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I’m sorry that I didn’t get back to you sooner, I just haven’t had the time to write a proper response. 

Late response, but the way I read that is “my non-M BMW hasn’t had problems, and my v8 M3 isn’t one of the ones that has decided to suicide itself yet.” 

I’m pretty sure that whole generation of M cars is riddled with enough mechanical gremlins to only make them worthwhile to own under factory warranty or in theory from the safe confines of a forum post.

My two cents is that it’s because society is largely looking at actors through a heterosexual lens, and through that lens, being a lesbian or bisexual woman, as long as you fit within certain beauty standards, is all mostly good, but being a gay man or a bisexual man still has a stigma. There’s also some infantilizing…

Jim Parsons basically plays sexless characters. Neil Patrick Harris has pretty much played straight only in comedies, aside from Gone Girl. Luke Evans, Matt Bomer, and Zachary Quinto also come to mind, but they also have little asterisks for what kind of roles they’re getting and at what points in their careers they…

Looking at that list I think blaming EA outright involves some serious rose colored glasses or nostalgia. At the very least there’s some combination of EA micro-management, changing consumer tastes, and developers selling out and moving on at play.

I think it’s less about their faith being threatened and more about reinforcing a particular worldview and those who professionally thrive off of that reinforcement feeding it to maintain their status or careers. If you regularly consume media railing against godless Hollywood or liberal elites or some other aspect of…

I just want that one Edward Hopper painting, no, not that one.

I think a factor here is the in-print Cuomo catching up to the TV Cuomo. If you regularly read coverage of New York politics then you don’t really need new reasons to dislike him. His early mismanagement of and clashes with de Blasio over the covid response, which, statistically seems to have cost people’s lives,…

Now now, not no reason, they needed to limit eligibility to save 12 billion in a 1.9 trillion dollar bill because fiscal responsibility is important, dammit.

Lol, Harvard is probably overrepresented when it comes to public/notable/influential figures “fudging” the facts to suit some political purpose.

The red state, following what their constituents want excuse from moderates is a red herring, raising the minimum wage polls well even in West Virginia. Actually a lot of more economically progressive policies tend to poll reasonably well even with Republicans. Flordia passed a 15 dollar minimum wage by 60% and went…

Sure! Also “blacklist”.

Some of the Gnostic gospels have Mary as more important than the apostles, and this being a source of jealousy with some of the apostles, namely Peter, particularly when you get to Jesus challenging Peter’s views on women . It’s worth mentioning that there are a number of Marys, and there’s even debate if the Gospel…

Well, having voiced my one piece of Mary Magdalene trivia, postulate away and roil the fake Jesus people to your heart’s content.

I mean, as an enterprising woman or criticism of the modern economy she might have an OnlyFans, but if you’re thinking she was a biblical sex worker, that comes from Catholics mistakenly conflating Magdalene with two other figures in the bible, a mistake that was recognized and fixed by the Catholic church in the late…

Sure, though in the public context it’s also for all the onlookers feeling adjacently outraged. It’s performative. They demand it then some complain because it wasn’t apologetic enough or wasn’t worded to fit their sense of what an apology should be. It’s not about the victim, you might even say it’s not about an…

Now I want to find this article. Any chance you might remember what website/publication it was?

Isn’t this response in a somewhat similar vein? Why not stop at they’re both abusers and that doesn’t excuse their actions? Why the need to engage in psychoanalysis, admittedly without knowing the situation well, in a way that shifts moral blame?