The List is just Watto Twitter, isn't it?

To be honest, I kind of assumed this would have a spiritual component but I'm pretty sure that spiritual subtext is not really there in this case.

I don't particularly love dogs but if you read my first paragraph you'll see me capitulating that come on, dogs showing loyalty and love for their human friends is very touching. I'm not made of stone.

SUCH A GOOD DOG

Bitching about Star Wars: truly the most adult of concerns.

Oh, in that case.

I love the hijinks of when C3PO and that battle droid switched bodies.

I always say, a comics adaption's main job is exactly reproducing insane, exaggerated drawings of human anatomy on the big screen, for all to…. see. Yeah, that's it. See.

Wonder Woman movie needed more boobs. Got it.

I think the idea is that women might want to share this experience with other women, not that they're being given a deluxe, superior treatment by eliminating loudmouthed men.

I don't, but the difference is context. Women have traditionally been caretakers of children in this country, so banning fathers and children from a screening only reinforces that. A women-only screening doesn't reinforce any power structures, especially when anyone can buy a ticket to any other showing.

(Way late on this.)

I did think the laughter sounded a little canned in the first 20-30 minutes — I don't think it actually was, I just think it was mixed in a weird way, or something.

How have they backed down? (Serious question. I hadn't heard anything about that.)

I'm willing to allow some leeway there in the sense that I've certainly seen comics I didn't much care for on talk shows, on network TV, etc. Sometimes polished and confident trumps great material. Though the type of comic they're telling me Clay was does not entirely cohere with what we see of his shtick.

I'm not saying "free to take your business elsewhere" is valid on its own. I'm saying that if you ask a bakery for a cake to be ready at 6PM and they say they can only have it ready at 5PM or 7PM, that's not illegal, because they are offering you the service (even if you suspect that the reason they're not giving you…

The "rescue" thing definitely threw me. I excused the "20 minutes thing" because it seems possible to come up with that earlier than it actually became a cliche, and because it's a set-up rather than a punchline.

Well, the years when Matt Albie was in charge were unimpeachable. Smart, fearless, and sketch after sketch of Gilbert & Sullivan homage. But I do hate all of the episodes after the season where Albie was fired for his all-Gilbert-and-Sullivan episode. Broke my heart when the show re-hired Ricky & Ron and they let…

And if that was really what happened, I don't think there would be much of a case for discrimination, though of course the couple would be free to take their business elsewhere. My point is, a business can't deny a person service based on their gender/sexuality/race/etc., but the customer also can't necessarily demand…

Maybe this has been covered further up or down a long thread, but I don't get the cake analogy in this situation. "The 8PM showing of Wonder Woman on this particular date is only for ladies" is not "we will not bake a cake for a gay wedding" because the service (seeing Wonder Woman) is not being denied. The more…