It made sense to me when Abby mentioned that a previous Arc generation had also had the soybean crops fail and had eventually resorted to cannibalism, starvation, and social breakdown as a result of people not jumping on the cannibalism train quick enough. She immediately jumped to cannibalism because it was…

I think they are referring to one of the Inuit testimonies in which two of the witnesses said they found a body with gold rings, a pile of gold watches, gold glasses, and one of the watches was attached by a gold chain to his earrings. The body was sitting in a boat surrounded by books and the cannibalized bones of…

I’m not at all a fan of the last section of the book, especially the incredibly stereotyped portrayal of the Inuit. I hope they at least fix that, although that will require some pretty severe rewrites.

People have always been this petty and grudge-holding. Think a bit about your older family members’ squabbles, or neighbours or church goers or whatever community you’re part of. It’s all “Sandra brought lemon squares to the party five years ago when she KNOWS I always bring lemon squares, that cow” and “One time [ten…

To me, part of the story was that there was always the lurking possibility that he was an MRA dick head to begin with. What she read as insecurity could have just as easily been attempts at “negging” and suppressed misogynistic anger and I spent the whole story going back and forth on which is was. The last line…

I’m not really sure what you mean. The protagonist has no problem talking about sex. She apparently tells all her friends about her shitty sex and thinks about how she’s going to tell a future boyfriend about it and doesn’t seem to be at all uncomfortable about the idea. How does discomfort in talking about sex play a…

The same way most socialization happens: through a million little tiny lessons. Media that is overwhelmingly written from men’s points of view, encouraging the person reading/watching it to primarily care about the male protagonist’s feelings even when the men hurt those around them, with few female counterpoints (e.g.…

The difference is that calling indigenous women “Pocahontas” is a racial slur/taunt that is actually used against real indigenous women to demean them. “Vlad” isn’t a slur tossed at actual Nordic men to dehumanize them. “Jokingly” using a racial slur against someone then excusing it because they’re not really the race…

I suppose my viewpoint is that there be a little bit more regulation of guns (licencing, no guns for people with certain risk factors like a DV conviction, etc.). I do think that the episode did end up mocking the gun-control side of the debate. I feel like the gun rights side was portrayed by well-known characters…

I don’t think they needed to make a statement or have discussion about gun control to do the show, but they obviously chose to do so and I think it’s then fair game to criticize how they went about it. In fact, I think I’d have rathered they just didn’t bother with the discussion aspect if they weren’t willing to…

Well, after the “pay Sarah a visit” line Curtis implies that he doesn’t know what that means but assumes Micro will. He may not really realize he’s threatening Micro’s family and thinks Sarah is someone working with Micro, or someone else with leverage over Micro or something, especially since Frank isn’t the type to…

Not using adjectives as nouns when it comes to identities is probably a rule worth remembering, since there are a bunch of cases where it’s likely to cause people to read unintended things into what you say. For example, it’s considered perfectly fine to refer to “black people” but not “the blacks”, you can say that…

No, most professionals manage to be alone with someone of the opposite sex just fine. Schools are about the only place where there are “open door” policies, and even then I was frequently alone in the office or the lab with my (opposite sex) graduate supervisor. I’m a woman in a male-dominated field, I can’t imagine…

Isn’t this what PoC often ask white allies to do: use their privilege to support PoC voices? I would think providing backing and support that allows a project like this to go ahead and get more press than it would likely have otherwise is a pretty decent thing to do.

I’m really curious about that “end up”. So, it’s not a policy, or something the Deep State lizard people start doing immediately? One thing leads to another and next thing they know, they’re dusting George W. Bush’s pretzels with meth? I need to know more about this.

I would be pretty concerned with the letter writer planning to give the guy access to the apartment with her not being there once she gets to a “high level of trust” but without telling her roommates. I wish Dan had pointed out more that that’s a huge no-no. Giving someone else a key is a joint decision. And how is…

I think it’s kind of a nice touch that Catelyn partly objected to Jon because she was worried him being raised by Ned would put him in a good position to usurp her children’s inheritance. In the end, she was right, although she was wrong to think he particularly wanted to be King in the North. If he hadn’t been raised…

I think with Terry there’s the added issue of him slowly losing mental capacity. Even his published works suffered noticeably, I can imagine that would be even more obvious with the drafts that never made it to publication. I can definitely see him not wanting the full extent and details of his illness’s effects on…

I’m not sure I understand your post. According to the interview we are commenting on (and the one Maisie did yesterday) any foreshadowing you saw of them working together is either a red herring or not intended. They were not working together until that final execution scene, the Arya/Sansa confrontation was real.

Maisie also did an interview where she said that Arya is legitimately suspicious and distrustful of Sansa in that scene.