There are a lot of countries that can be qualified as “free” - basically the ones I mentioned, also Japan, South Korea, some countries in South America, etc, all in varying degrees of course. One country will do something one way, the next country will do it another way. It’s all subjective.

I love America, but if you think America is “more free” than the countries in the EU (and there’s a lot of them), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Norway, etc. you’re falling for the exceptionalist “America > everywhere else” idea. Again, there’s lots to love about America, but it manifestly isn’t the…

Glad it wasn’t just me!

Not disagreeing with you, I’m just here to provide you with a list of action movies (some of them are great, others, not amazing, but they’re all entertaining) that are headlined by women, should you ever want to watch one where the woman isn’t the “sexy token”.
I’m sure there’s more, these are off the top of my head.

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Yeah, that was... Odd.

That’s a wonderful post!

I mean, just think of someone with a soothing voice reading those lines, while a beautiful tracking shot in semi slow motion shows a car with a family inside glide through a landscape and cruise down a highway...

So now that it’s been established that it is in fact the 2000ish Hyundai Elantra, how will Jalopnik proceed? Contact authorities? I’m honestly curious! I’d appreciate an update, as I’m sure everyone would...

You’re welcome. Can’t believe this actually happened, ugh, so horrible.

What’s up with that flag though?!

I completely disagree with your message but I chuckled at the attack helicopter joke!

At least she admits straight out the gate that she is, in fact, pretentious.

EDIT - just read Dr. Smit(h)‘s later replies. Don’t really know how to delete a post, soo...
Anyway, she seems a lot nicer (less pretentious!) in that post than in her story!

The memories!!

No of course not, I get that! My only point is - she clearly is white. I mean, it’s clear as day that she is not anything but white. I’m relieved that it seems everyone sort of knew, and was talking about it behind her back, because otherwise I would not have been able to wrap my mind around it.

I mean, she doesn’t even remotely look like her ethnicity is anything other than caucasian. At first glance (and every subsequent one), she just looks like a white lady with curls.

Purely from a visual perspective, I could have understood if the woman in question looked like, say, Rashida Jones, but in this case it…

Dammit, I overlooked the part where it says he is for gender-segregated labs. Okay, so that makes me look sorta stupid, I guess. I stand by my general point, but this particular guy deserved what he got. I apologize for this error on my part, because if I had seen that crucial detail, I would have picked a different…

Ugh, Tim Hunt, not Tim Cook. Darnit.

Can I ask you something? And upfront let me just say that yes, that is a sexist thing he said, that much is obvious. Big surprise, a 72 scientist apparently lacks emotional intelligence and isn’t super progressive. I’m not going to debate that. I also don’t intend to defend him in particular, my question is intended…

As I said in response to another post, I didn’t mean to imply they are exactly the same, only that when you look at it in general terms, they are each other’s equivalent in the sense that they both cater to the wish fulfillment and escapism fantasies of their respective target audiences and genders.

Men and women’s…

All I meant to say was that in broad, general terms, Entourage and Sex And The City could be considered to be the equivalent of each other, in the sense that they are sex-obsessed escapism fantasies that cater to the imagination of their respective genders/target audiences.
Of course I fully realize that there are…