So you didn't stay for the TWIST?

Hope is basically by definition the thing that you have when there is no reason to have it.

Just think: this boring WHITE, HETEROSEXUAL, CYSGENDERED MAN almost became the president. What on earth would be different?
Answer: Nothing at all. And everything. Same as always.

I'm not cranky because people like things I don't; I'm peeved because people want to found a new society based on the idea that "I" can NEVER understand "you." White people can never understand what it is like to be black. Men can never understand what it is like to be women. And so on.

Only to friends, especially men, who she trusts to 'splain shit to her. You know, when she lets her guard down and admits that she secretly finds Sean Connery irresistible and finds Goldfinger—the movie where he saves the value of the American dollar by raping a lesbian—to be the unironic pinnacle of Western society.

I like the idea of a massive film crew jetting around the globe to alert the globe of the danger they are exacerbating. It's like alerting an unconscious woman that she is being vaginally and anally assaulted by frantically slapping a penis on her forehead: "Wake up! Look at what is happening down there! Ignore my…

Did this reviewer REALLY just take a dig at Kimmy for not getting Perry's frustration at how her white woman privilege just leap frogged over his racial underprivileged struggles? So being kidnapped and raped for years on end is better than growing up black now?

I've honestly been reading the AV Club since it was in print with The Onion. Ever since I saw that headline about a dying boy getting his wish to pork Janet Jackson.

Cultural appropriation?

Jesus: I forgot about Snatched. I retract my above snark about only straight men being given the cinematic opportunity to shred their dignity.

And why are the guys in these movies always straight? And why are they never transgendered? Why is it always just straight men who get to shred their dignity?

No. I've been an avid AV Clubbist since hector was a pup. I recently read the "valuable" "contribution" that Rebecca Solnit made to human history in the form of her last screed. She does make some valid points in some of her essays, but the title essay is so blitheringly insulting on so many levels that I felt the…

It's not her sanctimonious peevishness that is so distressing so much as it is the fawning response, as though the fact that some human beings are condescending assholes is somehow revelatory. And the fact that the empty vessel of her words gives shape to the formless grievances of an inarticulate group of women in…

Astounding, really, that one with such a massive ego could still somehow be so utterly and totally unselfaware.

And then I will brag to all my girlfriends about how I totally refused to listen to you until you finally stopped talking and then we will all laugh about how stupid we made you feel! Maybe I'll even write a book about it! I'll call it, "How to Humiliate People In Public If They Don't Pay You All Of the Attention You…

@beinggreen… that's why the whole concept is so infuriating: it immediately dismantles any capacity or desire for any further discussion between either side. It immediately tells the other, "I feel like you are not listening to me and therefore I will refuse to listen to you. So there!!!"

Once again, Becca Solnit disguises neurotic egotism as a gendered phenomenon to be proud of, displays the quipping power and charm of a left-wing Ann Coulter, and generally makes me ashamed to be a human. If only we could all be so lacking in empathy and so bitterly smug in our self-pity that others could only wish…

One good reason would be that I'm actually seeking a discussion. I'm no fan of the police, but I really have no idea what people expect them to do.

Question: if somebody pistol whipped you in your driveway and you told the police that it was two black males in red bandanas, and then the police see a black male in a red bandana less than four blocks away, what would you want the police to do?

Does anybody know any actual "facts" about this incident? Like, what was the robbery the police were investigating? What was the description of the suspect? How close in time to the robbery was the traffic stop? I mean, if the APB description was, "Armed suspect who looks kind of like Wyclef Jean just fled from a bank…