I’m going off of memory from following this story but here goes.

I remember from my time there that there was a lot of misogyny and homophobia in YAOI fandom, like fans (and some creators) insisting that the characters are straight and their love story would be ruined if they thought of them as gay or bi. I even encountered a one in 2004 who had no hesitation in voicing her support…

Thanks, I’ll need to check her out. Too bad it looks like neither of my library’s apps carry it but hopefully they will soon.

I don’t usually watch Grey’s (I can’t handle the tearjerker patient-of-the-week stories, they end up being more stressful than escapist) but I followed the fandom at the time and Heigl’s comments were pretty mild considering how hated her storyline was at the time. IMO, she was damned if she did or if she didn’t…

The “bodice-ripper” cover is an established trope of the historical romance. While it’s anachronistic, part of the fantasy is that there’s space for a same-sex couple to love each other in that world and, IMO, imitating those covers (tho I guess only The Soldier’s Scoundrel does that) is another aspect of that fantasy…

IMO, the interesting... contradiction (I’m not sure if that’s the right word) about queer romance is that it is a conservative genre but that’s upended when you have same-sex couples settling into these societal institutions that has been closed to them. With queer romance there’s an additional fantasy where the…

That’s like saying it’d be cool to cast Charlize Theron as Christie Love because she’s African.

At the very least, it’s another indicator of Hollywood’s tendency to affirm white supremacy. It sounds like the author tried to write the characters generically in the first book... and Hollywood being Hollywood the film decided that all these characters who weren’t specifically explained as PoC must be white.

I didn’t give Xena a chance for a couple seasons because I was a fan of Vanishing Son with Russel Wong, which was cancelled to make room for the syndicator to offer Xena instead. I grew up with Kung Fu and feeling like David Carradine’s presence as the star was wrong so I loved seeing a martial arts show with an Asian…

“Where are you from?” is fine.

The finale is next week, so Netflix should be getting the current season March 3, not a very long wait.

The last few episodes... I’ve started worrying the show is rushing through storylines because we’re going to learn the show is cancelled just before or just after the finale airs next week.

That’s why I rarely post pictures of myself and when I do I usually go to a graphic editor and make it the lowest resolution that would still look normal on the site, that won’t stop somebody but it can make it harder to manip.

In my teacher’s defense, she was looking for a quick explanation before getting back to the topic, which was IVF and other ways to procreate without PIV sex. She said that the women who opened the first sperm bank thought their clients would mostly be lesbians and tried to quickly explain the term. Thankfully, pop…

This says it very well. When HBO announced Confederate, I thought the idea was wrong but I also wondered what that concept could do exploring an economy built on the suffering of sentient creatures whose humanity is dismissed by society that Westworld isn’t already accomplishing.

I remember in 7th grade sex ed our teacher gave us a euphemistic explanations lesbians as “women who don’t like men” so at that point, I thought lesbians were the stereotypical man-hating-feminist.

Hm, I wonder if that why conservative use #hashtags for #emphasis when they #Tweet.

I was thinking that sounds like a ski version of Below Deck, which was a surprise hit (Bravo dumped it on the schedule but it was surprisingly watchable), it’s too bad it didn’t translate.

Well, they think it’s their idea...

Except when it’s an echo chamber of conservative old white dudes and their self-important protégés, somehow no one has a problem with it.