Your comment prompted me to try to think of a play with mass red-state appeal (similar to a discussion in some other thread about how Cars was Pixar's red-state appeal franchise).

What, are we supposed to respect the intelligence of the people who do this kind of shit? Are we supposed to tiptoe around the feelings of people who would send death threats because Caesar died in Julius Caesar?

Isn't this so at the core of all this?

Would you believe, red kool-aid and rubbing alcohol?

I feel like this sort of thing with W, like King Lear where Lear is doing W's accent or whatever, were particularly thick on the ground for his presidency and everyone was just inured to it, like, "oh, yeah, it's W. What satire."

I was just about to link this video! It's great, everybody watch it. I love his videos making fun of alt-right/gamergate figures, too.

So it's not just me, then? This really doesn't make sense?

But she's apparently going out of her way not to meet the conventional image of womanhood? I don't really perceive Caitlyn Jenner this way but the word "not" is italicized so it's not a mistake, right? Except the paragraph makes no sense with the word "not" in there. Am I missing something?

Finally graduated (I'm pretty sure) and then moved home. Then I made my dad a baked Alaska for father's day.

"Same goes for Jenner’s entry, which has to venture beyond the former Olympian and reality star to really make the case for “Too Queer.” Which isn’t to say that Jenner hasn’t faced much strife for her highly public transition; but as Petersen notes, she’s done all she can not to meet the strict, conventional image of…

Right? God, my brother actually watched Oliver Stone's dumbfuck history of the 20th century and don't get him started on all that Stalin bullshit in there.

This is as good a time as any to get something off my chest.

Doc Hudson?

Is that seriously what the next Transformers movie is about?

The whole time I was thinking "this could have just been people".

I liked the moral that Monsters University was going for, and it's certainly different, although I suppose you could interpret it as "sometimes the bullies are right about you", but I also think you're right about this prequel issue.

I thought that The Good Dinosaur was worse than Brave, but they had a similar problem that they just kind of seemed to be missing something. A certain "what was the point of this story".

We got a live one here!

I'm not really sure that I buy the premise of this article.

My friend who's into theatre said that he liked Indecent better than Oslo but predicted Oslo would win.