I'm pretty sure neither of those populations started out as atheists, though.

I'd say that with the advent of the internet, particularly tumblr, women have more options to share and consume sexualized images, and it turns out "gender flipped Playboy" maybe just isn't the kind of visual stimuli that most women respond to. I don't know a single woman who would ever buy something like Playgirl,…

Thank God we all stood up to Big Pharma on the problems that really mattered, though, like vaccines.

I'm not saying this will all have been worth it if a bald, one-armed female soldier rips his face off at the end, but it'll sure help.

There was a boy named Augustus Prew, and he almost deserved it.

Hey, Phyllis Schlafly didn't spread hatred and misogyny for over fifty years just to be left off your shortlist of recently dead assholes. Show some respect.

Different ostensible Columbine martyr. That was Cassie Bernall, a victim who allegedly said yes when asked if she believed in God before being shot, and Valeen Schurr, a survivor who actually did that. Schurr was attacked as a liar by the Christian community when she initially came forward with her story, but it's now…

True, but I think there's some differences between what McQueen was talking about (12 Years a Slave, I assume) and this movie. Hollywood has had over a century to really grapple with the legacy of slavery, and has failed miserably, often avoiding it in entirely to indulge in Lost Cause myth-making. The turbulence of…

I guess the one blessing in her longevity is that she lived long enough to see a new generation of women say "fuck that," and embrace the word again.

Hopefully they're just saving it for Halloween.

What hump?

Is Brooks the only actor from Blazing Saddles still with us? I can't think of anyone else.

I'll admit it. I clicked through just for the presumed Hudsucker Proxy reference.

Old white man screws impoverished single mother out of her one chance to experience fun? Nah. Grandpa Joe's all right.

You wanted an example of an actual Cruising-related gay-bashing victim, I gave you one.

In the documentary version of The Celluloid Closet, screenwriter Ron Nyswaner actually told a story about being violently gay-bashed by men who claimed they were inspired to do it by Cruising.

"That's all Carl Winslows, and no family, on a show called Family Matters! How the FUCK does that work?"

During my Stoppard phase in college, I really enjoyed The Real Inspector Hound. In many ways, it felt like a proto-R&G, with more comedy and less philosophical depth. But there's the same deconstruction of a staple of the English stage (in this case, an Agatha Christie-type cozy mystery), meta-awareness, and morbid…

Care to elaborate about what London did to Parade? You've got me curious.

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