Sure, but that’s not really what seems to be driving the push for independence. Everything I’ve read suggests that the primary motives are economic (a wealthy region resenting the fact that it’s a net payer, and that other regions are net recipients).

The violence is appalling, but I’m having a hard time finding a list of rationales for Catalonian independence that don’t basically just amount “we pay out more to poor regions than we bring back in, and therefore want to split.” Wealthy regions of countries should see some of their wealth redistributed to poorer…

I don’t know, I’m just spitballing here. I honestly don’t know how I feel about the referendum, either way. A big part of me thinks their self-determination should be respected. But another part is deeply skeptical of the motivations, that it may just be about a comparatively wealthy region deciding it doesn’t want to…

They don’t “have to” do anything. They could just not enforce the ruling.

Russia being used as a boogie man to excuse fascism is getting old.

Maybe, just MAYBE, if men referred to us outside of a tool to get a result (sex), a Rubics cube to decipher (emotions and motive), or livestock to be purchased and used (labor) then women would be more open to relationships.

That decision stems from the fact that it was a public school, and therefore an arm of the government was effectively compelling students to engage in speech they may not have wanted to engage in. The NBA isn’t a government body.

It wouldn’t be a first amendment issue, because the government wouldn’t be compelling them to stand for the anthem. I still think this is a wrong and stupid NBA position, and that the players should uniformly oppose it as soon as the season begins, but yeah, not really a first amendment thing.

Has Adam Silver never heard of Barbra Streisand?

Additionally, I read the librarian’s response as obnoxiously sneering in tone. It was more about her making a display of opposition than it was about genuinely attempting to inform Melania Trump in a constructive way. Soeiro went out of her way to publicize the rejection of the books, snapping a precious photograph of…

Undergrads work for professors now? Things have changed a lot since 2008, I guess.

You think a fucking STIPEND is actual pay? That’s worse than pretending adjuncts are treated fairly.

They also get literally unpaid labor from grad and undergrad students.

But that doesn’t make them enemies. It makes them imperfect actors in the same system of oppression.

True, but to make them into the enemy just because they’re imperfect friends is absurd. They aren’t the ones who cause the precarity.

I like Sarah Connor. I’m glad that she exists as a character. But, Cameron’s body of work certainly doesn’t hold up to a single character, and his complaint about Wonder Woman comes off as the inability to allow for a female director to have any accolades.

Oh, that’s right: admin, admin, admin, buildings, grounds, and labs (where the full-time professors really work, not teaching many if any classes).

My argument was that her costume was designed to accentuate the portions of her body that were bare (yes, including her beautiful face and luxurious hair, which would have “suffered” if subjected to reasonable head-protection gear like that worn by Antiope and Hippolyta), and that there’s reason to be skeptical about…

Well, hopefully PUBG won’t turn into a Zynga story. That was all about the hubris of thinking they could take a company public on the back of really just one big game (Farmville), which made all its money through a platform (Facebook) that shortly after decided it wanted to modify itself ways that were not very…

These assertions are conveniently never backed by detailed visual analysis, though. If you’re going to talk about the way someone is shot in a film, you need to show your work. My point isn’t even that Diana is shown in an egregiously male-gazey way. Rather, what I’m saying is that one can look at the posters alone…