A good analogy might be when someone dresses a baby in gender-neutral clothing, and people greeting the parent try to suss out, without being too obvious or invasive about it, the child's gender (which is a real situation for any number of new parents). The baby is not the butt of a joke: the joke is that so many of…

I think you're creating a false dichotomy here. Empathy is not mutually exclusive of vanity, nor of the desire for approval. Some people are turned off by the attempt to parlay a good deed into social capital for yourself—but the term didn't originally imply that it was the *sole* motivation, just one function among…

Yeah, I'm not sure what people find so hard to grasp about this concept. It doesn't preclude good deeds, nor necessarily entail hypocrisy—it's just also indicative of a strong desire to translate some portion of it into social capital for themselves.

For all the people saying, "Well, duh!" no one has yet pointed out that this doesn't quite work as an explanation precisely because of Bell's scene with the elderly Ranger who reminds him that senseless violence has *always* been part and parcel of life there. In the end scene, Bell isn't pining for the moral order…

I would prefer my partner to experience comfort and love after I die, not sew her vagina shut and wall herself up in a nunnery for a length of time deemed satisfactory by sanctimonious internet commenters, but maybe that's just me.

The point you seem to be missing is that you don't get to set a timetable on other people's grief, nor police how they do or do not express it. And the only gross thing here is your "put yourself in his dead wife's shoes," which is simultaneously the most ignorant and the most presumptuous thing I've ever heard. You…

It no longer had the sense of looming apocalypse, but I'd hardly call it cheerful. His partner's discovery of the group's kill house and mass graves, the episode with the killer in her hometown, her father's ongoing mental decline…

It's a bit more complicated inasmuch as the actual issue is that they won't sentence Polanski in absentia, despite that being the typical procedure in this scenario. It's become a political hot potato that no one wants to see settled except Geimer—because once settled, an appellate process can begin, and one that…

That would be a less silly line of reasoning if it was her treatment at the hands of Polanski (or his supporters) she was protesting, and not the way that victims are treated by the system itself. If you are concerned with that particular precedent, *stop letting the system treat victims like shit.*

That's not really a full presentation of her perspective (based on her book and various lengthier interviews). Her issue is that people seem to feel entitled to disempower victims in the very breath that they support them, through the expectation that they be defined, destroyed, and permanently scarred by what was…

Bane's father is an Aryan-looking blonde Brit named Sir Edmund Dorrance (AKA King Snake), and we've never even seen his mother. He certainly has grown up speaking Spanish (and a ton of other languages), but there's nothing in his backstory nor in the depictions of him in the comics (during the rare times we see his…

According to drugs.com, here's how Naloxone would be administered (and it should answer your question):

Yeah. A Woody Woodpecker prison tattoo specifically means "a white man who won't submit to rape or robbery"(their words). Source: my cousin who's been in and out of prison since his teens.

Exactly. Large numbers of Scandinavian immigrants in particular, who are definitely not super smiley and gregarious to strangers, if their home countries' current customs are any guide. They're hospitable, for sure, but not smiley.

I do invite you to listen to a French loudmouth talk about Roma or Algerians.

There's some goofiness, for sure. But it also presaged a lot of genuinely great neo-noir that came later. It's certainly more surreal than a lot of later entries in the genre.

Am I the only person who enjoyed The Salton Sea?

In the case of music, there are plenty of lines of work (particularly in the service, entertainment, hospitality industries, etc) where you have zero control over what's being piped into your workspace, and given the nature of top 40 stations and the like, you could literally be forced to hear a particular song 8-10…

One of my favorite musicians was talking about this. He was saying that recently in pop music the album cycle has gotten longer and longer, so even though the scene is disproportionately dominated by a small number of artists, those individual artists may only release a new album every 3-5 years now.

Maybe taxonomically in their original context, but by the time Soundgarden was putting out records, Led Zeppelin was not really considered 'straight-up metal' any more than Bo Diddley would have entered a conversation on "straight-up rock."