More importantly, he got Dame Judy $1,000,000 for Riddick. He made her salary part of his demands when he found out what the producers were planning on offering her. He thought the amount was an insult to an actor of her caliber.

As a huge nerd, I’m never bothered by this. I’m with John Scalzi on deciding who gets to be a nerd: anyone who wants to be.

You are over thinking this. Not every tourist having an interaction with a local is colonialism. Not everything is a political statement. Sometimes, you are just a person making a little kid laugh. Because that kid is not as hung up on skin color as you are. Plus, the very assumption that the tourist is white and the…

Dude, they are begging on the street. Their parents let them out on the street. Other countries are not as fucking obsessed with “stranger danger” as everyone seems to be. Street urchins grow up on the street, they beg on the street, and play on the street. Jesus, even the phrase makes me think of Ned Flanders.

When I was travelling through China in 2003, I took with me a neat little polaroid camera that produced tiny 1-inch square pictures. When surrounded by a gaggle of kids, I’d snap dozens of pictures of them and hand them out (and let them take snaps of each other), which always seemed to delight and amuse them as they…

I am an avid jezebel reader and I have to say, I am totally disgusted that a website devoted to feminist issues would report on this EXTREME invasion of privacy in this way. Beyond that, to comment on and poke fun at a woman’s personal decisions regarding her appearance and personal well being is not only undeniably…

Thank you SO MUCH for putting this here. He should've gotten a second Pulitzer for writing it. RIP

Thank you. I’m not ready to talk about it but thank you. Just promise me, PROMISE ME, you won’t try watching it yourself! I was arrogant enough to think I could do it...what a fool I was.

I....don’t like to talk about it. The things I saw... The things I heard... God help me. It was awful.

that was brilliant. this line kills me “Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks.” ahahah so casual, so much burn

I think I got negged for the first time a couple months ago. This guy I hadn’t seen in years was like, “Wow, you look a lot OLDER. But it looks good on you. You really look like a woman now.” Which was funny because I was thinking, ‘Damn, he looks old. Maybe I should cool it on the drinking and smoking and drugs so my…

There’s nothing better than a great film critic demolishing a shitty movie http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deuce-…

I didn’t know he was gay, but I’m not surprised to hear it. Like SassyPants, my ignorance was more due to having never given Barry’s life outside of his music even the briefest thought than just wrongly assuming he was straight.

You’ve got to be kidding.

I don’t think she’s that complicated. No matter what her personal beliefs and world view she just happens to not be a total fucking moron. She can believe horrible things but she doesn’t totally deny reality. And she isn’t going to be treated like she’s an idiot by anyone (left or right). Whether it is pretending…

Kara is black dumb fuck

I’d say most people at Fox News actually are sane, they’re also just extraordinary liars, and thus, humongous assholes. The genuinely crazy ones catch on and leave, ala Glenn Beck. Whether it’s better to be a Beck or an O’Reilly, I don’t know, they’re both pretty fucking vile.

‘Homie’ isn’t black slang. It’s etymological roots are from Mexican-American culture and dates back almost 80 years. If black people have appropriated it into their culture, what is wrong with white people doing it? We’re all Americans after all, and stealing other language’s and culture’s words is as American as…

That might be one of the greatest lines I have ever heard and I will be incorporating it into my life. “Either there is mutual respect or the conversation is over.” Terrific.

I’ve been in these situations before where I regretted not saying something. I’m sure she felt pissed upon thinking about it, but situational factors, internal biases & norms are powerful influencers. Saying she could have controlled the conversation & been this powerful & strong feminist is a hindsight bias. The…