I think I’m getting irked because I basically asked three times “how’s this relatable? (in a thread about what is or isn’t relatable, so I’d say that is necessarily the point) Have you really been in such a situation?”, and every time you’ve been terse, evasive, and now flat-out condescending. Which, I guess, is…

so this never actually happened to you. got it lol

I want to say that if I was that famous I’d just make my endorsement and then ask my pr team to shield me from having to engage with any dumb opinions or backlash, but then again I can’t keep my own self out of the AVClub comments section, so I can see his point.

my parents already explained the demonic birds and vessel bees; I’m good fam

My point being more that I can’t divine a real-world situation where one person in a couple puts down their card to pay, you say “thanks” to them, and the other member of the couple goes “ahem...?” I’ve never seen anything remotely like that beyond the made-up situation on tv.

ah, Freddie’s a perfectly serviceable replacement.

maybe I just don’t end up in many situations where someone picks up the check at a meal (splitting checks has become a lot more common in the last 20 years, and venmo abets where an establishment may not), but I’m absolutely drooling for details about how this affects your dining experience.

oh we know you aren’t interested in reading the article lol

I don’t see an “Us vs. Them” framing in the article; I do see one in the way you immediately frame an article praising female characters as an us vs. them situation. Praise isn’t some zero-sum situation, and if you can only see “to the detriment of men” tacked on to praise towards women... why, it almost seems like…

...they’re praising women and you’re getting fussy lol

tell me your politics are purely reactionary without saying your politics are purely reactionary

Visually it’s an aggressively mediocre movie and I definitely wouldn’t hold it up as High Art or a success on the level of the original, but I liked that it had something to say about its own place in a culture that’s devouring itself and the rage-courting nature of the internet these days (he commented on the…

hey, on the plus side this might generate a reappraisal of Resurrections.

damned remarkable that someone with such poor reading comprehension managed to generate half the comments on this article. 

lol you’re definitely not mad that a trans woman made a movie. i thought your whole thing was “everyone gets an equal chance,” and now you’re kvetching about people “jumping the line”

I think it might help to separate out the two thoughts: The UCB/NYC scene is a gatekeeping organization in the comedy scene, and Vera Drew managed to develop a comedy career on her own.

Between this and the “I’m no longer body positive I’m body neutral” NYT piece you can see we are experiencing the PR pivot.

the irony is I don’t think he’d ever identify as transphobic; there’s something deep inside him offended by the concept of the movie and instead of taking a second to shut up and think about why that is, he’s doubling down and framing himself as a victim of “culture war” that keeps attacking him at every turn. when…

Truly a delight in anything where he showed up; Harold Weir could’ve been a stereotypical Angry Sitcom Dad but he injected such humanity and affection into the role.

maybe gather ‘round the kitchen table for a game of Pit afterwards?