There are several theater awards that have one annual winner and they still see pretty diverse individuals winning. I don’t know that there is any way to know empirically that all awards would go to men unless it was tried.

don’t forget literally every non-performance category

I totally agree but I’m not looking forward to Republicans losing their shit over this. Like dude we get it Ted Cruz you’re a horrible piece of shit with horrible opinions that no one loves not even your own family.

I hope someone gives this guy a swift kick in the dick several times on your behalf.

In case anyone’s not keeping track of the “2020s decade of things that should go without saying but here we are having to say them anyway”:

“He’s such an insufferable hack, who is watching him?”

It’s definitely mostly an act. He thinks breaking gives him a sort of “aw, shucks” vibe that’s charming. Really it just ruins whatever he’s in and is annoying as hell.

Could anyone have predicted that Jimmy Fucking Fallon would somehow host the Tonight Show for [check notes] almost ten years!? He’s such an insufferable hack, who is watching him?

It’s a fantastic show with a fanbase angry that the half of the population who only exists for them to jerk off at have actual things to do in this one. Worth watching, not worth reading the incels screaming how terrible it is.

Exactly right. People defend the show by saying, “It give you all the information you need!” And that’s kind of true. It just gives you information, in the most bland, schematic way possible, not even attempting to make you CARE about anything.

What has happened to this guy? Maybe it’s because I was young but I remember during the W years Bill was cool and edgy. He’s slowly devolved into some boomer hack. 

No he wasn’t. He was never respectable and his opinions were always ignorant (even if broken clock). His liberal audience was just more enamored with smarmy reactionaries-as-centrists back then than they are now (see also: West Wing). Also the whole pseudointellectual New Atheism movement he was the mainstream media…

House II is one of my favorite underrated movies, and I long wondered why Maher didn’t get more acting gigs given that he played such a note-perfect smug, entitled, tone-deaf, sleazy asshole. And then I found out he wasn’t so much acting as just showing up on set and being himself and remembering to react when people…

Now, “they kind of believe that you’re owed a living as a writer, and you’re not.”

He’s as smart as he is handsome.

You sound like a great teacher, and I’m glad your students have you!

With all sincerity, thank you for this. I previously thought I had a good argument and you thoroughly dismantled it. Not to be corny but your students are lucky to have you as a teacher.

Yes, and I will defend that decision to the ground. It is a pedagogically sound decision. My role as a professor is to foster critical thinking and knowledge formation in all of my students. To do that, we need a classroom community where students feel free and safe. Too often, critiques like yours fail to truly take…

Every time they try that it fails.
They’ve done multiple spin-off networks of MTV and VH1 and they all pivot from music videos to shows about music to shows that aren’t about music until the music’s all gone.

Last night we watched “Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room”. The most infuriating parts were ex-CEO Jeff Skilling claiming he couldn’t possibly have known that his company would go bankrupt within a year of his departure, and that he can’t be held responsible for the actions of a lone CFO who committed wire fraud -…