Lady Pole Vaulters. And that’s how a new fetish is born.

Oh, the things you have to do to get a Tap from Keys nowadays . . .

Let you know what, sweetie pie?

The best part of ditching cable is knowing that no more of my money is going to ESPN. Once they were cool, but they’ve all lived long enough to become the villains in their own stories.

Spotlight is a terrible, boring film made from a terrible, boring screenplay.

There’s so much talking in this film, it’s more like a lecture than a movie. The Catholic Church covered up the rampant rape of children by its priests? No kidding. That story was old news a decade ago.

Oh my God it’s been on for eighteen minutes and my mind is bleeding. ALL THE STUPID!

When is Kanye going to do an album about his pretending to be straight?

LOL. Excellent point.

Great post. Cogent, unflinching, and persuasive.

No, Geek Culture is just fandoms, mostly among white people. Cool is an actual thing, it is the American secular religion, it’s chief priest was Arthur Fonzerelli, and its disciples are legion and its appeal universal. So be cool, engage in your harmless entertainments, and answer what the Nielsens would love to know:…

What’s being made fun of is people who are clinging to the modes and forms of childhood, despite progressing into adulthood. This subculture is just as odd as the very popular one where grown men where the jerseys of other grown men to cheer the exploits of the men who wear those jerseys as a uniform. It’s a pursuit…

It’s not the poverty that’s being made fun of, it’s the idiosyncratic interests. Look at the lives of the characters: they have lots of things they don’t need; they are adults who play with toys. It’s the law of comedy: the powerful must be the victim of the joke because making fun of the weak is not funny, it’s abuse.

“Geek Culture” does not exist. It is not a culture. It is consumerism, it is fandom. Making fun of the people who enjoy science fiction, fantasy, comic books, animation, superheroes—it’s like making fun of fans of the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox or baseball in general or sports in general.

These things are…

i’m sorry to hear that, thank you for sharing your perspective.

Like, Americans.

What’s Leonard’s stereotype? Sheldon has aspergers, yet he’s the breakout character. Bazinga.

That this is a tv show on at 8pm on CBS for people who may not understand—or be in the mood for—heavy, dark, complex satire. They deserve entertainment, too. If you think there’s an audience at 8pm for edgy, black humor, pitch your idea to HBO. They’d buy it in a second . . . except the people who like those shows are…

there’s a whole audience out there that doesn’t “get” Southpark or The Office or Veep, and they need to be entertained, too. At least it’s a series propping up science as a worthwhile goal and worthy of esteem.

Besides, who is watching television at 8pm? Ever? Big Bang Theory is the fucking Wire in that time slot.

The characters are likable. They’re good spirited people dealing with adverse circumstances. It’s worked for millions of people in the audience; let’s admit the success and try to understand rather than reject the results as irrational.

can you give an example? it seems like gentle fun: these people have quirks, but are at bottom, committed, loyal friends who don’t take advantage of each other—they’re good people, people you can trust, people who adhere to a code of pleasantly innocuous norms and values.

if anything, nerd culture is celebrated—these…