rock. I haven't seen Flight of the Concords or Last Man, and I can believe she's great in those, but she's like the opposite of those actors who…

I guess I'm alone here, but I really loved it. The whole joke is that they completely overreact and engage in this very human (but exaggerated) in-group/out-group behavior with him. The second level of the joke is that it doesn't really ruin Garry's life that he's not good at his job or well-liked by his…

Okay, okay. Now make them cry, but happy crying. Now make them all make fun of the blonde one. Now make them all do it on the table. I can't believe you created a whole show for me. Now cancel it. Okay, now put it back on.

Kima? You're dead to me Penis.

It is weird, but only because it took so long. I always used to wonder why all the awesome stuff I read in comics was so obscure. Even now it's kind of weird and embarrassing to admit that I read Infinity Gauntlet when it came out (and I thought it was awesome). Superheroes were big in the '40s, and then plummeted…

She doesn't actually play many of the games she "critiques," she doesn't make games, she takes a basically adversarial stance to the people who do play and make games (which has been reciprocated to both an absurd and illegal level in many instances, and that's not okay) and otherwise is approximately as much a voice…

That… would actually be a great game concept. Hunting down iconic protagonists. The GTA characters would be great bad guys.

Still not sure why she's not Pac-Woman.

Let me rephrase: people like Anita Sarkeesian are not making it go away. Michel Ancel is making it go away. Kyle Peschel and Alex Offerman are making it go away. Everyone who destigmatizes video games is making it go away. Why? Because opening up games to a broader audience creates the opportunity for more…