The problem ultimately becomes that Harvard would have to write some sort of policy allowing one form of club but not another. And I think no matter how well intentioned, any such policy might inevitably become dated quickly, be awkwardly written by necessity, and Title IX challenge prone. It might just be that this…

For me, I think the failure I always see with that storyline is it entirely exists to cause Xavier to question himself which I find lazy.

I feel like on some level you’re not getting that I’m simply stating how this would play out.

I’m pretty sure every X-Men movie validates people’s fears of Mutants. Heck, even DoFP while it ultimately has a good “ending” in terms of symbolic resolution still includes a mutant picking up a freaking stadium and parking it on the WH lawn.

Yes and no.

“(no, making fun of a bigot isn’t bullying the bigot)“

Good call. Not a scene that stuck with me obviously.

I believe its the necklace she wears. GRRM burns a lot of text describing that stone’s behavior in relation to things that can harm her. My guess is (especailly since we saw her right after she took it off) is the protection’s gone.

“Who hurt you, Gen X?”

I’ve seen multiple people go on to defend those as guilty pleasure movies. Hell, I told my wife I enjoyed BvS on a purely MST3K level.

I’d respectfully counter the fan environment was markedly different at that time. And having been an io9 reader since around Iron Man (when this was mostly a SciFi blog) and no, I’d say around these parts its very apples/oranges.

“actual issues” sounded more reductive than I meant it. I simply meant if you’re going to roll around into specifics, eventually you’re going to touch a lot of differing experiences so telling a group to “shut it” or defaulting to aggregate culture as representative of specific groups becomes an issue. At least if you…

While I kind of agree with you, I think if you look upthread at agenttremble’s point you see the issue. Feminist as a term is fine, but there often is an aversion to “what about the menz” thinking which gets really, really difficult to deal with when we start looking at many intersectional issues or actual issues such…

Umm... Both Doom and Quake had pretty dedicated death match communities. When it was original Doom/Doom2 anyway. I can’t speak much to Doom3, but both Quake and Doom were usually pretty solid in terms of full matches and full servers. Hell, Doom had DWANGO pre-internet which was basically dial in gaming and hosted…

Yes and no. I tend to come from the stage theater school of things that all necessary backstory can be inferred from the narrative that you put forth. You don’t need to be expository. But things change when you don’t ever turn off the camera. If you’re unwilling to time jump you’re either always going to turn into one…

I think people don’t give credence to what GRRM has actually said. Originally A Feast For Crows was going to be a time skip. He absolutely knew those arcs were over after a Storm of Swords. For some reason, he decided to let the audience watch him set up the pieces again for the next arc rather than do the time skip.

Strangely, that makes it the second season where Matt Murdock wasn’t really the strongest part. Last year though I’d argue it wasn’t anyone’s fault. Fisk was just played so well that he sort of soaked up so much of the drama. I started the series (S1) into Daredevil’s story but by the end of the season, I thought it…

Flip but succinct.

D’aww. However will Brad go on if you don’t like him?

My bad and correcting this. It was Parker Posey I was thinking of in relation to the Ali Forney Center, not Mary-Louise Parker.