To me, the issue with pulling out anti-vax quotes from 2009 is that in a way, it’s almost anti-science. Science is all about the process of learning new information and then recalibrating based on that new information. It defeats the purpose if you throw people’s past theories in their face for the rest of their lives…

The pseudoscience thing definitely bothers me. The slut-shaming seems like it was blown way out of proportion. I can’t access the full op-ed but it seems like she was describing that she wasn’t targeted for that kind of harassment and that may have been because she wasn’t conventionally attractive for Hollywood and…

he lost his dad and two brothers in a plane crash when he was 10

To me, anti-vax is a wholesale dismissal of vaccine utility or fear of vaccine side effects combined with a proselytizing effort to get other people not to use vaccines. Under that definition, she’s not anti-vax. This is a recent quote from her “But I have never, not once, said that vaccines are not valuable, not…

I disagree that they look that different in age apart from styling choices. Zooey’s bangs read really young, and they also distract from any tell-tale eye wrinkles, while Jon Hamm looks much older when he’s got grey facial hair. But in any case, the real-life couple had a 16 year age gap and it’s an audio medium…

Shocker: sometimes you can be scared of how someone will react to a secret, but once they find out they surprise you with their acceptance and support, it makes you closer, and you're freed from living every day lying to people you care about. I'd never undo coming out even though I was scared about it for years.

Personally I'll be disappointed with any iteration of Taskmaster whose MO isn't kidnapping Marvel heroes and forcing them to do strange and inventive quests like making portraits out of toilet paper, putting popsicles into rainbow order while blindfolded, and melting blocks of ice as quickly as possible.

Without having seen it, it doesn't seem like a English language version of Hi Mom would work? It seems pretty dependent on the cultural notion of filial piety and nostalgia for early 1980s China when the economy was just starting to open up 

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TIL, while looking up recent box office to see how Delta is affecting things, that the highest grossing movie of 2021 is a Chinese riff on Back to the Future where a woman befriends her mom when she’s young and tries to set her up with a different man than her father, this willingly erasing her own existence. Feels…

Given that there aren’t that many queer films and period pieces in general, there’s plenty of period pieces with male gay leads. They’re just more stylistically distinct than the very recent glut of achingly longing lesbian ones. 

I’m not sure if the leaked one is even the one that’s supposed to release soon? But I’d assume it’s because of the pandemic. I’m not going to dig through the history right now, but I don’t think they’ve ever had three movies come out in a four month period before. Plus it would make some logical sense if they think…

Ma'am this is a Wendy's

From the outside I don't think anyone knows if co-writers or any collaboration is balanced or not. Funnily enough it's often people claiming the woman is dead weight, but I never seem to hear anyone speculating about which Coen brother is riding on coattails, or for that matter if Jonathan Nolan would have a…

If it were any other show, I would think it was throwaway. Ted Lasso is so pure though that there aren’t any other characters that are casually cruel that aren’t either problems for Ted to fix or straight up villains like Rupert. For me, the whole season has been a little lackluster because there’s not much tension…

Honestly yeah? There are so many men in entertainment that fail up and turn mediocrity into careers. I'm not saying that produces good entertainment, but women (and tbh all historically excluded groups) deserve the privilege white men have almost always had to be less than exceptional.

Make sure not to mix up What If, What If?, and What If... three completely unrelated pieces of pop culture from the last decade

“kiriganon" and I saw a window into a very dark AU where Zelda is in a problematic love triangle with Link and Ganon. He's such a bad boy! He's killed millions! But also Zelda just wants him to throw her onto a desk and have his way with her!

It sounds a little like My Favorite Year to me, so as long as they keep it on the right side of mawkish it should be pretty good. 

By the end of Big Bang Theory she was pulling 500,000 an episode. Unless she’s Nic Cage levels of terrible with money, she's only working for fun now.