I haven’t had a chance to watch the essay yet, but I’ll offer the unpopular (for io9) take that Rogue One is the best of the Disney Star Wars films and quite possibly the second best Star Wars film overall. (TESB being number 1.) 

I mean if you want one-to-one recaps, Wikipedia’s right there, fam.

Did y’all know Denis Lawson is Ewan McGregor’s uncle?

I loved his early work with Chris Bosh and Sam Cassell.

Plus they know each characters full arc before starting.

She's ten, of course she would pick the Nose.

I’m impressed.  I have looked at El Capitan a few times and taken a couple of pictures of it. Would I climb it? No, I told you I have looked at it.

When I was 10, I was afraid to trade pogs.

My point is that running up the score and over the top celebrations are two very different issues. The former, from what I know of Soccer, could actually be argued to be better sportsmanship than just kicking it around and not trying to score.

Not perhaps - she was absolutely the most egregious. I watched the goal celebration supercut and picked her out as the worst offender starting from goal 6 or 7 on. Then she scored the 10th? goal and starts pirouetting and supersliding like she just iced the game in the finals.

Thing is, if the reaction to the criticism was “Yeah, maybe we stepped over a line but we were caught up in the excitement of the World Cup and that’s understandable” the story would be dead. Basically any reaction but “FUCK YOU, LOSERS! USA! USA! USA!” and it’s a non-story. 

Also uniquely American: The number of straw-man arguments in this thread about goal differential when the issue that the majority of critics, and the one discussed in the actual post above, has way more to with how the USWNT, Rapinoe perhaps most egregiously, behaved after scoring some of those later goals.

This story has been a great reminder of why internet debate is often so awful.

Ah there it is! The “dudes criticizing women” take. Women should be built up, not torn down, right?

As we’re still mathematically likely to see in Toronto ... it might be worth a one year rental if it brings Boston a championship.

“I think, as a Canadian, we would just never ever think about doing something like that”

“I think, as a Canadian, we would just never ever think about doing something like that,” 

And you certainly don’t run up the score by 13 goals against a team who’s ranked 40 spots below you

Don’t hurt yourself with that reach, king.

Not a third? Because my toddler watches the SHIT out of Moana more than Frozen.