Actually, I do think context is (somewhat) important here. He was responding to a direct question about whether it would ever be possible for the many men being accused of sexual misconduct in the middle of a very long interview that clearly had “deep, philosophical” aspirations, and the gist of his whole response in…

I’ve heard the same is true of the writings of Elmore Leonard: mediocre pot boilers in their original form that have been transformed into movie/television masterpieces—including Justified, 3:10 to Yuma, and Jackie Brown. (Don’t know if I’d call it a “masterpiece,” but Get Shorty is another Leonard-inspired movie that…

While I’m willing to accept any and all critiques of Cooper’s writing style as pretty much legit...I don’t buy all this love for the movie. I can see how the changes they made might be more appealing to twentieth century audiences from a purely narrative point of view, but those same changes require disregarding…

Update: I’ve been told that Walgreens may have a similarly priced/sized generic ($5/6 blister bandages) too.

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Except it’s not our place (or Cranston’s, for that matter) to decide whether or not sexual abusers are deserving of forgiveness. It’s their victims.

My point was less about the self-referentiality, more about the potentially condescending tone/word choice: think about the history of Southern authority figures addressing black men as “boy,” for instance.

Nothing screams, “I recognize women as complex, capable human beings in their own right” like having your first-person female protagonist repeatedly refer to herself as a “girl.”

I don’t buy that it’s impossible for authors to create effective characters who don’t share their own cultural background, but it does take a lot more research and imagination. Science fiction stories have a long history of incorporating (often token) “minority” characters to signal that they’re set in a more…

Painfully aware this is like a month too late, but...don’t you mean porgses?

Oh, Jesus, what an embarrassing typo. “Buy” blister bandages, say “bye-bye” to overpriced “pimple patches,” I guess.

Starring for colloidal collusion, haha.

IDK, I’m wondering if there’s a manufacturing cost vs. market kind of thing going on here. (I imagine many people don’t understand the multiple, scientifically backed applications of hydrocolloid bandages over regular ones.) Target’s generic brand used to offer more sheets in a larger size for the lowest price—theirs…

“Hydrocolloid dressings” is the key term here. You can buy a box of blister bandaids (same thing) and get 2-3x the surface area for your money (i.e., cut off chunks as needed). The officially branded stuff is a rip off.

Public service announcement: “pimple patches” are simple hydrocolloid dressings, also known as “blister band-aids.” Bye the Band Aid version, or better yet a generic like Kroger, and cut into smaller pieces, and you can get way more surface area for about the same amount of money (OK, up to $5, but you should get…

Yeah, it’s stated several times that he is a “Lowland Scot.”

She’s communicating from beyond the grave. (Yay, misplaced modifiers!)

Hence Cody’s quote about Hafford’s assumption that all women have vaginas being “bioessential[ist]” in the article.

I mean, there’s a fairly large proportion of trans people who never have bottom surgery due to health, financial, or other personal reasons, but otherwise...pretty much.

Let’s not forget that as a demographic transwomen often experience even higher rates of sexual assault than cis women, please. https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html