He did say some totally insane things though, as well as a whopping number of outright lies. I don’t understand why the content got such a nearly universal pass from mainstream media. They apparently just forgot all about facts and sanity, and went right back to the normalizing coverage that helped put him in office…

You’re close:

Yeah I know that guy... the dude who’s outspokenly woke af about LITERALLY EVERYTHING, but then whenever you have a disagreement there’s that tinge of condescension in his voice, and he starts getting really unchill and personal about it.

Bay Area, and I have an active distrust for men who describe themselves as feminist. In my experience, there is no type who mansplains more than a white male who wears the mantle of feminist. I have had less difficulty from men of colour who know what it is to be marginalised.

Ugh, why does this not surprise me? I’m sure that this happens everywhere, but I feel like since I moved to LA, I’ve experienced the disingenuous “male feminist” types more than ever. When I lived in the Bay Area, a lot of the men I interacted with were MRA/Gamergate types whose hatred toward women could be smelled a…

And pyramid scheme. Anything that requires passing through stages of commitment or investment to hear the Big Deal Secret usually is.

My Dad is a Southetn Born retired Army officer, says he’s to the right of Attila the Hun, and Trump was a step too far. He voted for Hillary. The first time in his 70 plus years he’s voted Democrat.

“I’ve asked this before, but when did it become no longer a thing where Nazis are the definitive bad buys?”

America has always had a love/hate relationship with fascism in general and Nazis in particular. We love to slap ourselves on the back about WW2 but we also love to conveniently ignore that up until Germany’s ally attacked us at Pearl Harbor there was a MASSIVE amount of “leave ‘em alone, they’re good people and they…

Film Crit Hulk had an interesting comment about the Pewdiepie fiasco:

How can you say it’s a rock bottom year if you have not watched any of the films?

I think they do not see themselves as Nazis, they only share their views, they are xenophobic, racist and think high of themselves because their skin colour is fair and because of their place of birth. But they are not Nazis because they have not gassed anyone in a torture room, they are just fine letting people die…

I’ve asked this before, but when did it become no longer a thing where Nazis are the definitive bad buys? I mean I grew up watching Indiana Jones & Captain America punch Nazis in the face and everyone cheered. How is this a thing?

I watch LaLaLand last weekend and was so underwhelmed I didn’t even finish it because I fell asleep...and I live for musicals! I watched Moonlight yesterday and...IT DESERVES ALL THE AWARDS.

That article is god damn gold.

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What I love about this statement is that he is using cultural and social beliefs (traditionally men have been the bread winners) to keep women in an economic ghetto while at the same time he deploys free market logic to determine pay scales. It is either proof of how deeply imbedded a gendered ideology has become in…

My first language was German, and it reminds me of that. Unlike English in which only proper nouns are capitalized, in German all nouns are capitalized.

Good lord, Tennessee. Way to show the world what ass-backwards provincialism looks like. I thought we’d gotten over the hand-wringing about test-tube babies back in the 90s.

A physician surgeon with a law degree = someone smart enough to avoid the title “nere do well” without actually earning substantial income for years