“comes off as a dolt”, sure. Kinda just conflating the “dumb football jock” trope onto him, huh? If anything, he’s pretty self-effacing, funny and down to earth, qualities that any woman can get on board with. I’m not a fan of how he destroys my team by always being open, but I am a fan of him doing Covid shot…

The D&D episode of Community being pulled and accused of ‘blackface’ still pisses me off, especially for the reason you note in your last sentence. Fucking context and reality matter, FFS. 

But framing the question of how it exists given its lack of morals implies that this show needed morals to exist. In addition to bringing up plenty of valid critiques (this show really doesn’t sound fun at all), this review returns to the idea that The Challenge’s existence is “fucked up” because it’s based on an…

I don’t understand the fretting over this show’s morals. The contestants aren’t being put in real danger, which makes it as morally dubious as every other reality show that points at contestants embarrassing themselves for a shot at a big prize. That The Challenge is a spin-off of a show that was explicitly…

Paddy McGuinness sounds like a fake Irish name from an episode of The Simpsons. 

I just letting you know I read that in Sean Connery’s voice.  

Identity politics: the clamoring of affluent, upper-middle class types for greater access to board rooms, positions, privileges, etc., on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, etc. That is what the author’s reference to “representation” means in this context.

He wasn’t responsible. Getting unjustly persecuted and vilified for a freak accident that was beyond your control does, in fact, make you more likeable.

Where are all the dudes?

I’m thankful not to have heard many of these, and I will certainly not be clicking on the videos. With respect to Bowie - I think the calls in the article are correct on Tonight. I often defend the album based on Loving the Alien and Blue Jean, but yes, his God Only Knows is terrible.

It’s a great line but not surprising at all. I didn’t realize how cheap these railroad companies are until the rail workers strike last year. I seriously didn’t know that some full time workers don’t get paid sick days. I thought that was a federal law. 

And he’s a volunteer firefighter, and quite literally the hardest-working person in Springfield. 

Being totally honest here. What is the point of an executive assistant other than doing stupid shit like this for your boss? My ex was an “executive assistant” for the owner of a small business, and she did all sorts of stupid things for him.

There is no “Kingston” neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Because she’s an attentionwhore and we, as a species, shouldn’t just platform everybody. It draws out all the narcisists.

“Tarantino’s portrayal of her father as ‘an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air’”

Why would a community that has seen countless men die over the lies of white women be happy that a white women might finally be held accountable for their bullshit. I wonder why...

Also, this convo could have been held on the Root if the whites in charge were more concerned with dealing with trolls rather than…

It is wild that yt media was willing to take Grace Jabbari accounts at face value and try to crucify this man, but when Major’s team provides video and picture evidence of her abuse and lies it is handwaved by both the public and the DA.

They fell for the banana in the tailpipe, one too many times.