They're also completely gutting the GWB bus terminal, probably in response to those huge luxury residential towers going up in Ft. Lee

30somethings declaring that they'd prefer one happy meal toy over another is a perfect encapsulation of why nerd culture will never be taken seriously.

It's not news that Beyonce was going to make a single/release new music. Artists do that all the time without it being a big deal. It's the fact that it was a whole album that was a surprise, but that some rando dancer didn't leak the album release it isn't some major feat of PR control that Beyonce stans think it is.

mildly? I'm highly offended.

it's not disney (or any other toy company's) fault we're living in a sexist society, nor is it disney (or any toy company's) responsibility to fight these things by making toys that won't sell. Toy companies respond to what they'd percieve as consumer demand and most products fail; and frankly plenty of enterprising…

I work in the toy industry and that's the reality. The toy industry—and childrens media generally— is super gender-divided up and down the distribution chain. While your anecdote about how your little girl loves star wars might be nice, she's in the vast minority of toy purchasers.

Cartoon Network (like every other TV network, save for Disney, which isn't ad-supported) primary revenue model is based around a mixture of advertising and cable subscription fees. Licensed products are a secondary (but still important) revenue streams.

They stopped showing your favorite shows because their primary audience is children not adult fanboys and chances are children were not tuning into them.

it's more that they didn't expect Elisa to be the hit. They did a big consumer products push around the other one (haven't seen Frozen, but I work in the consumer products industry so we stay on top of these things.)

Some of the straight athletes even admitted to intentionally getting half-boners before going into the group shower in order to appear more impressive.

Everything was Problematic and Nothing Hurt.

he's actually put out great music. he's unfairly pegged as the "i love college" guy but he makes some good stuff. I'd recommend looking up his "Pabst and Jazz" mixtape