The problem is in the rareness of male dancing in western popular art (especially white western popular art), not its general existence, or the folks who note its rareness in the media and actually make an effort for it to appear more often.

Because beyond adaptations of stage musicals and Magic Mike (a fairly limited…

11 bucks for a perusal script straight from the publisher, hard copy or pdf. https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/lasso-of-truth

There’s a better presentation of that story, a play, Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreither. Gets into his consternation of not only the lie detector being thoroughly debunked, but also Wonder Woman shifting away from the original “inherently peaceful woman” premise in accordance with different historical mores. That his…

The same shitfits used to happen back in the day. Now, the “hottest” takes get picked up by media looking to create clicks from controversy.

Sure, but then the article takes pains to argue that the show depicts a story where, when women get agency, they go nuts. That women that do things go bad. Now, that could be a description of what actually happened in this case, but then it’s worth asking if that story is worth telling.

As well, the article doesn’t say…

When you’re automatically deemed a quality contribution by both right-of-birth and for merely expressing the “correct” ideology, then the ACTUAL quality of your contributions become besides the point.

It’s what makes white supremacy and fascism so simultaneously laughable and terrifying. Being literally unable to…

...like our over-sensibilities about the quality of pratfall sketches?

It’s a Minstrel’s Ballad raid. You are imagining fighting a bard’s exaggerated retelling of your own exploits, not actually changing events so that they happened differently.

In this particular case, the FF14 community is particularly wary of spoilers, because the community (and in many ways, the game itself) is very focused on helping new players experience the whole game from the ground up, and that includes the story.

This does have the result of having a lot of folks spooked on behalf…

Bathroom breaks, mostly, and even then only to the point they’re required to. Lord knows how many “chair streams” folks like to joke about in chat.

But at the point we’re moving back to “the whole incident is one event”, you might as well say “we’re all lucky to exist at all”, and then we’re talking about whether or not there is luck at all or even a “you” that’s worth actually talking about in the grand scheme of things, and then your significant other sighs…

It’s less about the error and more about the margin for surviving it, i.e. considering that a terrible thing happened, surviving the terrible thing is then a low probability subsequent event.

Are you arguing that Bayer is starring in her personal Holmes and Watson? No? Unless you have evidence that something similar is happening here, then I think you’re getting your knickers a bit twisted over something extremely minor, as well as having not a bit of rose colored glasses over the critical voice of the old…

How dare a website devoted to pop culture be populated with, ugh, fans of things?!

Expecting long periods of trial and error, requiring very specific strategies, and imposing unforeseeable deaths that are intended to be part of the game experience, describes the goals of the makers of the original Super Mario Brothers. I think you’re just unused to seeing it in modern triple-A releases, because most…

The population of those two counties is about 2 million people, 10% of the state. If it’s evenly distributed over the rest of the population, that means that every Floridian gets a $220-280 tax hike. If it were added to property taxes, for the average homeowner in Florida, that’s a 16% increase. If it were just a…

Yep. If I put my hands on a coworker at my job (and not just a coworker, my BOSS) and threw an ashtray at another coworker trying to stop me, I’d be fired, in jail, and replaced. They certainly wouldn’t shut down the entire workplace while they try to “figure out” what to do with me.

They called your parasocial grandpa a cunt, they didn’t put him in a camp. Jesus.

Mercurial can be positive, or at the very least a neutral descriptor. It’s more that people would see Bill Murray as a Manic Pixie Dream Grandpa, someone who is benignly silly in a way that instills delight rather than fear and exhaustion. THAT would also be covered under “mercurial”.

Capriciousness does not…

If he said it while caressing his coworkers’ inner thigh, I’m gonna guess being fired would be the LEAST damaging outcome.