You’ve got a point with some of the stranger neopronouns. If I was designing English from the ground up, I’d like just our basic set plus a single neutral singular neopronoun. The systems in some sci-fi books (mostly Becky Chambers) where you use a neutral neopronoun for everyone until you’re told otherwise just seem…

For sure they're not mutually exclusive! The one thing that unites all humans is we have both assholes and the potential to be assholes.

Ezra Miller has come out as non-binary. I prefer xe/xir or something similar to reduce confusion and pointless arguments about grammar, but the last round of close-minded olds in the 90s killed the more experimental alternatives so here we are.

Is this thread the Futurama writer's room because yikes

Exactly this. You can believe in magic, talking trees, scary wraiths, elves, dwarves, and orcs, but somehow women fighting breaks your suspension of disbelief? There’s no reason except sexism why a magical race like elves shouldn’t have women who are just as strong and warlike, if not stronger, than men. Especially…

She absolutely is. It’s so irrational that she almost definitely couldn’t have been cast as a mainstream romantic lead anywhere five or ten years ago either because of racism or colorism. Shonda’s series may not be 100% my thing all the time, but what she’s done for all kinds of representation is pretty incredible.

Source? Alopecia is only the word for the condition of losing hair. Androgenetic alopecia is the main source of hair loss, but we don’t even know if that’s what Jada has. Alopecia areata is much more likely to cause total hair loss in women and it is 100% a disease that causes your immune system to destroy your hair…

All publicity is good publicity? They’re both less relevant than they once were, this gets people talking about both of them and makes Rock seem like an edgy comedian. Although that’s a weaker argument than it would be if the joke was any good. Mostly the Oscars benefit. They get 48 hours of people talking about them…

Several of the people you cite have vehemently denied being gay to the press, which I would say by definition is not being out? Plus there’s much less of an element of traditional media gatekeeping nowadays, people like JoJo Siwa just put up a social media post, or heck, just a rainbow flag emoji in their bio. Many of…

It looks like it might be a bit to me. Rock’s recovery is too fast, and it looks a little bit like a stage slap. I haven't seen the full context or it slowed down though, so mea culpa if I'm totally off

And yeah, being 100% clear about it does matter! Merely not being “in” is not enough! My grandfathers were in a relationship and lived together for 50 years, but they and my family never acknowledged their relationship was romantic or that they were gay until after marriage equality. It fucked me all the way up…

It really depends what type of “out” you think is important in this context. If you think award representation is important because it can inspire fans with that identity who are currently closeted or questioning, being “out” in your private life isn’t enough. The public didn’t really know Jodie Foster was gay for…

Better than nothing, but second screen interpretation is not fully accessible either, even assuming there aren’t a ton of bugs like there were for the Super Bowl second screen interpretation this year. Many Deaf people I follow on social would prefer other solutions like having the interpreter visible on the regular…

Apparently High Grant has already debunked it, so your instincts are right on. I still think it would be hilarious, the classic Doctor technobabble would be adorable and infuriating with Hugh Grant's 1990s stammer.

And none of this is against any of the Doctors’ performances! Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker all have fantastic moments and compelling approaches to the Doctor.

Ugh . . . part of me is definitely intrigued by the idea, almost like watching a SpaceX launch that will either fail or succeed spectacularly. He could be an interesting palate cleanser one-season Doctor to draw fans back. We’ve been through about nine years of the show not quite living up to its potential. It’s been…

She had a pretty big role on Discovery in season 3 that finished airing in 2021, so depending on your definition of “fresh” the article’s not that wrong. Plus of the live-action stuff she’s made since, only Gunpowder Milkshake and Shang Chi have been released. She doesn’t have that much of a memorable role in either.

Or, more likely, she thought it was relevant to illustrate how little she's going to be caring about her appearance that night in contrast to how she would glam up for the Oscars. It'd be less conversational and more weird to say "oversized flannel"

Oh yeah, it's not just that it seems like it. He shared that he has a bipolar diagnosis a few years ago.

Possibly too exhausting depending on your tastes, but having seen it, it's immensely satisfying.