The problem with Iron Fist isn’t that Danny Rand is white or that Finn Jones does a bad job playing him, the problem is that it was poorly written, poorly directed and there was only like half of a vision of who the character is and why people should be interested in him.

I mean I don’t know, but based on the kind of insular nature of young people’s FB community, I’d be willing to bet that the majority of the viewers were teenagers themselves and at least one of them DID do something and notify an adult

Unlikely, it seems like most places are reporting it as accidental

I think that’s part of OPs point. It wasn’t just the trolls that made that section so painful, a big chunk the “smart, hilarious and opinionated” not overtly trolling folks did their share too with the whole “I support trans rights, but transwomen aren’t women” thing.

Oof. Those comments were a painful reminder of how far behind the curve even we the “liberal” bulk of kinja commenters are. So many people claiming to support the rights of trans people but also claiming that trans women aren’t women. I agree it wasn’t just the trolls. Seemed like Adichie’s comments were taken by a…

to me trolling is about drawing an emotional response from people whereas bigots like King really want to kick non-white people out. And how they should be engaged is very different

Well, I am fairly confident that this crowd kind of wishes they didn’t exist either so...

I almost wonder if a better test would be just to boil them in water

 I think you don’t understand. It isn’t actually that they don’t want trans people peeing in certain bathrooms, it is that they secretly wish trans people didn’t exist at all

These are the answers of a man who does not fear justice

Except that’s never been how it works. Historically, most intersex people have been assigned a gender at birth by their doctors and/or parents. Doctors and parents have often chosen a gender for their child; sometimes based on anatomy, but also sometimes based entirely on preference; after delivery and performed…

Anybody who thinks this white manbaby is going to be held accountable for anything he does simply hasn’t been paying attention for the past few decades

I first started watching Buffy when season 2 started to run with my sister and my mother. Its sort of surprising to me thinking back that my mother watched with us because she is pretty disinterested in any type of genre stuff. Probably she just thought of it as a chance to spend time with her kids, like when I’d get…

Several months back, I had a crazy dream that some friends and I found a tunnel to the afterlife and became lost, chased by goblins and spirits and wolves and monsters. It was a harrowing, nightmarish anxiety dream that seemed to go on forever. Shortly before I finally woke up, we were surrounded by a half circle of…

good luck getting anybody to buy that

Hey, don’t forget Sweden. They didn’t ban Muslims and look what’s happening there now:

I am so excited, I’m sneaking out of work early to go see this

A person directly interfered with another persons legal right to protest in a public space through assault and theft.

Or maybe that’s just what they want you to believe...

Well yeah, but it would more be based on the speed of the rotation and thickness of the disc. If you hold a coin up with a light source on one side and shadow on the other and flip it slowly in your hand, there are brief moments where part of, say the heads side, are in shadow/dimmer than others. The edge of the disc…