Ding ding ding—this is the elephant in the room no one wants to address. They could have cast a woman who had the musculature to be as believably strong as Wonder Woman is (and indeed, all the other Amazon extras fit that bill) but Joss is terrible for pointing out the obvious in advance, which is that they wanted a…

That internalized rule is everywhere for women (esp. minority women)—there can only be one “it” actress at a time, but there’s like 17 white guys named Chris and Ryan I can never keep track of.

Excellent observation. I just wanted to add my two cents by bringing up another truism from litigation: never ask a question that calls for a narrative answer, especially on cross-examination. There’s a reason why you’re allowed to ask leading questions on cross—because you’re challenging someone’s story/credibility,…

I’m sorry, but doesn’t this qualify as “punching up,” given that Indian Americans are the wealthiest and most successful ethnic group in America (yes, including white Americans)?

I watched the documentary and, while I agree with many of the points made therein, I have to draw the line at describing Indian-Americans as “marginalized” considering that they are the wealthiest ethnic group in America with an average income of $115K. Indeed, as the documentary itself demonstrates, there’s no…

What you said just reminded me of an old episode of The West Wing. It’s during Bartlett’s reelection, if I remember correctly, and the quote goes something like this: “I want to win. You want to beat them, and that’s a problem, because I want to win.”

Just ignore the Jezebel comments where we gave Jessica Chastain all sorts of shit about it first

I remember seeing a study one time where medical students weren’t performing procedures on their patients correctly because they were subconsciously mimicking the way its faked on TV, Scrubs if I remember correctly.

Actually, “financial detriment to both sides” is the most common reason people settle; if the value of the claim is less than the expected cost of both sides attorney’s fees, and especially if there’s no legal mechanism to recover those fees from the other side, both parties frequently agree to split the difference to…

I hope you don’t mind if I piggy-back on what you just said, because I agree with it, especially this:

Wow, the privilege is deep with this one. If a white filmmaker made a film about a fictional black American city but only filmed in Palo Alto and Portland, Maine, and offered as an explanation the fact that he traveled to Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta for “inspiration” for the costumes, you’d be calling for his head,…

Other evidence:

Or what about, if he was abusing so many other women, maybe he was abusing her as well?

Just to add to what you’re saying, as Peter Jackson revealed recently (and as has been reported extensively elsewhere), the Weinstein publicity machine was also spreading gossip about his victims. The problem with gossip is that you don’t always know (if you ever know) where it started or why...if Meryl Streep was…

Your ellipses obscured an important bit of context:

To everyone equating this copyright suit with Swift’s penchant for trademarking phrases—please stop, that’s not how intellectual property law works. Copyright law is for protecting creative expression, but trademark law is about preventing market confusion and unfair trade practices (trademarks are part of the Lanham…

I agree with your conclusion but not entirely with your analysis, only because (i) the issue is not whether or not Subway should have known, it’s that they did know and chose to remain silent, and (ii) child pornography is not a mere “personal issue,” it’s a crime. That being said, I think you’re right that, if this…

But (playing devil’s advocate here) if that is a sound basis for liability, where does it end? Yes, she was the most obviously damaged person (other than the children abused as part of his child porn collection), but her legal theory, if accepted, could expand out of control. For example, if Jared was in a…

Amen. This post is some privileged nonsense—I’m sure all the doctors and professors love this “conversation” we’re having, but the people being pulled out of their homes at night, and the people who soon won’t have homes, don’t have the luxury of this Susan Sarandon let-it-burn bullshit. I’m sure the flames make for…

You know, the thing about this that’s throwing me the most is Benthley...not the person, just that name