No, it isn’t insane. Why shouldn’t they make comparable amounts? There is no good reason why the biggest male star should be more ‘bankable’ than the biggest female star.

The right to discuss salary with coworkers isn’t a new thing, it’s been a federal law for years. We’ve had that right for quite some time, but employers try to convince us it doesn’t exist.

Yup. Beaded picture frames: OK if you are a college student or younger (young enough that you decorate with unframed posters), or if you beaded it yourself with something interesting. Otherwise they reek of TJ Maxx or a yard sale.

Beaded lampshades are never OK.

When I went home for 5 months to deal with the aftermath of my mom’s passing away, my husband and I were technically in an “LDR” for that time, because we live far (very far, like overseas) from where we’re from. When I go to grad school we will probably do it again for a year (looking at one-year programs in Europe)…

Agreed, except I doubt she ever was his “ex”.

It was in another country, at least in China and Taiwan a lot of engagement parties look a hell of a lot like weddings.

Not personally, but I have also heard (from a friend who went out with a married guy) “we both want to divorce but everyone expects us to stay married”.

Get plague and chill.

Cave painting and chill.

Cuneiform and chill.

Personally speaking, yes. My mom’s funeral (she passed away in late 2014), staying in the US to sort out family matters for months away from my husband, job, cats and apartment, my grandma passing away right before I left for the US for my dad’s surgery (see below) with the funeral exactly when I could not be there…

I actually like it for this reason - I’m not fond of ‘chosen one’ stories where the agent doing the choosing is unclear. Perhaps it’s all a part of my atheist, existentialist worldview. Nobody can be ‘chosen’ because there is nobody doing the choosing. Humans choose each other, or choose themselves, as heroes or…

I wasn’t accusing you of sexism. I don’t think you actually are engaging in it. I’m pointing out that the statement “Sexism?! Pete’s sake. When did I EVER mention that it’s because she’s a woman?” doesn’t make much sense, because you don’t have to mention something is ‘because she’s a woman’ for it to be sexist. Your…

One of my biggest problems with TESB is that we have no idea how much time has passed over the course of the movie. It’s just not clear whether Luke was on Dagobah for 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months...probably not 3 years. Because he seemed to get a lot of training I tend to believe it was “months”, but nobody really knows.

“The hero basically could have been anyone then.”

That was the whole point - heroes aren’t predetermined by the universe, they are created due to not only what they do but what others around them do. Anyone could have been that hero, it just happened to be Harry.

Harry wasn’t incredibly gifted at magic. He was gifted at Quidditch, but did “okay” at magic school. He seemed excited to have any aptitude for magic at all! It was Hermione who was incredibly gifted at magic.

“Sexism?! Pete’s sake. When did I EVER mention that it’s because she’s a woman?”

I agree with like 99% of what you say (although I do see good reasons for why Rey was as good as she was at a lot - not all but a lot - of what she did), but I do hope you realize sexism isn’t just “oh it can’t be good because it’s a…

Perhaps I don’t remember correctly about her understanding Chewie, my memory was when Chewie started talking both Finn and Rey looked at Han, Finn said “you can understand that thing” and Han said “yes, and he can understand you so watch what you say”. Nothing from Rey, which in my memory (which may be wrong) meant…

I don’t think Ren is a particularly powerful Sith. He’s not even a fully trained one - Snoke even says so. He has a few very powerful parlor tricks, and he probably has powerful *aptitude*, but that does not translate into being all-around powerful and it shows (and was written that way). It’s quite clear he’s no good…

She does explicitly say she is a pilot before she actually flies the Falcon though. There’s the difference. You’re not a pilot. She is. How do we know? Because she says so.

Nah. I’m one such detractor and I don’t say that. I do say “Superman is poorly written, he’s too competent, he’s too powerful, and that makes him a boring, lazily-written superhero”. And if you’re wrong about me, you’re probably wrong about a lot of others too. Because I ABSOLUTELY say the things you say that “nobody…

Superman. I have heard Superman being criticized for being a Gary Stu. Because he is one.