too much hype makes me nervous

In a world full of people saying “don’t minimize my feelings. you don’t get to judge my experience. If I find such-and-such offensive, then it’s problematic”, you really can’t be surprised when eventually that same tactic would be used against “one of their/our own”. That’s why I’ve never supported this line of…

Well done, but there’s something missing. If consent is the key part of progressive sexual ethics, then what of the consent of the one year old? Isn’t the idea that touch, whether explicitly sexual or “done in the name of science”, needs consent at play here, in much the same way we believe that creatures who cannot…

Cue the tired “Sally Fields Toma Hanks from love interest to mother” chants. In that movie she played the mom from very young raising haley joel osment to very old lady (I think they used make-up!) who dies. Hanks played Gump as age 18 to like 40. And in general, actors pretend to be things they aren’t really.

How old was the character she was supposed to be playing?

I’d like to see the same thing done with leading ladies and their love interests.

Amazing, and I heard in both cases she was pretending to be things she wasn’t b/c that’s called acting.

I’m reading a lot about how one character is abused to motivate another, this is “bad writing”. So I guess when that deer king guy was killed and it motivated that female knight Brienne, that was lazy reverse “fridging” huh? Or when Father Stark was killed to motivate daughter Stark, what a lazy troupe right? The very…

It’s really strange to hear a rape scene be described as a “plot device”, just something to transition to the important stuff in the story, as opposed to a major event in the story itself. I suppose like any literary technique, even one as benign as rhyming, it can get overused or misused. But it isn’t, in itself, a…

Seems contradictory is I say “You can’t have access to this water unless you pay for it.”

What are the scammers doing with the EZTV website?

“This is a series with an unfortunate and well explored history of using the rape of its female characters to shock, entertain, and force character development.”

I haven’t seen this movie or any of the other Mad Max movies.

My water company doesn’t. I told them to give me water at my home free of charge because it’s my right, and they refused!

I’m not a big fan of GOT. It’s been boring for a while now. But STOP pretending as though this scene, which you obviously didn’t like, fails to meet some literary criteria of being worthy of existing.

OK, so let’s imagine a trailer full of action. She’s flying around punching shit, laser from the eyes, badass one-liners, all that. Would there be no complaints? No, then certain people (pretty much the same complaining now) would say “oh because a female hero has to act like all the typical male heroes and not have a…

I know for Kanye, he sees class as the more prominent divisor in society above race (not to say racism doesn’t exist anymore). But it goes deeper than that. Within the black community, being black has always been seen as a collection of beliefs, attitudes and habits and not just a skin pigment. Essentially there are…

She didn’t say “I’m not black, I’m white.” Try again.

They never said I’m new black because I’m rich. The idea, I think, is that the mentality of “being black is holding me back, or is wholly determinate of my place in society, or should be at the forefront of my identity” is being put aside. Now for those whose bread and butter rests with identity politics this is a…

Actually, the expectation is for the woman to get fat too. Some women are just determined to defy that tho, for good or bad.