Yeah you're the one thinking manly = demanding.

Maybe don't tell them how STEM fields work then?

I'd prefer to blame the culture at large for giving South Park such abundant, never-ending source material.

"I'd like [roughly 50% of the U.S electorate] identified, belittled and reprogrammed." —- cool, woke guy.

yeah, large swathes of reddit are wonderful communities of people from a broad spectrum of political stripes, just getting on. Often a good place to escape the smug, holier-than-thou snark that is infecting AV Club these days. Hope I'm not considered a troll for saying that, I still mostly love this site.

The heavy-handed symbolism really grated for me. Feces-encrusted mirrors and orbs with estranged children in them … above all else, they felt so lazy

Well if an attempt to have an honest conversation about the doctrinal dangers of Koranic interpretation results in "disillusioned Islamic kids" feeling "persecuted" and blowing shit up, then somehow I feel it's still their fault for blowing shit up.

Yeah but the Bible's New Testament pretty explicitly obviates the Old Testmant violence; in the Koran we see almost the complete opposite: the relatively peaceful, introspective Mecca passages are obviated by Mohammed's genocidally violent teachings in Medina.

Morrissey's been tedious and grouchy for years but this is definitely the closest he's been to being right for some time. Reads more like anti-Islamist statement which is good, and needed. Fuck all the tired, we're-all-in-this-together shit. Kids are getting blown up because of a hateful ideology in which people think…

Have POC really had centuries of cultural reinforcement telling them "don't play DND or read sci-fi?"

Maybe. To me it just seemed like his experiences were a series of interactions with prejudiced individuals, rather than some group systemic problem. I don't know how applying these intersectional ideas to something as ill-defined as "geekdom" helps anyone. I don't even know how useful they are in understanding society…

If you trace every single thing that happens to POC back to white people, including, in this instance, their own behaviour, how is this woke? Aren't you just saying POC have no agency and moral responsibility is for white people?

Dude that's her?! Fair play she's amazing in COM. Maybe it's just comedy doesn't suit her; when she says her ex was "inserting her penis into her vagina" it kinda felt like she was reading it off autocue. Idk.

They are all very wealthy in a way that never quite seems plausible. What's Dev done, a few adverts? (Only just started season 2). Maybe I'm overly cynical, but this makes some of the identity politics moralising grate a bit. Not sure I can justify that tho.

Yeah I felt this since the pilot. Always a little stilted and off

This show is very cringey and earnest in its Woody Allenisms, but it's a guilty pleasure.

me too!

I thought this film was okay - but Wheatley CANNOT write dialogue, and I'm amazed this isn't mentioned more. Free Fire is mostly just swearing and dick jokes - which I'd be a fan of if they weren't so witless.

He's a talented lyricist and I mostly enjoy his writing (even if his social commentary can get a bit college-kid-just-discovered-David-Foster-Wallace) —- but I think what seriously takes me out of the moment is the tedious, self-conscious, wink-wink shit. Leaving LA is just one diatribe of pre-emptive…

This is such a bad take, oh my