I love how many cats there are in this thread! I am teaching some of my young students how to use a green screen app, so I thought I’d share what we’ve been up to!

There are so few genuine pleasures in life. Feeding particularly dim trolls is one of mine. I just love watching them dance! Don’t worry. This one has hit the wall of being unable to answer my extremely simple question, so I’m done with them. ;)

So... Abortion bans happen because men KNOW TOO MUCH about pregnancy? (And also that doesn’t matter because women who know everything about pregnancy are writing the bills?)

Some women give birth without ever even knowing they were pregnant. I believe there was a whole dumb TV show about it. Not every mother is qualified to be an ob/gyn. And not everyone who has given birth understands the finer points of fertility, contraception, biology, etc. And even mothers who ARE working to ban…

Yeah, given the state of education in the US, I think that people who have been raised with a religious or sheltered upbringing may have received essentially no sex education apart from “not until marriage” and may not have an accurate understanding of what is happening invisibly inside their own bodies, or how…

Using “being involved” as an excuse to grant rights to rapists and ban abortion is code for male dominance. Making maternal spaces welcoming to fathers is the opposite of that. People who are GENUINELY involved in pregnancy and parenting, who have empathy and a strong understanding of the experience, do not equate…

Over the past few years (even decades), there has been a big push to change the perception of certain jobs and spaces to make them more welcoming to women. There’s been a big educational push to get girls into STEM, and women into the tech sector and into trades considered to be male-dominated. HOWEVER, there has been…

Even if it were a historical documentary, people were people even back then. Writing about the obstacles human beings faced during the time period because of their gender/race/class/etc, is demonstrating the TIME PERIOD’S biases. Basing the characters’ decisions, actions, and mannerisms on lousy stereotypes, and…

I’m going to put forward a radical theory that women, people of colour, and people in the lower classes have ALWAYS been people, with complex motivations, rich inner lives, and stories to tell. Works of fiction written IN the past (not about the past) can tell us a lot about the way the writer (in their…

Well, 4 years ago, when he was first starting to consider a presidential run, CNN barely stopped short of referring to him as a human gaffe machine, but only because they were trying to sound professional. So I’m pretty sure it did!

Ok, guys. Maybe you can refresh my memory, but wasn’t Biden something of a clownish figure in the Obama administration? Didn’t we spend those years laughing at videos of him inappropriately hugging and kissing women, and calling him a weirdo? Didn’t we talk about him like a doddaring grandpa that Obama basically had…

Another Splinter story that leaves out the most basic information. WHERE did this take place? Could you even narrow it down to a country? England? Canada? Australia? New Zealand? One of the other tens of countries on this planet with a House of Commons? How about just a HEMISPHERE? What is the purpose of an article…

No way. For one thing, it doesn’t make sense, for reasons others have listed. For another, once you know the Red/Adelaide twist, you understand that the movie is about a girl who found her way out of Hell, and lived the rest of her life fleeing from that trauma and oppression, TERRIFIED of being discovered, terrified…

So, what about the guys who did it? It sounds like the CPD knows who they are if they thought Smollett had been in league with them. Are the guys Smollett was supposedly in contact with actually the ones who did it? And are charges being pursued against them? Or are they being exonerated as well, while CPD keeps…

So, what about the guys who did it? It sounds like the CPD knows who they are if they thought Smollett had been in league with them. Are the guys Smollett was supposedly in contact with actually the ones who did it? And are charges being pursued against them? Or are they being exonerated as well, while CPD keeps…

Ha! I came here to be the only one who knew Morales from The Middleman, and so did everyone else! I’m as serious as a German film festival when I say, I love this community!

I feel like this is one of those Weinstein moments, where we sort of realize that as bad as we all knew the entertainment industry was, it was actually much worse and we were just naive to laugh it off.

Jesus. This sounds SO much more effective than passing basic gun control.

Yeah, ok, that tracks... I definitely remember the public ridicule that followed. The brutal skits on late-night, the easy comic punchlines, all mostly focused on his appearance and erratic behaviour. I remember finding it cruel, not knowing the whole context of who he was.

I do believe he made the word “harm” do a LOT of work to obscure his misdeeds, but watching the Bashir documentary “Living With Michael Jackson,” what I am struck by is that he stringently claimed that his relationships with children were appropriate, innocent, and non-sexual in THE SAME INTERVIEW where he absolutely…