There's an old piece on the little-read blog Tomato Nation on feminism. Written in 2003.

Yeah, this is right. If I understood correctly, her letter included a call to action for industry and fan groups to stop giving him awards. It was, no question, an attack on his reputation and an attempt to hurt his standing. And maybe he deserved that.

Manipulative and predatory are not the same. Not every dial goes to 11.

No kidding. This stuff is getting ridiculous and straight up offensive in its lack of self-awareness. "Being cheated on" and even more essentially "being manipulated by someone you trust" is not a gendered problem, and there's a lot of absurd reaching being done here.

It's a mix of topic, time, and creative leadership. Ultimately it's because two white men known for a fantasy show largely about heroic white people and dastardly white villains want to use their fame to ask a new question: "what if black people were still enslaved?"

Yes.

A friend of mine and I took turns for a couple hours until I nailed it in like 1:19. And then we did the same for the Facility — he beat that one.

This is a quiet beach community. Jackie Treehorn draws a lot of water in this community.

That is exactly what one of his footnotes argues. It surpasses all belief he chose to send a career-killing email like that.

The entire framework of "is this guy's memo right or wrong, unreasonable or no?" seems to miss the point.

That memo is … pretty terrible. Calls the gender wage gap a myth, says that higher salaries are a function of harder work and more value added, calls for unconscious bias training among hiring and promotion managers not to be mandatory — because those trainings underrate the accuracy of stereotypes — and repeatedly…

F is for Family is literally a show based around a 70s era white conservative blue-collar guy.

… No? I think the show could be terrible, or excellent, depending on how committed they are to the reality of white confederate racial attitudes and the circumstances of black life before and after the war. But I think using the announcement as an opportunity to trash these guys over tired GoT controversies is dull…

The maddening thing is it's at least 50% hostility toward these two guys for their work on GoT.

I think it's "traditionally" Boomers 1946 — 1964, Gen-X 1965 - 1983 and Millennial 1984 - 2002. But the same way that the end of the Boomers and beginning of X leads to the concept of a mini-inter-Generation Jones, people are now looking at another inter-generation.

Right. I mean, I know the article is joking here, but "in college when FB came out" and "born during the original release of the SW trilogy" don't really line up well. I'm born in '85, so, after the SW trilogy was released, but also I was in college when FB came out and remember when you had to have an .edu address to…

Agreed completely. Baffled at the idea that someone born in 1977 could be a "millennial." If you were out of college already on New Year's Day 2000, why on earth do you think you're a millennial? If you were possibly old enough to have seen Pulp Fiction in the theater when it came out in '94, why do you think you're a…

Just finished watching. I liked it a lot but I can't help but feel it really asked for my indulgence in order for the puzzle to work. On a pure plot level, we're asked to accept that a) no one who's interacted with Bernard is in a position to know what Arnold looked like and b) that despite Bernard being at WW for…

Quibble: Stephen Foster and Gershwin seems more like a jazz and Americana album than "classical music." I was looking forward to, like, Ein Vogelfanger bin Ich from Magic Flute. Maybe some songs from Schubert. Puccini.

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