I thought in most cases there was a deliberate trompe l’oeil effort happening.

The “hold me back” (non)fight is one of the greatest achievements in human society.

You don’t even bother to greenlight a Batwoman show in this day and age unless you’re going to do her sexuality properly. The negative publicity for dropping the ball on that could would be huge. Given the popularity of Alex, Sarah lance and Thunder, I doubt they’re worrying much about it.

It’s arguably not a misspelling but just modern usage.  Fiancee (and I’m deliberately not bothering with the accent) is observed by many linguists as rapidly becoming depreciated in usage/archaic.

Violent Femmes.

It’s an update of an old design, and the old design was humanoid.

Yes, it was a dumb question. The guy is (or was) a big fan of hers and I think he just wanted to engage with her in some way. Here’s a clip of the same guy talking about her AMA the day before:

The Bechdel test is about taking note of one dimensional female characters who only exist to be appendages to male characters, typically as love interests. It’s not a criticism of the concept of romantic/sexual relationships in fictional narratives in general. Katara doesn’t exist in the Avatar universe merely to be…

Aside from the particulars of the technology used, I don’t think it has all that much to do with the current times.  A percentage of humans have always been fascinated/entertained by death.

I’m not sure what the Bechdel test has to do with shipping.

Seconded. Look, if you’re not into Korrasami, that’s entirely fine (I’m pretty neutral/apathetic on both Zutara and Kataang).  But the folks who claim it came out of nowhere just seem to not have been playing attention.

It’s supposed to be a tossed off quip, not a super serious action movie one liner, but apparently no one bothered to tell Berry.

Pretty much every actor who does it gets sick of it (except maybe actors who are just intrinsically into working out and dieting all the time already). And in the long terms it’s just not good for the body.

The answer is basically high tech sci-fi workout equipment.

Yes.  Leverage is a great example of a closer style.

It’s the sequel to a movie that didn’t do great box office when it first came out. It’s also 2 hours and 44 Jesus God minutes long, with absolutely glacial pacing.

Most of those articles you cite were part of Pride month coverage.

“If someone says “faggot” and they mean “an annoying person,” then they should be given room for that interpretation.” 

What you’re describing is a tiny bit of noise in the overall natural churn and evolution of language. Vastly more words will naturally fall out of favor than would ever get pushed out via social pressure for being hateful/inappropriate. And the development of new words isn’t the core issue anyway, it’s simply taking a…