I teach at a college and interact with dozens of young women and female colleagues every day... and somehow I don’t have the urge to sexually assault or harass one. It’s amazing what treating women like humans does!

I was shocked by that 60% number as well. I am also a male manager, and while I wouldn’t argue I am a particularly good manager, none of my failings are at all related to any concerns I might have about saying something creepy. Is it so hard for some guys to just act like decent people?

Also, my friend seems to forget that her Beloved Cheeto promised a better insurance plan than Obamacare.  When he failed to do that, he simply tried to abolish Obamacare.  How is that any kind of progress??

One of those “unintended consequences” that Sandberg referred to? A survey by the Lean In Foundation and Survey Monkey, according to Sandberg, found that “60 percent of male managers in the United States are not willing right now, are nervous, about having a one-on-one interaction with a woman.” Per Variety,…

Of COURSE our taxes would go up ... BUT they go up less than than the cost of our out-of-pocket contributions to our current medical plans.

Anyone who thinks the “Pocahontas thing” is even a scandal is either a flipping idiot or a misogynist grasping straws. 

For real, I feel like hope is 100% lost if we’re even equating “I’m 16% Native American” with “F*ck immigrants, women’s reproductive rights, trans rights, etc. etc. etc. Also I’m unqualified for this job.” By that logic, every white person on a first date should be drawn-and-quartered but every white person drunk on…

Or the “why won’t she just say your taxes are going to go up” fit the media is throwing at the moment. Why yes, thank you “liberal media” for constantly framing the Medicare-for-all question in Republican terms. And when she responds in a thoughtful manner regarding how the cost for average Americans will go down, the…

Your arrogance is funny because you’re so misinformed. :) But let’s pull your ass outta the greys for some yucks. First, Pacino has never been in a Scorsese film before - maybe all Italians look the same to you? And though several of Scorsese’s films revolve around the mob in some fashion - though not all films by a…

See, what you’ve expressed right there is something called an opinion, and it’s something others are allowed to disagree with. :) I on the other hand can’t even fathom not appreciating seeing a beautiful young Ray Liotta for the first time on the big screen in Goodfellas, or De Niro’s insane intensity in Taxi Driver,…

Where in the hell did you get the insane idea that not liking superhero movies has anything to do with the MAGA crowd at all? Seriously, what the fuck? They made one fucking movie out of roughly 50 billion starring a non-white hero and now you think the MCU and Disney, soulless evil bland boring greedy corporation…

So if you discovered an authentic diary in which Velazquez said he cared not for the conveying of “ideas or beauty,” would Las Meninas suddenly become not art?

He also founded the World Cinema Project, which has supported/worked to preserve a bunch of movies by people of color or in countries with less traditional film infrastructure. So he’s doing more than a lot of directors, honestly. It’s why I find the comments where he’s being compared unfavorably to Marvel (which is…

Nobody said he doesn’t care about the money; you’re arguing with a strawman. I said for directors like Scorsese and Coppola, the goal is art before money. The money matters insofar that it allows them to create the art they want to make. And nobody’s talking about starving artist mythology, either. Scorsese and…

Yes, exactly. I’m not a comic book movie fan because I’ve never been into comic books but I was honestly shocked Black Panther wasn’t the consensus Best Picture winner at the Oscars because, in addition to being an audience favorite and a critical darling, its legacy likely will include changing the calculous in…

Sure, but are superhero movies intended to be art? Or are they simply intended to make money?

Yes, the marvel movies are still TECHNICALLY art just like a Scorsese film in the same way that mcdonalds is still TECHNICALLY food just like a Michelin star restaurant.

Ken Loach hits the nail on the head here:

I view consuming Marvel movies like consuming popcorn.  Sometimes, you just want some popcorn. It can be delicious, it can even tide you over as a light snack.  It’s a social thing because it’s easily shared.  It’s relatively cheap; you don’t have to commit a lot of time to having it and sometimes, you have it to take…

When people go in like this I’m of two minds: