There’s also this badass moment where she calls it out:

Jurassic Park holds up extremely well, honestly. The female lead is wearing sensible clothes given her profession and no one stops her from doing her job because she’s a woman. The young girl is the hacker and Goldblum is the shirtless eye candy. All the dinosaurs are female!

Here’s an idea: even if you want to say climate change isn’t settled science, maybe it’s not a bad idea to find alternative sources of energy when fossil fuels are held by people who hate America and when they’re a finite resource?

There is a theory that part of the reason that the civil rights movement of the 50s & 60s was able to have the success it did was in part because white US WWII soldiers worked and served alongside minority soldiers and support (medical and admin, etc.) staff.

A woman with no legs because she lost them in a war vs. a man who basically claimed he had no legs so he could dodge a war. In any other time line we would laugh at this man till he shriveled up like a raisin. In this world, we elected him president

Every single time these asshats do something, it’s for the sake of being evil. To them, Obama was the devil, so they’ll even be so petty as to remove a rule about plastic water bottles at National Parks which had tons of loopholes and didn’t stop anyone from bringing in water bottles, only that the NPS couldn’t sell…

OMG I can just picture Trump speaking now: “Tammy Duckworth is a loser who lost both her legs. I happen to like people who didn’t lose their legs in combat!”

I would argue that wearing a bra when you don’t need the support is really just giving in to social pressure that possible nipples poking through your shirt is immodest. We’ve screwed our society up so much that you have to hide the fact you have nipples if you are are woman. There was a reason what bra burning was…

What he’s missing is that it doesn’t have to be Wonder Woman OR Sarah Connor— we can have BOTH. They’re completely different women, because there isn’t just one type of woman, and the idea that we can only have one archetype of feminist icon is fucking stupid.

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Excellent observation. However, I think it’s more of a rookie mistake (being baited into the exchange and falling victim to misdirection) than a racial one.

Years ago, he was on the Colbert Report as “difference maker” for essentially being a douchebag with two of his buddies. That’s him in the center of a “This is the superior race, seriously?” sandwich. Here’s the full clip for anyone interested.

I’ll have you know I waste time in myriad ways-putting crap on my face is just one of them, and it’s nowhere close to being the most frivolous.

I guess Zadie feels that white teeth should be sufficient.

Ha. Yes.

This echoes some of what others have said, but there can be some serious misogyny involved when a straight, cis guy cheats, especially when it is done in the ways Joss apparently did it. And I say all of this as someone who has both been cheated on and been the other woman (something that I consider to be the worst…

No, I think she is saying she has PTSD because she spent 20 years with a guy who turned out to have lied to her so often, and so successfully, that she has to question if they ever had an authentic moment. Every time she remembers him having to work late, while she believed him completely at the time, she has to ask…

Nobody who watched Dollhouse with a critical eye could possibly walk away from that thinking Whedon was the Feminist Hero of our Age. Let’s start with massive doses of what is effectively rape and go from there.

I’ve always been REAL suspicious that anyone who tells you you’ve gotta look past stuff like this is secretly harboring some toxic shit of their own and wants the reassurance you’d look past that too.

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.