Yup.

I live in Taiwan. Permanently.

China (the PRC government at least - obviously there are non-awful things in the country as a whole) is awful. Just the worst really.

I wouldn’t watch anything that’s been twiddled with to appease those assholes in Zhongnanhai.

Or cast a Japanese American actress (or a Japanese actress who can speak English).

Or just don’t mention what country Tibet is supposed to be in. It’s not like China doesn’t know Tibet exists - they rule it after all. And then don’t cast a white guy as Dr. Strange.

That doesn’t make it totally valid, it means you’re whoring out artistic sensibilities for a market, which makes it a worse movie, which means fewer people will be interested in seeing it when it gets critically panned. I mean, I realize it’s Marvel so who cares about its artistic merit, but I’m not going to see a…

I don’t see how the cops could have known what race the three girls were, so I don’t see how “they’d have rescued three white girls” is even remotely a reasonable take on this.

A murky pond with sucker mud, grasses, weeds, and being Florida, probably alligators and water moccasins too. It wasn’t a clear water pond with a rocky bottom.

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

I don’t always want extra warmth. (I live in the subtropics FWIW)

I don’t always use them. But then 3/4 of the year (maybe 4/5) where I live all you need is a sheet or light blanket, our duvet gets very little use.

*Would* repeat it. Implying they don’t, generally, because they probably won’t come across it again. Whether or not you would, I think, is different to whether or not you intentionally seek it out even after seeing it inadvertently once. “I would do that again if I had the opportunity” is not the same as “I think I’ll…

And she can have her opinions (and not realize that she thinks she sounds accepting but actually she’s not) but if she publicizes them, she’s not free from criticism of her words.

Freedom of speech for all!

Oh Christ.

I don’t care about her, and I don’t watch American Idol. But I hear this a lot and I think -

What the fuck is there to “not agree” with? Would you go up to an Asian person and say “I don’t agree with your Asian lifestyle?” Would you go up to a man and say “I don’t agree with your male lifestyle?” “Hey…

I’ve got one.

I live in Taiwan. Republicans have in recent decades been much more strongly pro-Taiwan and in favor of defending Taiwan against a legitimate Chinese threat (and it’s real, we’re not talking phantom WMDs here, they actually do just want to annex Taiwan against the wishes of the Taiwanese people) than…

Also this only works if you are likely to agree with the rest of the platform, which I don’t.

Could women look at fiscal issues besides those posed by having children (because I agree that abortion *is* a fiscal issue)? Sure. But their other fiscal platforms are also terrible, so what does it matter?

Yep. Many women do. I wouldn’t say even nearly a majority, but more than you’d think.

The president-elect of Taiwan (also the first female president of Taiwan and the first female president in Asia who is not the daughter or wife of a former male head of state), Tsai Ying-wen, presented to voters a detailed and coherent set of policies and proposals that she is able to speak about fluently (having been…

Women exist who do not think they are as fully realized as humans as men. They wouldn’t put it that way of course, but they really do put stock in the idea that the men in their lives ‘know best’, that women have a ‘place’. Some probably really are happier in traditional roles where they basically cater to men (of…

Hey man, here in Asia a lot of guys who - to give into the ridiculous number system for a minute - were like a 3 back home get treated like 10s. I mean yeah, yeah, if they *can* then it’s not my business to say they *shouldn’t* and the women who go for them are doing so of their own volition, if it’s consensual and…

And that’s the rub for me. Two cities I’d consider living in if I moved back to the Western hemisphere are New York and Toronto (because my husband has Canadian citizenship and I want to lock that shit down for myself, too). But looking at rents in both cities, well, I can’t afford a car, and I can’t afford to live…

On some level I kinda sorta feel the same way, at least when it comes to entertainment media (though I loathe any form of DRM and will torrent simply to avoid it - if DRM were removed and electronic media I purchased were truly mine with no corporate fingers still stuck in it, I would be more likely to buy it), and I…