He never pushed back on it either though. He let himself be anointed, while leveraging the devoted fanbase that developed through that lens to help make his career.

When you put yourself up as a feminist icon, you are calling open season on the credibility of that statement. And make no mistake, his constant back-patting of how he was raised to believe in strong women without EVER saying anything like "I don't know, I try to be a feminist but I'm not perfect. I would point to…

Clanking of chains.

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely crazy. You are too attached to the nostalgia of who you were at that time, or something, because let's look at these episodes of Community:

When people have sex, especially for the first time, they don't stop the other person from making out, pause like they're done, then theatrically remove the entirety of their clothing in one motion, THEN stand there for forever before doing anything (unless they saw it in a movie somewhere, and were trying to be sexy…

Oh great he's gonna kill Grey Worm.

No, they had her stand with her tits out for like an hour then were like oh well we'll get heat if we just do that, let's show a little Grey Worm butt and it's all good. Like I said, they dressed it up this time but shooting from the woman's POV for cunnilingus does not erase the clear male gaze from the rest of the…

What happened to Bronn? I forget.

God let's be real though, that was so fucking classically shitty-in-its-misogynistic-lens of Game of Thrones. I understand it's part of the appeal but I don't know, the DBs have a flair for being tastelessly exploitative no matter how hard they try to dress it up.

I love Pilou (Borgen is the shit and he's great in KAPRINGEN) but dear god I hate Euron.

I think if you're putting a show that inspired kids to kill themselves in the "hit" column, unless your overarching philosophy is "kill teenagers" you should probably re-evaluate what you're doing.

Right, I'm talking about for soldiers. Leningrad was an anomaly, Verdun was the standard. As far as *for the soldiers fighting*, months-long trench warfare without relief is my imo makes WWI the worst. No knowledge of how impactful the fighting was to the psyche of the average soldier, meat-grinder battles because…

Sure. He had the heart of an artist, so he was probably more progressive than some of his friends. But that's still, at the end of the day, pretty racist.

Which one? The Battle of Cannae, one of the most brutal ends to a battle ever, still only lasted one day. The Siege of Bastogne was 7 days, the bombing of Dresden only 2.

I mean, in Hitchcock's MURDER! one woman calls a mixed-race guy a "half-caste", and it's not a character moment. And that was 1930. So I'm betting a guy who was old enough for the war in 1917… yeah probably more than a little racist.

I think you're being sarcastic, but honestly that sounds pretty plausible to me. WWI was arguably the most brutal war that human beings have ever fought in, with a combination of deadly technology and men who had not evolved to humanely fight with or against it. Tolkien came home, and all of his friends had died, and…

VPN died for a reason - people don't watch podcasts. It's a weird set-up, and not interesting enough to sit and watch. It's an audio medium for a reason.

She was the shooter at the end.

It was a victim of Pizzolatto's egotism as well. The music supervision was clearly very much straight from NP and it was atrocious. Too many songs with absurdly on-the-nose lyrics, a blatant disregard for vibe and style, and it couldn't have been clearer that he showed T. Bone Burnett some Herrman track for the score…

For some reason that actually sounds like it would be an amazing episode of Atlanta.