Absolutely agree. This is such a frustrating thing to me. My parents and teachers all seem to have thought that the possible careers were like, teacher, doctor, nurse, lawyer, engineer, pharmacist, and accountant. I think that’s also where the weird hatred for “liberal arts” and people acting like those degrees are…

Also Manson didn’t “get away” with anything. He was blamed for absolutely everything bad that anyone thought their children were into for awhile there. Also was listed among the causes of Columbine. He just didn’t hold a press conference to whine about the push-back.

Maybe we talk to the Obama girls about how they felt about pics of their father being hung

I was almost positive the final producer was going to ask you out while still giving you a rejection.

You pretending to be impressed by that spoon trick is a real talent

Yeah, and just think if Sophia were a dude, she’d be on her millionth Transformers movie by now!

Another detail about the blind auditions - I seem to remember reading that for the first orchestra that tried it, the proportion of women being hired went up again when they told women not to wear heels to auditions - even when they couldn’t see who was auditioning, the panel could hear heels as they walked in/out and…

A lot of orchestras hold “blind auditions”: hopefuls play behind a screen, with the process arranged so that no hint of their gender presentation or race reaches the panel. These orchestras suddenly found themselves hiring people other than white men - even though they’d honestly believed they hired on merit alone.

One thing that continually bugs is the way press will ask Ava duvernay or Ryan Coogler or other black and female directors about diversity in hiring and casting. Why are you asking the people who are doing the work? Why not ask Wes Anderson, sofia coppola, the cohen brothers, and so many others about why they can’t…

Alamo Drafthouse is one of the things I miss the most about Austin. Going to see a movie without people texting or talking and being able to have great food. I miss it so much

and that’s shade.

You care enough to keep commenting on it.

Seconded. I am a former inner city teacher who taught in an environment rife with challenging students and situations. Even on my worst day, I would never EVER have said something so ugly about my students.

Okay, but that still doesn’t justify teachers telling kids that they are likely to be terrorists, homeless, or crybabies. It’s fucking cruel, even if the children being singled out are troubled.

I don’t care about the context, this is inappropriate and unacceptable. You want to joke about this kind of shit in teh teacher’s lounge that’s one thing. Taking time to make up a certificate, sign it, and present it is quite another.

I’m trying to imagine a place where anyone might think this type of thing would be appropriate and I’m coming up with frat house and nothing else.

I see what you’re saying, but I stand by my point that people exhibited a huge overreaction about a movie remake, claiming that the new version would somehow taint the original(s), and thus have a childhood ruining effect. The Dirty Dancing remake has been in the works for a couple of years, and we didn’t see any of…

Interesting how her partner in sin wasn’t disciplined at all.

Oh, Kelly Bishop. Emily Gilmore 4eva

Yes. Yes, I did.