What the hell kind of late stage capitalism bullshit is this? Oh my god, Peeling garlic is soooooo much work so I’m gonna buy prepackaged garlic cloves instead because those extra ten seconds are so precious and I’m just that spoiled and useless. That thing is like a metaphor for everything wrong with us as a society.

But it is a trash genre. It’s the fun, light kind of trash you read when you want pure escapism and to give your brain a rest. It’s not literature. Junk food is extremely popular trash food but we don’t go around acting like it’s Michelin star level cuisine just because it’s also super popular. That doesn’t mean it…

You can’t undo history but that’s no reason not to enjoy the fabulous antique jewelry! Those earrings look like they’re at least a century old, so their origin - shady or not - is kind of a moot point. 

This.

I think it’s gorgeous!

LBut the maternal mortality rate is ultimately on the hospitals, not on these individual women.”

This.

So cities should just remain economically depressed forever and their populations static?

Really? Do you have specific examples? Do far all I’m seeing is a lot of people who think she’s boring and overrated.

This.

There’s nothing wrong with a flip flop, especially the Havaianas with the thin straps. But don’t get me started on wedge flip flops, or those awful sporty ones men wear that are always too big and basically look like their feet are resting on a giant sponge platform.

Exactly. 

What would be achieved by the industry staying in the State? You just said there aren’t enough of them to turn the State blue, so other than funneling money into the State and paying taxes that benefit the State government and the lawmakers who passed this law, and business as usual?

Not that there’s anything wrong with refusing to give money to a State that has already passed an abhorrent law out of principle, but the boycott will do far more than make opponents of the law feel better. If everyone filming in Georgia pulls out, they will lose billions, it will hurt the State’s economy. The idea is…

Boycotts work. The HB boycott might not have worked but only because businesses didn’t stay away long enough and accepted the compromise bill. As long as studios stay away and filming in Georgia virtually disappears, for long enough that the State feels the impact, it will work. Or, at the very least, Republicans will…

Oh, I agree. I’m just saying, the reason he skates on these things is because as a society, we still blame women for everything, and we still expect mothers to be the only hands-on parent.

Except it’s not just on him. He was able to avoid responsibility for the nipple-gate because society and the media let him (and because American’s prudishness never ceases to amaze and amuse me), and if he avoids any fallout from this it will be because society and the media let him, because most people still operate…

This. But this article and most of the commenters in the US seem to ignore that we’re also living in an age of populism and it’s a worldwide phenomenon, it’s not just the US. Yes, racism is a big part of it, but so is generalized anti-Establishment sentiment (that leads to people ignoring facts and science, hence the…

Not to mention, it shows a total lack of understanding of how politics work. 

This comment needs to be further up so more people read it.