Yeah, the whole myth that Columbus was the one who first discovered that the Earth was round was started in the 1800s in an attempt to make him seem greater than he really was, when in truth people had already known that thousands of years before his time.

The four corners quote comes from in inexact translation from Hebrew. What it really referred to was the four directions- North, South, East and West. Not only that, but flat earthers believe the Earth is shaped like a disc, so the 'four corners" thing can't really apply.

I legite do not understand why Flat Earth Society is a thing. I can understand why Creationism or even geocentrism are thing- not saying I agree with those things, but I understand the ideological motivation behind them (i.e., "we're all special snowflakes"). But I cannot say the same thing for flat earthers. Like,…

Not sure if joking or not. But marital rape is still rape, regardless of the legality of it. And just because Jeyne Poole's rape in the books was way more brutal, that doesn't mean that Sansa wasn't raped on the show.

I dunno. I don't think that's fair to say. He really wasn't in it all that much. Or, at least, he wasn't very prominent.

Nah, she's definitely nowhere near as bad on GoT (well, with the exception of one or two scenes). Though she's not exactly great either.

I too thought the exact same thing when that private investigator first started interrogating Dassey! I thought, "Huh, maybe Len isn't such a shit defense attorney after all. Maybe he's actually really clever, and is trying to demonstrate how susceptible to coercion Brendan is. Bravo, Len! I was completely wrong about…

Actually, that really is one of those "reality in television" things. In real life murder cases, the culprit almost always is the boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse. It sounds cliche, but it's actually true. That's why partners/spouses/fuckbuddies are always the first person to be investigated. While I'm not saying that…

Wasn't it John Waters who once said that there is good bad taste, and bad bad taste?

I stand corrected. But it's still bizarre that she was nominated at all. Did she even have any lines in the film?

I didn't even know she was in that movie.

Actually, I still think Attack of the Clones is the absolute worst. I recently rewatched the films, and I was surprised at how watchable TPM was. Don't get me wrong- it was still bad. But it's far from the worst thing in the history of cinema. Sure, as a Star Wars movie it is completely disappointing. But I tried…

See, I don't buy it because he was already monster beforehand. RotS just tries to backpedal by pretending like he was a good guy, even though everything in Attack of the Clones told us he wasn't. That's just basically where I stand on the movie- I don't care about Anakin's transformation because I don't care about…

It's a pretty big element. And it's still endangering female characters solely to further a man's arc. That's fridging. She serves no other purpose in the film than to provide Anakin with man pain.

I never said that female characters aren't allowed to die- of course they are. The issue is with *how* and *why* they die, as well as with how common place that trope is. The issue that it's pretty common for stories to make women's suffering about men, as if it's something being to the men, as if it is only…

The whole plot completely revolves around it.

"Fridging" is when a female character is endangered or killed off to further a male character's development (regardless of whether or not he "rises to the occasion"). So basically, women suffer for man pain. And most examples of "women in fridges" involve female characters that were already established beforehand.

That was basically my experience with TPM. I saw it on my tenth b-day, and while I didn't exactly hate it back then, I do recall feeling a bit confused and underwhelmed by it. Quite honestly, I didn't even understand what it was about, or any of it. I just tried to convince myself that I liked it more than I actually…

Stories about women getting fridged really aren't that original.

You mean in a mirror universe, correct?