This is true of pretty much every discussion of any "generation" - there really isn't such a thing as a "generational" point of view on dating, or Web sites, or anything like that. There are some mathematical curves you can observe, if you ignore crazily significant things like economic class or education level, and…

Goddamn what a show.

"Generations" are a marketing gimmick. They're invented in pop marketing bestsellers by ignoring all confounding factors in survey results and reifying mathematical averages as real things, whether or not they exist. The concepts are also good ways to divide workers against each other, which is how they're used right…

So: ever since the birth of the institution known as dating, it has only ever been a certain type of person who views dating as an exercise in oversharing, or delayed oversharing. This sort of person has always been drawn to drama, the stage, film and TV, whether as a fan, a critic or a creator. That's perfectly all…

objectifying men financially

I think it's weak to make a song that attacks people for being poor. A song raking dudes hollering at women from their friend's passenger-side window though, that's okay by me.

Are you on speed? Settle down.

Check the comment history for the Disqus account. If that's an act, it's method.

Here's my Hatesong: people who hide their Disqus comments on their profile.

Sleeper is Phillips/Brubaker, turns out. Oh, well. I'd recommend it anyway.

Fury Road is an excellent example of a successful, fun and adventurous movie that didn't play it safe, and makes for a great contrast to the Marvel paint-by-numbers exercise.

I don't understand your negative attitude. To me, it's that there are more movies out there than just Hollywood action toy-sellers. There's no problem with "Winter Soldier" as an action flick for boys; it's just that it's little more than that. (Not sure why you had trouble understanding my example there and decided…

Isn't this the essence of what I mean, though? All the Marvel/Disney movies are "Star Wars"-types, soft science fiction/action pitched toward preteen boys. There's nothing at all like 2001 in the series, or even close. Someone else said this, but I agree: you might think "Winter Soldier" is a political thriller, if…

They're all action-adventure/science-fiction movies with very similar structures. They're not really any different from other Hollywood summer movies in that regard. Some of the directors involved have talked about how their movies were chopped to fit this standard in post. As for the popularity of Iron Man before the…

I suddenly realized: it's really funny to imagine Captain America taking a shit

You are going to have a hard time of it if you want to claim that the Marvel/Disney flicks aren't safety-first, at least if you do it among people who watch other movies, like, any other movies.

Calm down… it's not that big a deal.

Anti-"P.C." rhetoric has never been involved with good comedy, nor has the phrase ever been used in a funny way by someone if they weren't making fun of people who use it seriously.

Why would we need a special word for that?

You have some hang-ups with high school? The impression I get is that you really, really, really want to be friends with celebrities, even vicariously. You want to believe it's all those celebrities, plus you, versus everyone else. It's not.