I don’t think OP, nor any critically-thinking person, is saying masculinity itself is “toxic.” Nor is anyone saying “stoicism” is a toxic trait (it can be a very good trait, and, of course, it is not a trait limited to men). There is nothing wrong with masculinity, including stoicism.

Counterpoint: Kroll Show. 

I also don’t see the problem...

Well, it kinda does—no more expired drugs!

Like Proust biting his cake, this transported me immediately to my early adolescence, when I wore this on a T-shirt and then promptly forgot about it for 20 years.  So, uh, thanks?

In theory, I agree with the concept of limiting what SNAP can buy. It rightfully doesn’t pay for cigarettes. For the same reason, it shouldn’t pay for soda. Food assistance should be about food, and obesity and malnutrition are epidemics.

So many valid answers...

Hear hear. I’m a straight guy who grew up in the homophobic suburbs, and Buddy Cole was probably my first (knowing) introduction to a a real, honest-to-God gay person. I was too young to fully get the humor of it (I favored the KITH’s absurdities--the poachers hunting businessmen, the head-squisher, the Eradicator,…

If you didn’t watch Fargo (also made by Legion’s Noah Hawley), you will love it for all those reasons.  

This should win comment of the year.  But people don’t know their UCB, so

God, what a bad idea that was. I once had no option but the green to put on an egg breakfast sandwich, and holy crap was the visual too revolting to eat.

“Best introduction” and “best” are such different things.

Tom Waits is a performance artist, playing the entirely fictional character of “Tom Waits,” a calculated and inauthentic amalgam of all the characters of Cannery Row, carnival barkers, and that mysterious, nameless figure that always shows up in stories simply to say something vague and profound and disappear like a…

You know what? Sure, I admit it. I was wrong.

Strongly disagree, both ideologically (language evolves) and on the merits (no rule was broken).

That’s gonna leave a mark!

Yeah, I seriously can’t blame you on the 1st point. (I hope you like paragraphs, or don’t mind them, because you got me spewing. See below.)

The “further recommendation” for Dillinger Escape Plan is missing the most important part: “(feat. Mike Patton).” That four-song EP, marrying DEP’s (apparently) structured chaos to Mike Patton’s unhinged and malleable madness, is revelatory.

Hope you are OK, depression-wise. I found it effective this winter to play 30 minutes a day, in front of a SAD sun lamp. It seemed to help.

Ebert used to get this complaint a lot. “Just shut up about your opinion and tell us about the movie!” But every review is by definition an opinion. My bet is that the the reviewer gave this film a D+ (rather than an F, D-, or D) because of the filmmaking quality, which is remarked upon in the review.