I get that and it’s not like I would expect him to vote against many of these things, I’m just highly skeptical that when push comes to shove he’ll take any steps whatsoever to actually hold 45 accountable. I would love for this to be the beginning of a meaningful movement from the GOP against this corrupt…

I heard Jeff Flake shilling for his new book on Morning Edition today, which was like ok great, but I want to know if Jeff Flake plans on actually doing anything about this mess or is he just gonna keep on voting 95.5% in line with 45 (per fivethirtyeight’s calculations)? Talk is cheap.

Because she’s a woman who has dared to start acting like she’s not a passive idiot, that’s why. My one quibble with the Sansa scenes this week is when she’s like surveying the resources at Winterfell and proceeds to tell the armorer how to do his damn job. I believe that Sansa, who has grown up in the North, would…

This. And honestly everyone I know who reads theSkimm is exactly in this position.

This is a good piece and I agree absolutely that the movie-style tropes of Bachelorette Party are mostly dumb and we know they are dumb but we kind of feel obliged to participate anyway. That said, the best bachelorette parties I’ve attended were really just fun weekend getaways that involved a little more drinking…

I’m not complaining about the lack of physical description, I’m celebrating it, particularly with regard to female characters.

Good point and part of why I enjoy this series so much. GRRM has really upset so many fantasy/hero story tropes and managed to write some really complex characters. Jon Snow is good at a lot of things, but effective, inspiring oratory is just not one of those things (paging Obama?).

This was my favorite! I wonder how many women (ok people, really) have pretended not to speak English to avoid interacting with Trump.

This. I think McConnell’s plan and to some extent all of the recent GOP plans are political theater so they can go back and tell their constituents “we tried but those evil Democrats got in the way!” which, even though is objectively untrue, enough of their base gorging on a diet of fake news, will believe. It’s much…

THIS. I basically refuse to see any movie that is “the ____’s wife/daughter/mistress/mother/aunt”, which is maybe overkill but I’m just like, you really couldn’t come up with a better title than that?

I have Ancillary Justice on my bookshelf and this just made me bump it up in my reading queue. Amazing!

I just have to say that when I read Redshirts by John Scalzi, which is a delightful book generally, it took me a while to put my finger on what was so odd about it until I realized that there is no physical description of ANY character in the book, not even the female ones, beyond a few characters being generally…

This hurts my brain to look at, but she’s definitely living her best life.

Who is in a relationship with a Latinx woman! I love this show.

I really didn’t find that joke funny because she was Pakistani-it’s funny because it’s so blatant that she is mentioning something Kumail likes without actually knowing anything about it.

Except that we live in a culture that absolutely does deny rape until/unless we are beaten over the head with it (and sometimes, even then!). I don’t mind that Westeros, being shown to be a place of brutal misogyny, is shown to be full of rape. I’m not saying we need to see it all the time or that there aren’t…

I grew up 30 min away and no, that’s all I think about too.

I see your point, and to me the fact that the showrunners are in this bind really speaks to the limitations of the source novel. I love Margaret Atwood’s work and think The Handmaid’s Tale is an excellent novel. HOWEVER, it is obviously not an excellent novel for dealing with race or the intersection of racism and…

Right? Oh how I wish we could all just point and laugh at Rick Perry’s enduring stupidity like that wasn’t the least incompetent/sinister thing happening with this government.