Huh, the new Jumanji actually looks kind of fun. I’m sure the preview makes it look a lot better than it is, and I’m not going to watch it anyway, but still: I’m surprised!

Bloody cracking, that. An absolutely smashing finish by the diminutive Frenchman.

I’ve noticed over the past few weeks, mystery no icon accounts seem to be systematically attacking Isha in particular for the flimsiest and dumbest of pedantic reasons possible. Mistitling here, misspellings, and such. And all then bring up she seethes “outrage” or has an axe to grind at the white guys being brought…

They’ll clean it up. I’ve been astounded by some of the remarkable film restoration (both audio and visual restorations) that’s been done in the last 15 or 20 years (notable extraordinary work by the UCLA Film & Television archives, Hugh M. Hefner Foundation and Turner).

Agreed 100%. No good can come from death threats or even just being a shitty person to the developers. The last thing we need to do is feed the stereotype that all gamers are angry little man babies with entitlement issues. If we hope to actually make things better we have to be adults. Thanks for making that clear,…

I’ll leapfrog here to say that there’s a line between advocacy and something else. Battlefront II devs were talking about receiving death threats today on Twitter. I get that folks are upset... I’ve been pretty vocal too... but I want to use this as a general opportunity to remind folks to approach these issues…

Lets be real, the entire DSM-VI is just going to be a case study on this administration.

I believe that there is a conversation going around on whether or not to use his photo next to the entry for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The argument is primarily whether to do it before or after he is removed from office.

So, as a comparison:

Halt and Catch Fire became a MUCH better and more interesting show once it explored the dynamics between the two women who were situationally justified as being separated. In season 1, they mostly operated in parallel exploring some thematic aspects. But what HACF did so well was taking the…

Man, I literally handed you the opportunity to defy my expectations on a silver platter. You had one job.

Saying this as a straight white male, yes, sometimes it does make you unqualified to have an opinion.

Then it must be exhausting being this offended all the time.

Says the guy who’s clearly offended by an article criticizing the female representation on a TV show.

Your original comment was pretty lazy, so I’m gonna have to say that one’s pretty much lazier (there was no attempt at any sort of acknowledgement or dialogue with the arguments made in the essay, just a one-sentence “summary” that doesn’t even correctly say what its about).

And the whole POINT of the essay is looking…

a) Read the article. It addresses that.
b) Woooo. A whole THREE? DAMN, that’s a LOT. How many strong male characters are there? More than 3? DAMN, not enough.

Not only that, but Max had no reason to be there other than giving Lucas some kind of vague season arc and perhaps redress the overall gender imbalance. I read they had more for her and her dickhead step-brother to do that got cut out in alter drafts, but jeez they should have written her inclusion better.

Hmmm... not exactly true.

Frankly, I think the appeal to misogyny is simply symptomatic of this poor kid’s intrinsic sociopathic manipulative streak. When caught, sociopaths typically have some reasonable sounding reason for the behavior, but under close scrutiny, it doesn’t hold up.

She really doesn’t seem to address the abuse and coercing these women to send naked pictures. A lot of “I felt trapped” but not a lot of “I was really shitty to these people for no discernable reason.”. The deceit isn’t the worst of her actions, but it’s the only one she’s addressing.

I’m of the view there’s no appropriate time to release a film like this and maybe we can stop making films that pedal the fantasy that any teenage girl would be interested in gross older guys altogether. The fantasy is entirely ONE-SIDED.