There’s a decent amount of evidence that traits we often gender, like competitiveness and risk-taking, aren’t as an inherent as they’re assumed to be. Girls educated in single-sex environments are as willing to be “risky” as boys (Booth & Nolen 2012), and anthropological comparisons of matriarchal vs. patriarchal…

Conor, and combat sports in general, are actually kind of a great place to point to here - we actually DON’T demand that men win or lose gracefully, and in some cases celebrate them for being assholes. Joe Riggs and Nick Diaz got into a fight AT THE HOSPITAL DIRECTLY AFTER THEIR FIGHT WAS OVER and it’s talked about in…

This is not relevant to the feminist parts (which I agree, hold up), but it still LOOKS good, too, which is remarkable given how poorly then-groundbreaking digital effects have aged in other cases.

I’m Irish-American(-Catholic) and have genuinely no idea whether this is an Irish-American thing or something that culturally unites all of us across the diaspora and religious contexts. I have the vague sense that it may be genetic, like many other survival mechanisms.

Bless your heart, thinking that a whisper and good intentions will protect you from Other Aunt Kathy.

My thesis is that every family has at least ONE....

But the host is not going to be alone in a quiet room in these kinds of situations. Say I try to thank Uncle Danny and Aunt Mary for hosting and slip out - I guarantee Aunt Patty and Aunt Kathy saw and will feel annoyed that THEY didn’t get a goodbye and mention it to Aunt Cathy and Aunt Mary Patricia and Other Aunt…

Cosign this entirely but in the spirit of hometown pedantry, I don’t think it’s necessary to qualify Cal’s status as “adopted” - Harford County isn’t another country, so he generally counts as a native son (especially since it’s still pretty rare to have a sports star play in the place they come from!). Poe,…

Yup. I appreciate the etiquette-based defense laid out above, but practically speaking this is a survival tactic so you don’t have to bid goodbye to all seven aunt Marys plus the four aunt Kathys and between 20-40 cousins*. You’d have to start saying goodbye as soon as you arrived to make it through all of them. And…

That’s the only reason I’m not more worried about Gendry, honestly. For a show burning through plot, it makes absolutely no sense to spend all that time in episode 5 bringing Gendry back to then immediately kill him off. The show that disappeared Syrio Forel doesn’t seem like the kind of show that will bend over…

Boy howdy do I want in your squad.

I’m not sure that even having Littlefinger in her ear for this many years of her coming-of-age will make Sansa realpolitik enough to marry her cousin.

I’d never thought of that, but could also see it. It honestly still feels too pat an ending for Sansa - at the end of the day, Gendry (once legitimized) is still a handsome, duty-bound nobleman - yeah, he’s from Fleabottom and rough around the edges, but he’s the kind of goodhearted, strong lord that she always…

I want them to unite to defang Littlefinger once they realize what he’s doing. I can see them coming to the brink of all out battle with each other...and then realizing they’re being manipulated, banishing him, and setting him up to make one last play next season. This requires them to be extraordinarily stupid for a…

The dragon scene last night was the first time I was like, ok, I see how this could work.

Assuming Jon and Gendry both live through this idiotic escapade north of the Wall, Gendry is 100% getting legitimized.

I feel the same. “The Killing Fields” is an important story too. I just think it’s problematic to say it’s THE story. We could do with more about this particular chapter in history in the mainstream public eye, anyway.

Nobody, as far as I can tell, is saying that it’s not a great movie. However, treating it as the definitive text on the Cambodian genocide (as the OP does) while “passing” on a different true story written by a Cambodian woman about her experiences is not a great look.

Still a story told through the lens of the white foreigners experiencing the genocide. This is something different - a story told through the eyes of a person who actually experienced it as a child. That alone makes it worth taking the time to see, I think..

Thanks for saying this. & also, this (the fact that colonial practices reduced the usage or eradicated languages around the world, not just First Nations languages) is also the reason I specifically focused my criticism on people discussing “white communities losing their accents because of globalization” as not being…