Homosexuality, and the idea of sexual orientation in general, is a recent idea of human sexuality (which is not to say that I don't think it's a correct idea, only that older civilizations didn't describe people or think of them in those terms). Ancient Greece had a tradition of pederasty (sexual relationships between…

What does "conquered" even mean here?

Some of us don't live in cities. The "streets" where I live is basically Main Street, connecting to a state highway.

It gets worse if you actually understand stats. Pointing out to many studies-based science-types that many, many fields of study are simply devoted to p-hacking, and that very few studies are successfully replicated, doesn't really get you anywhere (especially because at this point, you're probably wading into some…

Nah.

That's the inverse fallacy.

And AAVE is a dialect with understandable and regular rules!

Not a triple negative, but a double negative, as the third negation is in a separate clause. And in AAVE, "not…no" takes the place of "not…any" in a similar way to "ne…pas" in French.

I have a weird opinion: it's not ethical to eat meat unless you would be willing to kill the animal yourself.

It's also my favorite of that series, so I'll give it a try:

It tipped off Tony that the Winter Soldier wasn't responsible for the terrorist attack, which lured Tony to help Steve wherever he ended up, and thus collected Steve, Bucky, and Tony all in one place.

I like some M83, CHVRCHES, Discovery, and Passion Pit on my workout playlist, but I always stick in top 40 hits too.

Yeah, I liked that he makes the point about the film being found in post. It's nice imagining that they have the freedom to say 'this is the film we want, and we just need one or two little connections to make it work.'

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Yeah, I don't really see the Pygmalion aspect in Tai—it's far more Harriet in Emma, where Emma's influence is actively destructive, and Harriet was already desirable (as was Tai).

Marvel schedules reshoots before initial shooting begins on every film.

The male gaze as it pertains to cinema/photography has a few notable aspects: framing shots so that breasts and butts are the focal points of the shot, and moving back and forth along the female form in a way that mimics the way men often look at women. The problem with it, from my point of view, is that it…

ahhhhhh the vagina is the actual canal and there is something deeply horrifying about this stay away from the cervix ahhhhhhh

Clueless is Jane Austen's Emma. Maybe 10 Things I Hate About You is what you're thinking of?

It's probably the truest adaptation of the play, in that it capture the wildness and the passion of young love, and make a point out of how destructive that kind of infatuation is.