It’s weird that the article namedrops Korra as an example of “representation done right,” because the Korra/Asami relationship at the end felt completely unearned and out of left field. 

Oh, I 100% agree. Anyone who knows anything about politics in Westeros knows Alicent and Otto don’t want to give up power, and then, as the king dies, there’s a “deathbed prophecy” that oh so conveniently justifies Alicent’s son ascending the throne in contradiction to the king’s publicly-stated succession plan?

I don’t think this interview really speaks to anything other than the Arkansas AG’s utterly inexplicable lack of preparation for what was obviously going to be a (justifiably) hostile interview.

Oh wow, every Snapple bottle has a little fun fact on the bottlecap!

Obviously not the same tone as a rom-com, but there is, in fact, a movie about soldiers (including one pilots) who fall in love/have an affair:

The best rom-coms are self-aware ones. Down with Love is one of my favorite movies of all time.

As a counterpoint, most people fall into the binary categories. 

I am from suburban Boston and now live in the Midwest, and I can confirm this. The Dunks in Wisconsin are awful.

Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I hear about this kind of discourse. Like, isn’t it a good thing when stories about a marginalized group can speak to universal experiences too? Isn’t that what makes people understand what they have in common with those groups?

But are her words “words that encourage violence”?

1. I’m pretty sure the actual violence that followed was the worse part of the Rwandan genocide.

Words aren’t violence. Violence is violence.

“Keeping his country safe” by recommending that his countrymen not exercise their natural right to free expression—implicitly demanding they adhere to the speech code demanded by the murderers—was both stupid and obscene. Sometimes equivocating to satisfy multiple political factions is fine—equivocating between free…

I agree that offensive material is sometimes bad, but the award was for courage in publishing. The Charlie Hebdo staff had received death threats, continued to publish, and then a number of them were actually murdered. The award is for courage in publishing, not “courage in publishing things which make nice…

Allow me to refer to the Platonic ideal of who I’m talking about: the objection of members of PEN America—an organization expressly dedicated to freedom of expression—to the giving of an award to the Charlie Hebdo staff. There’s a single paragraph saying “murder is bad” and then the huge bulk of the letter is one big…

You don’t need to be based in Tehran. When the French teacher was decapitated, Justin Trudeau went on TV and said “yes, well, we have to be sensitive to things that might offend.” There are plenty of stupid Westerners who say freedom of expression is important BUT we should consciously avoid saying things that people…

Can’t wait for the inevitable “okay this is awful BUT” brigade who’ve been resting since they blamed the Charlie Hebdo victims for their own deaths.

Also hundreds of pages of some Dornish kid who, after spending hours developing the faintest wisp of sympathy from the reader, accomplishes exactly nothing and dies.

I mean, is it “deflecting” to the unions if this request is really something that should’ve come from the unions to begin with?

His father was of Portuguese and Swedish ancestry, so he definitely has Iberian heritage.