The point is that it is harmful for a girl’s self esteem to redirect back to her appearance in every situation. Playing soccer? Pretty! Reading a book? Pretty! Taking a shit? Pretty!

And... girls are not trying to be “pretty” (or should not be, anyway) at a soccer game. When you tell a little girl playing soccer that she is pretty instead of talking about her playing soccer, you’re teaching her that her physical appearance is the most important thing about her - the first thing people notice and…

Which 8-year-old girls in your world are primarily attracted to a boy’s “fierceness” or strength? Have you ever met a girl?

What “rights” is Chappelle in any danger of losing? In what way are any of his “rights” under assault here? As far as I can see, one side is calling him an asshole, and the other side is calling that side assholes. Seems like free speech working as intended to me.

So, are you under the impression that there are not large segments of society who openly advocate for the murder of LGBTQ people, and that they are assaulted and murdered regularly?

Comedy is not immune from criticism. We know they’re jokes. They’re not funny, and whether or not he believes what he’s saying (he does), saying things has actual consequences.

Trans women are vastly more likely to be assaulted in a men’s washroom (a thing that happens regularly) than they are to assault anyone in a women’s washroom (a thing that doesn’t happen). So, yeah. At best - the absolute best, most charitable interpretation of TERF demands, they would rather have trans women be…

Seems pretty revealing that racists always like to talk up their non-racist bones, while remaining completely silent on their obviously racist brains.

In other words, all that fear-mongering over “cancel culture” is bullshit.

To be fair, Ruth was a very common name for girls of any ethnicity/religion in America in the early part of the last century, “Bader” could be (is) a German name, and “Ginsburg” was her married name.

Criticism is part of art too. If an artist can’t deal with the way people honestly react to their art, whose fault is that?

Comedians have literally one job - to make people laugh. If you’re making more people angry than you’re making laugh, you’re failing. That doesn’t make you a martyr or some brave free speech warrior, it just makes you a shitty comedian.

Everyone was excited by Obama in 2006 because he was a skilled politician with a gift for oratory, and he talked a big game about change. Kamala is not Obama, and you’re either lying to yourself or just plain lying if you think that.

“Excitement over Kamala Harris is going to be BIG”.

It will never not seem weird to me that so many game developers see superheroes and think they have to make beat-em-up action games out of them. Superhero comics are story-based, because that medium is not particularly well-suited to fast-paced action.

The reason people keep harping on the student loans thing is that Biden can do it himself, with the stroke of a pen, right now. It’s the simplest, easiest thing that he can do without having to navigate Congress that would immediately improve the lives of millions of Americans. It doesn’t even get in the way of doing…

He also was the original Death in Family Guy, and much better than Adam Carolla

I’m skeptical that the courts will establish that. I think you’re going to need legislation to do it, but it’s badly needed. Right now, cops want to act like they have unlimited power and no responsibility whatsoever for how that power is used. They need to be checked, badly.

Pocahontas, FernGully, Dances With Wolves. Not sure why people get so bent out of shape about that. It repurposes a well-used plot, just like hundreds of other movies. There’s nothing wrong with that. If you want to be mad about something, be mad about literally calling the element they’re fighting over “unobtanium”.

They’re just going to keep trying every five years or so, and will never understand that there are no possible successful sequels to T2. The story ended there. Anything that comes after it is pointless.