His travel writing is quite good, but yeah, he might be one of the most overtly racist authors I've read outside of Ian Fleming.

Holy shit!

Preach. She used to write the most infuriating articles on Salon. I remember one where she said she hoped her kids were gay, because she wanted everyone to see how great of a mother she would be to her gay children. She wanted her kids to have a particular sexual orientation so they could be props for her beatific…

Eon Films is headed by Americans, but their Bond films are essentially British productions. I don't think they'd ever cast an American as Bond.

Like every* other mainstream franchise movie that caters to the obsessives AND the casual moviegoer, the fanpeople will know already what SPECTRE is about and enjoy the build up, the casuals will get hints about it and then get a scene with a character that explains exactly what SPECTRE is, and both will be surprised…

This isn't the movie's fault, but it was delightful to watch an eroticized torture dance sequence in a movie theater after reading about extraordinary rendition and CIA dark sites in Poland. 2002 was a fucking drag.

Die Another Day is a charmless movie. Every other bad Bond film has at least something that's likable, but not that piece of crap.

It is not my or anyone else's responsibility to argue your head out of your own ass here. Thus far, you're demonstrated zero ability to interpret any other argument than your own in good faith, much less demonstrate the capacity for empathy that would put all these cerebral arguments into proper historical context.

Ad hominem.
Projection.
Deliberately ignoring/rejecting conflicting viewpoint.
False equivalence.

'Isn't it funny, though, that it's only women who speak up on this "abuse"?'

Uh huh.

No, because I have no idea what you're trying to say about a movie that nobody has interpreted as misogynistic. The point I'm making is about patterns of behavior and attitudes.

I'm pretty sure the Gender Studies for Rookies has a section on deconstructing the idea that revering women—putting them on pedestals—is pro-woman. That's like saying that the Catholic Church couldn't be misogynistic, since they pray to the Virgin Mary.

I have no particular opinion on von Trier, but I've pretty much never been convinced by this argument: "There's no way so-and-so could be misogynistic, as every single movie he made is a grueling exercise in documenting the extreme depths that women suffer at the hands of men."

David Foster Wallace wrote Infinite Jest, presumably while sober and based on his experiences in recovery.

"Crystal meth, steroids, and God talk."

In concert, Milo (or Chad) shouts out band names toward the end of the song. Check out some Youtube concert videos for confirmation.

You HAVE to go back and read the first chapter again. Like, right now. It's incredibly important.

That ending was fucking perfection. The conversation with his uncle and him recounting his dream after he retired put everything that happened into context. There's always been violence and cruelty, life is random, and sometimes the best you can hope for is to keep your head down and survive. Even the self-described…

Not this go around, no. But Cosby has benefited from a shit ton of victim blaming (or at the very least, victim doubting) when nuggets of his sociopathic behavior started going public over the last couple DECADES. Back in the '90s there was a paternity suit that didn't affect him. Even the lawsuit from the mid-aughts…