It definitely is a fucked up dynamic, and I’ve been there. “Maybe if I’m just patient and show him how to love, those glimmers of it I see will become his whole personality” and any time he showed he cared, it felt like a win.

The women I’m criticizing aren’t 1/8th Indigenous. They literally have no Indigenous heritage at all. That’s what a blood myth is. It’s a myth that you have an Indigenous ancestor that you do not have.

Black Mirror has always been reliant on shitty, myopic futurism. It’s “these kids with their noses buried in their phones, the TV show”.

Well, I don’t know. I admit I liked Arkangel more than most (I have a teen and a toddler; my life is now just a series of mostly unsubstantiated phobias - I’m mostly kidding.) but they did show that Sara was sliding in to some pretty severe mental health issues as a child specifically because she’d been blocked from…

You totally hit the nail on the head. Far too many episodes related to connecting to brain function via an implant, do-dad thingy attached to the temple, etc.

I know this made for some great jokes/memes in season 3 of Twin Peaks.

Yep. Younger people tend to forget they were born into this world that was shaped by people of Cher’s generation. People who had to fight to get where we are today, people who held racist, sexist, homophobic views who have changed with exposure and education. Hell not even just Cher’s lifetime. In my lifetime. Just…

What’s not to like?

I have now learned to be terrified that the men who are our best allies end up being named by someone as abusers. That’s how I read these now: if someone is just as awesome as John Oliver, all I feel is dread that he’s a wolf in sheep clothing.

I had a slightly different but equally depressing take on why the allegations against Spacey were taken seriously right away: they were made by a man, and men can be trusted (unlike those lying, gold-digging WHORES)

Selena Gomez is not a victim. She is also not an infant. She is an adult. Adults, both men and women, should not enable sexual predators. Certainly, some people will have to make deals with the devil in order to survive. Selena Gomez can survive and thrive without enabling sexual predators. If we expect men to step…

Plug in your phone! You’re making me very nervous!

You know what? Forget it. I WAS going to go to bat for proper grammar and for caring about things like that and defend grammarians but in the end, it’s not going to matter. Proper grammar is going to go the way of the dodo, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it (obviously). There are more important things to…

You can’t take 5 minutes out of your day every time you communicate with a smartphone in today’s society and I think you know that.

Absolutely. Having dyslexia meant that my dad always felt too defensive to try, finished high school, and to this day has me or my mother read things to him. He’s the smartest person I know, but he’s very uncomfortable in the world outside our small town. He’s very uncomfortable with the educated liberals, including me…

Phil’s attempts to break the ice with his brand of off-colour and old fashioned (and admittedly in a number of cases somewhat racist) humour have been an endless source of hilarious and awkward PR moments for so long.

Another open thread? What did we do to deserve this?

You know what, yes. I believe this. I think that’s fair on her part to proclaim herself selfie inventor. Paris Hilton is the first person I can personally remember to kick start this narcissistic, famous for the sake of being famous, conspicuous consumption rollercoaster we’ve “enjoyed” the last decade or so. The…

i think it’s also important to recognize how bad behavior by men is normalized in society, so men may *not* necessarily realize they’re doing something not ok, because “everyone does it” and society generally allows them to get away with it.

Is that Lena specific since she is a public figure or is that applicable to all women.