This is Vermont white, not South Carolina white.

It is very easy to have consistent beliefs throughout your career if the state you represent is very small and demographically homogeneous. (OKAY I'LL COME OUT AND SAY IT, VERMONT IS WHITE AND MIDDLE-CLASS AS FUCK.) It's totally different to represent a state (or a country) with a more diverse population, especially…

A solid half of the problem is technology has vastly outpaced our legal system. There need to be laws that make it easier for women to pursue these cases. (Ultimately the endgame is inevitably going to be that internet anonymity becomes a thing of the past, and everyone will have an internet identity that is solidly…

If credible threats are reported then there should be an investigation and I assume that it would be taken seriously.

Zack Morris would have never made a curry joke.

The director has talked about the monster's design being intentional—it was supposed to evoke the pop-up book drawings and the monsters from the Melies movies the protagonist watches during the film, further blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. It's not unfair to question if that makes for a scary…

Yeah, the snark here is confusing me—I thought the original was pretty widely acknowledged as a great (albeit lightweight) movie.

I don't know if Ansari was comfortable at that point—that was pre-Parks and Rec—but I don't think the fact that he was doing stand-up and improv/had other income streams and paths open to him hurt. It's a lot harder to turn that role down if you're a starving actor rather than a starving comic (where there are…

Yeah, as Hattie McDaniel famously responded when criticized for how often she played stereotypical maids on TV/in the movies, she could either make $700 a week playing a maid on TV or she could make $7 a week being a maid in real life. It's not her fault that Hollywood wasn't writing non-maid roles for black women.

Yeah, totally—are you familiar with the idea of the second fear? Basically that anxiety stems less from whatever scares you (the first fear), but from all the ways our brain tries to cope with the first fear (panicking, avoidance, negative self-talk, catastrophizing, etc.—the second fear) that just cause those…

There were two major problems:
1) They expected moms to take their kids to it based on the nostalgia draw . . . while also eviscerating any possible nostalgia they might have by changing every aspect that made Jem likable in the first place.
2) The age group the movie appeared to be aimed at (tween girls, maybe younger…

Honestly the best thing you can do is what you're doing right here—every time the anxiety rises up, just acknowledge it, tell yourself that you have a plan for it and don't want to waste energy stressing over things that might not happen, and then redirect your thoughts to something else. It feels dumb and pointless…

It didn't make a big impression on me at the time, but then throughout my childhood I had occasional recurring dreams of dudes with pumpkin heads or roller skate hands or queens switching their heads out. I thought I just dreamed it up, and it wasn't until late high school, when I read The Marvelous Land of Oz and…

I think part of the problem was that they were filming not too long after the Benedict-Cumberbatch's-ancestors'-owning-slaves thing did legitimately become a moderate-sized media controversy. There are differences between the Cumberbatch situation and Affleck's, and I don't think he would have gotten the shit for it…

It's definitely about Angelina Jolie, but to suggest that she "held up production" is absurd—the hypothetical Cleopatra movie that Fincher would've left Steve Jobs for still doesn't exist, and the chances that Fincher ever would have directed it anyway are miniscule. Rudin called her a spoiled brat because she was…

Yeah, in both cases Hillary was the favorite, but to compare 2016 to 2008 ignores vast differences in the number of endorsements she's racked up and the amount of money she's raised compared to last time around (and, consequently, the number of endorsements and money that her opponents can reasonably raise this time…

The problem is that women who are simply assertive are treated like aggressive men. Studies suggest, for example, that women are penalized for trying to negotiate their salaries in a way that men aren't—that they're less likely to land the job that they tried to negotiate for, for example.

White Sox Chicago and Cubs Chicago are two totally separate cities.

They'd pay her a couple million extra dollars, but they'd also start complaining about how she's a "spoiled brat" or a "bitch" who's "difficult to work with." That's what happens when women try to negotiate in the same way that men do. That's kinda the point of her essay. And while those labels probably won't hurt her…

Nobody gets the day off anymore except postal workers and bank employees.