That place is the sex crime capital of the world.

From the number of times I've seen people say this I have to assume the MRAs are contractors paid by the producers to talk smack on the internet in order to engender this money making backlash. There might be better ways to smash the patriarchy than giving already rich people more money. But go for it. You are totally…

so, what, ten people? Twenty? When did neck beard losers become so powerful that their stupid opinions (that are mocked and marginalized by people with actual power) in any way impact our society, gender equality, representations of gender in the media? I must have been asleep at the time.

Good work everyone. Really sticking it to the man. LStar Capital, Village Roadshow Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company, and Pascal Pictures were so scared of the 3 people on Reddit who made stupid comments. You should probably see the movie 10 times to really send a message to the dudebros about how bad and…

"And my general feeling is that if Jones is cool with it, I'm cool with it. She doesn't strike me as someone easily cowed."

I think you are being hard on Bayley. A lot of the flashback showed how he is a go along to get along kind of guy and it keeps getting him into trouble. He needed to be peer pressured into climbing up the tower, smoking the weed, giving away the free cones, throwing the eggs.

I don't know if they were "decent" in the modern sense. It seems like most white, southern Unionists were more pro-union than anti-slavery per se. But still, better than being a treasonous P.O.S. reb.

Yes. Especially because of a lot of areas that were strongly pro-union (e.g. Eastern Tennessee http://opinionator.blogs.ny… have populations that seem to have forgotten about their role in the war.

Are you serious? Her accent is horrible. I'm an Australian living in the south and her accent is like the fake american accent I do when I'm drunk to make people laugh. She would also slip out of her american accent, but it seems like she got better as the show went on about not doing that.

I was always into the more second wave british stuff like The Specials, The Beat, Madness etc.

I think her name was Shirley? She was gigantic and sat on a stool and checked IDs. Apparently she had been there forever. The sco was so awesome. I saw eek a mouse, culture, black keys before they were big, I can't even remember who else.

Their preferred pro nouns !?! No. Never heard of it happening even in a gender studies or other similar class. I graduated in 06 and they were saying that everyone was going to have to move on campus. The dorms up by the field across from North were built as part of that if I remember correctly. I lived off campus jr…

Oh man, what's it like over there now? Did they ever force everyone to live on campus? Does quarter beers at the sco still exist? Is the huge woman still the bouncer? I need to know!

Sure. But the show has been great about showing her internal pain for all sorts of reasons (her own feelings, other peoples' reactions to her transition etc.). What I enjoyed about this season is how were shown that regardless of our sympathy for Maura, she hasn't always been the best ally to women other than his…

ha ha, yeah, man on the comments. I'm also "cishet" (side note: I went to Oberlin in the early 00s and I don't remember the prefix "cis" being widely used. When did it become a thing?) but from (my impression of) the festival participants view, Maura's pain is irrelevant. An analogy might be if a boss lost all his…

But Maura didn't suffer as Mort (at least externally) because she was able to wield male privilege no matter how she felt inside.

What I hear you saying is phenotype and lived experience don't make a woman/man. It is something innate the person feels inside. That no matter how they look or are treated by the outside world, the person feels somehow in the "wrong" body. (And I'm not trying to mischaracterize your beliefs or views in the subject.…

No doubt. I just though the review was not entirely fair to the festival participant's perspective by dismissing criticism of Maura's position as "transphobia".

Great episode. I have to fight back against the "transphobia" label. The wom(en)yn made it clear why they think Maura can never be a "woman" in the same way these cis-women are. Being a woman is part of a social construct in a system that provides power and privilege to men. It's not about "feeling" like a woman (to…

My girlfriend and I cracked up at your grandmother's "you think you got fat from eating bananas?!" line. Good luck with everything!