Alas, there are sooooo maaaaany people on Twitter defending Milo. The mental gymnastics these people must subject themselves to in order to defend him is astounding. It’s *almost* as though conservatives have no moral compass.

Welp. Now we know why he’s so against transgender men using women’s bathrooms. Now we know why he pulled that fake statistic about trans men being more likely to commit sexual assault out of his ass on Bill Maher. 

reminds me of friends I had as a young teenager who lost their virginities way young, under questionable circumstances.

Umm, I very much care if two 13 year olds are having sex with each other, and I imagine if you were a parent to a 13 year old, you would too. If 13 is too young to consent with an adult partner, how is it not too young to consult with another child? Another child uneducated on safe sex, pregnancy, sexually transmitted…

Nobody really cares if two 13 year olds want to have sex with each other

So we’re defining 13-year-olds as sexually mature now, are we?

Calling it voyeuristic isn’t quite right, but it’s along those lines. There was something unsettlingly academic about it. It almost read like the anthropological reports of first-contact tribes in the 1920s and 30s. Like, the “otherness” about the folks Ehrenreich worked with and lived among and wrote about was so…

Yes. Or unless we can abolish the Electoral College; cease gerrymandering; or, in the very least, update the Electoral College so that it reflects the actual population. It isn’t so much that we must overcome “a huge plurality of efficiently distributed provincial white people” (though that is a lovely turn of…

Well, sure, although the tension between her and Alicia was always the secret ingredient to the early seasons. Lucca’s too smart — or at least too worldly, I’m not sure smarts has much to do with it — to be so fascinated by Kalinda.

Somewhat decontextualized, but - it’s shocking to me how overrepresented the 1% are in acting - just from trailers I’ve seen TODAY: Rose Leslie-Arbuthnot whose high nobility/aristocratic family allowed her to grow up in two castles, daughters of billionaires (!!!! BILLIONAIRES, not millionaires!) Julia Dreyfus-Louis,…

Ya that show did have good antagonists didn’t they?

I had no idea Cush Jumbo was British until I saw her in a film at TIFF. She is amazing!

You make a really good point about them often being antagonists. I forgot about Taye Diggs (which, I don’t even know how that happened, because he’s on my mind almost always, been near the top of my celebrity YES PLEASE list since Brown Sugar) and the various POC characters they introduced as the Next Big Plot Thing,…

I mean sure, but I really hate when the good wife tries to write episodes about or concerning race,they always come off as smug limo liberal white people, who can be “intellectual and not emotional” about it. Like even the episode you’re referencing its so fucking smug. There is no delicate treatment like there is…

Wendy Scott-Carr? Lemond Bishop? Kalinda (in the first season)?

well the kings have never been good at writing characters of color, so lucca was typical woc exists only to serve white character trope. *shrug*

Yeah, this was written and executed with a very heavy hand.

On the bright side, I think Diane and Lucca will be great working together in the post-Alicia future that we’ll never see.

And why did Lucca become Paula from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? Cush Jumbo is great but her character apparently cares more about Alicia’s love-life and career than her own.

It’s interesting that this episode was so bad; I’ve always thought the finales were the weakest of each season—it felt like they’d get caught up in bringing the drama, and all the nuance would drop away.