Yes, a truly nice guy. I wish him a fast and complete recovery! 

I’m sad to hear that. My dad was recently diagnosed, and we found out this week that it was caught early and still stage 1. It’s mild enough that he probably won’t even need treatment. I’ve never felt so relieved. When I saw the headlines this morning about Al, I was hoping for the same.

Al Roker, one of the nicest people on the planet, has a somewhat aggressive prostate cancer, while the Con Artist in Chief survives COVID. There really is no God.

I had a *record scratch* moment when reading that too. If you think she’s heterosexual, you haven’t been paying attention.

Maybe I’m just being naive, but I didn’t read this as Larson sayign that there isn’t a beauty standard being pushed on people, just that she doesn’t think there should be one. From other interviews I’ve read from Larson, I’d be very surprised if she meant otherwise.

Edit: just noticed that somebody else has already…

Yeah, how dare someone so pretty in the traditional, white, European-centric sense also have self image issues! You sound like the beauty equivalent of nerd gatekeepers - “she couldn’t possibly have suffered the way we suffered because she was popular.” “She’s too attractive to be a hardcore gamer/nerd.” “I suffered…

I like how the bullshit artist who wrote this made sure to quote the response to a question, and not the question itself.

Celebrity: I have insecurities in an industry that is always picking apart what I say, do, or look like, and so I can connect with and respect how so many others suffer too. It’s alienating.

You’re upset that somebody who was brigaded for 2 years straight for a single comment about representation in film criticism decided to word a statement more carefully in the future?

It seems to be “Shit on White Woman Day” across the boards on 11/5.

Miss the days when celebrities were more straight-forward with their answers and didn’t act like they were running for office at some point in the future. Maybe it’s always been like this.

This site has turned into a nasty, snarky, shadow of what it used to be.

Pretty sure she means that she personally doesn't believe that a beauty standard should exist as it's a harmful thing, but her wording is awkward. It's kind of obvious from the context, so you have to be willfully looking for a bad message to just focus on that one phrase.

No, I interpret her comments the same way. She’s saying that there is no objective standard for beauty. If anything, she’s agreeing that the beauty brands and fashion magazines are doing a disservice by not representing outside a narrow view. I don’t know how the question was really phrased but, even in this article,…

I took it to mean that Brie Larson doesn’t personally believe in a beauty standard, not that a beauty standard doesn’t exist. Am I being too generous?

The second bitter screed of the day, attacking a white woman who is by every possible measure, the type of ally that Jezebel demands to have.

That’s exactly my issue with this as well. And I do think the race parallel is fair. If my SO cheated on me with a POC, it would not suddenly be ok to use racist language. I would posit it’s these moments that try our personal ethics the most. When we’re really angry, really hurt and really amped up, can we still stop…

When you were hunting mammoths with crude spears, I studied blades and cool looking katanas on the internet.

It is remarkable how sexist assumptions (from the prevailing worldview at the time) have impacted some of our records. Evidence of gender parity and homosexuality has been misinterpreted in both animal and human historical research for ages, and we’re only beginning to unpack it now.

Extrapolating current Nevada numbers with the current margin of each district applied to each of their outstanding votes, Biden should take Nevada by about 12k.