Does it matter that the bombings weren’t his idea? He kidnapped those kids and brainwashed them into thinking Station Eleven was a prophecy. They would be alive if not for him. He is responsible for everything that happened to them.

Saving Face is my favourite rom-com of all time, it’s a damn shame that Alice Wu had to fight so hard to have it made and didn’t get the acclaim she deserved.

It’s similar to Ellen in that it’s more about the gulf between his sunny public image and unkind private behavior.

I love Silence of the Lambs and this critique, and I don’t feel bad at all. The choice is yours.

Even now, A LOT of people assume that trans people are lying or confused about their own self-concept, whereas we recognize that if a man tells you that he’s gay because he only enjoys sex with men, he’s gay. Only a fringe group will say that he’s too confused to define himself as gay.

I didn’t understand the hollowness of the “don’t worry, he’s not trans and Lecter said so explicitly” until relatively recently. I do think that Thomas Harris and Jonathan Demme earnestly believed this logic that the character wasn’t trans, but it’s also obvious that the source of horror in this film is the idea of a…

From what kinky friends have told me, Hammer’s issue was that he didn’t follow the basic rules of consent, and that’s hugely damaging to people with paraphilias who respect their partners. This will bring on a flurry of basic fetish explainers but a big chunk of the population won’t read them, they’ll just point to…

Hannity is trash but Cooper needs to stop making comments like this. He could have said ‘restaurant at the hotel.’ Instead, he associated these thugs with the Olive Garden, which is a well-trod middle-brow/uncultured/suburban signifier with lots of urban snobs. It’s the kind of comment Meryl Streep’s character would…

Forgive me for politely providing you with the screenshots and evidence you requested, how terribly rude of me.

On October 24 2017, Jessica Durling noted, with screenshotted proof, that Rowling had liked this medium piece by Harvey Jeni in which Jeni demonizes men on the left for supporting trans women’s entry into sex segregated spaces and complains about the label TERF. In 2018 Rowling liked another transphobic tweet and her…

I would go so far as to say it was ALWAYS terrible, even at its alleged peak. The monologues about his ‘dark passenger’ were cheesy as hell from the get go. Imagine going from Six Feet Under scripts to this mess.

She actually liked transphobic tweets years before all this drama (I think the earliest was 2017 but it might even be earlier) and many people were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt before labeling her transphobic. 

Rereading his words, I don’t think so. He says they’ve been a couple for a while, so saying ‘I love you’ doesn’t change anything.

• Michael tells Booker she loves him. This isn’t specifically a Discovery issue, but it’s high time TV shows stopped pretending this was a big deal out of certain specific situations. They’ve been a couple for a little while, they’re obviously close, her saying it now changes nothing but they act like it does.

Which Algonquin nation? I’ve known people from various French-speaking Quebecois First Nations who said that they didn’t use métis this way to refer to mixed ancestry. At events, I always hear people introduce themselves with something along the lines of ‘my Mom is Anishinaabe and my Dad is French Canadian/Quebecois.’ …

No one I know who actually has ties to an indigenous communities would use it that way, they would all say something like ‘My dad is French Canadian/etc and my Mom is X First Nation.’ The trend you’re referring to is a problem that leads to confusion like Latimer believing she’s indigenous. 

Do you mean ‘mixed’? Someone with one indigenous parent and one non-indigenous parent would not qualify as Métis. Métis people are a distinct group with a history on the prairie and some of the northern US states. There is no valid Métis nation rooted in Quebec, though certainly a Métis person from Manitoba could move…

There are echoes of Elizabeth Warren’s situation here. Latimer has a French Canadian ancestor who lived near an Indigenous community and confused that with membership in that nation. Because Metis nations have French ancestors and most French Canadians can trace a single Indigenous ancestor from the 17th century, ther…

Even before this podcast was revealed to be fraudulent, Rukmini Callimachi took 15 000 ISIS files out of Iraq without permission and her own sources questioned her journalistic integrity and fondness for sensationalism. This podcast was catnip for Canadian conservatives and pushed the federal government to abandon the…

Most toxic relationship patterns go back to an issue with a parent and I suspect in this case there was a sense of shared outsider status.