Back in 1980, plenty of people did. The same sorts who fan-theoried the fuck out of Rey’s parentage were all about the idea that Vader lied to Luke to mess with his head and lure him to the Dark Side. There were three years of arguments over the subject before Lucas dropped the mic in RotJ.

Think of it this way. Back in the 1950s, there were two labels: “Normal” and “deviant”. (This is intended to be amusing hyperbole for the purposes of illutstration, and not necessarily a perfect glimpse into history.) So if you weren’t someone who was monogamous, straight, cis, and into missionary sex, you assumed you…

It’s so frustrating, because if you focus on individual bits, some of them are quite lovely. It’s just that none of them belong in the same house as any of the others. It’s like someone wandered through an Ikea with their architect and said, “Can you make it look like all of this at once?”

That’s very insulting! To Varys. Like, at least he had a few of the complete shitbirds he had to deal with murdered. Name me one Republican Paul Ryan had poisoned, amirite?

Usually it’s Chill Girl, ie, someone who proves that she’s not uptight like all those other women and doesn’t let “boys being boys” get to her.

If men listened to the first two, women wouldn’t have to keep talking.

And even if women are, on average, the same, the bias for selecting men inevitably means that less-qualified men beat out women who are better at the job. It’s very clear that there are plenty of white men out there who were hired on the basis of their demographic.

I couldn’t even tell it was a hand at first, it looked so bad. Jesus.

I was seriously expecting that second photo to be Sir Alec, Hayden Christiansen, and Gollum. :)

The weird thing is, I’ve come to agree with 90s Republicans. I think Clinton should have resigned, because I think that his brazen defiance of custom taught Republicans that if you just refuse to be shamed and force people to kick you out, the mechanisms of power are such that it’s awfully difficult to do. I genuinely…

This is so touching and beautiful!

I think anyone claiming a “sincerely-held religious belief” has to provide scriptural support for it. Like, you just write me an essay listing what Jesus had to say about this, and I will fucking decide your case based on the motherfucking merits, okay? Because what I suspect is that half these assholes never even…

“Many people who want to reproduce are getting into the exciting new ‘missionary position’ trend! Our editors are highly intrigued!”

We all have guesses, but I suspect that soon we’ll be learning the facts of death.

Interestingly, Boy George did at one point write “Waka waka waka waka waka Wakandacon” as a song, but he changed the lyrics substantially before releasing it.

Randy Moss’s rookie year was the year I started paying attention to football. His routes were a thing of actual, aesthetic beauty, like watching a ballet on the football field, and I will always have a special place in my heart for him as an athlete and a person.

No, no, I totally understand. Like when I needed to let everyone know that I was having problems with my Roku login, so I impaled all those peasants on sharpened wooden stakes and put them out on my front yard. It’s just a common information security measure.

Well, people do have a tendency to think all of her problems are solved when Homer shows up...

Well, first, these assholes will always present their ideas as subversive and outside the mainstream even if they’re being spouted out of the mouth of the goddamn president. (Purely hypothetically, you understand.) Anyone can always claim the mantle of the victim, so why bend over backward to deny them the excuse when…

People have been predicting the “death throes” of movie theaters since World War II ended. I think there will always be a desire to get out of the house and have a date at the movies. Restaurants survived the home-cooked meal, movie theaters will survive the television set.