Oh for sure about people who use taking offence to get attention. Attention in general but also accolades for being so aware of all the ways there ARE to be offended. An example I saw recently was a post about this woman who does these manicures where there are vaginas painted on the nails. The first comment was…

Do you think I have some kind of power over the media through these comments? I'm not punishing or attacking anyone. I just think people should think about portrayals because they can have a cumulative negative impact. I'm not holding any one TV writer accountable or telling anyone what they can and can't say. I just…

I don't want people to be mistreated because they are a minority (or in some way different than the white "norm" that is the default) because people see them portrayed poorly. Pretty standard liberal stuff. I'm not clear exactly what you're saying but I know my "purpose" is to discuss how serious it is or isn't when…

I like to think they acknowledged they could make Dong's portrayal feel a little less lazy but that they overall defend their choice to do whatever they want if they think it's entertaining and well intentioned enough (like Titus's play.)

I mostly agree with you and get quite exhausted by how easily offended people can get. But I DO think that there are smaller pieces of culture which inform the Big Bad stuff like genocide and xenophobia. I don't think UKS is doing this necessarily BUT relying on stereotypes does further contribute to the ideas of a…

I don't even think it was that heavy, it was just suggesting that if you get so worried about what's offensive/what isn't then you're going to drive yourself nutty. And they just used that visual as a way to show it. I don't completely agree with much of what was being said in the storyline (or just think the way it…

I think it actually only really moved the leader, who presumably did speak Japanese and had heard that song as a child. He shushed the rest of the group and they went along with it which I think was just adding "not only is the internet mean and stupid but oftentimes they are just parroting what someone else says…

I think the ultimate message that context and intent are important before someone gets offended is a good one, I also think that a black, gay person being accused of appropriation is interesting since the accusation is usually against white people (I'm not saying it can't be done in offensive ways by any culture…

I've worked at a public library and the discussions over how many signs to put up for the various things that people do/shouldn't be doing is endless. Because guess what? No one reads a goddamn thing and just does whatever they want anyway! But it does make telling someone to stop easier if you can point to a tiny…

Oh yes, Titus is pure charisma. And while he isn't conventionally attractive, he makes so many super cute faces. And even if it fluctuates, he's overall very confident. I'm a woman but I've basically dated straight Tituses -unsuccessful careerwise, kind of mean and selfish, not super attractive, but super confident! …

I just drove there when I visited LA. Much less athletic but I got a picture with it all the same. It was a convenient location because it's quite close to the LaBianca house of Manson Murder fame.

Yeah, the possibility that he was murdered is still pretty much in the realm of conspiracy and a whole issue all it's own. The man clearly had depressive tendencies and had made suicide attempts before so even if we don't know for sure, if he did in fact kill himself, then the songs are foreshadowing and it was more…

I wasn't that intense of a superfan to be on the website so I found out because my asshole boyfriend at the time messaged me on AIM (very of the time) and said "you like Elliott Smith, right?" and I was like yeah, duh, and he was like "Oh well he's dead." So instead of it just being a memory of something very sad…

As much as I love his music, if you aren't into his particular style I could definitely see someone finding it maudlin from the outside. It's sad music almost entirely and while maudlin might not be the exact correct word for it, I get it.

I saw him live touring for Figure 8 and he played this song and I became obsessed with it but couldn't find it even when I was trying to scour the p2p site for live versions (since I was pretty sure it wasn't on an album) and could never find it because I never knew the title. I accidentally downloaded Jackson Browns…

I can listen to him when I'm not sad, but if I'm sad, I only put on the Elliott Smith if I'm ready for some world class wallowing.

I thought the Marcia Clark thing was hilarious but find it interesting how divisive it was. But I am preferring her as Andrea now because she's just exceptionally hilarious. I agree she's had trouble applying her acting skills to film but I thought she was quite funny in Sisters and her Night Andrea echos some of that…

I'm just parroting what the show creator said -he wanted a contrast to the gritter realities of family life shown in Lear sitcoms (and those inspired by them) and a return to the traditional family and so a retro show about the 50's was perfect. In a pre-streaming, pre-home video world, it wasn't as easy to just go…

I happened to watch the first episode of The Seventies on Netflix last night, entirely about TV and they really painted all the Gerry Marshall sitcoms (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy) as a backlash to the "too real" Norman Lear stuff and while I got this subconsciously I'd never really thought of it…

Certainly, if it had just been used towards humans it could be what you suggest but he referred to THE BRAIN as a bag of slop, I am convinced this is just a weird phrase he uses and that it had no root in misogyny. You aren't convinced, which is fine, I like having thoughtful debates about things and am always…