It's not "at odds", it's literally the exact opposite.

PS I find it very sad these days that the quickest way to piss off the left is to be a liberal.

Read "Explaining Postmodernism" by Stephen Hicks ( free PDF on his site); it goes into great detail about this way of thinking.

No one of any race/gender/etc is required to listen to or respect other perspectives simply because they are "other perspectives". Let me say it plainly:

"Someone who dislikes a movie simply because of the race or sexual orientation it portrays most prominently…"

But don't you get it? Because other people who share DNA strands with you did bad things, that means you have no right to your opinions/ideas/values. That's only logical.

A person takes a job in a media outlet whereby they watch movies and give opinions of them; by the nature of the job they're saying "my opinion is important" - this holds true if the critic is a white male or an albino trans Asian lesbian. Finding fault in a person's right to render their opinion on the basis of their…

This writer takes an awful long time to get to what is self-evident most of the rest of us, that art is subjective and can be enjoyed and interpreted in many different ways.

Welcome to identity politics

"Something something, Trump sucks. Did I mention Trump sucks? I know the thing under discussion has quite literally nothing to do with Trump, but it beats repeating that Trump sucks."

Earlier today I posted on this thread that Reza Aslan is a liar, because he is not actually a scholar, and his only degree is in creative writing. I said it was very weird that no one ever called him out on the fact that he has continually lied about his academic credentials. And then I come back on here a few hours…

FYI Reza Aslan has spent the last several years calling himself a scholar and he isn't - his only degree is in creative writing. He's continually used the appeal to authority fallacy to ward off any criticism of his views, and he's not even an authority. He's a straight-up liar, and no one EVER call him out on it.…

I guess in the case of Pearl Jam it's just more pronounced. As much as I love Eddie Vedder as a singer, he was Never As Good As Stone Gossard in terms of songwriting, as evidence by the trajectory of quality of their albums. Which isn't to say that they still aren't good, but I don't think they've done a truly solid…

Just that you can trace Vedder's rising influence on their albums up until No Code, where he basically completely takes control from Stone Gossard. Gossard himself has alluded to it several times over the years, including in that Cameron Crowe doc.

You know, as awful as being falsely accused of sexual assault is, I still have to say that actual sexual assault is worse.

That's not really true though; when someone incites violence we punish them AFTER the fact, whereas with gun control people want to do the exact opposite, which is limit a freedom BEFORE a crime has been committed.

So wait, they cropped the nudity for the DVD?

They routinely mask the tops and bottoms of the frame. It's actually up to the projectionist in the theatre to play the film in the correct ratio. When I was a kid I saw the film Never Cry Wolf, and there's a scene where the main character is laying naked in a field and suddenly finds himself in a wild animal (deer?…

I didn't see the blood - where the blood at?