That first header pic is so ‘shopped I couldn’t even recognize Mariah.

I have plenty of vitriol for both. Neither gets a pass from me.

I’d be okay with that, especially if they extended those mods to the Barbie side.

I noticed that last paragraph and made the edit approximately one and a half seconds before I saw your post. *sighs heavily*

I am extremely relieved, yet a little surprised, not to see one with a molded plastic hipster lumberjack beard.

Nevertheless, she persisted.

...at least the Bieber part of it.

You have a point - companies aren’t our friends. On the other hand, I was extremely pleased to see that at least one company said “we don’t want to be associated with this” and retracted their dollars accordingly.

*flips table*

I’m still furious about the time my brother tried to pull the “time of the month” comment back when I was a teen and it makes me furious every time it’s happened since.

In the conversation I referenced, that was exactly the example I used. It’s a bit dated now, but “shrewish” is another.

I’ve had discussions where individuals try to dismiss the use of the word as “non-gendered” because the word does legitimately describe a specific psychological state of extreme emotionality that is applicable to both men and women.

Preach. But I’ll see your Arnold Vosloo and raise you an Oded Fehr.

...but by god, she had to be recognizably sexy, despite having no motivation and a distinct lack of screen time.

Mostly from the realization he commissioned screenwriters to revise the plot, and the implication that the original story gave the mummy more screen time than she ended up with.

“Approaches with commitment and dedication,” sure, but commitment and dedication to what, exactly? Himself? Telling his own interpretation of the story with him as the center, or a good story?

Agree. I started reading thinking “well, it’s tone deaf and awful, but opinion and free speech and I personally think she’s a tool but...” and then I kept reading and kept reading and by the time I came across the ‘it’s sickening’ comment I was done.

This is a point I failed to get to, and I wish I had. Thanks. It’s not the word as much as it is the application. When men are called hysterical, it’s during times you pointed out - when the action is truly based on hysteria.

Except it hasn’t moved past being a gendered word - that’s at least a good portion of the point. Men don’t get called hysterical. Sure, they can absolutely *be* hysterical, but it’s a description used primarily to dismiss a woman’s opinion.

Let’s not forget many residents *still* don’t have drinkable water.