The conservatives look at the Taliban and think “Why can’t we treat women like that?”  This is just another attempt to do that.

Texas conservatives: messing with Texas since well before 1845.

Abbot is going into virtual convulsions, looking for ways to prevent women from ending an unwanted pregnancy while insisting actual CHILDREN do not need to be protected from C19 by the simple expediency of wearing a  mask.  Hypocrisy much? 

Texas really does take my breath away in the myriad and innumerable attempts to block abortions. And can I say how glad I am to have gotten out of that place. What a truly fucked up backwater trash hole.

Based on how Dershowitz himself described the encounter, I think it’s more accurate to say Dershowitz accosted David. Because apparently what happened was Dershowitz saw David in the store and said hello to him, and David ignored him and walked away, and Dershowitz followed him with the “We can still talk” bullshit.…

if it’s any consolation, I’m sure they’re praying for your soul in that smug, superior way they do as if they were standing on a river bank and you went floating by and there was a stick within reaching distance and they took a minute to decide whether to help or not.

All this is simple Economics 101, and if rich people would sit still long enough to pay attention, it helps them too. When you give people who don’t have enough money to live on more money, they spend it on things to live on. If they have children, they spend it on things for the children. What — well, I don’t know…

that a sizable percentage of the population along with Fox News and their ilk will be infuriated by this is really...infuriating? Depressing? Completely predictable? Especially when so many people in this group call themselves Christians. The amount of cognitive dissonance needed to reconcile these two things is…

Noone will discuss Captain America with me.

If we stay, we raise girly boys. If we leave, we’re terrible parents.

I am an American male middle/high school math teacher. Yeah, science teachers are more likely to be male, but the difference doesn’t seem to be that noticeable. I had to think about it. And my network of teachers might not be representative.

Yeah I was curious if anyone else would notice this.  Passengers is like a movie written from the perspective of an incel hoping to attract his true love via Stockholm Syndrome.

Men like Forester are put out to pasture, which is to say: placed in jobs traditionally reserved for women (like educating the next generation, blech).

I had several exes with dads like that. None of them saw the issue and they even credited their dads for making them “manly and toughening them up.” I’m still fucked up from dating or marrying these men. I can only imagine the toll it took on you. The cult of toxic manhood needs to die. 

Don’t you know it’s always our fault, no matter what happens it’s always womens fault.

It’d be nice if one Hollywood movie could find a way to blame the crisis of masculinity on capitalist alienation instead of women.

My psycho stepfather was constantly trying impress some kind of toxic masculine example on me as a kid because he thought I was a “little fag” and a “sissyboy” because I preferred reading to sports. He tried to teach me to fight once by slapping my face over and over and telling me to hit him back. When I did, he told…

Another (among many) absurdity of this movie is the idea that anyone from our coddled, self-absorbed, necissistic society would lift a finger to fight a war thirty years in the future. Hell, half the population won’t take basic steps to protect themselves against a pandemic that’s here right now.

Serious question: isn’t this the main argument in The End of Men?  If men don’t adapt to a changing world that doesn’t need their toxic masculinity and insecurity complexes, then they’ll become obsolete as women take over because no job is beneath us and we have nothing to prove?

Sounds like it has a lot of themes in common with the other Chris Pratt movie Passengers, although I would argue there’s more focus in that movie on the violence men do to people around them when they are left behind.