It seems all the relatable parts of the characters like Miranda’s insecurity, Carrie’s selfishness and Charlotte’s judgemental qualities are wiped clean in this trailer? I like their bad qualities as much as their good ones, Carrie’s one of HBO’s OG anti-heroes.

These are good points that I didn’t really think about.  Thank you.

.........well.....I can appreciate that, point taken.

As another gay person, can I just interject here and say you do not speak for the community and your views about Stamets are very much clear and valid for you, it is possible that it doesn’t represent gay people at large. Thanks. 

Sorry, but there is nothing worse than a “hard core trekkie.” AKA, “never satisfied”.

This episode, and this review, elucidate a core truth about Discovery, which is that it revolves first and foremost around its characters, rather than its plot or its universe-building. There is a plot, but it exists in service propelling the characters along a certain arc, and generating emotional drama. I think it…

Yes. The whole thing....horrible doesn’t even begin to touch it. 

I hope it wasn’t this, because this was tragic. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

Embarrassing is absolutely the right world for underestimating her.

I love that, despite Italy having more than 30 unique regional accents & dialects (more than America has), so many Americans believe Italians all speak like Jersey mall trash.

it would’ve been great if she went full big ang

No, it’s not you being gay that’s causing the ‘does not compute’ here.
I am a straight man (who admittedly experimented and confirmed, I am indeed straight) - and this shit is fucking baffling. WHO WOULD THINK THIS IS A NORMAL, HEALTHY THING TO DO?!?

Like you, if I got that message, it’s like
me: “Okay then, I see how…

So, straight people have these very strange views of “ownership” over not only their current partners but past partners. Like, if you fucked someone, you somehow have dibs. It’s like you shoveled out a space in front of your apartment and put a chair in it to tell other people to fuck off and to tell them they can’t…

Could you send me one of those? I’ll pay the shipping costs.

Nah. I don’t there’s too many interpersonal situations, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, where this would be OK. Outside of consenual cuckholding, this is super fucked up.

The only good pranks are those ones where people disguise one kind of perfectly good food as a different kind of perfectly good food like cookies disguised as bacon or mash potato cake

Yep. The vast majority of them just go over like a lead balloon. 

Now that I agree with 100%

But you wouldn’t send that as a prank and then post it online unless you were basic and narcissistic.

I expect “he’s leaving, you can come over” would have the same effect on pretty much any sexual orientation, at least one involving a monogamous couple.