Nahhh. It’s called not letting some junk e-article discredit my interests and yield to the (pun intended) stature of men.

Yes! Third-wave feminism gets really bogged down in the whole “I choose my choice” nonsense. I remember, from a few years ago, a long conversation on Jez with multiple posters dead seriously claiming that Spanx are profoundly and powerfully feminist because they feel more confident when they wear them. *facepalm*

I just want you know that I did in fact examine my biases (with a certified therapist at that) and I a still came out bias.

—For a man to openly reject a woman because he found her fat would be not only accepted but expected and probably applauded.

My opinion isn’t relevant because it isn’t an opinion. There are laws in the Schengen governing what is and is not a designated space for worship/burial/etc., and Auschwitz isn’t one of them, no matter how strongly you feel about it (and this is the parliamentary law set forth in Strasbourg and Brussels, so it’s not a…

Yes, that does happen from time to time. Some posts circulated a while back about a dude who stole a whole skull and made it all the way back to the United States, somehow. Incredibly sick.

Yeah, the same way the Gaza is the largest Muslim cemetery in the world I guess... Actually the Auschwitz site is not a Beit Kevarot or Beit Almin. It is not a sacred space, it has not been consecrated – the Poles would never go for it, and since not only Jews died (and have their remains) there, this could not happen…

Good on you for saying something. That is truly vile. I can understand why that would have made you physically ill.

Yes. I was so upset that I actually threw up after yelling at her. I made it out of the catacombs first, though.

Fuck. That. Bitch. I am entirely without religious or spiritual belief, but I have this rage that boils up in me when people desecrate remains. Maybe it’s the historian in me, but the dead can’t defend themselves and in many cases, their bodies are the only evidence of their lives and to harm that lifeless pile of…

“That German person” on a technicality: none of the examples in the introduction are technically “sacred spaces.” If there were misting showers at the Wailing Wall, a Jamba Juice at the Dome of the Rock, or a T-shirt stand at the Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe...those would be more valid illustrations.

I’ve got PCOS too, it’s weird because when I watched the video I found it objectively awful but didn’t really have an emotional response, but I’m finding seeing the stills of her mean face everywhere really triggering.

I don’t have much for this, sorry. I’m not clear on the part about not getting up and walking out after the part about the live-in baby/baby-mama came up. Oh, and spelling the word “jipped” doesn’t make it any less offensive. Sorry.

Branagh was an amazing Iago. I’ve gotta rewatch that.

At my American high school, we studied Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth. In my experience, it (and many other plays) was taught poorly. We were forced to read the first three out loud (with different people in the class taking different roles), which is just a horrible way to study drama. People are…

Midsummer Night’s Dream was the weak link in the series, but it was still pretty good. My personal favourite was the Taming of the Shrew one that managed to stay true to the original but be its own interesting story, and dealt effectively with the problematic bit Kat says at the end of the play.

There’ve been some great Othellos and some superb Desdemonas, too. But for me the play hinges on Iago...Branagh’s performance in the production with Fishbone and Jacob was really quite good. I can’t wait to see what new interpretations bring though. I always thought that Alan Cumming could bring some nuance, malice,…

They need to fix it. It’s driving me nuts lol.

Absolutely should be Macbeth.

Fucking obsessed, already. I cannot wait. Also, Macbeth, not MacBeth.