Like fights about sports, I think it’s a mistake for transgender/gender nonconforming people to be choosing this fight. It means that, when many people are still very uncertain where they stand on gender issues, public battles are being fought on ground that is not especially favorable.

It’s also not clear if the author means that, for some people, gender expression exists on a spectrum, or for all people, gender expression falls on that spectrum. I’d expect that even many of the people willing to recognize that gender is not binary for some people consider themselves as being clearly one of two…

People should be able to choose their gender identity and pronouns and be respected for that, but the vast majority of humans, and not just cishet people, are completely comfortable with identifying as entirely one gender, so the insistence that “gender is a spectrum,” while not outright false, sure seems like an…

Her music is actually horrible, so there’s that. “You PMS like a bitch” is not fine. Her music has always been anti-feminist and anti-woman, so her “knowingly working with that guy” is not a surprise.  It’s just the next step.

Ugh, man.  My 8 yo daughter’s favorite singer is Katy Perry, and it annoys me to no end because I dislike her (Perry, not my daughter) so much.  She’s just the fucking worst.  The sad thing is that she actually had a really good singing voice when she’s not singing her own horrible songs.  Her brand of “feminism” is…

“I believe in innocent until proven guilty and I believe in justice.”

I don’t think anyone with a chronic illness is surprised by any of this. People love to ask how you’re feeling so that they can congratulate you on being brave/a fighter/etc when you politely just say “fine” and downplay things. People don’t like when you actually acknowledge how much it fuckin’ sucks because that’s…

Stop this already and let’s get a She Hulk/Jessica Jones show.

Unpopular opinion: Much like the Star Wars franchise, itself, Spaceballs isn’t that great, overall, but it’s benefited from nostalgia as its primary audience first watched it when they were teens or younger. It features some gifted comedians and has a few good gags, but most of it plays like a bad SNL parody, and it…

I am very much looking forward to seeing this 😊

God, I’m so fucking tired of relentlessly exhausting orange fuckball.

Is there really “baiting” or are you shipping a relationship that is presented as platonic?

I want to say something snarky like, “Because white supremacists aren’t cartoonish mustache-twirling villains that advertise their bigotry 24/7” but when it comes to Snyder, I think it’s because for most of his professional career, he has included objectivism in all of his works. Maybe he’s not doing it consciously,…

On the the one hand: No Sally Hawkins.

No almost about it. It’s a Disney Tex Avery cartoon.

Goofy Olivia Colman is the best Olivia Colman.

I think it’s a mixture of big Broadway stage musicals and Disney. “Up There” is definitely a “Disney” song.

I think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is parodying stage musicals, not Disney musicals. Isn’t “La Resistance,” and the French boy who sings it, a pretty clear play on Les Miserables?

perhaps they can also go on a side-quest to find Sally Hawkins

You rightfully mention it, but I just think it bears repeating: God damn, that is a great soundtrack! It’s almost “This is Spinal Tap” in how the songs are both a pitch-perfect pastiche and excellent sincere contribution to the form.