This is my favorite white tears gif. And yes, white people really need to get over it (as a white person). I'm not wounded or offended or frustrated or tired of listening to people speak of their lives. I know it's. Not. About. Me. Most white folks are delicate flowers because they've never had to be anything else.

Well said!

I presume he's kidding. I don't think most folks would ever even entertain the idea.

That whole scene was perfection. I shouldn't like Elias nearly as much as I do.

This is very troubling and I'm very disapointed that Cumberbatch was willing to play the role that way. How many more times does society need to deny this man's sexuality? I ... I'm just really sad to hear this.

I would watch DS9. Personally, I think it's the most nuanced and challenging of the bunch.

That's a very good point, and it is also something that I find terribly interesting. I was thinking of the Holocaust more for the trajectory of her recovery as opposed to the actual experience itself. There are too many differences to draw any meaningful parallels beyond that both situations where acts of extreme…

Because I am an odd duck, I have studied the Holocaust for decades now and I wonder if she'll follow a similar trajectory that a lot of the Survivors did. Some of them wanted, needed to talk about what had happened to them. Almost to the point of obsession, as if they were purging it. Then as people tired of it, they…

That's a really good way of putting it. I was 22 when PM came out and it really did make me much more cynical about entertainment. It was weird, like some fundamental contract between artist and audience had been broken. I felt so ... betrayed. Way too many feelings to have about a movie, honestly. But I grew up…

Remember the feeling of hope and almost unbearable excitement? I actually went home and cried. Then I watched the whole trilogy the next day. Then I want to see Phantom Menace two more times hoping that I would magically 'get it' and fall in love with the movie.

I would have been happy with anyone but another white dude.

I was 190 when I first went on the pill, never heard that from anyone.

This must be recorded and YouTubed.

Couldn't have said it better myself, Sir Gob.

I'm white, and that was the first thought I had, too.

And then go on an anti vaccine rant? That's where mine go ... Though the recent polio outbreak in Syria might slow my sister's roll.

Part of why they aren't two sides of the same coin. Some Asian women prefer white men because they believe they are more likely to be treated well, if not precisely equally. Western sexism includes chivalry, which is destructive but if you must pick between sexism that reduces you to only servant and uterus or sexism…

I bet they would. At the very least the first time one of us posted a finished panel it would take off.

I bet there are quite a few io9ers that would love to get involved. Is there a place to contact Annalee directly, see if they'd post it on the main page?

We should make it an io9 project! Each sign up for a panel!