A shark is born a shark and has no capacity to be anything else.

Harmful idea? Sex negativity. I didn’t really receive anything yea or nay at home, but the silence had a shameful connotation to it; the broader cultural attitudes toward sex available to me were very much negative and shameful.

There are plenty of good reasons to keep wearing a mask, but I’d ask that people keep the hearing-impaired in mind. It is awfully difficult to read someone’s lips when they’re wearing a mask that conceals them.

Bucky was following Rule 2. I am pretty certain Walker doesn’t have a Rule 2.

Sam was on the run with Cap for years. Wakanda couldn’t have been one of the places they went during that time?

Could go either way, but my read is that he knows on some level that these two people can either legitimate him as the next Steve Rogers, or be a constant reminder that he’s not. He has something to prove, but on top of that, he’s been told for his entire life that he’s better than everyone else. He thinks he deserves…

Objecting to the story reporting his numbers as fact seems reasonable. Demanding the author do accounting is not. The specific examples you have discussed are all contingent and conditional and without seeing the streamer’s 2021 tax filings—NEXT YEAR—cannot be verified.

Remember, make him put a ring on it!

“Me? Die? And miss all the excitement?”

Someone in Britain, especially, should have the context and life experience to understand the ways in which the wealthy and powerful can use “civility” as a means of oppression and cruelty.

Can you imagine if they’d held this press conference and instead said things like “Everyone in the country knows that most violent crimes are committed by white men. We all have to accept that so long as society tolerates white men and their anger and toxic behavior, their thuggish behavior will go unchecked.”…

The ending CAN’T deal with the implications of the story. That is the point. What should they have done instead? Wanda gives a three-minute speech to the citizens and they say “That’s OK, then?” She uses magic to give them all money? She erases their memories? I appreciated the show’s unwillingness to provide Wanda an…

Maybe instead of telling other people how they should think about depictions of Black women on TV, us white men should spend more time listening to what they have to say?

As a non-watcher of this show: did this subdrama of “man has commitment issues because his father cheated on his mother” thing come up on previous seasons? Or did they save it for when they had the first Black bachelor? Because if the latter, that is profoundly messed up.

Suppose the current-age actress had black skin, but the teenage flashback actress cast to look like the main star was white, and they put her in blackface? Wouldn’t that be a questionable decision, regardless of how much she resembles the original actress in all ways besides skintone?

I understand some people’s reservations, but this was all better than expected and at times, much deeper than anticipated. The Ship of Theseus ending to the Vision-Cataract fight was sublime.

A few women do this kind of shit, but they’re less likely to be surrounded by a whole bunch of people happy to help them get away with it.

One fewer asshole now.

Women don’t like the kind of sex that this kind of man wants to have, probably because from their perspective he’s lousy at it and his idea of how to improve isn’t to talk with his sexual partners, but to research advice from “studs.”

It’s about power and control. A bit about sex, but mainly those others. A genuinely sexually-assertive woman who knows what she wants has more power, which is why all these fantasy women are innocent and barely of age, unless it’s all about a power-inversion. An eager woman at the bar threatens the fantasy unless…