There's still plenty of room to fit it into The Hobbit!

She banished a guy who looked like David Tennant, accompanied by a blonde chav named Rose. This guy doesn't fit that description; he's probably some other doctor. Also, he's recently been erased from all records throughout all history, so possibly even Torchwood doesn't remember him anymore.

There's Lothar, Mandrake the Magician's sidekick, who actually preceded Superman.

If the next movie has time travel in it, the in-universe source of the apparent continuity errors should be obvious. Rogue time travelers changed history and made Beast look different and ensured several characters would be around earlier than they should have been. Infants Emma Frost, the Summers brothers, and Moira…

Well, he's not more obscure than Eric Bana's character in the last movie, who nobody had heard of at all (because they invented him out of whole cloth).

We're just talking about comics. Your "privilege" is that there a gazillion superhero comics targeted at your presumed demographic, while straight women don't get so much. No one accused you of having any other privilege. Let's stick to the subject at hand.

Because the meme happened to start with a Black Widow and Hawkeye cover. There really isn't anything more to it than that; it's not a reflection on the character, only on that particular cover. Other artists continued to use Hawkeye out of inertia.

But the artists are not simply drawing hourglass figures; one key difference here is that the male poses are physically possible with relatively little strain, while the female poses require elaborate yogic contortions to accomplish. Your analysis seems to assume that the primary role of illustration in superhero…

Just let it play in the background while you do the dishes, or practice tai chi, or work on your taxidermy or something. I've found this technique is effective for a variety of media; the perfect compromise between being bored and not experiencing it at all. It doesn't work as well with books, for some reason.

That may be a valid distinction between agnostics and the "smug atheists" Charlie Jane specifically calls out at the beginning of the article, but my experience is that many or most atheists wouldn't claim any special certainty about the cosmos. I, for example, am pretty sure that I agree with Neil deGrasse Tyson on…

Disney's Treasure Planet.

I respect Tyson's right to label himself (or not label himself) as he pleases, but my own problem with the word "agnostic" is that it implies to me that you think that every side in the position you're agnostic about is of equal merit. Most atheists are agnostic in the sense that they acknowledge that it's impossible…

I have to agree. The fact that it's unattributed even in the Washington Post makes it less likely to be legitimate, not more. A quote that even a professional journalist working for a well-regarded paper can't find the source of is probably bogus. Some of the quotes in Joel Achenbach's article do have attributions,…

"Kiiiiirk! I have detonated everything your fleet stands for!"

His novel Job: A Comedy of Justice was clearly satirical.

I think if this show was going to include Batman or Catwoman, they'd have better uses for them than making them the aging parents of a minor reoccurring character.

This reminds me of the floating island in Life of Pi, but also of the so-called Condom Reef that urban legends claim floats in the South Pacific. http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/reef.asp

No offense taken. I think it's a bit of a reach to see the word "human" as gender-specific because "homo" as in "homosexual" is more often applied to gays than lesbians (if I had my druthers, we'd drop the gender-specific "lesbian" form). The common factor there is that once again men are seen as the only gender that…

Yes, but my point is that the 'man' part of 'human' is, in itself, as innocuous a syllable as the 'man' in 'manifold' or 'manticore.' Or would be, if we weren't talking about people. The larger point is that, since we never use 'human' to refer exclusively to males, we have a word for homo sapiens without the…