Let’s not be a dick about this

Point is, a lot of people would say that about anime in general. Maybe let people enjoy things rather than being a dick?

Seriously! White dude who rapes a woman with witnesses gets 3 months and probation and this guy who alledgely stole a cell phone and was identified by his skin tone gets 19 years?!

Okay but can we also talk about him getting a mandatory sentence of 19 years for stealing a cell phone? Like in what world is that a proportional punishment?

Some of my happiest childhood memories are of playing with rusted out auto parts in an empty field across from my BFFs house. Zero adult supervision, sharp rusty objects, and even, one time, a cache of old playboy magazines that we studied with Talmudic attention. Keep the marsh open.

The tragedy isn’t this man’s fall from grace, it’s that he was able to make us believe that he was, in fact, Heathcliff Huxtable, when it was just another character he played. He’s been doing it his whole life, and now we get to see who he really his. He’s not a mentor, he’s not a family man, he’s just another Goddamn…

Or reading literature. My English teacher had an entire class discussion about whether or not people should censor the n-word in Huckleberry Finn. She was against censoring it because she said the book clearly depicts how terrible the true meaning of the word is and changing it to something else would take away from…

Maher didn’t radically misjudge the mood. He doesn’t give one damn about “the mood.” He’s simply racist. And sexist. And a narcissist. If people laugh, he’s affirmed. If they don’t, they just don’t get it or are too shackled by “political correctness” to be “with it”. But he’s never been with it. He’s an old troll in…

If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it.

If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it. Stop it now. Whatever the situation, even in “irony” [and from your perspective without malice], you’ve radically misjudged the mood. Stop it.

It just sounds like she was raised around eccentric people and that she’s a little eccentric herself (isn’t half of Hollywood?), still love the Rebz. And if her mom called her Rebel and everyone knew her as Rebel... who really cares what’s on her birth certificate?

Yes, I realize that they had already filmed all the scenes they could with the kids (cause they aged out of being kids). But they could have just had Cristin Milioti in old age make up pull at Ted and say he it’s Barney and Robin’s epic anniversary party and we can’t be late or something.

Right, the death was going to be sad, but I could deal with it. But it was the thought of his narrative and final choice making her largely irrelevent. The show was called How I Met Your Mother, but show was The Long and Winding Road that Led Me To Robin. That’s what made the death tragic, that she was pretty much…

I know. I want to say it’s the worse thing people I’ve never met have done to me, but then I remember the election.

Nah, it’s not. There are actually very few ways that kind of joke can be offensive in that context—the parents sang a song about the girl’s birth. They are just asking for jokes. I highly doubt that Tyra was like, “Ha ha, they didn’t want you, you were a mistake.”

I wonder what exactly were the lyrics of the song? It was supposedly about her birth, which makes it likely there were some flowery words in there for “accident”.

I’m not sure I understand the backlash to this comment. Nicole Kidman practically begged Jane Campion on bended knee to do Portrait of a Lady. She continually picks incredibly off the beaten path roles with nuanced (not strong, not perfect) women. I totally get her sentiment. Movie making is weird and can be super…

Yeah, this seems pretty good as a pledge given the fact that even Kidman probably isn’t considered a bankable enough star to make a project happen (which is awful in and of itself) and she probably doesn’t do more than 3-5 projects in that amount of time anyways. Also, it’s not like this is a maximum amount for that…

I’m not gonna demonize her for this, as odd as it came out. Her heart is in the right place. She seems like a good person who is willing to evolve. And with the lack of female directors getting as easy funding as men, every 18 months sounds pretty good, especially with the clout and star power she holds in…

I keep giggling when I read that Tyra “suggested the girl was ‘accidentally conceived.’” I can only imagine the inconsequential, casually off-color joke that these questionable parents were so offended by.