I personally had never previously heard before that a donkey costume was insensitive, so in that situation I would tell you that you’re trying to enforce one of those rules that only that case exists in your head rather than that of the majority (see section III of that link). In that case it is the person making the…

I think Alfie is one of the best actors on that series, but I still don’t think his season 8 material was quite enough to merit an Emmy.

True Detective might have aired too early for awards season and then gotten forgotten.

It goes without saying?

To me this was just one of those films about a misogynist psychopath, a not-especially interesting murder mystery which struck me as neither “sharply feminist” nor comparable to the Parallax View or All the President’s Men. Relevant to this essay, the main character is Klute and most of the dialogue is about Gruneman…

New York’s alright, if you like saxophones.

You’re missing shows besides the names of Don Cheadle, Michael Douglas & Rachel Brosnahan. Also no episode titles next to A Very English Scandal or Chernobyl for the writing nominations.

I drifted away from most PC gaming long ago because I felt no need to upgrade my machine unless the games themselves appeared to be getting better. The amount of free time it took to fully explore detailed games means I haven’t played any new games of the less demanding variety like interactive fiction in a while…

Given a diversity of opinion, is there such a thing as a single correct stance? My impression of the current equilibrium is that there are small (relative to the size of the population) numbers of people who have appointed themselves police of things such as language, and that people socially distant from the elite…

I agree that an answer on a survey might not reflect all that much in practical terms. I’m unaware of a better source of data though. It also strikes me as implausible that the reason white people are less likely to say political correctness is a problem is because they’re less likely to watch Fox News or listen to…

I remember that years ago it was more common to hear someone referred to as transsexual rather than transgender. I got the impression that just using “trans” was partly intended to avoid specifying one or the other. Although I guess transvestites aren’t supposed to be included.

This sounds a little bit like the upcoming “Ready or Not”, although that’s a comedy.

A simple explanation, particularly in keeping with my second link, is that political correctness is enforced by a predominately white elite minority of the population. Saying that “as long as they aren’t being virulently bigoted, nobody is going to shame them” sounds like you haven’t been paying attention for a number…

No, my argument is that the movie would have been bad regardless of who they got to star in it. Read back through the comments and note the ones written with my handle.

By any objective test I’m aware of, those are different creatures, whereas white men would have DNA that’s a subset of all male DNA (and every man has their own racial background with no default) and similarly for black women and female DNA. Even prior to DNA testing people could typically determine such categories…

Or the two words could converge around the letter ‘t’ as in “hippopotornado”.

The AV Club does have a long-standing connection to The Onion...

Are straight people actually overrepresented among Hollywood actors? I once tried to do some back of the envelope calculations for showrunners, which I know is different.

You’re the first person I’ve heard claim it was a good movie.

It’s an interesting contrast with “Her”, where her performance was entirely vocal, and actually recorded after production had concluded with a different voice actor. The original voice actor was Samantha Morton (hence the A.I’s name in the film), who came to prominence in a 1997 film titled... “Under the Skin”.