I've never seen Disqus break like that, but Kinja does "show more comments" in virtually the same way. Except there's no way to sort comments.

None of the other Kinja sites have content sections. Will the various AV Club categories (TV, movies, Newswire, Great Job Internet, the various features) all be aggregated into a single linear feed, will they be broken out into subkinjas (like The Slot at Jezebel or Compete at Kotaku), or will a new categorization…

I've posted (mostly) non-trollishly on the various Gawkerverse sites for years and I have yet to get out of the grays on any of them. Conversely, I've seen recurring trolls get ungrayed by various techniques again and again (usually involving sucking up to writers), post uncensored gore pics, get banned, and repeat.

There are plenty of people like that on Kinja.

If it's anything like the ex-Gawker sites, no, not at all. It's virtually impossible to get ungrayed there anymore and it's clear most writers barely pay attention to the comments — and as far as I can tell it's entirely up to them to moderate comments.

If the AV Club looks any different from Gizmodo it'll be the first time any Kinja site has looked different from any other.

Can't do this!

It's one of those movies where I was surprised by the ending — not by what the ending was, but that the movie had actually ended.

On the other hand, Die Hard was originally an adaptation too.

Perfect Dark pretty much required the memory pack add-on to the N64 so fewer people ended up playing it. That's basically it. It also just isn't as welcoming to newcomers as GoldenEye, like this article mentions — everyone knows who James Bond is. The incredibly customizable multiplayer of Perfect Dark can be a bit…

What about it?

This panel was specifically about the depiction of trans people in media, though. I would think that one of the most famous depictions of a gender-nonconforming person on TV in recent memory would be relevant to that discussion.

Soloway wasn't proposing it's "newsworthy". She was having a discussion at a panel about the depiction of trans people on TV. She didn't advocate to have Julia Sweeney hung in effigy or the sketch expunged from any SNL collection, as far as I can tell.

Nope, that's not necessary for my point. But thank you for making clear you're arguing in bad faith.

And without Jim Crow there wouldn't be a Martin Luther King, etc.

Because there's a lot of people who grew up when this was a popular sketch, and popular comedy routines tend to filter pretty quickly down to schoolyards and the like. Every remotely androgynous kid at school got called "Pat".

This site does analyses of pop culture as old as Pat all the time. Well. It used to, at least. What's wrong with talking about older pop culture?

Maybe the shitty representation of trans people in the '90s is part of why Transparent exists? Is that not relevant?

I know trans people who were referred to as "Pat" because they were trans. It really is relevant to people who are living today.

Why?