How do you solve a problem like Verhoeven?

I’ve always thought this was the coolest part of biology: getting to name brand new (to science) organisms after whatever just happened to pop into your head.

Regarding blasphemy: it’s the viewer’s responsibility to manage their own offense. I’m religious, and sometimes find myself uncomfortable with elements of fiction. When this happens I remind myself this is a personal reaction, based on my beliefs, and has nothing to do with whether the work should exist or not. If I…

Because Verhoeven asked her to take off her panties due to them being white and reflecting too much light. He assured her that you wouldn’t actually be able to see anything, it would shadow, so she was rightfully aghast when that wasn’t the case during the first screening she saw.

Beat me to it. This screams Crank 3 and I'm on board. 

We may never know who sent that mob of angry trump supporters from the trump rally to go storm the capitol building shouting trump slogans and trying to murder trumps opponents with trump flags.

Its a total mystery.

I was all stoked Max von Sydow was going to be in The Force Awakens. ~sigh~

Did you know that Joe Biden is leader of an organization that has it’s roots in slaveholders????

Lets not kid ourselves.  If you grew up in a town in this country with at least say 75 years of history, then chances are at least half of the organization that run in that town had a racist past

And they’re still probably made in sweatshops for practically nothing.

I just hope they retain Death’s style; it’s about time Black goths got their time in the shade.

Most good people are constantly worried they may not be a good person.

Irrespective of the context of the whole thing, I do think “I know that I’m a good person” is a statement that genuinely good people don’t often make. I feel like usually genuinely good people are always trying to be better people. 

After detailed and thoughtful analysis like this, I really don’t understand why the “debate” continued and became so toxic and aggressive

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

This is why, whenever I hear about a black person ‘fleeing’ the cops, my first response is “How is that *NOT* a perfectly reasonable and justifiable response for any person of color in *THIS* country??”

people get taken out of greys if an approved commenter either likes or replies to them so i’m guessing superlative is an approved commenter. anyway i flagged that shit so fast.

On the one hand, I used to use the “OK” symbol...like it has always been used until the last few years in which alt right shitlords decided to co-opt it. I will occasionally feel myself doing it and have to remind myself “Oh, wait, this belongs to incel Nazis now, which is SO SUPER FUCKING COOL AND LOGICAL” and switch…