But this might upset people who don’t want to think about difficult things like racism and appropriation. You know that a huge chunk of the box office from this is going to be the 18-34 demo who thinks anyone who would apologize for this is a liberal cuck who deserves rape threats.

iirc the character may have been male and is in a female robot body, and could be considered trans or at least gender-fluid?

I don’t know very much about racial diversity in Japan, but my understanding is that there isn’t really all that much of it. It’s not really going to be an analogue because they don’t have the same history of enslaving and interning non-dominant bodies based on skin tone (though there were certainly atrocities…

For some reason, there was a really long gap, a few months, between when my whiplike solitary grandmother died and when we had her funeral. She died and was cremated in Seattle, and the ashes were shipped to New Jersey and basically sat on the coffee table in the little-used living room for that whole time. I was a…

What was your life before you were born? There’s a void of you there, sure, but it’s a space filled with people that later came to love you. I think the space after your presence, probably also filled with people who will carry you on, will be welcoming in the same way, just without you.

Nothing brings people together like completely formless terror over the Cars universe.

(and then they fuck the cannon)

I would probably make a respectable but not hilarious package, but I do feel I’d be in the minority.

I don’t think they work that way.

Yeah, like... I’m a bisexual woman. My partner is a bisexual man. (Well, we’re both verging on nonbinary and exploring gender actively, but for argument’s sake...) Neither of us have had the kind of experiences with our own genders that we really dreamed of, but we’re only interested in those genders sort of in…

I’ve thought about asking a few things that aren’t quite so dark. Things like “politics and work are exhausting and I am bad at initiating sex with my partner, give me some tips” and “please reassure me that it’s okay to fantasize about one gender while being happily monogamous with someone of a different gender.”

ETHICS ASIDE?

Hm, yes, your point is SO much stronger because you brought your boner into it.

There’s so much disgusting behavior targeted at Michelle Obama, and I hate it so fucking much. I get the impulse to want to be just as awful towards Melania, as if that would make up for it or something, but I’m in full agreement that there are so many better targets for our anger. It feels good to be petty, but I…

I do agree, and I’m sure she’ll end up doing something that’s basically something someone else does for her with some obligatory photo ops. Probably a sort of bland cause that everyone can get behind, like, um... oh god, what causes does anyone actually agree on anymore? Laura Bush’s literacy program even seems…

I think the role of the First Lady is largely voluntary- I don’t expect Trump to do an iota more than he is literally forced to do, and I don’t think Melania will do much in terms of policy setting or even redecorating. I think she’ll stand behind him like a disgraced politican’s wife for four years, barely speaking.

I completely, completely agree! I feel like both sides are really flipped on it, when liberals are pearl-clutchy and conservatives are calling her classy. It feels like we don’t have any constant opinions and just apply judgement in reaction.

I keep finding myself defending her on facebook against people who want to slutshame her over nude modeling photos all the time.

i cried more at this trailer than i did at hidden figures and it was UNFAIR and AWFUL

I think all of them have that capability built in as a standard feature.