Damn. I have been with y’all for a long time, reading and loving your articles. And then every now and then you have to drop some mess like this to remind me we aren’t really on the same team.

The follow-up was almost funnier than the original comment. He just couldn’t understand why displaying fundamental ignorance of the subject he was bloviating about might prompt multiple people to comment on that fact.

just to be clear, this gif actually causes me to gag a little every time I see it. Never in my life do I want to see Mel Gibson’s engorged neck again.

Someone on Gawker the other day quite passionately opined that the remake clearly sucked because the actors come from Saturday Night Live.

I don’t think this is one of your better essays. It reads like you and your editors disagreed and no one backed down and each got their viewpoint included and it clouded up the whole thing.

... why did Star Trek have to be remade? Why did Fright Night? Why would literally any massively popular and moderately original movie be remade? Because the movie business is, first and foremost, a business, and they want to make money.

I’m so stoked about Star Trek, but damn if I don’t want to see Ghostbusters more because ladies! Action! PANDERING TO ME, FINALLY!!

Yes, I guess that’s what the essay is getting at? That because JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive she needs to “take a seat” and stop complainingabout how these standards of beauty are oppressive because she has essentially become one of the standards of beauty other women are held to.

And a hint of - if you’re a thin white pretty woman who has become famous in part for being a thin white pretty woman, you are part of the problem, and you aren’t really feeling shame for these tabloid picks, and your response is borne of your privilege, your blindness to your role in the creation of beauty standards,…

Very valid point. And to just prove that even further, Aniston doesn’t even have social media accounts where she posts pictures of herself. Which is where you could even argue that if you post pictures of yourself to the masses, you’re inevitably going to have people make rude comments.

I guess because it’s late Friday afternoon but this essay confuses me...what’s the thesis statement? That women who are body-shamed shouldn’t be “clapping back”?

No, that second one is a clit ring.

Why would you purposely puncture a towel to put a metal charm on it? It just seems like it would cause a hole and ruin the towel really quickly, plus any time the towel is outside that little piece of metal is going to get really hot really quickly. I do not fancy a minuscule baseball glove being seared into my skin…

So it’s knockoff Monopoly tokens with holes dremeled through them and then stuck on unbent paper clips.

Lord, this is some nouveau riche bullshit. Regular people don’t need this and won’t buy something that’s just going to jam up the washing machine when you forget it’s on the towel.

Dry yourself off, draw blood.

No, I don’t think TamTams is saying that. Colbert was saying that his show has a very low turnover rate. And he has said that most (if not all) of his writing staff came with him from Colbert Report to the Late Show. So basically, he would have had to fire some of those writers in order to make room for new ones.

It’s not at all surprising that most of his writers haven’t changed for years. Changing over to a new show doesn’t mean it’s the perfect opportunity to hire more people-he’s still in New York, he’s still doing the same sort of show. I can’t get behind firing perfectly good writers for the sake of increasing diversity.

Well, I am a Person of Color (Indian Colored, to be exact) and I agree with Colbert.

But I think it might be insulting to the person submitting to me if I hired them for that reason.