Sorry but this line of logic only works if DC suits believed that an adult watching the very adult Harley Quinn show would be so offended by the mature act in, again, an adult show, that it would color their opinion of all Batman merch, leading them to not buy their kid that Lego Batman set.

Pop culture has always been a threat to authoritarians. It’s probably because it targets youths, and richer ones in particular, giving them a motivation to find your regime oppressive when their position in society spares them dealing with the worst excesses of it.

Love, Simon has been sitting on a to-be-watched list since it hit streaming for years now, and I think this really captures why. Im very over sterile bildungsroman that’s mostly about a gay kid’s relationship to their family/friends rather that with a romantic partner. The not-gay Chinese historicals are more…

It’s not reflective of the sum total of a person, since your cognitive function is a big part of you and being drunk/high impairs that. But the thing is-society knows and accepts that, and provides a fair amount of leeway to intoxicated people already. You might be irritated by your drunk friend hanging on you, or…

Really. Why can’t we just all circle jerk about lazy, feel-good expressions of solidarity by/for allies that do nothing at all for the actual cause of LGTBQ rights or community support? Why are queer people so critical performative acts of conspicuous consumerism being passed off as activism?

I think there’s one big hitch in your assessment, and that’s the very real possibility that Terry Pratchett’s work is unadaptable. The Good Omens mini series may only be as decent as it is because of Gaimen.

Pretty much anything made to use on the body (that faces proper regulation) is safe to eat; lube has to be because it goes on mucus membranes which is a quick path into the blood stream. On the flip side, there are a lot of things you eat that you absolutely don’t want to put on your genitals like sugary stuff or hot…

Informed consent doctors and the ability to pay out of pocket for everything. Its how I got top surgery before I even started hormones, all without needing to go through a therapist first. And my surgeon wasn’t unscrupulous; he just applied the same criteria for service to me as to all his other patients coming in to…

The hospital itself is called Grey now, so do you really even need a person with the name anymore?

Nestle, Mars, and Hershey are all facing a lawsuit for child slavery. Citibank and Deutschebank have been laundering money for cartels for years. Coco Cola sent death squads after labor organizers in Columbia. Dirty money is still green, and that’s all most businesses care about.

That argument has always been more rooted in the doublestandards around gay actors failing to get cast for anything, rather than some belief that only a gay man can play a gay man.

He gets stabbed and then a staff infection in his stab.

Someone at Netflix deeply loves hyper-violent 90s anime, and has no clue what made any of it fun or interesting. This would have been better as even just a more conventional historical fantasy series- have him fighting demons while trying to solve the mystery of his lords murder or something. 

Its just a fun fact, dude. If you want people to focus more on the humor than the subject of the joke, maybe don’t go for the easiest, most predictable jab next time. 

I’m betting they’ll use Moana as an excuse to ditch or redo the Tiki Room sooner or later. 

They actually didn’t get to jump the line, at least not for a very long time now. The system is/was disabled guests could reserve their spot in the line with the ride staff, and then only had to show back up at the given time to immediately be put on. It was the precursor to the fastpast and other reserve systems that…

Bugs. High in protein and cheap to raise. We could probably even allow some wheat and soybean fields to go back to nature if mealworm flour became more common. 

I was waiting for the ecofascism to show up. Kill all the people you want Ultron, but until we learn as a species how to efficiently manage our resources we will continue to go through cycles of over-consumption that overtax our planet until it/we/us die. The problem isn’t feeding 7 billion people; it’s a system so…

I think this is an eternal trend in documentaries that we kind of forget about when Ken Burns droned over people’s actual letters, making the genre look respectable.

For me the turning point was ”can only do drugs with her express permission, which shes already heavily implied Ill never get” because that’s about normalizing her right to dictate what he does, not establish rules around drug use. If she doesn’t want him doing drugs at all, then she needs to just say that an trust…