Also, I find that very few people are actually judging someone for what they like to read. No one cares enough. People start complaining that their popcorn books/films/TV deserve more critical acclaim because they want to have good taste and be validated in their choices, not because someone is pointing at them and…

Despite its wild success, it has been cast as unserious, unintellectual smut.

Exactly. I have a several friends in AI/ML at Netflix, and I work in the industry myself, so we talk about work a LOT. 

Yeah... you are right, nothing at all in regards to writing..

I mean if you’re gonna follow that metaphor, they you do end up with a bunch of different sects after the collapse of a single grand authority, all trying to establish themselves as the new philosophical authority and borrowing a lot of the same terms and titles. The “catholic” Jedi trying to rebuild vs an ever…

Maybe he left his family for a 16 year old?

Okay, I have a few opinions here. For one, I’m a Costumer for film & TV, and know Dr. McKnight personally. Corsets are not tools of the patriarchy, and I’m pretty sick of that as a talking point. They are not outmoded garments. They are just support garments that need to fit properly.

There is no way this was an accident or oversight on their part. 

Voluntary tethering yourself to the hateful, anti-woman, pedophile-defending, Catholic Church in the year of our lord 2022 is….a choice. 

I tried really hard not to feel involved or invested in this trial—I don’t know anything about this relationship and I don’t want to assume innocence or guilt when such horrifying accounts of domestic violence exist on both sides.

But they’re only doing so because they’re extremely confident that, at worst, it doesn’t matter, and it may actually help them at the polls.

I had much the same thought, plus ‘did they ever respond?’

You have a higher chance of going to Hawaii and getting attacked by Ezra Miller than you do getting attacked by a shark.

For whatever his faults (and there were many), Pierre Trudeau really got the concept of how a nation-state was worth less than the ink on its paper if there weren’t rights recognized across every province/state within it.

Heidi Montag out here just “Kali Ma!”-ing it around for no good reason.

Agreed. The 2005 version to me just doesn’t have the Austen spirit. Everything is a bit off in terms of history and costume, less irony and humour, the characters are like loose sketches that only vaguely resemble the original ones. The obvious sensuality is a bit funny to me, like the director felt that the story…

He’s not wearing his mask properly in the drawing.

When you can’t even name your neighbors that wish rings a little hollow.

How badly can a womb be damaged by participating in the ski jump?

He’s the Exec Producer on those films, so he’s legit the big boss on set, and not just as an actor.