Your mistake is making a distinction between all these social factors you mentionnend (professions immediately being devalued in terms of prestige and remuneration once women are over-represented in them; women having to take on the majority of unpaid labour because men just won’t pull their weight, because they are…

Characters having to say goodbye to each other? But they’re all already dead? So they won’t all end up in their own new version of the good place together?

That is generally a good rule of thumb, only to be broken if you are 100% sure that you know the bride really, really well. But I think it’s quite possible that two sisters know each other that well indeed, and the bride’s reaction seems to bear that out. She seems genuinely amused by her sister’s antics, and not like…

A very privileged reply, and also a dangerously misinformed/thoughtless one. Climate change may seem gradual now (to someone somewhat obtuse, but okay, I get how you still might hold on to this impression at this point), but the whole point about a complex system like our ecosystem is that there are a lot of mutually…

I get not wanting to do any work, but it’s possibly to be independently wealthy without being a celebrity, so the question is, why wouldn’t people prefer to just have all the money without the fame? Sure the adoration of the masses probably feels validating for a while, but it doesn’t take much imagination to see how…

That’s me. Whenever there’s some sort of group-clean-up effort I’m required to pitch in, I always scramble to make myself useful in any way other than sweeping, because something about the way I hold a broom is apparently deeply questionable. I’m sure I’m not cutting too fine a figure with regard to many other…

This whole gun-debate has been going nowhere forever, since you people have proven time and time again that you’re okay with the death toll as long as gun-nuts can keep their hobby - what’s the point after Sandy Hooks? (“Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over”). Any diabolical right wing…

I’m also pro dancing plastic bag. Sure, it’s corny and I think the teenage neighbour is supposed to seem a bit preposterous, the way he makes such a big deal about it. I laughed a lot when Not Another Teen Movie mocked the scene. Maybe just for the pleasure of getting the reference. I’m not a complicated woman.…

I remember two classmates having a heated debated whether American Beauty was facile or profound, but I don’t remember which side (if any) I took.

We can debate the term hero, but do you really think we’re supposed to conclude that everyone in that movie is equally bad? The teacher is a lot worse than Tracy, and that actually matters, which is apparently a point still lost on a shocking number of viewers, judging from this comment section alone.

The article was not objecting to the reading that the teacher was the hero and Tracy was the villain, which would indeed be attacking a strawman, since I agree with you that no minimally cognitively functional person would come out of the movie with that idea. The article was objecting to the reading, that since…

Sure, but Nathan probably takes it as affectionate teasing.

I think that the “repressed homosexual attraction” theory is as plausible as any other, but I could also picture a scenario where Nathan has always been such a golden boy, that he simply can’t fathom someone would never warm up to him. Popular kid or not, his relationships with other men are probably pretty shallow -…

Just saying, Dany might have been more amenable to the slow low-bloodshed approach if there had been at least the occasional success with it. Someone who wants to proceed as quickly as possible would have taken the first opportunity to get ships, never mind the situation in dMeereen, but Dany markedly didn’t do that.…

Eh, but but all trials in Westeros are a bit of joke. That’s really not just a Dany problem.

Are you trying to argue that Dany executing the slavers had _nothing_ to do with them being slavers? There’s an argument that not all of the executed slavers were complicit to exactly the same degree and that Dany didn’t care enough for that sort of nuance, but a) none of the trials in Westeros really meet modern…

Until the last two episodes, Dany actually has a great track record when it comes to being able to take advice, listening to others, let herself be persuaded. The problem is that it always ends badly for her, because her advisors are pretty shit. She even forgave Tyrion after the shit he pulled with Cersei! “Dany no…

How do you feel about the Nürnberg trials? None of those Nazis ever broke any of _their_ laws either...

I wanted to write “But it’s about death, because the problem is that you can’t take both roads, because your time on earth is finite” and then I read again and realized that they actually forgot death. I mean how do you do that? Were they even trying?

I mean, they tried, I guess.