This commercial isn’t great, but I’m not seeing how it’s problematic. It’s tired and unoriginal, but the woman isn’t a passive object, she’s the main character. And she’s not being objectified, she’s accidentally doing something inappropriate in front of children.

Sounds like Delirious, which is from 1983.

The trippy thing is, relative to the discourse of the early 80s, the underlying message of that bit - “you can be friends with gay people” - was actually progressive.

I would guess the cause of death is related to the carotid choke and his serious heart condition, but I’d imagine the coroner would have to confirm that.

That is some great news about your boner. Thank you for sharing.

To pretend the hosts of the podcast were powerless to control their own product is very strange. As I said, they had plenty of options regarding how to proceed.

Pivoting from “live” to “recorded live” is misleading because “recorded live” is meaningless in this context. Podcasts are routinely re-started, edited, or not released. The “live” aspect of “recorded live” doesn’t change the fact that podcasters had several options for how to proceed after things didn’t go as…

Pivoting from “live” to “recorded live” is misleading because “recorded live” is meaningless in this context. Podcasts are routinely re-started, edited, or not released. The “live” aspect of “recorded live” doesn’t change the fact that podcasters had several options for how to proceed after things didn’t go as…

To argue why discriminating against immigrants is bad, Thompson, a non-Yugoslavian, plays a Yugoslavian.

That’s a great idea until kitty gets smoked by a linebacker.

“Self-partnered” stinks of Trying Too Hard. I don’t see anything wrong with “single” as a descriptor. The question is always a variation of “Are you coupled?” so the answer will necessarily be couple-centric. Single is simple and accurate, and I haven’t seen a variation that isn’t twice as much effort to say the exact…

He’s been playacting masculinity to win his dad’s affection his whole life. I doubt he even realizes it’s what he’s doing anymore.

In response to a Jez article a while back, somebody referred to Jezebel as “a supposedly feminist website”, which tickled certain people who decided to make it the subhed.

Halle Berry/Adrien Brody?

*sigh* Not everything needs to be broadcast to the world, Miley.

I figure the logo should be a white guy side-eyeing the Browns logo

This whole thing is about power, and how little of it we have as individuals.

Ok, venturing deep into the minutiae...

Those Gilroy kids were ready for an aggressive season, I can only imagine how salty they’d be after hearing it was cancelled. It must have been like someone was cutting onions in there. The parents must have gotten spicy about it too, so I’m sure the administrators were getting peppered.

If you make cookies using 100% cocoa powder, the cookies are partly pure cocoa. I recognize the construction you’re thinking of, but this is different.