Selfie is one of those shows I wish people gave a chance before judging it on the name or the not-great trailer. I felt like there were so many thinkpieces lamenting a show named Selfie or the potential misogyny of the My Fair Lady premise before anyone noticed that Cho as a romantic lead was pretty groundbreaking.

Did I find the other person who kept watching Off Centre just for John Cho? EEEEEE!

Along those lines, my first thought was oven-braised kalua pig.

There’s an Advil Migraine, looking at the two bottles’ ingredients the difference in active ingredience is that the migraine version is “buffered” ibuprofin, whatever that means. That sounds like a minor difference but the first time I tried it, it seemed to get rid of my migraine faster and more completely. Maybe it…

Rather than try to summarize what I learned from Paris is Burning, I’ll point out there’s a wikipedia page that probably does a better job than I could:

With British comedies, it’s pretty likely it was the work of a small team with one person writing every episode. That’s not a rule anymore, there have been comedies with US-style writers’ rooms, but usually they’re all written by the creator(s) who can’t churn out 20 episode seasons by themselves.

I think it’s related to how media aimed at women that’s not incredibly deep and artistic -- especially if it appeals to young women -- gets turned into the peak of vapid and a sign that society is falling apart. Meanwhile, dumb fun shows that men are into get to be just dumb fun. Sex and the City gets savaged in a way…

I feel like she’s the new Lena Dunham for the way she triggers these guys for being a woman who openly enjoys sex without being a six zero.

It’s been a while since I watched it but I really liked Morgan Murphy’s Netflix special, if you like really dark humor.

I remember FiveThirtyEight did an analysis of IMDb TV ratings and noted that there was a disproportional rate of men going to give shows with mostly female audiences bad ratings compared to women doing to shows with more male audiences.

Maybe it wasn’t a good fit with the producers or that she wasn’t ready for a co-hosting role but I remember not liking her on The Talk. I remember finding her rather too big (perhaps it was her attempt to stand out among so many co-hosts) and frequently cringe-inspiring (the time I remember was when she declared she…

God, I could barely get through that first episode. Once I realized this was about a hot actor who was tired of being objectified and a fat woman who felt bad about her size, I was ready to tap out.

The only heartbreaking TV I go for is historical stuff, like the recent When We Rise. I knew the AIDS crisis would be a wreck (especially since I knew a bit about Cleve Jones’ story) but I knew I’d be happy to see some rarely-told gay history dramatized.

Some of those ABC Family shows are really consciously color bind. I remember PoC PLL fans looking for clues that to Emily’s ethnic background (since the actor is multiracial). While nothing was said directly, two multiracial actors eventually showed up playing her parents.

One thing I really liked about the episode was the tension between Aziz’s character, who refused those stereotypical roles and his freind, who felt like he couldn’t afford to turn down work.

It was hit-and-miss in the early seasons after the writers’ strike. It was wildy inconsistent but there were good episodes in there and they tried to do better for the female characters (there was an article about how they worked on that after the strike). Sometimes the punchline would be stereotype mad libs,…

Or “Hot, but doesn’t know it”

Which still feels like an improvement from that “Housewives with balls” show... though I’m sure the end result will still be as terrible.

It’s probably worth remembering that when homphobia was an effective campaign tactic for conservatives, that was embraced by some Hindu communities. In Hawaii, the first state to vote for a constitutional ammendment against same-sex marriage, one of the most effective anti-gay activists is a Hindu man. I wouldn’t be…

I live in a city with a large population with Mexican ancestry and there’s an amazing amount of latinx people who start screaming at their phone at the sound of “Press 1 for English” and feel free to use latinx slurs against immigrants. It’s amazing.