It’s bullshit to get mobbed for appreciating literature, but it’s also a weird book to pick as your “favorite”. Someone needs to get that celeb a library card. 

You have to understand something - generally speaking, the only people who offer an intellectual defence for screwing kids based on their potential level of maturity are people who want to, well, screw kids. The Venn diagram on this one is likely very near a complete circle. And there is zero appetite for social…

I’m a die hard liberal but I also accept some things are so objectively scarring and damaging to society and people that maybe it’s best if we just don’t go there. Discussions about whether 12 year olds have sufficient agency to screw adults is one of the few items on my “nope” list. That being said, I think its…

Jesus Chris, what a train wreck of a summary of that book. 

While not a full defence, Sorvino’s character was at least 16 or 17 as opposed to 12, so while not cool, significantly less gross. 

And all I’m saying is that you’re playing with other people’s chips. No one has to risk their investments just because some people think it’s the right thing to do. I just don’t hold people to that standard. 

It might not be right but it doesn’t appear they have any evidence he went there intending to shoot people as opposed to just being one of the stand your ground chuds, and I’ve watched all the video of the second set of shootings and there is zero chance they get him for murder on the second guy. He was running away…

Hey, it’s a public service to be creating content that keeps people inside their homes. Lesser evil and all that. 

You keep teaching me squirt, one day I’ll come around. 

That’s not so, they said he had Aspergers in the first episode, and it was pretty clear in later episodes that they knew he was on the spectrum.

Sometimes I just want to pinch your cheeks, you adorable little social justice munchkin.

Let’s both pitch in a few bucks. 

But there’s no overarching body to deal with this. It’s all based on individuals putting up their own money to fund a movie. If your choice is between helping fund a movie about a trans person starring an unknown lead actor, or the next Scarlett Johannsen movie, you’re going to pick the Johannsen movie every time.…

This is a good point. I think the filmmakers decide it would detract from the scene. There’s no reason why a character can’t just have Parkinson’sor be in a wheelchair without anyone needing to acknowledge it, but I think people have this idea it would be distracting or something. You start to see it done more…

Does anyone really want to watch a movie carried by Shuri?

I think the better point is that movies are very, very expensive and the people putting the money up want people to go to them. Which means casting someone people know so they buy tickets. The option is making a very low budget movie with a quadriplegic actor no one has heard of, in order to hedge your bets, or…

Outrage is a viral phenomenon. How its meted out is not based on reason or any coherent system, its a trend that runs away with itself just like the ice bucket challenge or Kony 2012. It’s been public knowledge for 10 years that Mark Whalberg was involved in actual, literal violent hate crimes when he was younger, and…

I think the error is in thinking that art is supposed to be a form of supporting a community or a means of uplifting specific individuals. If the performance is tasteful and well done then I don’t see the crime.  

You just need to see a guy like Reid McCarter use a term like “scalping” to be reminded the AVClub’s woke-washing is a total grift and cynical marketing strategy. 

I feel they had this show conceptually all wrong. They should have focused the show around Ben Schwartz’s character, a washed up PR guy desperately trying to put a positive spin on a disaster of a space program, as those are by far the most entertaining scenes. The fact is they have no idea what Carrell’s character…