I found the use of RESIST signs in the hands of some pretty questionable people a little weird, too.

Me who complain that the #metoo movement or “woke” culture changed the rules are tacitly admitting that they’re misogynist, or racist; etc.

Maron showing yet again that he gets it. It’s good to see that from someone who is not only middle aged, but doing excellent work on GLOW and with his podcast.

Really glad he said this.  I know some people that listen to him who probably need to hear it.  

I for one am glad he hasn’t finished the books yet. Gonna take a few thousand pages to get to Khaleesi’s marriage to Jack Sparrow, but I think Martin can do it.

Going from killing the son of a noble in a fairly blase way (a son who was a soldier actively fighting you in a war) -> killing thousands of children in 6 episodes is rushed.

she hadn’t gotten to the point where she was up for wantonly torching innocent people whose only crime was being in the vicinity of her enemies

“Well … yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.”

It’s just 20 pages describing the first meal Jon eats after he comes back from the dead, followed by 2,980 pages of “All work and no play makes George a dull boy.”

“How will it all end? I hear people asking. The same ending as the show? Different?” he writes. “Well … yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes. And no. And yes.”

Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.

Dumbo was animated in 1941.  They aren’t just going to toss in a scene.  Yes, that would be very hard to work around.  

The last time I saw it on television, they cut the leadup to the song and the song itself. So it’s possible that’s what they’re planning to do. 

Right. Of course you didn’t see the racism. Because it didn’t apply to you. And there’s the inherent problem. White America regularly discounts issues of racism that don’t seem like a big deal to them because we explicitly don’t have to deal with it. We can just look at SotS as a pretty, happy dancing animal movie.…

The NAACP released a statement of condemnation upon its release. Time Magazine similarly commented on how it would provoke outrage. Theaters were picketed, black newspapers wrote excoriating reviews.

Just because black Americans and the black media was largely ignored in the time doesn’t mean that the criticism is a…

I get why they are doing what they are doing, but does that mean they are leaving Peter Pan untouched? This is pretty bad too

Bootlegs and foreign VHS. My grandma had it on VHS in the 80s too. 

“A scene from Dumbo in which the eponymous elephant meets a group of crows...”

I think “Rebecca has to be in a relationship with herself” is a misread of what happens. I can see how you’d get there, but it’s not about self-care. It’s that she realizes there’s this part of herself she’s been repressing and devaluing. It’s four or five steps further into the conversation. But to each their own.

Have the other Rebecca jokes been getting worse or am I in the tired of it cycle of the recurring gag?