It depends on your reason for mentioning it. If you’re with your kid in a supermarket and you see her on the cover of a magazine, I don’t think it’s particularly hurtful to go, “Oh hey, did you know? That woman used to be known as Bruce Jenner, and she competed in the Olympics. What a fun fact we’ve both shared.”

Yeah, exactly. The choices that led up to their current situation (having PIV sex instead of any of the types of sex that don’t result in conception, maintaining the pregnancy) are choices, which should reveal something about the parents’ characters. Treating the pregnancy as an immutable, unavoidable fact that the…

Okay, you’ve made a severe turn from reasonable in your original comments to me to hostile for no reason whatsoever. I’m glad you liked the movie and sorry you’ve had a bad day.

Yeah, what does someone like Jennifer Lawrence have to complain about from the top of her pyramid? She may make less money than Jeremy Renner, but at least she has the advantage of being required to be constantly beautiful while poor Renner has the far more difficult task of just letting his face dry out like an old…

I said “decent-ish”, not “dumb,” but my point was quite explicitly that I was open to watching the movie as long as they had any plan at all, regardless of how dumb or decent it was.

Thank you! That does sound like a decent-ish plan. Really the actual viability of the plan is less important to me than just knowing that it exists, because it’s been driving me nuts to read reviews where there isn’t even a parenthetical “don’t worry, they have a plan for when the baby comes” as though no one would…

Sure, but women who are desperate enough have pretty continuously managed to find ways to self-abort in times when abortion is no longer easily obtainable, and “if a baby cries, everybody dies” is a pretty desperate situation.

It’s not the fact of her getting pregnant that I find inexplicable, it’s the decision to carry it to term. Like I said in my original comment, I get that some people are really really really against abortion, but in this particular case, deciding not to find a way to self-abort means that once the baby is born she has…

This had a really good preview, but I’m just not sure I can manage to swallow my disbelief that two adults think that bringing a baby into a world where you must be absolutely silent or you and everyone around you will die is a workable plan rather than an irresponsible death trap for the whole family. Like I get that…

I’m actually pretty sure he’s avoiding commitment so he can revive Hannibal.

I saw him at the end of his Hedwig run in LA and was frankly shocked at how well he played the complexities of that character. It seems like Broadway boot camp was just what he needed.

The “classes” part means that race and sex are protected categories regardless of the specificity of one’s race or sex. Case law has established that businesses cannot discriminate against an individual because they are white, hetero, or a man.

I mean, literally every other show is, so it’s not like you were wrong.

US Queer as Folk gave us the gays of Pittsburgh in the early 2000s, so...close enough?

I would guess the impetus for changing Magneto’s backstory has more to do with the slow march of time than anything else. Otherwise at some point you have to make anti-aging or immortality one of his powers.

I had totally forgotten how great she was until she popped up in guest roles on both seasons of Lady Dynamite. She’s seriously hilarious and so magnetic.

Is “black women will commit fraud for a buck” really a new stereotype to you? If so, congrats on missing out on the decades of panic about welfare queens.

I think it would be difficult for you to argue that Hoffman’s personal history of sexually harassing a teenager has “nothing” to do with the film, given that the film is about systemic machinations to hide and distract from a powerful person’s sexual advances towards a teenager. It would actually be bizarrely meta if…

I would say the opposite: if Dustin Hoffman wanted a particular topic off the table, he should have presented those to the panel organizers before agreeing to do the panel. That’s generally how it works in interviews; it’s up to the subject (or rather, their representation) to say “You can’t ask me about X, Y, or Z.”

The original incidents happened 40 years ago, but Hoffman acting like a dick about it happened this year. If he’d been a grownup and said “Yeah, I was really shitty when I was younger, but I’ve grown past that behavior and have since realized that it’s not okay to grab teenagers’ asses and make weird remarks about…