We enter very dangerous territory when we start interpreting objective laws in a purposefully discriminatory way, not least because minorities, including women and POC, ultimately have the most to lose from such an approach. Thus, it’s far better to strive for a truly objective ‘black letter’ interpretation of the law.

so how would white hetero men fit in there

If it means that cake makers and wedding photographers can’t refuse service to gay couples, I’m all for it.

Then it gets thrown out of court, because it’s ridiculous.

I don’t think the show handled it right, though. I think advertise it as for women, but allow men inside if they come. If this guy came with the purpose of being disruptive, eject him for that, but don’t bar him based on gender alone.

Since “nerd” isn’t a protected category under any civil rights laws I’m aware of, no.

Art in a rich person’s house is lost art in my opinion.

People who say “Canadian?” Racist.

If it were North Korea we were fighting with, it’s probably the closest to what we’d see.

At least the lamppost was there to cushion the impact!

Yeah, I’d never even heard of door-to-door knife salespeople. The only door-to-door salespeople I’ve encountered at my house in the last ten years are suspiciously mature looking “kids” trying to sell horrifyingly overpriced candy for their “youth program.”

I’m pretty sure that restaurants that have dress codes know they are excluding paying customers by having such policies. They just think they either attract enough other customers to offset those who are excluded and/or that it permits them to charge a price (and associated higher profit margin) to those customers who…

You’re lucky — all the theaters within reasonable travel distance of my house have reserved seating for at least the first month of any new releases.

Even if someone plans ahead I still think someone is entitled to be angry about theaters switching to reserve seating because it jacks up the priceby several dollars. Every theater I know of that has reserve seating also charges you a premium for a reserved seat, plus you realistically in most cases need to buy your…

Qui-Gon wasted time “buying” Anakin, then separated him from his mother, when he could have just flown both of them away together at night. What could that ugly little bug-guy have done about it?

That reminds me that I need to add The King of Comedy to my Netflix queue....

I originally posted this over at io9, but I think it meshes well with your post here. I was responding to someone who said that people didn’t complain about the original trilogy (“OT”) failing to explain how Anakin Skywalker fell to the Dark Side:

I’ve always thought the idea that a trade dispute could . . . spiral into a massive, galaxy enveloping war is a great concept.

It surprises me that Kennedy and Disney would sign off on a trilogy with not even a basic arc in mind for it.

IIRC, Ten pretty clearly sounded disappointed when he saw he wasn’t “ginger”.