My HS just had the student council president be valedictorian. So it was basically a popularity contest. We had a lot of type A kids (and parents), so it was probably for the best.

Caitlyn Jenner is a bitch.

Here’s my take on all this. It’s okay for other people to want to see people that look like them, even if those same people don’t look like YOU. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say LMM probably didn’t see a lot of people who looked like him in media. So when he made some media of his own, he wanted to center it…

I completely agree with you. I also find it odd that the frame here appears to be that Lin Manuel Miranda must be taken to task. If you were going to assemble a list of the Top 5 creators working today who have been instrumental in moving the ball substantially down the field with regards to advancing BIPOC…

I don’t buy this necessarily as an explanation; after the success of Hamilton (which featured Black actors portraying real historical figures who we know for a fact to have been white-as-fuck,) I don’t think it would have been a hard sell to have more dark-skinned actors in this movie, which casting would have…

I’ve always felt it was obvious that the biggest racist in show business is Lin-Manuel Miranda. Thank God someone is finally calling him out.

I knew it wouldn’t be long before this movie got criticized for not being all things to all people. I’m glad it happened before it was even released.

There is so much I like about this: I adore Jessica Chastain, and so want to see her with a role that equals her astonishing breakthrough in 2011-12, and this kind of story (rags to riches back to rags) is my kind of thing...but man, those prosthetics she has look like something made for an SNL skit.

Here’s the thing: you can do that without attacking the audience, and thus driving them further into his orbit.

I think people are aware that Rogan is representative of a much bigger issue, but the issue is when we give people like him a platform we are giving that very toxic masculine culture a platform.

Can the Kinja engineers develop a way to block certain commenters?

I can’t really jump into someone else’s psychology, but maybe this line of thinking is not so much reflexive on some future reckoning, and more a result of the hopeful maturation that people can do as adults. It could have elements of both.

It’s very good. It’s like he’s burning his old self down to emerge from the ashes (of his old self and the incredibly bad 1.5 years past) anew.

Be warned, Inside is very good but only tenuously a “comedy” special. It’s more of a depressing arthouse film about living during a pandemic lockdown.

I definitely interpreted that song as being more about the never-ending need for public figures to scourge themselves for past jokes and missteps, and the near religious fervor for people having completely unproblematic pasts.

Unfortunately, this is the case. Ignore him, and focus on finding a majority that doesn’t require his involvement.

at the macro level, the Democratic National Committee needs to fast track community organizing in all the states up for re-election for senators next year, including the “redder” states— this is time to go for broke— leave no seat unchallenged. They can’t get weak, simping candidates either, who talk in Tea Party/Trump…

He’s an old white guy from West Virginia.

Christ in a handcart I wish I could get a ‘mid range 8 figure payout’ for being an asshole on TV over the course of nearly 20 years.

Whole bunch of people rolling their anger over the AVC take and the initial Root article together and throwing it at you.