Lindy West, you have made me irl lol so many times with just this one column. I am thrilled that you are here at Jez.

I wish Ms. Pedrad got more screentime! I love her.

Things that will haunt me forever: this.

Or Sherlock could be asexual — I don't really think he's "at risk" of suddenly having a romantic relationship with Watson because she's pretty and they live together. I've lived with plenty of attractive people and never accidentally fallen in love with them. They could also make Watson a lesbian and keep her…

Right? I want to love this show but I don't know if I can do it.

That would be great if we lived in a world where all media was representative, but it's not. Because so many movie plots are already derivative, by adhering to the original races it creates a never-ending cycle of exclusion of minorities. There wouldn't be a single black person in a Spider-Man movie if we wanted to…

The saddest part about the whole debacle was an interview with him where he said his daughters loved the cartoon because Katara resembled them. And then he cast a white girl.

This has been my stance on things — I'm trying my hardest to not consume media that is 100% white, because my life isn't like that. Even the lives of my white friends aren't like that since they have at least one token minority friend (me), so.

I want to give this comment a standing ovation. Lucy Liu is the only reason I'm going to watch the new Sherlock Holmes show, mostly because the head-exploding outrage that a WOMAN! OF COLOR!?!? will be playing a white man's role has made me seriously reconsider my involvement in media fandom online.

They weren't all white? The camera lingered for quite some time on some black extras in the crowd during the Reaping (the girls behind me were counting all the background minorities, and we were all surprised at how diverse everything actually was).

Yeah it's pretty clear you aren't a genetics major. Katniss, even with a white skinned blonde sister, doesn't have to be white — traits are a funny thing, and there have been several instances of twins born to biracial parents to have completely different coloring ([abcnews.go.com], for ex.). Katniss could be white or…

It's not that a white girl was selected, it's that the casting call was only for Caucasian actresses when "olive skin" could cover a whole host of races and ethnicities, thereby excluding all other readings of the character.

Yup! So it's like he's ripping himself off!

Except that the plot point of the Hunger Games is only a part of the political machine that Collins is writing about. Battle Royale, The Running Man, hell, the short stories The Lottery and Stephen King's The Long Walk all have a similar core concept. It's not a particularly insightful statement, and there's not…

I ugly-cried my way through this movie, but I do think it could have been darker, gorier, a little more hard-edged in its satire. But at the same time, Collins invokes horror in her writing more than she lovingly describes it, so I thought the editing made sense. It's worse to imagine what caused that body on the…

Nothing but love.

Man, they already had a big interracial gay wedding issue with veteran Kevin Keller and his black fiance. I think Jughead is too hamburger-sexual to be into Archie, and is Riverdale big enough for that many gay power couples?

The Archie universe is currently exploring alternate futures for Archie — so he's married to Betty, Veronica, AND Valerie in different titles.

That's actually pretty awesome. Thanks for the tidbit!

Yo but giving condoms to twelve year olds who might not have the best sex education doesn't mean they suddenly have a free pass to have sex...it means that if they're having sex they might be more likely to use a condom.