This is so gross. No wonder men grow up feeling entitled to female bodies — the idea we exist to look pretty for them is propagated everywhere, right down to books for 10-year-olds.

Well, yeah, exactly. He’s an adult, and one who had been through a huge publicity machine for his Marvel movies and thus had some idea what dating her might be like. It’s an insult to him to act like he didn’t get into the relationship of his own free will.

Nobody’s saying you need to feel sorry for them, just acknowledge that Martin changed his last name so it wouldn’t read as Latino. Obviously it was 5,000 times harder to actually BE Latino in Hollywood in the 1960s.

Has she officially dated anybody else? I had no idea, which goes to show how low-key she’s kept it.

Yeah, I’m not sure what I did wrong — all I know is that I followed the instructions and blam, back in the grays. And it’s like, I’ve been here since 2010 and mostly I’m not too obnoxious, a little respect please?

Yeah, even if it wasn’t totally fake they were definitely playing it WAY up for the cameras. My theory is that Taylor wanted to publicly demonstrate that she was sooooo over Calvin, and Tom liked the media attention.

Hey, Bobby, this is minor but is there any way you could hook me up with a follow so I’m out of the grays? I was approved for years, but I messed up linking my AV club account to my kinja and now I’m gray everywhere again :-(.

Counterpoint: Different people like different things. If your partner likes it, there’s truly no harm.

Yeah, I think being under the microscope killed the Tom Hiddleston thing (assuming it wasn’t a publicity stunt to begin with). She was pretty low-key about Calvin Harris at first, too, and they only broke up after she started thanking him at award shows and all that. So if they’re keeping quiet about this one, it…

Has anybody else watched Buster’s Mal Heart on Netflix yet? I don’t want to spoil, but I watched it because Rami is so my secret (as in, secret from him) boyfriend and was not disappointed.

I don’t want a happy ending. I assume at least a couple characters I really like will die next season, and if one is Dany so be it. I just think the specific method of death described in this essay — that is, making her sacrifice herself for love so Jon can save the world — would be both stupid and offensive. But if…

That ending wouldn’t be to my taste, because deep inside I’m a 12-year-old girl who thinks dragons and magic are cool. But I can see where you’re going with it. Moving from a monarchy rooted in magic to something closer to a republic form of rule would absolutely fit with the way the series has progressed, while also…

I wish New York Times writers would at least pretend to have some sense of proportion. Yes, you can find a couple of college students who think hoop earrings are appropriation and are loud about it on the internet. You can also find college students tweeting loudly about how Ivanka Trump is a fashion icon, or how…

I hope Moore’s wrong this time. Trump years are like dog years, and I’d like to be rid of him before I’m all grey hair and wrinkles.  

We all knew they were basically going down there for a photo op and what they wear doesn’t really matter. But somebody should have told Melania to at least wear flats so she wouldn’t be everybody’s easy punchline this morning.

Usually I’m the one rolling my eyes at the foaming rants. TV dramas would be pretty dull if no characters died, after all, and it’d be artificial if all the dead characters were straight white dudes.

If they do this, I’m going to be pissed off. It turns Daenerys’s entire journey into a way to make a dude really sad. The show’s made huge strides in how it treats its female characters since its “sexposition” days, and doing something like forcing Jon to sacrifice Daenerys would take it right back to the worst and…

I sympathize with what you’re saying but I think we disagree. There are a lot of songs performed from the point of view of an abusive or violent individual: “Every Breath You Take” is perhaps the most famous example. Where do you draw the line between an acceptable artistic statement and something that could hurt…

See, I hear “look what you made me do” as something she’s saying because it’s an abuser’s phase. It’s part of the character she’s playing in the song, just like the lyric “I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams.” Or, for that matter, the way she took on a psycho maneater voice in “Blank Space.”