If I’m not up to socializing, I kind of think it’s on me to communicate that directly.

This. I'm a neuro-atypical introvert, but I'm also very comfortable telling a stranger, "I'm not in the mood to talk right now."

I got FF7 about a year after it came out. I was in 8th grade. My boyfriend said, “oh, that’s the game where Aeris dies.” I SHOULD HAVE DUMPED HIM RIGHT THEN!

This Is Us is surprisingly similar to Lost: mystery box (how does Jack die?), flashbacks, flash-forwards. I keep waiting for another flash-sideways where Jack is still alive (we briefly had one around the time of Kate’s wedding).

I liked that the Medium article actually talked about the movie itself, but the author missed a few points about the history of the film. Walt Disney didn’t consider his movies children’s films yet, and he consulted the NAACP when making the film and ultimately ignored their advice. I learned both these details from…

The Disney short "John Henry" seems like an attempted appology for Song of the South. 

I watched Dark Angel when it was originally on and rewatched it about ten years later, and I don’t remember him. Did he play Logan? I had to Google him and I didn’t even recognize him. Jensen Ackles has taken much better care of himself.

That is funny!  My mom and I hate watched it together, and then when I went for college we’d email about it.  I used to troll 7th Heaven fans on the AOL message board for the show.  They sincerely asked, “If you hate this show, why do you watch it?”

He came back in one of the later seasons when Lucy had jury duty. She did everything she could to get out of serving, and dues ex machina Jimmy Moon was the defendant so he was dismissed.  I don’t remember what he was being charged with but I bet it was SMOKING POT since this show acted like marijuana was the devil’s…

Was it Jimmy Moon?

I remember Ashlee Simpson from a few years earlier, when she was on Seventh Heaven, the first show I ever hate-watched. 

He’s the love interest in Shannon Purser’s upcoming Netflix romcom as well, Sierra Burgess is a Loser

I wonder what professional journalists and editors say in defense of churnalism. I suspect their staff are so gutted they feel they can’t afford to do real reporting anymore. It feels like some stories are just written by algorithms. For example, the Seattle PI uses the names of neighborhoods from Google maps rather…

Thanks for the background info! I’ve never taken film studies so I don’t know who’s who.

There is a reason to go back and read old influential scholarship, like Laura Mulvey’s male gaze essay. But some old-ass sexist textbook? I don’t know what the rationale would be to teach that.

Your high school students sound like they understand plagiarism better than my college students. I don’t know what is taught in journalism school these days, but the writers on clickbait and TV news sites do the same thing Albrecht did: rewrite someone else’s article using their quotes and research. They just link the…

So much unprofessionalism. The sexist commentary in what is supposed to be a dispassionate scholarly analysis. The plagiarizing of the sexist textbook.  The professor using a 20-30 year old textbook. Had she been teaching the same curriculum since the 1980s?

I don’t think she’d be expelled. The academic honesty office at my university is tired of me reporting students for unattributed quotes.  They don’t even fail a class anymore.  The subtext is, “why didn’t you teach them not to plagiarize?” 

They still rearrange the words. It has a name now: patch-writing! My students patch-write all the time and don’t seem to understand why it’s not okay, no matter how many handouts I give them and threats of a grade deduction and stern language on the assignment prompt. My husband is a few years older than me says he…

I agree that Albrecht probably thought she’d done original work. If I understand correctly, she used the quotes collected by Herwees and cited the original Tumblr sources. Though Albrecht should have cited Herwees, I struggle to get my students to sufficiently rephrase a paraphrase instead of just changing 1-2 words.…