Yeah but Dart isn’t dead. Obviously the bond he formed either from growing inside Will or being adopted by Dustin or both served to keep him alive after his connection from the Mind-Flayer was severed. He’s a good boy. A good boy who was last seen breathing, albeit in a labored fashion, and who was as you say…

It shouldn’t, but sports scholarships make the difference between being able to go to college and not being able to, for a lot of young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

I think it’s intentional, but I don’t think Trump is coming up with the ideas. I think troll tactics get pitched to him and he selects the ones he likes.

Speaker of the House, then President pro tempore of the Senate, then Secretary of State.

It’s always so funny how romance is the one literary genre where the better read you are, the less you are assumed to know about it.

She’s a marketer. She surveyed the self-publishing landscape, realized fanfic was a great way to build an audience, and repurposed some old 90s erotica as Twilight fanfic. Then she unleashed her real talent for marketing.

I find my understanding of them is supported satisfactorily by reading their media and lurking on boards. Much like I find my understanding of, say, incels, is supported by just reading lookism and a few other places. I get their language, their grievances, their sense of humor, ascertain patterns and speculate to…

Well, if the rapist in question got six months, that suggests they were convicted in the legal system.

I’m with you. No way Thandie Newton is playing Sana, but she’d make an ace Rae Sloane.

Linda Hamilton’s Arms in Terminator 2: The Thigh Gap of 1991.

It’s only a stretch if it’s a choice they don’t make. If they chose it, it’d be tight af, as the kids say. Rey actually looks like Keira Knightley, not Natalie Portman, after all.

No, I mean Sabé. Keira Knightley’s character from episode I. The Padmé lookalike.

Add that Keira Knightley co-stars and Obi-Wan and Sabé turn out to be Rey’s grandparents.

I am white, middle-aged, female, and hold high level clearances, and I’ve been selected numerous times. I travel a lot, plans change and I end up booking one ways back home, etc.

In the immortal words of Natasha Bedingfield, no one else can speak the words on your lips.

Fantastic piece.

I think “do you” is always great advice for the kind of people it’s meant for...people with a specific and interesting POV all their own. People who have a “you” to do. You can’t do you when you got no you to do.

Or because Hanks and Cruise became famous decades before Jennifer Lopez naming her second album after her actual IRL nickname triggered the whole thing? I wish people would find real things to care about.

It is. But again, the point is that not all sexist condescension is mansplaining. It’s a specific variant. The mansplainer is confounded by female expertise. He assumes amateur male efforts are superior to professional female ones. Without that context you lose what made mansplaining a revelatory term in the first…

It’s condescending. And likely gendered and classist.