Hes the worst part of Cats, right? Im struggling to remember if there was any other scene as tedious and revolting than his.

Drive Me Crazy is the better movie, too. Adrian Grenier isn’t a loan weirdo; he’s one of a group of outcasts which gives the commentary on high school social hierarchy a little more depth. 

Gone Girl is really more of a subversion of an erotic thriller. What if the feme fatal was actually as crazy and vindictive as they treated the previous ones as. 

I made it all the way through courtesy of some edibles. Kidman’s character does not cheat on Cruise’s; she just talks about this one time she fantasized about doing it. That apparently fucks with his head immensely and he goes on a weird and dangerous journey into the secret fuck clubs of the insanely rich. (I think…

Not a great comparison there. Batman has an extensive pop culture presence spanning decades across multiple media platforms all with different takes. You’d be hard pressed to find another comic book character with as large a body of critical thought around him. But unless you’re a big fan of the right comic books you…

I got burned by this, too. Invited a friend who likes horror expecting something arty but with enough action to keep us both entertained. They got lost immediately and were bored as fuck. 

Really? I feel like hotep= the black man’s alternative to the deeply white supremacist MRA movement was always a pretty commonly known fact. Maybe that’s just because I learned about them from black feminist spaces who would naturally be pretty tuned into that aspect. 

Well the inclusion of St. Winifred (and Gawain acting as St. Beuno whose miracle was raising people form the dead) kind of implies that beheading isn’t a permanent death here. I’m in a weird place where sitting through it was boring as hell, but Ive enjoyed thinking about it enough that I’d say I liked it. I guess the…

Sadly, nerds flogging their abuse by jocks/frats/whatever has always been one group of men complaining that they aren’t being given their rightful due by patriarchy, not a social justice effort to end oppression. Maybe you’re just younger than me, or got lucky in whatever nerd communities you interacted with, but as…

I know it’s perfectly logical and expected for an massive MORPG operator like Blizzard to have a presence at a cybersecurity professionals confrence. But that story has such a vibe of some interns convincing their Luddite boss to send them to this cool hacking event “for the exposure.” 

Would you make comments like that? Especially to a strange woman in a professional setting where you’re representing your business? Just because something is suggestive doesn’t mean you have to act on it, and removing the context does minimize the misogyny whether that was your intent or not.  

I don’t think you really differ at all. It wasn’t the trash talk that engendered the sexism; it was management not taking any steps to suppress it. The office environment was better because it had standards and consequences for violating them. That pushes out the worst offenders, and has a chilling effect on the more…

Yeah, but the nature of social media is that you are never talking to just the person you’re responding to. Whatever audience there is for Rowling’s tweets should have to view it over a sea of “fuck you bigot” replies, same way nazi marches should always trail a army of counter protestors reminding everyone in earshot…

It’s a better reason than ‘flatters the egos of the aged voter base’ metric that seems to dominate today.

Nope. Respectability politics do not work. Bigots don’t stop being bigots because you asked politely. At best you might get a “one of the good ones” exemption, to be retracted at the bigot’s leisure when your existence becomes inconvenient for them.

Um, Laika? How dare you!

In a way... He was working as a union rep for chicken plants in the south and all his coworkers were 40+ union guys who all had mistresses and were constantly going to strips clubs and stuff like it was 1972 or something. Big culture gap along age lines. I think a lot of it was a srt of shared crime thing, where they…

“Dostoyevsky/Some other Great Author of Yore already wrote this and did it better” could probably be a good way to dismiss a lot of this garbage. I wouldn’t normally say that you needed to have a Crime and Punishment in you to deserve success as a writer, but a lot of shitty pretentious dude writers would be well…

Things Go Fast And Explode is a respectable subgenre worth anyone’s time. Thing Go Fast And Explode But It’s Really A Setup For An Imaginary World Where My Ideas About Society Make Sense is the one you have to look out for.

Because they were already into the books. I don’t think anyone is arguing that the prejudice runs so deeply and hard that just finding out a book you like is written by a woman is enough to make most men put it down. But there’s a reason adopting a gender neutral pen-name is a common thing for women writers to do,…