*News just in* Sunscreen may melt your nail polish and/or acrylic nails. Best to be aware of this if you are going to use your expensive nail polish when the weather is hot...like I did this weekend, only to be dismayed when my manicure turned into a sticky mess after application of SPF 30. Not happy.

Can’t we just have the Black Widow film recast with someone who isn’t just a blank space. I don’t really care what their gender identity is - a good actor should be able to convince in any role. Hmm. I’ve just thought: how about Rose McGowan? I know she’s a bit older, but she’s pretty damned fantastic...

This has been my take on the whole issue. She’s just really a bit of a cow. She’s been on my ‘shithead list’ since the Soda Stream problem; I don’t have a side in this particular issue, I’m equivocal, but when you add it up with all the other missteps she’s made in the last few years it does add up to someone...well...…

She’ll wipe us out first, or at least reduce our numbers so much that we won’t be an issue any more, and then let rip with a wave of evolution to fill up the spaces we leave. It’s a shame most of us will miss it because it’s likely to be fascinating. Look at the area around Chernobyl, as soon as we leave, Nature steps …

You’re kidding!?! I’m 53, and he looks old enough to be my dad. Although my dad was awesome, and this guy is a prize butthole.

Not exactly Hollywood, but

Why is that woman wearing a spiny binbag? Off-topic, I know, but that is a truly alarming garment.

We get a few Mormons roaming our city centre (northern England) talking to people about their religion every now and again. They have one of their bigger churches/temples/whatever in a nearby city. I have stopped and talked to them if they approach me, and as a proud pagan, I’ve never had a bad reaction from one of the…

Yup.

This is what annoys me the most. She’s handed ammuntion to idiots; it’ll now be harder for women game developers to be taken seriously.

Not really. Developer with a history of making contentious comments in a public forum loses her temper with a valued customer of the company she works for without justification, then continues to have a expletive-filled rant at anyone within ‘earshot’. She’s either incredibly naive, or incredibly stupid, to think that …

Because she was being stupid and unprofessional, ArenaNet were absolutely right to fire her. She might not have been ‘on the clock’ but by discussing details of her professional position in a public forum she lost the right to go off at people who wanted to engage with her in that space. If she wanted ‘personal…

Oh no! Not another one. Well, whatever you do, may it bring you happiness and good fortune, but know you will be missed.

Not at all, it’s just when men describe women as ‘females’ it tends to come across as either creepy or demeaning. Think Ferengi in Star Trek.

When a point is made badly it often misses its target.

It’s not just the men though. Germaine Greer has come out with some horrendous stuff recently. I used to look up to her so much in the nineteen seventies and now she just makes me sad.

Female what? Do you mean women, by any chance? Woman, pl. women, is a perfectly good noun to describe female adult humans. Female is primarily an adjective. It can be used as a noun to represent the human female, but when that is done, it is often done to belittle and demean. Please don’t do it.

I was about to come in with my own string of f-words, but I think you have it covered.

Yup. I called intersectionality ‘trendy bullshit’ and described an article as a ‘hate-filled screed’. And I was/am right too :)

I occasionally do this for comic effect when discussing matters of faith. “Monotheists? It’s just the same guy (*sighs* always a guy) in a different costume.” But hell, as a henotheist animist with a soft spot for Lucifer, I don’t need to take these people seriously.