"you behave like a fucking adult and keep quiet at the movies for the benefit of those around you"

I went with a group of friends to see the Bryan Singer-Tom Cruise trainwreck Valkyrie and we were drunk, laughing and mocking throughout because we all found it terrible, but unintentionally hilarious. There were about 30 people besides us in the movie theater, 5 gave us dirty looks and the other 25 seemed happy that…

I think on the first point we have come to pretty solid mutual territory. I don't believe in firm boundary lines, They are rather unwieldy devices. I believe that everything evolves and works on a continuum. When I say things are signs of liberation, it isn't a knee-jerk "an epoch has changed" reaction, it is an…

The talk I've heard about the past few years about adapting Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian makes me wish Peckinpah were still alive. This article reminds me that he's probably the only director in history who could do that novel justice on the screen.

That's unfair. Americans are also ignorant of large towns and small to mid-sized cities that aren't in close proximity to their residence. And some are ignorant of entire states!

Maybe I missed it, but I can't believe nobody has mentioned the reveal that Captain Holt once used a ruler to measure another ruler and is outraged that one was ever in circulation as it was half a centimeter off.

Actually, I skipped that paragraph regarding strippers and porn stars because I thought it tied into my responses about performance and expression and I'm not a fan of redundancy. A lot of people are willing to do things that are uncomfortable for money or other people. The porn industry admits regularly that the sex…

On bisexuality, I agree that it is useful to use terms gay and straight to express dominant sexual attraction, but I think it is harmful to our understanding of human sexuality not to acknowledge that these terms aren't entirely accurate despite their utility. For example, I am straight, but I have to acknowledge that…

Full disclosure, I debate topics like this to practice my rhetorical skills so they are still sharp if I return to grad school. My reading backlog is pretty deep and sex/gender studies isn't an area I work on outside of how it relates to Nietzschean and American Pragmatic philosophies and in this case I am engaging in…

"Anti-sex" might have been worded too strongly for the position, but I'm struggling to find a term to cover the backlash at things like GGW, The Chive and young women having sex with multiple partners which I believe are indications of sexual liberation from millennia of patriarchal societies and views that women are…

That's a very fair point. I haven't read Levy's work and have no intention of continuing any assault on her viewpoint. My issue was with McCown's reading of her, accurate or not, in the paragraph that begins "For Levy", because it is using her work to posit that pro-sexual feminism is just old subjugation under a new…

Well, Marky Mark is famous for Boogie Nights, so… ;)

Never got sloppy seconds and I was less defending the show as art than attacking the feminist ideology of people like Ariel Levy.

I thought I would hate BMS, but after a little while I really came to enjoy it. I knew athletes in school and BMS was very honest about how they act. When they aren't on the field, they are getting wasted and having sex with the campus' sports groupies. They rarely go to class and they act like putting a couple more…

I don't think Entourage is a dumb show. I think at it's best it is very subversive take about how life in Hollywood is. Vinnie Chase is a fictional version of Mark Wahlberg, who is famous for having casual sex with half the beautiful women in the town. It understands young women very well. Great sex with an attractive…

No mention of his work in Assault on Precinct 13? He and Fishburne elevated what could have been an awful remake of a Carpenter classic into a solid genre film.

"It seems they want a Russian actor to play the Communist revolutionary"

I think that is the big thing to determine if someone is a good person. Frank has a lot of flaws, especially from a perspective 40 years in the future, but he always seems to try to help and not to harm others.

Maybe she is an avid Cracked reader who found a time machine and went back to the 70s.

I think as the show progressed through the season it seemed that Bill is the main protagonist (at least we seem to see more and more through his eyes. Poor guy with the stadium bathroom and parents' bedroom mishaps…) and Frank is just the dominant personality in the household.