Yes, basically.

I agree that it's silly, but it's also a very real barrier to entry. All art comes with baggage/associations, and that can really inform the way you view a show. And as much as I like Breaking Bad, ultimately the superfan contingent made me far more critical about the show's morality than I wanted to be—by having a…

Eh—creep is a vibe thing. Maybe from your perspective it's congenial men asking politely for a date—for women, it's a host of nonverbal cues that sends up a yellow flag. Given that women have to navigate those men as if they're Schrodinger's rapist, I think creep is a pretty fair term for that.

Honestly, did you not think the Winter Soldier had those? I saw a hell of a lot of a point—how to come back from war. We have four characters whose lives have been explicitly shaped by warfare, and all of them are explicitly damaged by it, and all of them, by the end, are attempting to recover from that damage.…

Ugh. Why even have a conversation? I hate art elitism, and I reject your presupposition for greatness in film.

The Russos are above The Winter Soldier? I have beef with this from two perspectives—one, that's a great film that they should be proud of (and by all accounts, they are super proud of it), and two, what film/TV work of theirs is specifically better than their product for Marvel?

And if this were anything other than thinly veiled physical and emotional abuse, I'd be all for it. It's not, though, and those of us who do actually want high production value erotica/porn are left in the dust.

The courts do not show extreme bias in awarding custody. Men who seek primary or shared custody are more likely to get it than women who seek the same. Men are just louder about it when they're denied what they want.

I think I was pretty clear, actually—the oils mask the delicate flavors of the coffee, leaving only the bolder, simpler notes. You don't get citrus or floral notes in french press the way you do in filtered coffee. There actually is a notable lack of depth of flavor to french press. And while I can respect your…

Actually, no—most of the flavors in coffee are masked by the coffee oils. It's why pourovers have had such a resurgence in the coffee competition scene—the paper or cloth filters allow the more delicate flavors to come through (things like floral notes and citrus notes are almost never noticeable in french press…

I'm a big fan of the Chemex. Honestly, once the water boils, it takes less time than you'd think—maybe 5-10 minutes for my 4-cup. And their filters are super high-quality (which is the real problem with french press—no paper/cloth filter means the dominant flavor is from the oils in the coffee, which mask the more…

Sofia makes films that tend to solidly be from a young female point of view. It makes absolute sense that the film community would prefer the young male POV from which Spike makes films.

1/3-lb ground chuck burger (80/20), topped with sauteed kale, roasted beets, and a fried egg.

(Actually she was in college at the time)

According to the original sense, yes it's misused almost all the time. An exception that proves the rule would be "parking is prohibited except on Sundays"—the exception, Sunday, "proves" that parking is prohibited every other day of the week.

Agreed—she does amazing things with their terrible, terrible interpretation of a fascinating character. Can't wait to see her as Jean Grey.

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Seriously. Damn, Bucky. Just damn.

That's definitely a troubling trend. I do think the misanthropy of the show tends to fall along gendered lines—the women are liars and cheaters, the men are spineless or violent—and I hope in the future they get a little more narrative diversity in their stories.

I don't know—I do think the creators tend to have a more misanthropic than misogynistic streak, but the vast majority of the main characters are male and straight with dysfunctional relationships with women. I kind of expect that if the main characters were equally split between women and men, you'd have the same…