Popularity and longevity are connected but not the same. Something may be hugely popular but only for a short time (high popularity but little to no longevity), or it might never be universally beloved but always popular with a core group (little popularity but enduring longevity), or some other pattern.

Longevity is how long something retains a certain level of popularity and it is obviously too soon to tell for Hamilton. Popularity is a more of-the-moment measure of how well-liked something is and by how many people. Number of shows is not a reliable indicator of how many people like the show or how much those…

That’s the thing though: if I would at least somewhat dislike any character he plays (which has been the case for the admittedly few DiCaprio movies I’ve seen), the simple fact that I disliked that specific character is no indication of his acting talent.

I really disliked Wolf of Wall Street and DiCaprio’s character. I have trouble separating that dislike from the quality of the acting. That said, I’m not sure it’s much of a stretch of his acting to play a douche-y bro-type when he appears to be rather a douche-y bro-type in real life.

That’s not better. They clearly saw the value in a character like Ganke Lee, hence they are including a similar character. But since this is a “new” character they’re going with the default of white.

I had a male colleague tell me that I assumed the risk of being raped by attending evening classes on campus.

My original post was obviously a joke. You decided to take it seriously and I went along with you. You want to have a serious discussion? Fine.

Does this mean that resisting arrest is now a hate crime in Louisiana?

Actually, as it says in the first line of my post, I’m talking about specifically voting on birth control and abortion. So any layperson and/or non-uterus-haver on the board could vote on a budget for new bleachers in the gym. Then when the issue of providing birth control came up, the laypeople/non-uterus-havers…

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I was raised Catholic by atheist/agnostic parents so we celebrated religious holidays without any significant religious aspect. There was a lot of emphasis on family togetherness and our own traditions and almost no mention of the religious significance. Even going to church was more of a social activity than a…

To understand what it is you’re commenting on. Commenting without reading is not dissimilar to interrupting someone mid-sentence to yell that they’re wrong and then running away. If you’re not interested in discussion, fine, but don’t butt in just to proclaim that you’re not interested in discussion.

New rule: in order to vote on birth control and abortion issues, you must either have a medical degree in obstetrics and/or gynecology from an accredited institution or have had a uterus physically inside your body for not less than one (1) continuous calendar year.

I think you are underestimating how difficult it can be to fully research a candidate’s position, particularly if you don’t know your own position. Yes, the internet provides access to all sorts of information. But how much of it is accurate? How much of it is biased and in what way(s)? How heavily do you weigh a…

You really should go back and read the rest of the article. You’ve clearly misunderstood the author’s position.

I have a few friends who are into this and from what little I’ve seen of their stuff, most of the outfits are pretty tight and latex- or leather-based. If you want people in cute dog costumes I suggest furries.

You are assuming that the “unborn child” has a right to some measure of bodily autonomy. If you accept that assumption, then it naturally follows that abortion is a case of competing rights which must be balanced. If you don’t assume that, abortion becomes a case of balancing the pregnant person’s bodily autonomy…

My parents had to do the whipped cream thing for me too. Now all whipped cream has a weird medicine-y aftertaste.

And this is why I said you are misunderstanding my point. I’m not sure how to make this more clear: I am not interested in arguing the legal reasoning of the Roe decision. It is a more-or-less reasonable position if you start from the assumption that two sets of rights must be balanced. What I’m after is ethical (not…

It is not a “fact” that abortion involves the competing rights of two people. What justification is there, aside from a religious one, to consider the zygote/embryo/fetus as an entity with rights? It is by definition not “born or naturalized” and therefore not automatically a citizen. It therefore has the same legal…