The root of Brexit is racism, pure and simple.

This is not at all the root of Brexit.

It’s not all that surprising. The general tenor of female chauvinism in both mainstream and social media has created an atmosphere in which even nice and fair-minded chaps are going to be defensive, especially when you see blatant misrepresentation of people’s positions and a witch-hunt atmosphere as in the Damore…

Well thank you for explaining your methods, it just appeared as if you were projecting your experience on the initial writer’s inexperience and were drawing false conclusions. Just because you have certain experiences and conversations with a few men doesn’t mean you can inform on another person’s experience or lack…

A middle-aged woman? What is this, Cannes? Eww.

Your question is incoherent.

Well said. The writers expect the audience to understand how fictional superheroes are viewed in comics and how real celebrities are viewed by large swaths of people. The audience sees enough to make it clear that the masses treat supes the way people treat Tom Cruise.

It’s a movie about money disguised as a movie about sex. It’s about the commoditization of everyday life, class envy, the relationship between money and power, and, if you want to extrapolate, the malaise of late capitalism.

You don’t need the show to do that thought, reality has already established that.

If you wanted to do a real critique of the cult of superheroism,

I also think the movie plays differently for different ages. If you’re actually in high school, Flick is the kid in your class who raises her hand to remind the teacher that they didn’t assign any homework. She’s annoying, she ruins every party, and you wouldn’t mind seeing her taken down a peg. Broderick seems like…

Lindsay’s criticisms are way off here. ‘Bloodless’ is probably the wrong word to use in the script, but Tyrion’s anxiety about being too brutal in war–and, for that matter, Daenerys’ eagerness to be brutal as a show of strength–was long established.

Oh, good, I thought we were done with talking about Game of Thrones and could now all move on with our lives, but we’ve been saved.

Tracy: Dear Lord Jesus, I really must insist that you help me win the election tomorrow because I deserve it and Paul Metzler doesn’t, as you well know. I realize that it was your divine hand that disqualified Tammy Metzler and now I’m asking that you go that one last mile and make sure to put me in office where I…

It’s weird that you seem aghast at the idea that not everybody believes that the past is disposable or of little value and that there might actually be things there to value, preserve, and celebrate. The idea that the movie is all about how it would be great if we just went back to a time when white machismo ruled…

I suspect that in ten or so years, sex researchers might actually look into this decade’s “open marriage” trend, to see how many times the person proposing opening the marriage meant “I want to stay in this great relationship I have with you, but I need occasional sexual variety to keep me sane and happy,” and how…

You’re making a lot of assumptions there. WTHT, who was at least “having some great casual sex” before she married (so it’s not like she married the first guy she hooked up with) isn’t saying that she’s been bored of her husband for the entirety of her marriage, just over the last year (presumably around the time her…

Why is his sexual preference selfish? If the dude was refusing to engage in foreplay, that’d be one thing, but he obviously isn’t—the butt plug and spanking didn’t happen on their own. It seems like he’d just personally rather get down to intercourse, but tries to accommodate her desires regardless of the fact that…

Googled “Wednesday Martin.” She is not an expert. Apparently her undergraduate work included anthropology but her real field is comparative literature and cultural studies. A thesis on early psychoanalysis and anthropology is not relevant. Savage really needs to get smarter about who is consulted as an expert. 

Abercrombies endings are generally more positive than you think. Part of it is that his characters tend to be better people than they give themselves credit for, which turns their triumphs into small victories.