As everyone knows, when it comes to caring about fairness in sports, the number one name is... Lance Armstrong. Next to great respecter of women...OJ Simpson.

It’s pleasing to know he’s won the same amount of TDFs as me. 

What the fuck happened to this site?

Pardon me, but what the fuck? What the fuck did I just read? 

Why is that same header image used whenever talking about this film? It looks awful. Every time I see it I think, “It puts the lotion on its skin...”

With the greatest of respect to Ms Alsop, I think she misses the point of the film. It’s about power, and narcissism, and celebrity, and how all of those things can corrupt, or, at least, excuse behavior, regardless of gender or orientation.

I actually took Tar’s fame to very much only be within that community, and that perhaps the classical music world is much bigger than I realized. But even so, I wouldn’t mind living in a reality where symphony conductors were huge pop culture celebs!

I was really taken with this film. They got so many nuances of the orchestral world right. Except her concertmaster wife not really playing violin, and that Masterclass was nothing to get upset over, I’ve seen and experienced much worse.

I actually thought the supposed realism of the film was one of its biggest problems because I found so much of it to be so unrealistic. To begin with there’s no way a classical music conductor would have that much widespread pop culture relevance in this day and age, yet Tar is depicted as some massive celebrity whose…

You didn’t suggest a way to do better, you suggested that people fighting for their rights were responsible for the hate that someone had for them. Frederick Douglass had your number in his famous 4th of July speech when he responded to the absurd notion that the slaves would be free if only abolitionists and black wer…

Man... I'd give a lot to go back to the days when Rowling was just saying stuff like wizards took a shit on the floor and magiced away the shit.  That was enjoyable dunking on her for mentioning stuff nobody needed to know.

Honestly I think a lot of what drives transphobia is that the many on the Right see society as an “Us vs Them” proposition where “Them” is everyone who isn’t a close friend or family member (or your favorite Fox News host.) So the idea that we should trust other human beings is unthinkable to them, even when there are…

I don’t recall all the details but I don’t think everyone was going HAM on her right at the beginning.

THANK YOU. I fucking hate the take that the people fighting for their rights as trans folk are to blame for Rowling’s transphobia. Rowling is full grown educated woman. She’s responsible for her own beliefs, not the people she victimizes. 

Counterpoint: If a trans person honestly tells you they’re a man or woman, then accept it. Accept them.

Of course the performatively centrist take still lands on the side that trans people and supporters are the problem. Weird how that always happens.

Your perennial reminder, re: engaging with transphobic trolls:

The loading screens for the game feature uncomfortable facts.  Like how Dobby doesn’t believe 9/11 really happened and Dumbledore doesn’t think Roman Polanski did anything wrong.

“[Host] proves to be charmingly game / up for anything, but the writing lets them down” has got to be the most revised and repurposed headline in the history of AV Club. It’s like having to review Water every week and finding a slightly different way to say “it’s wet.”

I can see his point, it’s a silly title.  Calling it ‘Glass Onion: A Benoit Blanc Mystery’ would at least make more sense.