Thank you for this. As a PhD student with Type 1 diabetes ($20,000 a year to treat, hooray!) who recently had to give up her plans for academia because Trump is killing the ACA and colleges everywhere are replacing tenure-track jobs with adjunct instructors who don’t get insurance, this really resonates.

Actually, most people who live long enough with Type 2 diabetes eventually require insulin, too, including 30-40% of those currently diagnosed. When you cross-reference this statistic with the percentage of Type 1 versus Type 2 diabetics, it becomes clear that there are millions more Type 2 insulin patients than there…

Way to demonstrate the lack of understanding of the Type 1/Type 2 relationships everyone is talking about here.

Also re: “dying of diabetes,” look how the author just completely ignores “high cholesterol” and “high blood pressure”—as if these weren’t just as likely to contribute to an early death.

No, I’ve long suspected that the stigma associated with Type 2 is the reason that there aren’t more people up in arms about how expensive diabetes medications are—“they did it to themselves,” “it’s an incentive to eat right/exercise more,” etc. Which are bullshit rationales in the first place, but apply even less to…

As a fellow Type 1, I feel you. It’s especially frustrating when the media is reporting on medical studies—is this something I have to worry about or not? And if so, are my odds of developing [insert issue here] the same as someone with Type 2 diabetes, the general population, or somewhere in between?

Don’t you mean the antisocial editor?

These comments all make too much musical generic sense to be in the spirit of the original.

No shit

“First and foremost, I regret simulating sinful behavior for others’ entertainment. And I guess also that other thing that really happened.” I guess it doesn’t count as much if it’s not caught on film.

Think the third from bottom (SFW):

I was thinking more Caitriona Balfe or Natalie Zea—the entire experience of trying to pin down whom I had mistaken her for has really opened my eyes to how many wide-eyed, porcelain skinned, popular television actresses in early middle age are out there.

This show does a really good job of taking advantage of using dogs to manipulate viewers’ emotions. Rewatching seasons 1 & 2 to prep for the new episodes, it was hard to miss how the writers leverage Elliot’s rescue of Flipper to redeem a hacking project that would otherwise be downright creepy, and fsociety’s…

So glad someone mentioned Housebound—I plugged it in one of the comedy/horror threads but never got ungreyed. Could not get over how FUNNY it was on top of being creepy.

Well, that makes sense, since it’s usually my go-to example when I tell people that I find thrillers rooted in realism much scarier than supernatural-based ones. ;)

Have you seen Copycat? A little campy perhaps, but the pairing of home invader/agoraphobia is perfect if you want to feel afraid in your own house.

Taking this opportunity to plug Housebound, one of my all-time favorite comedy horror movies. Not sure whether it belongs in the “Less Scary” or “Slightly Scary but Funny” category—I’m leaning toward the latter, but it probably depends partly on your creeped-out threshold.

Right—because segregating sports by gender totally eliminates any effect “biological advantages” might have on sports performance. It’s not like we let cis girls who are taller than average, weigh more than average, started school a year later, etc. play with any of their peers—that would be totally unfair. /s

As long as people are clicking and commenting on Szechuangate-related content  at at least a slightly higher rate than other AV Club stories being published...yes?

We don’t have a lot of backstory for the therapist’s backstory, but what little we do echoes Jimmy Smits’ Sons of Anarchy pretty much exactly. (The tendency to repeatedly project his own experience on other characters in hushed tones while avoiding eye contact with the camera is also consistent.) Is “Isaac” the…