It’s both. They are not mutually exclusive.

I think he’s just saying that social media movements are here and gone, all feelings in one moment and then forgotten a week later. He wants something more sustainable and thoughtful.

I believe what he is saying is that we need to process and focus on the social problem rather than focus on the emotional impulses of the initial reaction. For instance, plenty of people have gotten angry at the string of men that have been revealed to be predators, but what exactly is being done about it so that…

Gossip I think covers a lot more than who is sleeping (or not sleeping) with whom. Such as gossiping about someone’s “temper” or aggressiveness etc.

As if men don’t gossip. Sheesh.

What she said about women’s gossip (in certain circumstance) as a form of warning to other women was extremely interesting. Would like to hear more about that through an anthropological lens.

I’ve learned that there’s fight, flight, and freeze.

She gives the most exquisitly concise argument yet seen about how things should be; what a developed society demands of the human animal...

I watched the first forty-five minutes in a room full of Classical musicians.

I watched Whiplash with a couple of people who thought it was completely unrealistic for a teacher to be that sadistic. Meanwhile I was weeping because it reminded me so much of the kind of abuse I experienced and witnessed when I danced ballet.

Being told you sound like a herd of elephants when landing a jete was a weekly occurrence when I danced and we were just a dumb company from nowheresville.

Balanchine was a pig. He made abusing his ballerinas into a sport.

I definitely never take a CNN review seriously.

GO AWAY

Oh no people are enjoying things on the internet that aren’t precisely what you can permit! And seriously? Last funny SW movie was... the last SW movie. They’re all funny, prequels excepted because they’re mostly just miserable and goofy in alternating portions. Having funny moments doesn’t mean it isn’t a serious…

I rewatched TFA last night. Hux’s spit-sputtering speech just before Starkiller fired on the Hosnian system was almost surreal in its b-movieness levels of theatrics. Expect more, to occasional comic levels.

Spoilers would indicate it’s taking more from Return of the Jedi if anything, but it goes off on its own new direction which, as I see from reddit having a meltdown, is now *too much* change. So, you know, it’s a lose-lose for the producers of the franchise.

From what I’ve read, nobody is going to be screaming that this is an Empire redux. People actually seem to be saying it has more in common with ROTJ, if anything.

Surely you’re not comparing it to Attack of the Clones, which is probably the worst of all the Star Wars films (arguably).