I feel like the idea that any critique of any YA novel is de facto misogyny kind of recapitulates the idea that YA is only for (or by) women; and the idea that YA is so narrow or limited that a specific critique of one author somehow impugns the genre itself seems like it recapitulates that critique of the genre (?)…

Possibly a guy who believed torturing people was beneficial has beliefs that might be bad? And that he acted on those beliefs in theoretical good faith means he’s also, just... bad? And maybe we don’t have to associate with or defend or apologize for people who have bad beliefs and have done bad things based on those…

He’s smart, thoughtful, and absolutely right. You respect your fellow players, because they’re out there trying to do exactly the same thing you’re out there trying to do, and unless you have some very real and substantive personal reason not to, you should shake their hand.

It’s also the case that this is a common and widely-reported practice in Chicago, with the direct aim of helping businesses pay for the rising cost of healthcare for employees for whom they are largely actually not required to provide healthcare

huh

Also this is assuming that all of Ziegler’s weird reaches about what day this event might have occurred on have any truth whatsoever, which is not a sound assumption. McQuarry didn’t remember the exact day, nor did anyone else, but they all remembered (and Paterno to testified in open court) that the incident…

West Wing is the Newsroom with politicians; it’s of note in the way that it deceived an entire generation about the nature of political struggle. Sports Night was good because the stakes were low enough that it wasn’t dangerous. 

“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every…

I have an extraordinary amount of spare time on my hands. 

Wait

I regret to inform you that, like Senator Isakson, he’s still dead.

Thanks Meghan!

Which means you don’t. For the rest of us, a cursory search of deadspin would turn up, vis a vis male tennis players, Fognini smashing his rackets, Kyrgios melting down in every conceivable way, Youzhny smashing himself over the head, etc ad infinitum. And a search of other sports will show every conceivable type of…

Also your original point wasn’t “focus on,” it was “why do they have so much frustration compared to everyone else.” Your point wasn’t exactly kind of your point, whatever your point kind of was. 

It means that Andreescu was playing above her own norm. It’s a common phrase. To say “Bencic had a good chance to win because Andreescu was playing above Bencic’s level” makes absolutely no sense. To say “Bencic had a good chance to win because Andreescu was playing above Andreescu’s level and therefore was likely to…

We don’t. We focus on meltdowns of every type of athlete, although we often focus more on tennis players, and baseball pitchers, and golfers, and quarterbacks, because their particular meltdowns have direct and entirely self-created impact on the entirety of the game. 

Tennis players, in particular, don’t struggle with frustration any more than other athletes, that’s why. Unless you think breaking bats, smashing helmets on the ground, fighting your coach on the sidelines, smashing water coolers, pushing the referee, kicking dirt on the plate, pulling out the bases and hurling them…

That’s not what that sentence means

Yeah I think Andreescu was playing right about at her (Andreescu’s) level, except intermittently by obvious weariness.

I don't wanna be here, in your Parisian dungeon