You know how Britain has a never-ending supply of actors with strange faces, and every time one of them gets prominence as a super sexy dude there’s a backlash of people going “Really, this guy? He’s like a whippet given human form.” ? Benedict Cumberbatch for example.

Gaetz is like that but for southern frat boys.…

I feel like he’s an example of just how low the bar is for snake-oil charisma these days. Like that’s definitely what he angles for, but you can tell he’s never really worked on his act and is just kind of coasting on the look and general air.

Yeah, that’s how the Just world fallacy goes- the world works as it should, and bad things are only the result of not living the right way. It’s really about denial of chaos and how little control one really has over their lives. But for conservatives it’s also a way to detach moral righteousness from logic and…

Realizing that bigotry is it’s own kind of magical thinking that has to be discarded along with religion is too hard a pill to swallow for a lot privileged intellectual dudes. It sucks that we end up having to hide behind pseudo-religious organization like the Church of Satan because shit like Effective Altruism gets…

Polyphony. Seriously, accompanying chords to melody were of the devil back in the day.

I think they’re running up against the problem that they can’t make the humor as dark as it needs to be to work with the gritty, more serious, more mature tone of the DC-verse. The Suicide Squad is a bleak premise to begin with, more so than Deadpool’s, and if you don’t place that in a slightly unreal context then the…

Wasn’t the last one re-cut to be more like Guardians, contributing greatly to how much of a mess it was? Suicide Squad should have always leaned towards dark comedy, so the Deadpool vibe is a step in the right direction. Here’s hoping they don’t fuck it up with a bunch of lolrandom humor and meta shit.

Yeah, that’s your basic Pride and Prejudice hate-to-love formula, but the catch is that both parties need to remain likeable despite their flaws so you still root for their happy ending. There are a lot of romcoms that fuck that up, particularly with the male lead who they’ll introduce as such a shitty person that…

Nothing wrong with not agreeing with it. A lot wrong with the formal activism around it which has been warped into a feeder school for MRA garbage and antisemitism. It’s like how Q cultists are worming their way into child trafficking and turning it into a platform for serving brainworms rather than solving child…

Trans women are already and extreme minority, and the ones who want to do sports a minority within that, so the idea that women’s athletics is going to be completely borked by their inclusion is ludicrous just from a numbers standpoint.
Yeah, extra testoterone makes a big difference, but without a constant supply of…

They’ll just go along with it. Feminist groups that go hard into TERF/SWERF shit are already going out of their way to find some form of feminism that fits with the regressive values they are drawn to.

A reminder that the Catholic church style of inappropriate relations was the unprecedented ability and willingness to just shift abusers around to avoid accountability.

Honestly the most literary sex scenes I’ve read have probably been out of like YA books because they can’t be too explicit and so work a little harder on at least nailing the passion an emotion of it all.

It’s really too subjective to say, but if a really good sex scene exists, it’s going to be in romance which has set the form on how to write about sex thus reducing the inherent awkwardness.

Because the arts are supposed to be above the grubby, petty world of commercialism, A-list actors can take negative hits to their reputations if they hawk products. So elite actors avoid doing overt advertisements in the US market, stick to luxury products in Europe, and will do regular commercials in Asia.

There’s probably some long-time fans in it, but the men’s rights crowd have latched onto him as an angelic victim that shows how women just claim abuse to ruin men because women are evil like that.

A chicken restaurant is build on an Indian graveyard and everyone turns into mutant chicken people and proceeds to eat the remaining humans. Also romance.

This movie already exists. it’s called Poultrygeist and it’s fucking disgusting.

Maybe mildly Apatow-esque? As much as he’s an indifferent slacker hiding out from responsibility who happens to be the male lead in a romcom.

I think bk99 helped develop him as an actor more, giving his shtick some much needed rounding out. He was kind of in that post-SNL slump space for a bit where he hadn’t figured out how to translate what he was doing in short forms to longer stuff, and when a big part of your thing is being obnoxious it’s vital you get…