The company that did that doesn’t exist any more, it was sold off for parts, and bought by a company which sometime later also bought the AVClub and bundled them together. 

That seems simple, but bakeries and etc refuse to make/create things with obscene or offensive messages all the time. I don’t really want to see a Jewish baker forced to make one a pro-holocaust cake for some alt-right assholes. The reason I don’t blame the court for punting on this one at all is that it’s really hard…

This really illustrates the importance of local journalism; this has been going on for decades, but the tide really started to turn following some local reporting by the papers and news stations in Nevada especially. The stories (mostly investigating April Parks) started building on each other over the last few years,…

I haven’t caught up to this far in iZombie yet, but I had to do a double take at image because another thing Ravi is apparently the best at is smoldering looks and rocking whatever that outfit is. I may need a cold shower, damn.

You are intellectually dishonest and incredibly disingenuous. Stooping to their level, as you call it, would require me to create groups dedicated to hunting them down and torturing them, or eradicating them from the earth, or putting them into rape camps. Since the worst anyone here has done is callout the enormity…

Your lack of compassion and empathy for women is shocking. Do we even matter? Does our safety and well-being even matter to you? You think my comparison was hyperbole? No. I was referring to their ideology. ISIS is less misogynistic than they are, and considering that they’ve fucking murdered people in terrorist…

Men who do things like stalk random 14 year old girls they see on the street to frighten them into thinking they’re about to be kidnapped and raped are too fucking dangerous to be “helped.” Men who plot to rape, then throw acid on the face of- to ensure their psychological torture is life long- random women whose…

That just seems really unlikely. I mean, based on how comics usually work. Which might be an inappropriate comparison, but yeah.

Knowing comic books, I pretty much expected everyone to die. The only thing that strikes me a bit weird is how many people expect only a few deaths (those who will have sequels coming out) to be reversed.

Honestly, you have to talk about it being problematic because that’s why there’s something interesting to dig into. It’s “this movie should be appalling, and here’s why, but in practice it isn’t. Why?” There’s nothing interesting about going “this is a charming movie, bit weird premise.” That’s okay for a review when…

Overboard is SUCH a weird one because yep, it’s terrible in everywhere, but somehow the charm of the actors overcomes all of it. There are a bunch of rom-coms that kind of fall into that category for me...they should be so horrible, but the characters are so warm and charming that you kind of forget it. IQ is like…

You do not understand the male gaze as a concept. Or you do understand it, and you’re choosing to pretend to not understand the difference between “portraying beauty” and “sexually objectifying.” (for one example)

There were always mad dudes, I have to say, but post-kinja you see very few of the good conversations that used to happen in the comments that balanced them out. It’s all just mad dudes refusing to admit they don’t understand a thing and don’t want to.

EXACTLY, thank you

Male gaze fantasies rarely have personality, agency, or inner lives. Because that’s not part of the fantasy. So yeah, I’d say it’s generally mutually exclusive. Because the defining characteristic in the fantasy is “sexy,” which is different than the defining characteristic being something else (strong, brave, clever,…

“women create on the internet” is not the same thing as “the large corporate property depicts and films its male characters the same as...”. It’s a classic part of fandom - to recontextualize, to as henry jenkins put it, act as textual poachers, repurposing something not meant for them and turning them into their own.

You should probably read up on “male gaze” as film criticism. It does not mean “things men look at.” It refers to how things are filmed, and what is prioritized, and who the audience is assumed to be. It’s how you get weird confusing things where (for example) the story is from the point of view of a straight woman,…

Amazon bleeds money on the retail side. It only started turning a profit because it started renting out the cloud services it had had to develop for itself. It’s like if uber ends up making money from licensing its routing/matching technology, not actually from running a taxi service.

I wouldn’t. I wasn’t recommending any of this. I find it morally bankrupt and bad for society and the economy.

Generally the idea is this: burn through money like crazy in order to grow big very very fast. Corner the market! Drive everyone else out of business! Then use your near-monopoly power to make money.