From a storytelling perspective, “re-answering” a question isn’t really a thing. You may not be happy with the way a question was answered— but it’s one thing to answer a question in a way some may find unsatisfying, and quite another thing to say “actually, that answer is THIS instead.”  It’s like an improv game but…

You know what really, really helped me?

Editing, writing, mostly.

Or a rented trailer? Storage locker?

Yeah!  Where’s the expansion where my sim lives in their car?!

The public’s relationship with Avatar is so weird. It made more money than any movie in history (a record it held until a few months ago), and I don’t know that I’ve ever met anybody who thought it was a really good movie worth seeing more than once. A couple weeks ago, I tried to watch it with my daughter (who had…

President Black Man has outlived his usefulness and is now a dirty centrist. That’s just a little worse than being a Nazi.

That’s not liberalism, that’s stealth ultra conservatism under a thin veneer of fake woke.

When they write a pretentious article that pretends to be above it all, then perhaps you will have a point.

He apologized for his AIDS jokes in the 90s. He cam off as sincere and reflective then.

I came to say this. I won’t say it’s perfect, but it’s really clear Yennefer’s situation isn’t clear cut. What is clear is that the choice to be conventionally beautiful doesn’t make her happy, and that the fact she was reaching for that solution to start with is the result of her emotional trauma.

This article is ignoring the complicated psychology of the character in order to satisfy the thesis. The author even acknowledges that the show depicts the power and sexuality of Yennefer. Other characters are basically telling her that she’s fine the way she is but she doesn’t believe them or in herself.

Yennefer’s transformation is just one of several media performances wherein a disabled person is magically cured to promote the idea that normality equals physically abled.

The books are actually a tad ambiguous about just what’s the reason behind sorcerous sterility. Tissaia de Vries, Yennefer’s mentor, is an activist for deliberately sterilising all mages at young age to ensure that they’d be loyal to magic alone, which wouldn’t be such an issue if they tended to be sterile to begin…

It’s insane that an article examining an internet phenomenon as it intersects with our ongoing culture wars gets few comments, while if you had written that Bernie Sanders was friends with some guy in 1980 who wrote an article about mixing races or Monica from friends is selling a potentially useless product we would…

JJ - “Everyone, listen up i have a choice to make. More mystery boxes or more Rose. I am open to feedbac.... wait, no. This is my movie. MORE MYSTERY BOXES!!!!!!!”

No public figure is ever effectively “cancelled”. I think its at least partially due to it being a stupid fucking term and a lot of “cancelling” seems to be down to knee jerk reactions. There also seems to be this thought that it is solely down to some -ism or -phobia if you disagree with a POC/woman/non-binary/wtv…

The one-issue blog that exists by whipping up incandescent rage against ... something or other, multiple times daily, looks at itself in the mirror, and asks “what is cancel culture?”.

I agree that while few, if any, of the people “cancelled” actually effectively disappear, is undeniable the modern left has a tendency toward absolutism and “purity” that leads to many people calling for stuff/books/art/people to be censored/destroyed/cancelled, sometimes for pretty minor or perceived transgressions.