So on the level of Green Lantern, then.

I...can’t disagree. The first half of DD Season 2 was better than the full season of either of them, but the second half was such a mess that it really didn’t all fit together at all. Iron Fist was at least a coherent whole.

She’s also guaranteed that he’ll never forget her. He’ll always have this story.

No excuses. But we need to be open to redemption for people on all sides of the political spectrum.

I don’t disagree with you, but at the same time it is a common mistake for apologies to focus *too much* on the feelings of the person making the apology, at the expense of the person the apology is too. So I’m good with him choosing to err in this direction in his formal apology.

Well, he’s an alcoholic in recovery. He’s done shitty things, and now he’s trying to be a better person. How you grade that is up to you.

Oh, I’m not sure of anything. I’m a transwoman on the spectrum — I gave up trying to put myself in anyone else’s head a long time ago. But there are multiple ways to “other” people, and I don’t know that I observe people switching between those different modes a lot — they seem to be either always handsy or always…

I mean, it’s not the same men. The ones who are too squeamish to touch the breasts of a strange, dying woman are the same ones who would never think of assaulting a woman — and are lousy allies because they have trouble believing that other men would.

Oh, I know. Hence the quotation marks.

I agree. It’s still the best “Mexican” food I’ve been able to find in western Michigan.

Film Crit Hulk reliably has the best take on *everything*.

I didn’t know the exact piece, but I immediately pegged it as Einstein on the Beach.

No thanks. I will continue to believe that most people are good, and be horrified every time an individual does not measure up to that.

I came here specifically looking for one.

I assumed the same thing.

Exactly. Momentarily clouded judgment would be a reasonable explanation for not immediately condemning him. Not for actively defending him, and attacking his accusers.

Exactly. This is as good as an apology can be. That’s the first step.

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing. Trump in the White House makes it a lot harder to retreat into the safety of cognitive dissonance — for both victims and defenders.

This is one of those situations where his having run this same tournament for more than 10 years was a detriment. The expectations for that sort of tournament, and the business skills required changed underneath him, and he didn’t realize it. I’ve seen the same thing happen around sf and gaming cons in general in the…

There are ways to bring back jobs...but they involve raising the costs of business practices that move jobs overseas, and neither party is going to do that.