I think the idea that there is no one-size fits all to these things is really important. As a very small child - my parents had assigned like my dad’s sister as our guardian. As we got older, we were asked and it was clear that we would prefer my mom’s sister (we were closer to her, she lived closer to us, we knew…

There’s no convincing that kind of person they are wrong. The only option is to say regardless of his opinions on fat people you expect him to treat her and everyone else with the same respect and courtesy everyone deserves, and not to make comments where your child(ren) can hear.

I never once thought of it that way.  But I wouldn’t say she was lucky. She was pissed at how long it was, how it was more “geeky” stuff only I could appreciate, and mostly because an animal got killed. I wasn’t fully aware at the time, but the killing of animals in movies, real or CGI, is very much not cool with her.

i mean, he doesn’t look white to me. but melanin disputes aside, maybe the better position for both of us is to not got lost in the ethnicity of the perpetrator. people died. gun control is the solution, because it has no preference for skin tone.

sure, but I think in a practical sense, many people of middle eastern or north african ancestry cannot actually pass as white, making the census definition, you know, useless.

Dude. That is a stretch. How many white supremacist organizations have open calls for people born in Syria? He is not “white.” Go ask anyone form north Africa, Egypt, Syria, the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, or Iran if they consider themselves or are considered white. I mean come on. You made a bad assumption. Just own up.…

That last sentence is an interesting muddle of rhetorical flaws. One is called “hypothesis contrary to fact,” where you attempt to refute reality by inventing a counterfactual example. And in this situation it’s actually a false hypothesis contrary to fact, because human trafficking in North Dakota absolutely involves…

Considering he drove to separate locations to seek out his victims, their ethnicity was very much not coincidental.

What the fuck?

That coincidence was selection—his “sex addiction” targeted who he thought was available and vulnerable because they fit a racist conception of sex. Leaving aside the spin of the perpetrator’s self-description of his motives, (killing people who would be the trafficked victims, except he thinks he’s the victim and…

Please tell me you’re not saying that the US was right to imprison law abiding citizens based only on the fact that they were ethnically Japanese?!?  And that’s INTERNMENT camps, not internships.  Note that German-American citizens weren’t imprisoned without cause or evidence of wrongdoing, just Japanese Americans. …

Usually people who put scare quotes around “art” don’t really know much about it to begin with.  

Awwww, did I tweak the nerves

“Have a fucking cry”

No, you wrote a dumb dismissal of a perfectly fine character (your criticism of her is the fucking POINT of the character, dummy) and a successful, mostly decent screenwriter who *happened* to strip for a short time. It’s mean-spirited, spiteful stupidity. Juno as a character has faults. The incessant quirky dialogue…

I don't love Juno or Diablo Cody but eat shit. They're both miles more interesting than this trash response.

They are not being jailed because of the prom votes, but because did the illegal access to other people’s private and confidential information which could include things like SSNs (or at least the last 4 digits) for all we know. Involving minors.

So Rice is perhaps understandably skeptical of some of the corporate infrastructure that has been built up around what is, at its core, an organic, grassroots movement.

Why on Earth are so many people acting like the poster who had an all-caps meltdown full of misused words is the reasonable one, and the person who posted totally calm criticism of the writing is frothing at the mouth?

I do care, don’t get me wrong. I visit this site daily and I liked it better when the writing was generally better. Not that it was ever upper-echelon writing, but it used to be pretty good. Standards here have slipped at both the writing and editorial levels, and I wish it wasn’t so. Not upset about it, not really,…