that’s the vast, vast, VAST majority of the fanfiction circuit.

The woman you’re talking about is Latin American and works mostly in Latin American media.

It’s not that. It’s that you have a completely wrong view of how race works in LatAm. The main thing to criticize here is that calling her ‘white-passing’ implies that Latinx = non-white when Latinx is more of a cultural identity.

Dude, I’m somebody from the relevant population telling you you’re wrong. As long as people don’t imply I’m not Latin American because I’m white, I’m fine with being called white because it’s an accurate description.

It’s still accurate, particularly when referring to white Latin Americans who never immigrated to the US and have therefore spent most of their lives comfortably at the top of the heap in that sense.

Last time I checked, Black people could be goths?

Yes, even now that One Law & Order comment thread is unreadable. The relentless passage of time, tears in the rain, and so on.

Yeah, I was trying to find old Star Trek reviews and it was a nightmare to find it. Their old, quality content is very buried.

And IDK since when, but they’ve changed the TV reviews section so you can no longer filter by seasons.

Yes, but none of the governments the US toppled here were ever friendly to the USSR. In fact, most of the governments they toppled across Latin America weren’t friendly for the USSR except for Chile’s. They were just friendlier to our own interests than usual.

This is the most beautifully American sentiment ever expressed.

Yeah, because it’s something that I’ve seen queer people say a lot - the preemptive ‘oh no, that’s stereotypical’ means that butch lesbians, for example, end up being underrepresented. Like, you can be gay or you can go against gender norms, but both is too much!

At the same time, are there really that many butch lesbians on children’s TV shows? Or even TV shows at all?

I say this with the utmost respect: the global pandemic isn’t in its transitory period out. The effects of the global pandemic on the US might very well be, but the global pandemic has been at its worst (yes, its worst) during these past four months. It’s barely slowed down from a second peak right now.

Do not insult the good name of megafauna.

Yeah, if anything, Grease is further proof of how artifice makes some absurd casting choices work better.

yup, we are officially re-entering a theater-first world.

I think there are plenty of Pearl Jam fans in all the countries where vaccinations rates are still low. You know, the majority of countries.

And with that, I agree! But any show about defense attorneys should have guilty defendants most weeks.

That seems to imply that there will be a lot of episodes where a person is guilty and the attorneys have to defend them anyway, which… fine, but at least there’s some meat on this bone.