I guess now’s a good time repeat the statement that all Rick and Morty superfans think they’re a Rick when really they’re a Jerry.

Since it was brought up in the article, I’d like to talk with y’all about this whole “reverse racism doesn’t exist” thing, because I really don’t understand it.

Normally I’d agree with you 100% and I respect lawyers who have to work with, umm, unsavory people, for the sake of upholding our legal system. I’m glad the system works this way, because an unsavory person can very well turn out to be an innocent person, which is what matters in the end.

“I don’t see color” is basically racist, because what they’re really saying is that they don’t notice they are subsumed in the dominant (white) culture and expect everyone to similarly fall in line with dominant (white) culture. Racism by erasure, full stop, cut and cry.

The gag of it all is that this is all to lift white students back to their former glory, but if they were to really move into a meritocratic system Harvard would be 40-50% Asian students instead of their current 22%. Don’t believe me? Caltech’s fall enrollment for 2016-2017 was 42% Asian-identifying and MIT’s was 30%…

Look, homeopathy makes a mockery of basic scientific principles. Trying to draw some sort of analogy between homeopathy and nutrition— which seems to produce “contradictory” studies only because it involves extremely complicated human biology with thousands of confounding variables— is downright dishonest. It’s…

The answer, as always, is facial hair.

ASOIAF has some of the best female characters in fantasy period so maybe unclutch those pearls a little bit

Imagine thinking this has anything to do with anybody’s point.

As I’ve said over and over, the point is that Sansa is eventually not even the primary character in her own rape scene. I don’t know why this would baffle you.

As I said in my last comment, these arguments have been repeated over and over since that episode aired. I have a refutation for each of your sentences because I was wading in way back when, but we’re obviously not going to convince each other. Suffice it to say: I’m on the side of the dozens of critics who thought of…

No, we’re seeing Theon and hearing Sansa. The scene, roughly 3.5 minutes of which is not the rape act, firmly establishes Sansa’s psychological and visceral state, the transformation from the usual walking on eggshells that one must do around Ramsay, to the horrifying realization that he’s going to take the violence…

Again, we only see this happen for 25-30 seconds out of a nearly 4 minute scene. You’d think, from these criticisms, that exactly zero time was spent developing Sansa’s psychological and visceral response to the unraveling events. In fact, the vast majority of the scene, over 80% is spent doing precisely that. I don’t…

That concept just blew my mind. I feel like it should be a lyric in a really good song.

I and many others didn’t understand this purported concern over “how it was portrayed,” because there was nothing salacious or titillating about it. The act itself occupies a grand total of 25 or 30 seconds of airtime, almost all of which is off-camera. The scene in which it occurs is nearly 4 minutes long, and is…

Mmm, I disagree. To take a concrete example, the infamous Sansa rape scene in GoT. The main criticism there was how it was portrayed, not that Ramsay would be the kind of person who rapes women.

Again, it’s not about being “woke”. I never claimed rape etc shouldn’t exist in those universes. It’s about not sensationalizing it over and over and over again because “we make gritty realistic shows here at HBO.”

There’s a nice, wide continuum between “completely unrealistic super progressive societies” and “let’s show as much rape and female torture as we possibly can to get those viewing numbers up, guys!”

Obviously not? The difference is that GoT and Westworld are fictional universes where ‘social’ rules may be rewritten, whereas the entire conceit of The Deuce is historical accuracy.

IMO The Deuce and other “seedy historicals” have more of a leg to stand on, because the fact is there was (and continues to be) a lot of female misogyny, and violence committed against women. You simply can’t have a story about pimps and prostitutes in 70s New York without at some point showing how deadly dangerous it…