No, no, no, reading "The Satanic Verses" means that you're an honest, Islam-hating American patriot! It's those non-"Satanic Verses"-reading dhimmis who should be regarded with suspicion and scorn!

On a related note, when I first read about the phenomenon of "manspreading," it was obvious that this was something that most of us males almost certainly *had* been doing since adolescence without ever even noticing that we were.

I'm rather fond of the term "chesticles."

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In all honesty, while I was reading these, I did wish I had a sampling of the ways male characters were described for comparison. I suspect seeing "how were the men described" would only throw the way the women were described into further (sexist) contrast.

I've spent the entire morning trying to remember where the hell this scene where the Eiffel Tower gets blown away and then Big Ben lands in its place came from, and then I remembered that it’s from that episode of Futurama where Amy gets her PhD and cats are actually aliens and they halt the Earth’s rotation? Anyway…

[after a brief googling of the topic] So it is! That's encouraging to hear. (The actual rate of divorce seems to have been about 41% at its height in the 70s, and around 30% now. I can't get a reliable number on how many children have divorced parents - couples with children are less likely to divorce, just as…

"Right-wingin', bitter-clingin', *proud* clingers of our guns, our God, our- and our religions, and our Constitution.”

Observation: "[X] works differently" seems to be the thing to say in medication commercials these days.

*Ahem* The piece of fruit which is hurled by Robin Williams at the back of Pierce Brosnan's head is very clearly a *lime*, not an apple.

I'm thoroughly impressed by the fact that mommy and daddy *don't* get back together in the end, the way you'd expect them to in a family film; and instead the reality of divorce is acknowledged and discussed by Mrs. Doubtfire on her new show. "And sometimes they get back together. …. and sometimes they don't." https://…

"I saw it! Some angry member of the kitchen staff, Did you not tip them? Oh, the terrorists! They ran that way. It was a run-by fruiting. I'll get them, sir. Don't worry."

"'The Last Song' is a 2010 American coming of age teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks' 2009 novel of the same name. … Sparks was approached to write both the film's screenplay and the novel. Sparks completed the screenplay in January 2009, prior to the completion of the novel."

Surgery? In an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest.

I always thought vampires were the 1%. They're usually aristocratic, and all of Dracula's peasant neighbors (or serfs or whatever they were) lived in terror of him, and also vampires gain immortality and eternal youth and strength by stealing blood from the common people.

And if the movies adaptations ever catch up to all of the books he's written at that point, they can just start releasing the movies first and then publish the books afterward, Game of Thrones style!

*chimes*

Y'know, I usually appreciate/don't despise "GJ,I" posts the way everyone else seems to, but I was actually viscerally offended by this one.

But he never made any racist insult. He pointed out that Mr. Cosby was guilty of making a racist insult. He used a racist term to describe (and condemn) an act of racism by someone else, which is the opposite of actually using that term himself.

I think it speaks more to an ingrained prejudice on your part that you contrast African-American vernacular speech with "proper" English usage.