I’ll give you the quick of it: The writers here often make note of age differences between partners in a way that demands experience is standardized by age— following a very particular course that is not accessible to everyone. There’s also the problem of imposing invasive standards of attraction/ reasons for wanting…

Sigh. Again with the ageist remarks that tell the story of deeply unexamined classism, projected infantilization and general incoherence. Way to go Jezebel writer.

You really don’t know what the word means? A group of people.

Do you know what the word “party” means in the context that it is being used? I do not think so. May I suggest you ponder on what is being said and then strategies for not flying off the handle?

I think the idea behind this is that any sort of large party that arrives at a business without advanced notice creates a problem.

No. Take your garbage conspiracy with you to the dump. This nonsense is just as distracting and useless as the conspiracies about the US invasion of Afghanistan.

So if Gorka is a major fraud, let’s get to the important issue here: how is he describing and selling national security threats? Is he making policy suggestions? I think this needs to be explored.

Probably wouldn’t hurt to throw Jezebel on the list with the often incoherent messaging that comes from trying to fit aspects of counter-culture into the entrenched mainstream without the total change of both the logic and practice of the dominant social/economic ideology.

Half-time Super Bowl show featuring Black Panthers imagery (while completely ignoring the anti-capitalist alignment of the Panthers).

Pepsi.

Yet no one here bats an eye at Beyonce. This commercial is operating at the same level with the same message.

You’re talking about “cultural appropriation issues.” What are the cultural appropriation issues? Is there any implied ban on stories about outsiders being adopted into a foreign practices and how the outsiders try to juggle identities?

Why would she know more about a specific type of martial arts of which she was not an expert? Just because she’s Asian?

What cultural appropriation issues?

What was with the binocular perspective in the final scene and the lighter clicking throughout that scene? I had the subtitles on and it kept mentioning a lighter clicking.

Yeah, duh. You didn’t answer the question being asked. And, yes, it is an abstract distinction that needs to be addressed because it begs the question of what Japanese is appropriate for the part (and does it really even matter outside of purist demands or increasing visible representation in film? How does it change…

So then you have to ask yourself what it means to be Japanese. Is it simply a superficial ethnic description? A description of nationality? Can you talk about this without making essentialist claims and obligations?

The argument about whitewashing has the same exact problems as the argument against “She’s Japanese but she’s in a white person’s body.”

My comment wasn’t totally directed towards you (“equitable peer” still really bothers me) but a summary against what I’ve read in these gossip comments. It all begins with the concept of power imbalances in relationships and the tangled web of problems that extends from it. Also troubling, is the exposed strain of…

Yet your throwaway comment has made many appearances throughout these comments (from different authors and similar celebrity gossip pieces). It’s a pervasive attitude with classist leanings that undermines positions of empowerment and equality. It also pigeonholes attraction, interests, and personalities into…