Calling Missouri a Plains state and arrogantly stating that KC is not a Midwestern city deserves a stronger mea culpa than that. Girl, you look ignorant. What’s your idea of the middle of the Midwest — Western Ohio? Indianapolis? You didn’t object to Kansas Citians being presumed hickish bigots, but rather that we…

People who remember Backdraft unite!

1 x 1 = 2 is failing to grasp the concept of math at a most basic level. It’s failing to grasp counting. It’s failing to grasp discerning units and what they mean. It’s an epistemology of a math-free world (that self-refutes by using math to illustrate itself).

If you want to come out as a devoted Randian, I’ll understand why that distinction seemed important for you to make in this context. I’m sure Peter Thiel would star the comments of everyone focusing on the privacy angle.

I suspect there’s a significant element of “thank you for all the jobs” when it comes to GoT. Between production costs and promotion, I wouldn’t be surprised if they spent close to a billion dollars over the life of the series.

“Forgot” is such a generous description.

Native Kansas Citian here. Have you ever set foot in the Central Time Zone?

I still don’t think anyone should feel they have to reveal their status in such a public manner unless they want to, not because they have to combat stigma.

I still don’t think anyone should feel they have to reveal their status in such a public manner unless they want to, not because they have to combat stigma.

I love everything about your comment, but this part really doesn’t get said enough:

We are reading it very differently. We are also reading LGBT history differently if you think that “sit quietly and hope for the best” is something other than hiding. And the desire to hide is understandable when people are, in fact, out to get you.

Your response seems to buy into a lot of stigmatization. It sucks that he would ever feel the need to hide his status, any more than someone should be ashamed to reveal they have diabetes. I suspect he would’ve talked about it anyway, in the parallel universe where Hillary won the election. Because destigmatizing HIV…

The Women’s March has been a hot mess from inception. Just shut it down.

That wasn’t snark. But this is: I can see how unreasonable it was to think you might google the names of Constance Wu and Zhang Yimou to figure out the reference, and how if you’d done so there are merely pages upon pages of results entirely devoted to the incident so you could’ve easily missed it. /snark

Context: watch Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Hero (2002), and House of Flying Daggers (2004). All three movies had sufficient promotion and distribution in the U.S. that I saw them in the theater in Missouri. Ask yourself if the Chinese director of those Chinese films deserved to be presumed guilty of indulging in the…

I think it’s a pretty picture.

I’ve got no trouble justifying letting a person keep their job when their shit person behavior is totally unrelated to their work. My struggle, as a Chiefs fan, is balancing “losing a great job doesn’t make a domestic abuser less likely to abuse” and “holy shit, Tyreek Hill has all the red flags for murdering an…

Some aspects of fandom these days are a lot like fantasy football. People draft their team of celebrities and expect those celebrities to earn points doing or saying cool things. When their team earns a lot of points, they celebrate their own discernment — in a media culture full of noise and hype, they spotted the…

Or don’t listen to podcasts at all. Listen to me. I will give you the correct answers.

Is this good or bad for Ellie Shechet?