That the author of this article, without doing the Google search you're alleging would fix things, knows Spider Man and not those characters - not to mention that neither the father who wrote the op-ed this article is actually about or his adopted son either - serves to drive the point home that, where these…

I will never stop laughing at "By Ross and Rachel!"

I'm sorry, I was under the impression this was an article about how the television adaptation of the books handles this storyline.

Her failure is the point of her story, yes, but it's not really related to the point of this article. I would imagine the author of this article would point out that she doesn't fail because her cultural colonialism is a flawed errand, but because the slavers fight back.

In a patriarchal society, a man compensates for the physical shortcomings of age with status, while an old women may not have seemed as useful or as valuable.

"There is also a great deal of civilization amongst the cultures of Essos. Even the slavers in Essos are POC."

And yet, as the author points out, Dany goes around showing these civilizations how her (pseudo-European, by your own admission) way is better, and they love her for it.

Since this is an adaptation, I'd say make the adaptation more aware of the problematic elements of Dany's story - the story is the story, but the telling of it can be colored with a little more complexity if the adaptors choose.

Yeah, that's where Frank Miller's sentiment is coming from in a comic called Holy Terror about centuries old Muslim terror cells hiding under New York City.

Themistocles is Athenian. They weren't badass enough. They wrote poetry and argued and invented the civilization the Spartans said they cared so much about. Like girls.

Miller's not known for his tolerance of anyone in particular.

300 makes me feel funny watching it, and it's not just the abs. It's just...it's hard to watch a propaganda piece that you know is a propaganda piece but also enjoy it wholeheartedly and unironically.

If I remember correctly, Coruscant's weather is also heavily regulated by artificial means. Orbital mirrors, etc.

Ryse? Is that the PC's name?

Every time I hear someone complain that it was boring, I realize there are people who liked BSG for reasons completely separate from mine.

Allow me to rephrase:

"But Much Ado About Nothing is not one of the funny ones."

The end of your first paragraph disproves the beginning of your first paragraph - Much Ado is still funny, and Joss Whedon did a good job with it.

Isn't Craig Robinson in the other one, too?

"...but it's spelled out, over and over again, that the real reason for the Purge is to weed out the undesirables. The poor, the sick, the homeless, the disabled — all the people who belong to that "47 percent" who leech off the rest of us."