To be generous to the panelist, I think often they do this because they’ve been asked to sit on this stupid panel and feel the need to contribute something to justify being there. Plus, this allows them to tune out for long periods of time during the panel but then just plug back in for one other person’s comments…

Ugh, it’s not just academic panels that do this. I have been to so many legal industry panels like this — 90% of the audience is exercising their frustration at not having been invited to be on the panel by hijacking it with their long-winded statement.

Alternatively, you might be concerned about how what Maddow did this week devalues futures news about Trump’s taxes. She is correct that any wrongdoing by the Trump campaign or administration will be discovered slowly, over time, via careful work by many factions. What happens the next time someone else has a “piece”…

Maddow has a large existing audience and it has only grown since the election — she already has a big audience. And why would people who don’t understand the importance of Trump’s tax returns have been tempted to watch her show based on her tweets about tax returns? The whole point is that loads of us tuned in…

Depends. I am a huge fan of in depth journalism and read a variety of print sources that offer this to me. I also appreciate journalists who put things in context and offer different frames for information so as to open new avenues of thought and investigation. I can appreciate that Maddow does something relatively…

Huh, it’s weird that she’s unwilling to state the obvious: it was about ratings. Like we can talk around and around in circles about whether her tweets made people think there was going to more to the story than there was (uh, they did). But at the end of the day, she did it for the eyeballs. Since there was no real…

Oh, I do love a chance to play armchair psychiatrist:

Related: A large portion of those off-the-shoulder tops are made of super thin fabric. Which is great for summer! Unless there’s no way to wear a bra with it, which there isn’t. Do they want everyone looking at my nipples? Is that the goal? So confusing.

I feel you. If you’re willing to spend a bit more, American Giant and (I know, I know, don’t shoot me) Lululemon have high quality options that will last. And both have options that are designed for women and plenty slimming.

This is my philosophy with both bra straps and panty lines. I know I’m in the minority here. But folks, I just can’t with thongs. I tried for so long. They never got more comfortable, they make me feel guilty about my perfectly normal and healthy bikini line grooming habits, and I don’t think they look good on me. So…

Good god. I already hate 3/4 sleeve sweaters and jackets (I get why they look cute but they have no place in my life), if I have to also dig through cold-shoulder shit I will just give up and start making my own clothes like I’ve been threatening for years.

I now basically only buy high-waisted pants. I recently discovered a pair of what appeared to be normal rise jeans in storage, and suddenly remembered that I spent years tugging my fucking pants up every time I sat down or stood up. Plus the discomfort of the extra flesh around my middle just kind of bubbling out of…

Right? The whole audience felt in on it, too. We’d all jump, and then we’d all laugh at ourselves and each other for being scared. There was something about the tone and pacing of the movie that created that bond. I’ve seen horror movies before where everyone flinches together, but it was that…

Yesyesyes! Sometime last year a friend sent me an article on the fragility of white women in the face of race that totally blew my world open (I’m a white woman). It discussed the history of white feminine fragility and the many ways it has been used as a weapon against black people, specifically, throughout history.…

Please just post a spoilers warning and share! I know what you’re referring to but really want to see who others saw it.

I had to talk my husband into this one a little bit for this reason — he does not like horror for it’s own sake and never watches horror movies. Even before the movie he was asking me, “It’s going to be funny, too, right? Because it’s Jordan Peele?”

This! And *SPOILERS* by the end of the movie, you realize that so much of what seemed like tone-deaf behavior in Rose and her parents was actually a purposeful ruse to make Chris believe that even if the situation seemed “off”, that was well-meaning racial friction and not flat out white supremacy. Like Rose’s whole…

Counterpoint. I saw the movie with a majority black audience (I am white). As we left the theater, a young black woman near me told her friend (paraphrasing, I don’t have a perfect memory), “He gave us everything we wanted. No one got out, no one was redeemed. Like boom, this is justice.”

That revelations about Rose were, if not unexpected, the most viscerally scary and painful. Early on, when she was so aggressive in her efforts to show she wasn’t racist (getting in the cops face, ranting about her family’s behavior), it really seemed like she was kind of clueless but at least well meaning.…

I agree with you, though I do think the more experience a white viewer has with knowing and listening to black people, the more they will see. I fully admit that as a white person, I am certain I missed a lot of the subtext in this movie. But I understood enough to be fully immersed in the horror of Chris’s…