Thanks - if I know it’ll end well, I can probably handle the lead-up.  

It definitely sounds like something I want to watch sometime, but I really can’t handle anything that’s too heavy right now - is this pretty emotionally taxing, or light enough to handle.  Like, Steven Universe is about as upsetting as I can get right now.  

Speaking as a computer security professional: your code isn’t perfect either.  It might compile, not break the build, and pass all the unit tests, but I guarantee you there are mistakes in there somewhere if you’re coding full time.  

Well, and it’s one thing to not care about what other people think about you, but it’s another to not care about how you’ve made other people feel.  One can be liberating, but the other is a personal failing of empathy.  

The thing about the “I don’t care” is, it’s one thing to say “I don’t that people don’t like me”, but it’s another thing to say “I don’t care that people said being around me made them miserable, that I said and did toxic things, that I make people unhappy.”  The framing here makes it seem like his feelings matter…

The thing about that is, he presents it like it’s just about “people don’t like you, isn’t that upsetting?”  but the real question should be “a lot of people find you toxic to be around - have you thought about not being so hurtful?”  It’s not about his feeling, or at least it shouldn’t be - it’s about theirs.  And…

I mean, that sort of thing is funny if it’s a joke, but less funny  if it starts to seem like that’s really how they think (that they’re inherently, innately better than everyone else).

Also, my understanding is that courts in general are moving very slowly right now, although you’d think things like this would probably get some priority.  

I remember really liking Six Gun Snow White (by Catherine Valente), which set the story in a gold rush setting, and had the “snow white” name be a nickname meant to make fun of her for being mixed race. The “7 dwarves” bit is where she takes a job cooking for a mining operation. But yeah, there’s always a ton of ways…

The thing about the scene in the Aristocats is, it comes completely out of nowhere and it’s totally unnecessary.  They can remove the racism very easily - just have a normal band playing, not one that’s a collection of racist cartoons of different ethnicities.  The siamese cats in Lady & the Tramp are more integrated…

I talk about race pretty openly with them in other contexts; when something’s on tv so fleetingly though, I sometimes have the urge to just hope they won’t remember that bit if we keep going. The older they get, the more I bring things up. For littler kids, btw, I highly recommend the First Conversations series -…

I’ve been popping in and out, so I might’ve missed it - has she mentioned being trans on the show? I haven’t seen anyone getting upset, but that’s because all the reaction to her on AVC has been overwhelmingly positive, and I don’t really pay attention to many other corners of the internet. But anyways, transphobes…

There’s a scene in the Aristocats that took me very much by surprise.  When those really dated ethnic stereotype cartoons pop up in their animation it’s hard to know how to play it with the kids - let it go by unmentioned, hope they don’t notice it, then bury that movie/skip that scene going forward, or have a talk…

When it’s been a while, I’ll still remember if I liked something or not, but not why or what I did/didn’t like - it’s why I started writing goodreads reviews.  I don’t think anyone but my mom reads them, but it’s sort of an external memory thing for me, so that when some book comes up, I can remind myself of the…

I liked the book - I think they’ve made some pretty strange adaptation choices, especially in turning the protagonist’s brother into her love interest instead.  Not only is it a little squick if I think about it, it takes out some of the more interesting emotional beats from the book, as she realizes her brother…

Speaking of pop culture that people miss the point of, it’s always funny when people miss the bit where the couple in “Let me Sleep on it” end up desperately unhappy, and think it’s a straight love story, or when people play “Born in the USA” at political rallies.  

Oddly, it’s a lot easier for me to separate folks like him and Gene Simmons from their earlier work than some other folks - maybe because their early work doesn’t have much to do with the later turns, and because people getting weird and reactionary in their older age isn’t that unusual, sadly.  

It takes the sad/upsetting parts seriously, so I think it ends up being more cathartic/enjoyable than painful.  I quit Silicon Valley very early on because a lot of the stuff that seemed too close to how messed up the real version is were being treated like jokes.  *That* was definitely a case where something was too…

Not because he could, because he was powerless not to!  So much better, of course.  Poor entitled white man.  

Thing is, it doesn’t seem like he wants his career back, it seems like he wants his godhood/worship back. He thinks he’s a good guy deserving of that level of esteem, so he just needs to prove it and clear the record and everyone will come flocking back, I think? He doesn’t really seem upset about the lack of work/job…