Can you point to the time and place that Lena said, "I am your model for all 'white feminists everywhere' and my actions should be judged accordingly"? I'm honestly assuming that she said that because the default assumption the Internet seems to have made and I'm not sure why.

… while we gently tiptoe around the "geez, she's an ugly fatty who I'd never want to f*ck" comments?

G*d, (a) THANK YOU, Jesus F'ing Christ, I want to be her best friend when I see the pathetic self-deputized internet mob that coalesces to make sure we all know how much they hate her every time she farts, and (b) … "ugly personality", fine, whatever. Because I know that *I* for one only watch and enjoy TV shows when…

Bitch. Pudding.

"Gag" is a strong word. Family Guy's M.O. is to point and say "Look everyone! A famous person is a well-known [addict/adulterer/etc.] and deserves to be hated!"

Right now, some McDonald's middle management is futilely telling the executives, like Craig in South Park talking about Cartman, "Just let it go. You won't win this, he won't back down or apologize, and fighting back will only make it worse. Just let Kanye win."

I don't think I laughed once at Obvious Child. It committed that frequent sin of a movie about a comedian who made people laugh on screen only. Okay, so maybe that's not a sin (see also Funny People, if that's your thing). In any event, I enjoyed it more for what it was when I stopped treating it as a comedy.

I sunk myself into watching these a few times now, and I'm impressed by the complexity of the characters. It seems like most of the interpretations I've read online ignore or gloss over the culpability of the characters themselves. Sure, they each take stabs at questioning what they're being told (and suffer whatever…

Ah, right. We're on the same wavelength.

The story could've gone that way, but I wouldn't read the movie as saying that.

I finally saw it this week and absolutely loved it.

Agreed. End the movie early and it's yet another sentimental self-sacrifice movie. With that ending, real and interesting ethical questions are raised.

Empathy.

So, I'm not talking about me. Not at this stage of my life anyways. But thank you. Because I often say things when I do say then without knowing why. So it's helpful to have think pieces and Disqus boards who know me and my intentions better than I do myself.

I like how you took my shot at you and spit it back with a smarter word, taking umbrage with me at the same time you're insisting you're not taking umbrage.

You know … I go round and round about this in my head and end up wasting a lot of time I could use to think about other things, I guess.

This is a far more nuanced take than I think a lot of the Two Minute Hate here is reaching.

You know, it's a recurring trend and I wonder (as I scratch my chin thoughtfully) whether it's the unfortunate byproduct of modern society having lost it's "consensus" points. So, if we can agree—and we don't have to—that there will never be another "Beatles" because media and culture are too diffuse, maybe we mourn…

Okay, fair. Another take? Consider the kid who just doesn't like sports growing up, maybe because or exasperated by the the fact that s/he isn't any good at them. And maybe s/he's been self-conscious about that because society is literally obsessed with sports and talks about it incessantly and looks at you cock-eyed…

Are you sure she didn't say "Muppets"?