If you look at Aly’s sleeve-covered arms in the last picture compared to the top picture, you can see something that I’m always trying to point out to people who complain about Gal Gadot’s muscles: most women’s muscles do not bulk the way most men’s muscles do. Aly’s non-flexed arm in the bottom picture looks like a…

She wasn’t trained, but she was talented.

The liftee needs to do their part correctly as well. I think you have the equation backwards. The lifter is responsible for keeping the liftee uninjured. The liftee is responsible for making the lift look good. If the liftee doesn’t do their part with muscle, there is no lifter in the world who can save the look of…

Your framing is messed up. You’re seeing this as being about men. It’s not. It’s about women. It’s about the fact that a female-led superhero franchise intrinsically means something different to women than it can to men and creating a space for the people directly affected to celebrate. It’s additive, not subtractive.

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Of course, there would. Because history and context matter. That’s why the whining about the screening is so ridiculous. It’s men who are so unable to step out of their POV to understand that something like a women’s only screening of Wonder Woman is a response to the already existing discriminatory state of life.

Whoa! It is a very depressing world when we have to include Black Scorpion on the list. I have a soft spot for that movie because it is just so ridiculous and bad, but that is a sad, sad state of affairs.

She may have volunteered to be a captive in her father’s place, but she was still coerced and held captive. The Beast does terrorize her at first, although it’s softened in the Disney version. I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to theorize that her bonding over “shared interests” is indeed “developing attachment as…

He’s widely respected for his voice work. But it’s hard to overcome the whininess of the first movie and the 70's hair.

So much of this is the CBP, choosing to take the hands-off approach of the Trump admin as a license for cruelty. It’s Trump’s policies, but it’s also the culture of the CBP. If we had better individuals and better culture there, things would be very different.

Yes. And no, I will not “kindly take several seats” because you’re apparently grumpy that your rudeness is met with rudeness. That is one of the silliest non-responses yet.

Wow, what a witty rejoinder! You have definitely convinced everyone that you’re not an idiot for declaring that “she can be a super nice person, but she is NOT Wonder Woman” on the basis of absolutely nothing. 

So despite the fact that she was positively viewed in BvS and is getting positive advance buzz from the critics who have seen the movie, you are convinced that she doesn’t have enough charisma to play the part.

Even though you haven’t seen the movie.

If I Google to try and find out who she is, am I going to end up on Stormfront and other horrible places?

Whereas I’d take the Blue Dogs back in an instant over the Tea Party GOP, and I’m baffled that anyone in this day and age could seriously say the problem is that Democrats spent years trying to compromise with Wall Street and moderate Republicans. Bill Clinton’s terms and Obama’s terms were both marked by economic…

I knew Robin Thicke was a hot mess of a-hole, but I didn’t realize both children were. How low do you have to be to try to evict your father’s widow against his clearly expressed wishes?

There’s been a LOT of time since Bad Blood. It’s sad, IMHO, for Katy to come back after so much time.

Also, Bad Blood didn’t really trash Katy. I know it got classified that way, but IMHO, it was more about Taylor’s anger and that the friendship was over.

I’ve always heard the backup dancers thing and thought it was petty. But the John Mayer thing seems pretty legit, especially given the age difference.

Not usually because of the films. And no one can claim to love the character or the comics and complain about any of those things.

I don’t know that the greater good was achievable without the fact that Josh molested his siblings. It really showed how everything about the Duggars is based on a foundation of lies.

Since their show is still functionally on the air, I’m not sure anyone cares, though. They talk about Jesus’s importance a lot, so who…

I disagree. As long as there’s a good faith attempt at shielding the identity and the documents are legally obtained, I don’t think there’s an issue.