This show is great. I’m really enjoying it. I was barely aware of Halston before I started it.

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This year’s “Stop Telling Women to Smile” meme is here. Once again, there will be many more people excited to police this behavior than actual incidents, and opportunities to shame will have to be strictly rationed.

It sounds like you could definitely imagine it. Isn’t it the exact same phenomenon?

Sure, he makes electric cars and spaceships, but he doesn’t participate in LARP-marxism, so he’s a class enemy. 

“Why does our society constantly celebrate actors, singers and athletes, while ignoring the real heroes, people working to make electric cars?”

I really liked the Steve Forbes, episode. I’m not particularly fond of Steve Forbes, but he has multiple very memorable turns in this episode - especially Teve Torbes, but the roofer bit too. 

There really is no reason to pretend these movements are punk. It’s ok that they are not. 

If BLM and #metoo are punk then so are American Airlines, Goldman Sachs and just about every other very large corporation in the USA.

A Jeopardy contestant is having his life ruined for holding up 3 fingers after his 3rd win. If we can’t call this “cancel culture,” what’s a better name?

Georgia isn’t “adding” them and New York isn’t “doing away” with them. Laws are not in a state of flux. The laws these states have passed are their laws. Unless the governor is midway through signing a law, it is not in the process of being added. 

What definition of those terms would include Afghanistan? This is the sort of “you know what I mean” logic with reference to ethnicity that people who care about representation should be condemning.

Not knowing anything about anywhere is so common that this writer seems to think having Afghan characters contributes to “Middle East and North African representation.”

Mocking people’s bodies is bad.

We really need a way to reward participants of surprisingly good things, other than with money for mediocre sequels. Sort of like the “moral rights” laws in Europe that give artists rights over their work even after they’ve sold them, this would be a “Nicely Done” law that pays you not to make a lousy sequel to a…

No one is being “overpowered” or “invalidated.” You’re allowed to have your own opinion about a movie. 

Being in favor of “at-will” employment doesn’t mean you’re in agreement with every termination. It’s still possible to believe that some people get fired for the wrong reasons.

Your friend gives an opinion on a movie and you’re required to listen and not respond? A friend is someone with whom you argue about movies.

It’s commented many times in House of Cards that Claire was an extremely desirable young woman and that her choice of Frank was surprising. That’s a trophy wife character. 

Robin Wright has sort of a Rob Lowe problem, where every character she plays has to be very good looking. Lots of actors are good looking, but they can play “ordinary” characters. Wright can only play beautiful. She always has to be someone’s trophy wife, or princess in distress, and that has probably limited her…