It really is that simple. Calling an African-American woman “a child of an ape” is a well-known racist trope. The POTUS calling a woman a dog is a well-known misogynist trope, as well as being an outrageous abuse of power. An unknown individual calling someone a bedbug because his place of work had been reported to…

You are reading way, way, waaaaay too much into this. This is not dehumanizing language. “Dehumanizing” is an issue when you describe a group - like an “infestation” from Mexico, or a LGBTQ+ folk being “abominations”. That is repulsive, and should be criticized because it is an attempt to turn anyone within those…

I’ve spent many, many, many hours playing this and have had fun, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go to bat for them when they continue to push every boundary when it comes to their monetization. I don’t understand the people that DO. Do you seriously want the industry to keep pushing these boundaries like this? If…

The fact that so many gamers bitch and moan about prices on completely optional cosmetics while also enjoying a game FOR FREE absolutely blows my mind.

Calling someone a bedbug isn’t loaded, for god’s sake! Honestly. Sure, if you can search, you can find an oppressed minority being called bedbugs by their oppressors - Google is great for that. But to suggest that was the motivation behind the comparison, when there was a topical news story on bedbugs at the NYT, is…

Agreed. “Critics find her” is the more intellectual form of Trump’s “Many people are saying”, and deserves just as much contempt. 

I don’t know about other posts, but the sarcasm in that one was pretty obvious.

I read it as him making the point that her blackness was evident from the photograph, so he didn’t need to mention it. However, the way he wrote the tweet makes it clear that he’s talking about removing an African-American rep., and their race isn’t relevant if the challenger is also African American. That is, he…

Needs more stars.

Good eye!

Perversely, this will make online privacy so much easier for him. He’s going to be really hard to find in an online search.

I think the politicians should refer to “one of his parents and most of his wives” as being immigrants...then you get to remind the hypocritical evangelicals of another awkward truth at the same time.

Yeah.  “Distinction without a difference”, and all that.

If I remember the original Miami Herald series from last year correctly, he wasn’t interested in girls once they were too far into puberty. Big boobs in particular, were a turn-off, so you were retired from “massage” duty - although you could still be useful as a recruiter.

I wonder if Graydon Carter even has the self-awareness to realize he’s part of the problem?

She was offside. Only by a hair, but she was offside. It was also definitely a penalty - she kicked her leg away as she was about to shoot. Var + ref got both decisions right.  In the latter, it’s reasonable to argue for a red card for denial of a goal-scoring opportunity.  So be content that it was a penalty, and…

I agree. She was offside, but very narrowly. But VAR means you follow the letter of the law, much as I agree it didn’t affect play. That’s just a consequence of VAR. There will be some point that you move a millimeter in one direction you’re offside, and a millimeter in the other and you’re on. In a way, it’s a shame…

That looks like something designed to fool you into thinking it’s delicious scone, clotted cream and jam. That’s a more elaborate version of the disappointment experienced when biting into a chocolate chip cookie, only to discover they were raisins.

Thank you for the Red Rising commentary. Although it comes too late for me, let it be warning for others. Agree with your take on the author’s implicit love for fascism, and how strong and beautiful people must lead. The other problem I had was that the plot often required Darrow to stupidly trust someone with…