Look, I generally don’t disagree with you on this, but I truly hope you’re putting as much effort into calling out misogynists as you are tsking at women who are sick to death of worrying that the Handmaid’s Tale might become their reality sometime soon. Maybe you are, and if so - GREAT! But you shouldn’t be calling…

And yet after centuries of being raped and murdered at the hands of men, women are supposed to be sensitive to nuance and be the ones to elevate the conversation. How come men aren’t ever worried that women are going to be pushed away or written off in totality by the actions of misogynists and male warmongers? How…

Because it’s on women perpetually to fix this problem. Seriously, “it’s not helping” and “adds to the problem” is bullshit. The onus is not on women to prove they don’t deserve to be murdered after a millenia of being murdered. That’s the same bullshit as demanding that oppressed peoples don’t get angry about their…

I love how people are piling on you for making an ironic and obviously hyperbolic comment that you obviously don’t mean on a story where men actually have and are still killing women. Like, dudes, look at the harrowing facts of this real story about real people dying for male entitlement...and then harp on a chick who…

Well, didn’t she play Julie? So maybe flashback scenes still...or we see Protomolecule Julie again (I haven’t read the books).

Not gonna lie - I was super pumped for this dumb show. To be fair, my interest was all about seaside town atmosphere and mermaid effects. And on that scale, I’m good. The plotting is pretty meh, the other actors, while ethnically diverse and attractive, aren’t super charismatic or very interesting yet, except for Rena…

This might be a thing. The Walking Dead is consistently the only show my cat sits down and watches with me.

YESSSSSSSS. YESSS. YES. YEAH. YEP. Even in Black Panther, when we got to see her rock those white dreads and look statuesque and imperious even as she bowed to M’Baku, my chest hurt for what SHOULD have been.

Well clearly, I didn’t! ha.

Oh, then you should definitely watch! I warn of the CWness only because I know it’s not for everyone and I acknowledge that the network’s brand of urban fantasy and sci-fi featuring young attractive (usually Australian) folks is totally my guilty pleasure. I just never grew out of Buffy, I guess...

Honestly, I love this show. It definitely has it’s CWness, but it actually is pretty great and very committed to its world building. Some plot lines have been better than others, but it’s a solid bit of escapism that isn’t as nihilistic and misery-porn ridden as The Walking Dead despite it’s pretty heavily apocalyptic…

Agreed!

Sure, but do you think it’s supposed to be a different Hanuman?

That’s fair.

Isn’t Thor the comic also then one ginormous cultural appropriation? The Norse pantheon is still worshiped by some people in Scandinavian countries and is considered a legit religion as opposed to how most of the world outside that region regards the stories of Odin, Loki and Thor as just ancient folktales and Norse…

UM...Bast, Sekhmet and Sobek were not made up for the movie or the comics, either. They were all worshiped by real peoples and didn’t get their start in the region of the giant continent where Wakanda is supposed to exist. So it sort of feels like this could conversely be an argument about lumping all African…

Gawd, you didn’t even read my arguments so what’s the point? I never said or even fucking implied that bad writing from the first movies makes it okay to have bad writing in the second or somehow magically makes the writing good in the second. And I didn’t say the original movies were bad and were given a free pass. I…

This is well put by you, but I don’t see how Rey doesn’t have something similar with the revelation of her own parents and the changes she goes through first hating Ren, then wanting him to come to the good, then ditching him for good. People seem to want her epiphany to be about her talents like the whole “powerful…

It’s kind of mystifying because he says things to prove my own points and then tells me my arguments are stupid with responses that indicate he’s not even sending them to right person...also, for someone so jacked about the components of good writing and reading comprehension...he’s just not demonstrating either with…

Corporate shill??? What the hell? haha, settle petal. I don’t even think you are having a discussion with me but some phantom menace out of your own fevered brain at this point. Nothing said in the above email by you addresses anything said by me. Like literally, nothing. But you’re clearly becoming unhinged and…