Fine, Ramsay is a monster, but we knew that: He flenses people! It does nothing for the character. It does take Sansa, who was finally becoming an interesting character, and knock her back down to “victim.” Scandalously said, it sacrifices a good female character for a mediocre male one.

Didn’t know that! Apologies for presuming.

They almost definitely are! “Computer professionals” who make at least $27.63 are exempt. Programmers definitely fit the bill, and if you come within spitting distance of a computer (i.e. everyone), your employer will also claim you as one.

I saw it. I’d call it feminist...and awesome. This is going to come out disjointed, so watch out!

Yes, please don’t Office/Apatow/Poehler my wonderful, caustic Veep.

I think she’s great, thematically. The whole show is sort of being replayed over this half-season, but this time as farce. First of all, encapsulates many women for Don: She kinda looks like his stepmom, she’s from the Midwest, and she prostitutes herself. She also reads poetry and has a darkness, like Midge. But the…

No. Your anger is righteous; embrace it.

I have no issues with the campaign (I'm for it, in fact), but the effect of such a campaign on the economic well-being of writers can't end up being very significant. Most writers just don't make money anymore, and the reasons why have been discussed by smarter people in smarter places. Yes, the very top makes money.…

The video above is not an explanation of why things can't go faster than light. It's only describing a mathematical model we've created to encode the observations we've made concerning light and other electromagnetic phenomena.

Russians discriminate heavily against people from the Caucasus, whom they call "black" or "black-ass," chernozhopyi. The implication is sinister.

I agree, and it's really incredible how otherwise progressive people don't see that the entire concept of speaking "correct English" implies that other people—-working class people, blacks, hispanics, poor Southerners, hicks, sorority girls, etc—-are literally too dumb to speak correctly. It's an incredibly efficient…

Everyone will tell you that it takes some kind of abuse or weirdness to make a women deny that rape exists, but this doesn't square up with what I've seen. Women and men both share a broad distribution of intelligence, insightfulness, malice, and selfishness. Some women just don't give a shit about other women. That's…

I agree with the article, but the linguist in me wants to nit-pick. There are sundry reasons why the term "female" is offensive, but the only necessary reason is that many women find it offensive. Tying it to its grammatical function, which is anyway more fluid than the author suggests, is unnecessary and incorrect.

Not trying to defend Bobby "Kenneth" Jindal, but weirdly enough, he would have probably been more than welcome to "sit at the lunch counter." Southern racism was so "black and white: that it didn't know what to do with Indians, and so it treated them as novelties. This led to African-Americans occasionally wearing…

When Ilana says that it's okay and that "it's reverse rapism. You are raping rape culture," I think they want you to laugh at her. She's giddy over having to deal with an "issue." Ilana is partly a caricature of someone who reads too many buzzfeed articles about feminism and racism, but is usually too damn high to…

This comes back to my Django vs. 12 Years A Slave argument. I think movies are pretty lousy educational tools, but they can make for great agitprop. I saw Django in a packed theater, in rural Florida, and there were white middle-school boys cheering for the escaped slave taking bloody revenge on plantation owners.…

I usualy hate these comparisons, but Erdogan is the Turkish George Bush. If you use this calculus, everything he does and his place in Turkey's history makes a lot more sense.

No, I get that feeling too. The author of this particular story isn't white, you see this a lot on this site, and I hear that from my white friends more than my black friends. Basically, Lupita has become White America's "black friend." What, am I'm supposed to think you're Rosa Parks because you like an African…

There's a weird equivalency here between calling yourself a feminist and actually contributing towards improving the lives of women. At the end of the day, do women who reject the feminist label have very different footprints on the world?

There's a weird equivalency here between calling yourself a feminist and actually contributing towards improving the lives of women. At the end of the day, do women who reject the feminist label have very different footprints on the world?