But who roots for the heels?

Trump has charisma?

Hmm. I definitely see what you mean. I think I'm of two minds about it. Wilson was able to do stuff that seems to us unimaginably racist because the centrist position was much more racist then than now.

Yeah, I think you're right, but I think it's also analogous to like critiques of disingenuous white allyship.

Hey, The Big Short won an Oscar for that metaphor!

Yeah, I'm not sure "…for the time" is an argument that ever really plays. Frederick Douglass and Oloudah Equiano had written their autobiographies before the turn of the century, Martin Delany had written Blake, Ida B Wells had written The Red Record. Anti-racist thought was freely available to those who would have…

+1 for Class Relations, if for no other reason than its bizarre "strategic point" style: every scene has exactly one position where the camera will be, and different shots are created strictly from that placement. It feels both intuitive and really alienating (is there a neologism for that…?)

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The "joke" being hundreds of strangers dumping misogynoir into her mentions?

You've never had to borrow your sister's mayonnaise?

God that song is so good, it's what sealed the deal for my obsession. Cuts so deep.

I probably would have switched out "Plane Crash in C" for "Wires and Waves" and "Big Wave" for "My Pet Snakes" but what's really important here is that if you're ever driving cross country back home after seeing a college friend for the first time in years and you spent most of the time talking about your ex who is a…

There's the weird fact that she is happy now. It interacts weirdly with the persona she constructed. But I love her still.

I said this on the toilet-ballad post, but there's some instability on this point. Clark refer's to St. Vincent as her alter ego, persona, stage name, band, "project," and "superhero name". Seems like a solid copyediting choice.

I think this is irresponsible in a few ways. I don't mean to condescend but I feel obliged to map out why I don't like it—as a film critic, a sci-fi reader & watcher, a person who uses the internet, and an SJW-or-whatever. Also, I'm bored at work.

You know, I totally get those criticisms, and even if I didn't agree, he'd just be a writer you didn't like. So, yeah, I'm down with that. I just don't like the anti-Dowd bandwagon, especially as it manifests as divergences of taste, as if he is obliged to a faceless mass audience.

I don't really see that as a failure of imagination. It's kind of *right there* in the allegory, innit? The question is less about whether the allegory draws that parallel, and more about whether you think that perpetuates racism or critiques it or something in the middle. I don't really see that as not "getting"…

What's always so puzzling about Dowd-disdain—and I think he's a very good critic—is that people don't or won't acknowledge that most movies are not that good. Dowd gives about as many As as movies deserve. How many top-tier movies really get released in a year? I just don't see where the accusation of hyper-negativity…

It seems to be basically the rich person version of the KKK

Actually I do want this, if only to find out more about what the hell happened here: